Saw someone mention that a source is saying this is the tip of the iceberg for Big Ten expansion and mentioned to look out for Stanford, Oregon, Kansas and TCU
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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While the buff's are traitors, I live 20 minutes from Folsom Field, so I'm ok with us taking CU back.
I fully understand that perspective.
As a fan of ISU forever (I just turned 40), I can say without hesitation that I'd rather be competitive with peers than be a sucker that gets stuck at the bottom of the super league. We saw ISU as the sucker of the Big 12 for too long and it would be the same in a super league. I'd rather go against Kansas, K-State, Texas Tech, etc and have something to look forward to on game day. Not sure, that may be an abnormal view/preference.
I've said over and over and over that someone in these superconferences has to absorb all the losses. The Mississippi schools, Rutgers, Vanderbilt, Indiana, Illinois...college athletics is going to be an even more unpleasant endeavor for them than it already is. It's a highly-paid suicide mission.
I think it's entirely possible that we end up in this second tier and that 20 years from now after all the dust has settled and the shock wears off, we're quite content and perhaps even happy with where we've landed.
But if the B1G calls - and this is a hypothetical obviously, I think it's very unlikely - I don't see how you say no.
I agreee. Once you get above 20 (or even 18) what's the point in football? You split into 10 team divisions and you'd only see the other teams during championship week? That's essentially just 2 conferences with the same media deal
TCU actually makes a ton of sense when you think about it. Money forever and a foothold in Texas without the Baylor Baggage.
Its cool when the B1G does it but when the Big12 does it, "3 time zones that's unwieldy".
So is just a coincidence that the Big 12 finalized hiring the new commish right before this news dropped?
A splash of cold water…
ISU would absolutely accept a ticket to the B1G if asked. Culturally and geographically it makes total sense. However, the wine and cheese crowd would likely rather have any of the following:
UNC, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, Cal, Stanford, Miami (private school), Duke, Notre Dame, Colorado
ISU would absolutely accept a ticket to the B1G if asked. Culturally and geographically it makes total sense. However, the wine and cheese crowd would likely rather have any of the following:
UNC, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, Cal, Stanford, Miami (private school), Duke, Notre Dame, Colorado
I might have agreed with you pre-Campbell. I think he's shown us we can compete with anybody.
Would it really be all that shocking if we found out *that* was the point?
SC won't be. They hired the right guy. There are some classics with Ohio State coming.
That puts their combined value at 410 million. If the pac was going to be let’s say 40MM. That is a total of 480. So the other 10 teams are only worth 70 MM per year combined? Seems to be a little off.
The Buffs are traitors, but probably the least traitor-y of the ones that left. They fled to save their own skin when it looked like the league was completely dead. They were not leading the charge. I don't like it, but I have the least problem with them of all the former B12 schools.
That's the other thing that's nauseating about this. All the media members who hated on the Big12 for expanding are lauding the BiG for the same things.
USC is probably set to rebound under Riley, and UCLA is probably more about basketball (gives the Big Ten the top LA program from September til April).
