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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

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Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add? (please limit to four selections)

  • Boston College

    Votes: 32 10.2%

  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 19 6.1%

  • Connecticut

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • Duke

    Votes: 21 6.7%

  • Georgia Tech

    Votes: 55 17.6%

  • Kansas

    Votes: 46 14.7%

  • Maryland

    Votes: 67 21.4%

  • Missouri

    Votes: 90 28.8%

  • North Carolina

    Votes: 39 12.5%

  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 209 66.8%

  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 78 24.9%

  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 45 14.4%

  • Rutgers

    Votes: 40 12.8%

  • Syracuse

    Votes: 18 5.8%

  • Texas

    Votes: 121 38.7%

  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 15 4.8%

  • Virginia

    Votes: 47 15.0%

  • Virginia Tech

    Votes: 62 19.8%

  • Stay at 12 teams and don't expand

    Votes: 27 8.6%

  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 25 8.0%
  • Total voters
    313
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kujirakira said:
How many people would watch if Buckeyes football were privatized into the Columbus Meerkats?
I bet attendance drops to 20k within a decade, and tv eyeballs by a similar proportion.
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Yeah. Who knows? It certainly could. It already feels different to be honest and I’m not one hung up on the kids getting paid and all that.

They changed the greatest regular season sport to just another sport with a playoff. There are going to be consequences for that.

I told my son at the end of 2018 that this might be the last time he ever got a chance to see what it used to be like. You could win The Game, ruin their season and save ours then go to a Rose Bowl and enjoy that.

It happened a hell of a lot faster than I thought it would and there is no way it will ever go back to what it used to be now that the expanded playoffs and realignment are here.
 
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pnuts34 said:
Oh so you know about the Clermont too. I see you’re also a man of culture :blush:
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High school buddy worked at Aflac Corporate before going into the military after 9/11. He rented half a house on the GA Tech campus and would invite us down every summer for the Music Midtown festival in the early 00s (back when Atlanta’s own Marvelous 3 blew up with the song ‘Freak of the Week’). Let’s just say I’m well acquainted with every establishment in Little Five Points and every five-star dive bar on Ponce.

I love the eclectic weirdness of Atlanta after dark. That’s my fucking tribe.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Yeah. Who knows? It certainly could. It already feels different to be honest and I’m not one hung up on the kids getting paid and all that.

They changed the greatest regular season sport to just another sport with a playoff. There are going to be consequences for that.

I told my son at the end of 2018 that this might be the last time he ever got a chance to see what it used to be like. You could win The Game, ruin their season and save ours then go to a Rose Bowl and enjoy that.

It happened a hell of a lot faster than I thought it would and there is no way it will ever go back to what it used to be now that the expanded playoffs and realignment are here.
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No argument there. Especially the playoffs thing.
I wonder how conscious of a decision it was to generate controversy with ESPN and playoff committee, just so everyone would immediately buy into 12 teams.
I just feel like privatizing it would be the final nail. The one that finally breaks the whole thing.
At some point NIL will be reined in. Right now it's the Wild Wild West.
I will never understand why US sports are hellbent on destroying regular seasons. What is even the point of college basketball before the 64 team tournament ?
 
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kujirakira said:
How many people would watch if Buckeyes football were privatized into the Columbus Meerkats?
I bet attendance drops to 20k within a decade, and tv eyeballs by a similar proportion.
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Thinking of worst case scenarios, what happens if a football team licensing the name of a school decides to move to another market to get a new taxpayer funded stadium? Who’s going to watch the Las Vegas USC Trojans?
 
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Dryden said:
High school buddy worked at Aflec Corporate after he got out of the military. He rented half a house on the GA Tech campus and would invite us down every summer for the Music Midtown festival in the early 00s (back when Atlanta’s own Marvelous 3 blew up with the song ‘Freak of the Week’). Let’s just say I’m well acquainted with every establishment in Little Five Points and every five-star dive bar on Ponce.

I love the eclectic weirdness of Atlanta after dark. That’s my fucking tribe.
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I visited ATL to see some friends who were from ATL in the early 2000s. They picked me up from the airport and said we were going to happy hour. But it was happy hour at a "secret club". Needless to say it was one of the most eclectic crowds I'd ever seen at a "gentlemen's club", and I'm talking about the dancers AND the patrons. What a place, and what an interesting city. I loved it as well for the sheer people watching :lol:
 
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pnuts34 said:
I visited ATL to see some friends who were from ATL in the early 2000s. They picked me up from the airport and said we were going to happy hour. But it was happy hour at a "secret club". Needless to say it was one of the most eclectic crowds I'd ever seen at a "gentlemen's club", and I'm talking about the dancers AND the patrons. What a place, and what an interesting city. I loved it as well for the sheer people watching :lol:
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Back in the 90's the Gold Club and the Cheeta were A LOT of fun...allegedly. A friend told me. I have no direct knowledge of course.
 
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exhawg said:
I think it probably is time to break football away from the rest of college sports to make the lives of every other college athlete easier. I understand every coach from other sports complaining about flying from the east coast to the west coast to play a game. Say you are the Maryland women's bball team and you have to fly out to the west coast for a week or two to play all 4 west coast teams. If you're a player you have to go to class virtually and live out of a hotel. This is college where you go to get an education not a professional sport. Take football out of it and let the conferences go back to what they used to be. Old school Big 10, Pac 10, etc.

As far as football, go to a model similar to English soccer. Top 20 teams are in a Premier League with the next 20 teams being in a lower league on down the line. Every team gets to play 2 cupcake games and a rivalry game (must be within 1 division up or down) during the season so the MAC type schools still get their money and a game like The Game are protected. The 20 teams are broken into 2 groups where a team plays the other 9 teams in their group then the 2 champions play each other for the title. The bottom 4 teams drop down to the lower division every year and the top 4 teams in the lower division move up for the next year. Each league has their own TV deal so the top schools get the most money. Keep the bowl games and maybe even include them in the relegation process where you play a game to try to stay in your league so more of the bowl games have weight.
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I don't want to see any US sports in the European Football promotion/relegation model. It makes sense there, where every small city can support its own team, but not here.
 
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