ISU,MU,KSU,KU to the B1G!!!

[cytech]

One of the earlier posts in a different thread mentioned "tiered" membership in the Big Ten. Maybe, they'd add schools at a lower revenue share. If, for example, those schools did not bring a national football brand and major television revenue increase.

They'd certainly be in a great bargaining position to do that with schools like ISU, KSU, and KU. MU probably has other options and it may not want the Big Ten anymore, especially if it were tier 2 membership.

They did that last year when Nebraska joined. Every member has to atleast as much as they did last year before Nebraska can get a full share. If there is not enough there then Nebraska gets a smaller piece of the pie

[Judoka]

I think we really need a mod to come in and clean up all these misleading thread titles. If I have to open a thread to know what it is about I ussually just don't open it. Come on guys.

[ljhlax]

Adding these 4 schools means the b10 would have get about $80-100 million more per year to just break even on per school payout.. If you think those four would bring in that kind of money, you must be the most optimistic person in the world.

The Big 10 Network would see a HUGE boost in programming with the addition of these four schools. MU will bring major support to every major sport to the B1G, KU's Basketball would add tremendous appeal to the B1G. ISU's addition would actually make B1G network wrestling watchable. The KSU, ISU, NE female sports matchups would be a boost in Volleyball and Basketball. No, those don't fix the revenue, but a restructure with the addition of the 4 would fill a major gap.

St. Louis market, the KC market, and Des Moines would be solid, solid, solid for the B1G. Add Topeka with 150,000, Wichita with 350,000, Columbia, Jackson, Lawrence, and Manhattan with the base next door and you've secured the monopoly of every TV set in the footprint without question.

The bowl boost would be huge as well. The B1G is going to be fighting for 5 bowl games if they stick with 12 teams while every other major conference goes to 16. If the B1G goes to 16, then you are talking about 7-8 bowls (if not more) automatically. If there is an and one, they've secured their spot in at least the first round of that scenario.

They add major quality to their academics with three AAUs, one Carnegie, four top tiers (all more prestigious than NE), the best Broadcast Comm school in the nation, the best Food Science school in the nation, another Pier 11 institution, the best Architecture and Urban design school in the nation, and the school with the most combined Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholars than any other in the nation AND I'm not the only one who thinks it is a good sell.

Thanks again for the reputation adds everyone. I know a lot of people just read these threads without posting, and I appreciate the adds, but I didn't post it for the reputation adds. I posted it because it makes sense and we need to turn the debate to something that is possible, advantageous and beneficial to future of our schools, rivalries, and the B1G. The Big East is a joke, a Big 12 isn't going to survive another round of exits, and we have the ability to stick together with schools we are very much used to, fond of and potentially feel like are in the same boat as us.