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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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This all seems so flimsy and temporary until we get back to real regional alignment and some sort of professional model.

Stanford, Cal and SMU in the ACC? Like what are we even doing.



Meanwhile, I’m screwed as a consumer because these bloated media rights deals have disrupted my cable carrier negotiations. I hate everybody involved.

F’n lovely future we got going on.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
This all seems so flimsy and temporary until we get back to real regional alignment and some sort of professional model.

Stanford, Cal and SMU in the ACC? Like what are we even doing.



Meanwhile, I’m screwed as a consumer because these bloated media rights deals have disrupted my cable carrier negotiations. I hate everybody involved.

F’n lovely future we got going on.
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This thing seems to be evolving with the sole evolutionary pressure being to increase television revenue. I'm not sure anyone knows where it is headed long term, but I could see a situation where all of the top television revenue generators are in a single nation-wide "conference", at which point we could see divisions form within that conference which make geographic sense.

I still have trouble understanding how rearranging the same teams into different/larger conferences increases the size of the pie other than by giving the conferences more leverage in negotiations with the networks. At some point, the bottom dwellers may get left behind, which would increase the cut for the top rated schools. We may be seeing this already with Oregon State and Washington Stage being relegated to the Mountain West. I think we may look back one day to the collapse of the PAC as being the day college football jumped the shark.
 
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CincyInterloper said:
I still have trouble understanding how rearranging the same teams into different/larger conferences increases the size of the pie other than by giving the conferences more leverage in negotiations with the networks.
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"Other than giving the conferences more leverage...."

That's the whole point of realignment.
 
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CincyInterloper said:
This thing seems to be evolving with the sole evolutionary pressure being to increase television revenue. I'm not sure anyone knows where it is headed long term, but I could see a situation where all of the top television revenue generators are in a single nation-wide "conference", at which point we could see divisions form within that conference which make geographic sense.
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Hilarious part of this all is SMU. Accepting no revenue for 7 years. WTF are you doing
 
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dragurd said:
Probably want all 3. So they can still pump "National Brand"
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What will be classic ND is if they become Stanford's protected rival while Cal does not. I have a feeling that more than a few ACC schools are starting to feel a bit like Lando Calrission when he started to realize that his deal with Vader wasn't the win-win he thought it was.
 
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CincyInterloper said:
This thing seems to be evolving with the sole evolutionary pressure being to increase television revenue. I'm not sure anyone knows where it is headed long term, but I could see a situation where all of the top television revenue generators are in a single nation-wide "conference", at which point we could see divisions form within that conference which make geographic sense.

I still have trouble understanding how rearranging the same teams into different/larger conferences increases the size of the pie other than by giving the conferences more leverage in negotiations with the networks. At some point, the bottom dwellers may get left behind, which would increase the cut for the top rated schools. We may be seeing this already with Oregon State and Washington Stage being relegated to the Mountain West. I think we may look back one day to the collapse of the PAC as being the day college football jumped the shark.
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I think the assumption at the top is college football fans will watch college football regardless. I don't buy that. Washington State and Oregon State fans aren't going to just pick a new team. They'll just tune out, and reduce the size of the pie for the networks.
 
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