I would have to think if ND did join the B1G (hypothetical) they would come with another team, probably from the south. Miami? Ga Tech?
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Ummm what?
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Sun Belt & Ohio Conference Realignment: Could The Bobcats Depart From The MAC?
Leaders at Ohio have reportedly contacted the Sun Belt about potential membership. Here's what that could mean for the Group of Five.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
From the article:Ummm what?
Sun Belt & Ohio Conference Realignment: Could The Bobcats Depart From The MAC?
Leaders at Ohio have reportedly contacted the Sun Belt about potential membership. Here's what that could mean for the Group of Five.
So I did a little bit of calculations.
Since 2019, they are averaging the following attendance for home games by day:
Saturday..........19,260 (21 games)
Tuesday...........13,090 (5 games)
Wednesday....16,486 (3 games)
Friday............... 11,804 (1 game)
So, maybe they have a point.
BUT!!! check out their average attendance for home games by month:
August............ 16,665 (1 game)
September..... 20,406 (10 games)
October........... 18,374 (10 games)
November...... 14,079 (9 games)
It appears that most or maybe ALL of the mid-week games are in November, and most or maybe ALL of the November games are mid-week. So the attendance goes down for the mid-week games, but it also goes down in November. They're probably right that it's due to the games being mid-week. But I think it also goes down because it's probably cold out.
And being cold is boof.
And watching Ohio U is boof.
Sitting at the stadium watching Ohio U be boof in the cold is like triple boof.
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This was my first guess. And the TV revenue is probably so low as to not make any difference.
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osuvictory1
Just a schlub from Y-town
I got a special peek inside Tony Pettiti's letter on behalf of TTUN to the NCAA, and it only had "2B" written in bold and which took up the entire page. Not sure what it means. Thoughts?
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DZ83CK
Not Banned
This is the absolute worst idea I've ever seen associated with the B1G. If you think you're in a financial crunch now, wait until you have paying back a loan to private capital companies with debt & interest payments on that debt taking up a huge chunk of your budget every year. That's the most optimistic outcome, the worst-case is if they make you sell off your real estate in order to pay them back, and then pay private capital rent for the privilege of using property you used to own outright. As the old saying goes, nothing in life is free. You aren't going to get $2 billion and end up with a better business. They're parasites. Run as far away from this as you can.
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They're parasites alright. Bedbugs. All in bed together. The same people getting the money from the loan are the same ones that future students and fans will be paying back. These boards aren't made of altruistic people. They're all corporate scumbags. Metallica comes to mind
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Big Ten’s Latest Bad Idea: Selling Its Future for Private Capital
Talks about a $2 billion capital deal have dragged for months and lacked unanimity, but Wednesday brought a new sign of progress.
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Big Ten’s Latest Bad Idea: Selling Its Future for Private Capital
Talks about a $2 billion capital deal have dragged for months and lacked unanimity, but Wednesday brought a new sign of progress.
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The conference has been discussing various iterations of this plan for months, multiple industry sources tell Sports Illustrated, with some saying they believed the concept was running out of steam as time dragged on. At the very least, there is no unanimity within the Big Ten at the moment, sources say, with schools having varying views of whether this is a prudent approach to additional revenue generation.
As ESPN noted, most of the conference is believed to support the idea. But that doesn’t include the biggest dogs—Ohio State and Michigan are still talking it through with the conference, among others. At least one Michigan regent publicly voiced his resistance Wednesday.
“As a Regent, I believe selling off Michigan’s precious public university assets would betray our responsibility to students and taxpayers,” Jordan Acker posted on X. “I will firmly oppose any such effort—and I hope colleagues at [Michigan State] and Ohio State will stand with me as well.”
This could very well be where “tiered distribution” comes into play. To get Michigan and Ohio State (and perhaps others) to play ball here, the Big Ten may cut the pie into unequal slices. The Wolverines and the Buckeyes would get more than, say, Rutgers and Maryland. Accommodations might have to be made.
Uneven revenue has never been good for the overall health of a conference—Texas’s advantageous media-rights deals fractured the Big 12, and the Florida State/Clemson lawsuits against the ACC are leading to uneven payouts there. But perhaps it’s inevitable, as the concept of equal partnerships among like-minded universities grows quaint and musty. Is there really much like-minded about Stanford and Louisville in the ACC, or Nebraska and USC in the Big Ten?
The entirety of college sports is a leverage play now, as the professionalization of it takes hold.
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