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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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sparcboxbuck said:
Guess UC folks will have to be looking on eBay for a second hand shine box for a couple of years. Funny thing, the P12 schools may be ready to part with theirs for the new ones they’ll be able to afford with 100% membership from go.

www.yahoo.com

Cincinnati Bearcats won't get increased revenue share in Big 12, but Pac-12 schools will

The idea of the Bearcats getting a full share of TV revenue early was put to bed by the Big 12 Wednesday.
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dragurd said:
John should stop digging. He was kliavkov mouthpiece for the whole thing and just came out looking terrible.

No one is moving back in 5-10 years. Not unless the roof caves in on the money.
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Yeah, I was posting the tweet with Kelly's quote not realizing that delusional take was coming along for the ride.

I think Chippy's idea is a good one.

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dragurd said:
John should stop digging. He was kliavkov mouthpiece for the whole thing and just came out looking terrible.

No one is moving back in 5-10 years. Not unless the roof caves in on the money.
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Canzano has been wildly grasping for the "hot take" and the big job since Cowherd left Portland for ESPN. Surprised he even reaches anyone outside the NW (pretty sure most here consider him irrelevant).
 
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dragurd said:
John should stop digging. He was kliavkov mouthpiece for the whole thing and just came out looking terrible.

No one is moving back in 5-10 years. Not unless the roof caves in on the money.
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I think he's right though. For football, it's fine. Even good to have this much travel and variety.

But i dont see how it works for all the other sports. There will be a lot of pressure to add to the 4 west teams we have now... does this end up being a 24 team conference with 10 west coast and 14 east coast ?
And then we have basically recreated the PAC within the B1G... which is fine imo. But i dont see how this is supposed to work.
I get the impression nobody has really thought this all out. They're just going with the $$$ and tv execs.
 
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kujirakira said:
I think he's right though. For football, it's fine. Even good to have this much travel and variety.

But i dont see how it works for all the other sports. There will be a lot of pressure to add to the 4 west teams we have now... does this end up being a 24 team conference with 10 west coast and 14 east coast ?
And then we have basically recreated the PAC within the B1G... which is fine imo. But i dont see how this is supposed to work.
I get the impression nobody has really thought this all out. They're just going with the $$$ and tv execs.
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The answer is money. No one is giving up 40-50 Mil for regionality. Even if it hurts the olympic sports with travel
 
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dragurd said:
John should stop digging. He was kliavkov mouthpiece for the whole thing and just came out looking terrible.

No one is moving back in 5-10 years. Not unless the roof caves in on the money.
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Yeah, he was about the most unobjective observer of these events possible. PAC survives and so does his job; PAC dies and so does his job. Not exactly the formula for objective journalism.
 
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Once you’ve paid the cost to charter a plane, the additional fuel cost for another 500 miles is insignificant. LA to Columbus isn’t that much further than Tempe to Seattle. 30-60 min? These are 19-23 year olds that can eat peanuts and nap like it’s nothing on a charter flight.

Yes, there is the timezone/jet-lag component… but they’ll get over it. All kids do.

Arizona St wasn’t taking bus trips to Colorado or Utah to begin with. Aside from each school having a cross-town or cross-state rival, each duopoly of Pac-12 schools were largely nowhere near each other geographically. California is a VERY LONG state. LA and the Bay Area might appear to be close to one another on a small zoomed out Google Map, but that’s not a Columbus to Bloomington commute in reality.

The travel implications are way overblown.
 
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Dryden said:
Once you’ve paid the cost to charter a plane, the additional fuel cost for another 500 miles is insignificant. LA to Columbus isn’t that much further than Tempe to Seattle. 30-60 min? These are 19-23 year olds that can eat peanuts and nap like it’s nothing on a charter flight.

Yes, there is the timezone/jet-lag component… but they’ll get over it. All kids do.

Arizona St wasn’t taking bus trips to Colorado or Utah to begin with. Aside from each school having a cross-town or cross-state rival, each duopoly of Pac-12 schools were largely nowhere near each other geographically. California is a VERY LONG state. LA and the Bay Area might appear to be close to one another on a small zoomed out Google Map, but that’s not a Columbus to Bloomington commute in reality.

The travel implications are way overblown.
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So it's actually closer from Los Angeles to Stanford than I had thought. About a 6-hour drive, according to Google Maps. But you're right. Just looking at it on this map, and you can see the trip to any of the other teams is going to be a lot longer.

As far as jet lag goes, I think they should make it a point to schedule the games so that the eastern teams playing in the west aren't playing too late at night, and the western teams playing in the east aren't playing at noon. Of course, Oregon had no problem with the jet lag and playing at noon when they played in Columbus a couple of years ago.

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