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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
From the 11W article on this today. The most detail I have seen yet on this:

If the deal is approved, the Big Ten would create a new entity, Big Ten Enterprises, which would control the league’s media rights and sponsorship deals. The UC investment fund would receive a 10% ownership stake in Big Ten Enterprises, with each of the league’s 18 schools and the conference office also holding ownership stakes. It would extend the conference’s grant of media rights to 2046, effectively locking each of the league’s 18 members into the Big Ten for the next 20 years.

This reads like their version of "spinning off the sports" as we have discussed above.

That's why you need a couple of Billion dollars. It's a new venture so debt is a bad idea, you don't want to use the school's cash so you spin up a new thing that concentrates on big time pro sports and entertainment. You leave the Big Ten and it's member institutions to focus on the business of being a University.
 
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https://www.espn.com/college-sports...uestion-proposed-big-ten-private-capital-deal
Latest report is UM and USC are holding up the deal, for now. We'll see if they continue to question it or give in. It appears the likes of Rutgers and Maryland want to get more cash to try and compete with the SEC in football, so that's cited as the motivation for this deal. Do we really need mid B1G teams wagging the dog here? For the true big boy football programs in the B1G, it is more of a liability to throw a financial lifeline to your competition within the conference while simultaneously sacrificing more of your ownership rights/money & future freedoms. It doesn't make much sense for the true football powers to go out of your way to give the uppity mid programs more money when you don't really need more yourself. For many of these programs, college sports has become a money pit, you want more money but you've got to stop acting like you're in an arms race at some point and accept that you're Rutgers, not Florida.
 
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https://www.espn.com/college-sports...uestion-proposed-big-ten-private-capital-deal
Latest report is UM and USC are holding up the deal, for now. We'll see if they continue to question it or give in. It appears the likes of Rutgers and Maryland want to get more cash to try and compete with the SEC in football, so that's cited as the motivation for this deal. Do we really need mid B1G teams wagging the dog here? For the true big boy football programs in the B1G, it is more of a liability to throw a financial lifeline to your competition within the conference while simultaneously sacrificing more of your ownership rights/money & future freedoms. It doesn't make much sense for the true football powers to go out of your way to give the uppity mid programs more money when you don't really need more yourself. For many of these programs, college sports has become a money pit, you want more money but you've got to stop acting like you're in an arms race at some point and accept that you're Rutgers, not Florida.
I think that awareness is step two towards the eventual “premier league” type structure.

OR

This is where the big guys ownership gets cheap, gives up the advantage and joins some 30-ish member league with a salary cap as part of their CBA.

I hope for the former.
 
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