Where Will ISU End Up if the Big 12 Implodes?
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My opinion is that we are seeing the beginnings of the SEC and their partners ESPN breaking off from the NCAA. By bringing Texas and OU into the SEC they are securing the big name schools first. They will fill in the cannon fodder later. This will lead to a scramble by the Big10 and Fox to start grabbing up schools too. I think when the dust settles there will only be 2 major "conferences". Probably 30+ teams in each broken into divisions like the NFL.
What Big10 fans don't seem to get in this scenario is that Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan are not off the table. If the SEC is offering more money, and even more importantly money for the players, then any of the major schools will be interested. This all just seems like it is more than conference TV packages. It is about NIL and paying players above the table. Texas, OU, Ohio State, heck USC and Oregon would be crazy to be stuck in conferences where they aren't allowed to pay players while Alabama can. How would they compete?
And I have no idea where Iowa State ends up in all of this. I would think we are at least an interesting second tier option to either Fox or ESPN. Both will need schools to fill out their schedules.
My opinion is that we are seeing the beginnings of the SEC and their partners ESPN breaking off from the NCAA. By bringing Texas and OU into the SEC they are securing the big name schools first. They will fill in the cannon fodder later. This will lead to a scramble by the Big10 and Fox to start grabbing up schools too. I think when the dust settles there will only be 2 major "conferences". Probably 30+ teams in each broken into divisions like the NFL.
What Big10 fans don't seem to get in this scenario is that Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan are not off the table. If the SEC is offering more money, and even more importantly money for the players, then any of the major schools will be interested. This all just seems like it is more than conference TV packages. It is about NIL and paying players above the table. Texas, OU, Ohio State, heck USC and Oregon would be crazy to be stuck in conferences where they aren't allowed to pay players while Alabama can. How would they compete?
And I have no idea where Iowa State ends up in all of this. I would think we are at least an interesting second tier option to either Fox or ESPN. Both will need schools to fill out their schedules.
I have not read all of these multiple threads, but would it be possible just to merge the American and whatever is left of the Big 12?
Why not? They are the heavyweights. Purdue, Indiana, Rutgers and the like don't bring as much to the party.
If we're thinking a group independent from the NCAA that can print and keep their own money....you don't think the elite of the B1G would be interested?
The B1G would be a group independent from the NCAA that can print and keep their own money.
Thinking the SEC is going to poach the likes of Ohio St., Michigan, and Penn St. from the B1G is delusional.
I wouldn't say anything is off the table. If these super powers are cutting the fat then any school who can't bring that high level of $$$ could eventually be swallowed up by the flood.
113 becomes 60. 60 becomes 30. NFL style divisions with a collective bargaining agreement that brings in crazy money.
Why not?
Oh, I agree that the Big 10 can go independent too and keep Ohio st in the fold. And attract North Carolina, Virginia, USC, etc themselves...
My point is that if the Big 10 and others cling to the way the conference and NCAA landscape has been to this point they risk being left behind once players start really being offered money in the open. There is NO way that Ohio State will sit by and watch SEC schools pay players and take recruits. You can't seriuously believe this
And one more thing...
You know that whoever is in charge at kNebraska has already called the SEC to inquire about what is up and can they get an invite.
FYI, the BIG did go after North Carolina the last time around. The backed off because of the academic scandal, but they wanted UNC, that was their choice.
We have way more going for us than iowa, that's for sure.
True, but like others have said, Iowa already firmly has a chair in this years' game of musical chairs. We'll be struggling to find a chair when the music stops.
If we end up in a division with Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern, and one more school (maybe Kansas) then this will all actually have been a good thing for us. Imagine the road trips to road conference games that we could all conveniently take. Not to mention the newly-available slot for a P5 non-conference opponent.
