Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[CincyInterloper]

If you add schools like UVA and UNC, diluting the TV money is peanuts compared to the BILLIONS you'd make by adding those two in the CIC.

There are some impressive endowments in the ACC as well. UVA has 13.6 billion and UNC has 5.2 billion. Duke has 12.7 billion and ND has 16.7 billion, but screw those guys. Maybe the B1G could charge them a couple billion as a “douche bag” fee to get in.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

If you add schools like UVA and UNC, diluting the TV money is peanuts compared to the BILLIONS you'd make by adding those two in the CIC.

"But Paaawwwwlllll! We is talkin' football, not skool." - every SEC fan I have met in real life talking about expansion

 

[Woody1968]

Had to search this out. With all the hullabaloo involved in the ACC, irked me more tan a tad that it sounded (to me at least), like the schools were going to choose which conference they were going to....like it was their decision or something. Hadn't seen any sort of rebut from either the SEC or B10, which I thought was cagey, but reading some of the above, am betting all but one or two will either be SEC or B12 before the dust settles. Don't know, but don't believe, any, but ND, NC are AAU members. So, by all that's been holy in the B10 for generations, why would the B10 agree to this? And finally (the Benjamins), why would the presidents agree to dilute their money from the TV revemue, just to include some others? Would bet vcash that the ACC folks would demand to be brought in as fully paid members. PS, as Nebraska is no longer qualified for AAU status are there any rumblings of exiting them?

What is this "hullabaloo" of which you speak?

 

[calibuck]

Well, appears that many of the ACC teams are interested in leaving. FSU has been the noted one, Clemson for another, NC, VaTech, and Miami seem to be wanting out, or have their TV money raised. From what I've read, the exit fee from the ACC conference is a sizeable sum, which no one seems to want to pay. That to me is a hullabaloo, or maybe one calls it a mutiny? Your choice.

 

[Woody1968]

Well, appears that many of the ACC teams are interested in leaving. FSU has been the noted one, Clemson for another, NC, VaTech, and Miami seem to be wanting out, or have their TV money raised. From what I've read, the exit fee from the ACC conference is a sizeable sum, which no one seems to want to pay. That to me is a hullabaloo, or maybe one calls it a mutiny? Your choice.

Hasn't this been the case for 10 years now? FSU and Clemson will either leave or stay, and they'll either get more money or they won't. However, I doubt they would be suing if they didn't have some other conference lined up with at least a handshake deal. For the the other ACC teams, I expect they are just trying to leverage more money from their teevee agreement.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

There were some who portrayed themselves as insiders who said that something would happen in June, because June 30 was the last date for a vote that did not include the new ACC members. The thinking was that, if those who were to depart could find homes for enough ACC teams to make a majority, they could vote to disband (the obvious and correct assumption being that the incoming ACC members would certainly not vote to disband).

The problem with this thinking is that it was based on the assumption that there are enough teams that would benefit from dissolution to make a majority. Let's be real here: They would all do better in the B1G or SEC, but the real question is, would the Power 2 have them?

The fact that it did not happen before the June 30 deadline suggests strongly that, however many teams the Power 2 would have; it's not enough to comprise a majority in the ACC as constituted last week. Some of the teams that were added... If the B1G wanted them they would have already taken them. Others... I'll get back to you when I stop laughing. The point here is that, those who leave for greener pastures will be few in number, and may have to wait until something comes of the lawsuit or until there is an out-of-court settlement.

Honestly, all of this was obvious to most B1G fans quite some time ago. But there are fans of teams on the east coast who will still think that their team MUST be more important than any podunk little conference from west of the Alleghenies. By the time all of this has shaken out; such people will have found reality to be a very bitter pill indeed.

 

[cincibuck]

At what point do you move from a conference to a conglomerate? The Buckeye schedule is filling up with teams I’d like to see on an ooc sked, but not on an every other year basis.

 

[dragurd]

If you add schools like UVA and UNC, diluting the TV money is peanuts compared to the BILLIONS you'd make by adding those two in the CIC.

Eh if that's your argurment shouldn't they have picked up Cal and Stanford on the cheap? I don;t think school alone is enough anymore UNC has a decent mix of both I'm not sure UVA does