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POLL: Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add?

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Which Schools Should the Big Ten Add?

  • Arizona

    Votes: 10 12.3%

  • California

    Votes: 22 27.2%

  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 6 7.4%

  • Colorado

    Votes: 15 18.5%

  • Duke

    Votes: 8 9.9%

  • Georgia Tech

    Votes: 13 16.0%

  • Iowa State

    Votes: 10 12.3%

  • Kansas

    Votes: 13 16.0%

  • Missouri

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • North Carolina

    Votes: 29 35.8%

  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 35 43.2%

  • Oregon

    Votes: 31 38.3%

  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Stanford

    Votes: 26 32.1%

  • UCLA

    Votes: 36 44.4%

  • USC

    Votes: 41 50.6%

  • Utah

    Votes: 6 7.4%

  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Virginia

    Votes: 25 30.9%

  • Washington

    Votes: 23 28.4%

  • West Virginia

    Votes: 4 4.9%

  • Stay at 14 teams, don't expand

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 6 7.4%
  • Total voters
    81
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sparcboxbuck said:
Raising my hand. I included them in my votes. Academics, lacrosse and basketball — in my order of importance to get to 24. I was at 20 with UVA and UNC in my 20-count… Duke made my selection only to get to numbers. It doesn’t get us any TV market as we’d have it covered with UNC… but it does get us to 24 and boosts both LAX and bouncy ball.

The addition of UVA, UNC and Duke to B1G LAX would be colossally good. And while I hate to think that B1G (and college) football may someday be non-existent, I don’t think that it’s out of the question. Aside from ‘Cuse, Denver and the Domers… you’d be hard pressed to find a LAX program outside of that B1G conference what would be worth a damn on a consistent basis. Notable exception would be the periodic Ivy that comes to play in a given year.

3-pods of 8:
B1G East
Duke
UNC
UVA
UMD
Rutgers
State Penn
tOSU
tsun

B1G Great Lakes
Sparty
Indiana
Purdue
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisky
Minnesota
Iowa

B1G Flyover Westward Expansion
Nebraska
Colorado
Cal
UCLA
USC
Oregon
Washington
Stanford

Do this and we appease those who care about eye-balls, academics, football, lacrosse, bouncy ball… This would be a win all the way around.
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Drop Duke and pick up Arizona - Makes the West division make more sense, and slide Nebraska back into the Central where they are a better fit and in the same time zone with most of the other teams.
 
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Steve19 said:
Take both LA teams and promise your team a game in LA every two years. Get more familiarity in the California recruiting market. Go coast to coast.
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Yeah people probably won't like it but I see this ending in 2 super conferences.The B1G and the SEC with the B1g Raiding the Pac and eventually the valuable properties of the ACC getting split between them
 
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dragurd said:
Yeah people probably won't like it but I see this ending in 2 super conferences. The B1G and the SEC with the B1g Raiding the Pac and eventually the valuable properties of the ACC getting split between them
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Here's the question that would make or break some sort of "B1G - PAC Super Conference". Would the TV contracts for the B1G - PAC Super Conference give each current B1G school more revenue than they would otherwise get with just a B1G TV package with the current 14 teams? I know the current PAC schools would get more (a lot more) but would the current B1G schools get more too? If not it just won't happen.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Here's the question that would make or break some sort of "B1G - PAC Super Conference". Would the TV contracts for the B1G - PAC Super Conference give each current B1G school more revenue than they would otherwise get with just a B1G TV package with the current 14 teams? I know the current PAC schools would get more (a lot more) but would the current B1G schools get more too? If not it just won't happen.
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The problem with that thinking if the SEC wants to become the NFL of College football and you sit and do nothing. You might find yourself irrelevant. If SEC is about different goals you have to revaluate their position,
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Here's the question that would make or break some sort of "B1G - PAC Super Conference". Would the TV contracts for the B1G - PAC Super Conference give each current B1G school more revenue than they would otherwise get with just a B1G TV package with the current 14 teams? I know the current PAC schools would get more (a lot more) but would the current B1G schools get more too? If not it just won't happen.
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I would actually frame the decision as the B1G just needs to stay the same financially and gain the strategic advantage of countering the SEC move and creating an opportunity for a windfall down the road (college super bowl, bigger tv contracts etc).
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I would actually frame the decision as the B1G just needs to stay the same financially and gain the strategic advantage of countering the SEC move and creating an opportunity for a windfall down the road (college super bowl, bigger tv contracts etc).
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Agreed. The SEC move has to be countered because of power, not money.

Either you counter it by forming an anti-SEC coalition with the other conferences and block playoff expansion, or you counter it by creating the continent-spanning Conference of Northern Aggression. The first option screws the SEC harder, but the second option creates a stronger connection (including contracts) among the members of the anti-SEC faction. I'm ok either way, but having Warren/Bowlsby et al in charge of this makes me nervous either way. If they go with the first option, I will be on pins and needles constantly, just waiting for the coalition to fall apart because somebody panicked. If they go with the second option, I seriously doubt their ability to put together the conference we've been talking about; it will likely end with 2 or more of the remaining power conferences fighting over the SEC's leftovers.
 
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So the Big 12 adds Cincy, SMU, and Memphis State, and becomes the new Mountain West/All American Conference. Decent Thursday night/12 o'clock Saturday/Late Nite in Provo package while the SEC and Big Ten duke it out for Saturday 3:00/8:00 dominance. The Big Ten, realizing that raiding the PAC 12 gives them little more than mountains of travel expenses, stands pat and increases their connections with Chicago because they realize that going to Indianapolis for your big events is like a first time traveler going to France to see Lyon instead of Paris.

One of them will go undefeated with ooc wins over Incarnation, New Mexico, and Idaho, and their fans will whine about being locked out of the playoffs. There will be some TV money because the industry needs product. ACC fans will be happy because it doesn't mess with basketball season, they don't have to add seats to their stadiums, or build state-of-the-art training and practice facilities. Clemson and Notre Dame will be happy because they only have to play one real game a season to get to the playoffs. Miami and Florida State will be close to getting off of perpetual probation and glad the SEC wants nothing to do with them.

That leaves college football with four playoff slots and four conference champs. NBC gives Notre Dame big bucks to play the Pin Stripe bowl annually against the Big 12 Champ.

There, I've fixed college football for you.
 
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