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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

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
CincyInterloper;2324500; said:
That conference would be a big improvement over the conference to be named later that UC is in now. Especially in basketball.

I know. Seems like Cincinnati and Connecticut should/would do anything to get out of the America Metro (or whatever it's going to be called).

I just wish I knew why Connecticut fans/alum/donors/etc. are so confident the Huskies are getting an invitation to the Big Ten. Go read some posts on any UConn forum and you'll see that (even though you haven't read UConn/Big Ten anywhere).
 
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CincyInterloper;2324500; said:
That conference would be a big improvement over the conference to be named later that UC is in now. Especially in basketball.

Absolutely. It would also be a huge drop for all the ACC schools.

VBSJ;2324502; said:
I just wish I knew why Connecticut fans/alum/donors/etc. are so confident the Huskies are getting an invitation to the Big Ten. Go read some posts on any UConn forum and you'll see that (even though you haven't read UConn/Big Ten anywhere).

I don't think I'd ever been to a UConn board before. I didn't see much B1G talk on the one I just checked out but the thread where they're going to the ACC and Louisville is just fooling itself was quite a fun read.
 
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Muck;2324503; said:
I don't think I'd ever been to a UConn board before. I didn't see much B1G talk on the one I just checked out but the thread where they're going to the ACC and Louisville is just fooling itself was quite a fun read.

If you ever go to "The Boneyard", you'll see some delusional UConn fans. Just go to the Conference Realignment section and read anything Big Ten.

Delusional
 
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VBSJ;2324916; said:
If you ever go to "The Boneyard", you'll see some delusional UConn fans. Just go to the Conference Realignment section and read anything Big Ten.

Delusional

That's the board I was checking out. I just didn't dig back very far.

Edit: Nevermind, it looks like there is a massive B1G thread on the front page. I just missed it.

FWIW I was pretty anti-Rutgers as a potential member up until they got in. As I said I saw it as essentially letting another PSU into the league. Essentially everything from Boston to Philadelphia I want to keep out of the B1G. There is just a general nastiness to the people in that region (keep in mind I'm speaking in generalities, there are decent folk everywhere). The whole pro sports, jerky radio call in fan mindset that permeates that entire stretch I want to keep as far away from as possible.
 
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David Glenn Show‏ @DavidGlennShow
BREAKING: Multiple DG sources says ACC will announce unanimous 15 school agreement extending Grant of Media Rights

Stewart Mandel‏ @slmandel
Being reported by @DavidGlennShow that ACC schools have agreed to TV Grant of Rights. Could THIS be the end of realignment?

Jeremy Fowler ‏@JFowlerCBS
Can confirm #ACC moving to grant of rights (first by @DavidGlennShow). League presidents are clearing with their legal departments.
 
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Dryden;2330811; said:
David Glenn Show‏ @DavidGlennShow
BREAKING: Multiple DG sources says ACC will announce unanimous 15 school agreement extending Grant of Media Rights

Stewart Mandel‏ @slmandel
Being reported by @DavidGlennShow that ACC schools have agreed to TV Grant of Rights. Could THIS be the end of realignment?

Jeremy Fowler ‏@JFowlerCBS
Can confirm #ACC moving to grant of rights (first by @DavidGlennShow). League presidents are clearing with their legal departments.

Didn't the Big 12 do something similar? If it's meant as a mechanism to keep the league together, couldn't it just as easily push some schools out that are on the fence? Which is exactly what happened in the Big 12 if I remember correctly.
 
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I want to see Delaney make a play for Oklahoma and Texas from the Big12. With them in the West division, there'd be SEC-like strength in the B1G. It might be possible, because Texas and OU went shopping to the Pac12 when Nebby moved to the B1G, and aTm and Mizzou went to the SEC. Of course they went along with 2 other schools from the division, who I forget, but if the B1G is able to get them, it would be a major coup.
 
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Myth of the Big 12's Grant of rights
By Jason Hutzler

A grant of rights is a contract between each individual school and the conference pledging the school's media rights to conference for a number of year. Like all contracts, it can be broken. School X, member of Conference A who has granted its media rights to Conference A, thinks it can make more money in Conference B. So School X leaves Conference A for Conference B placing its media rights in Conference B. Now School X's games will be distributed by both confernces. At this point School X has breached the grant of rights agreement, Conference A will sue School X over the media rights under the grant of rights agreement.

Conference A would love to force School X to leave its media rights with Conference A, requesting a court require specific performance of the grant of rights. This is the threat of the grant of rights, the tie that binds so to speak. If a court were to elect the specific performance remedy then School X of course provides no value to Conference B. However, because specific performance is often difficult to enforce and requires more of the court's resources most courts rarely ever use this remedy.

Courts are even less inclined to use it when there is an easy way to calculate damages. The resulting damages from a breach of grant of rights are easily calculable. There is no reason to believe that a court would require specific performance in a suit over a breach of a grant of rights.

Click the headline for the full piece. Interesting stuff, since I don't buy for a second that either the B1G or $EC is done expanding.
 
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