Where Will ISU End Up if the Big 12 Implodes?
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It's not supposed to be anything, it's just supposed to be reality.
The Big Ten is an academic consortium in addition to an athletics conference. B1G membership involves joining the CIC, for one.
Its all about money. Nothing else. We are in a better position than some schools (KSU) but pretty much just hoping for the best at this point..
Agree, the Big 10 has to keep up.
I brought this up in another thread:
Texas and OU are gone. Our President and AD need to be working with KU's Chancellor and AD tirelessly to get us into the Big 10 right now. That needs to be the play. I'm hoping the Big 10 goes bold and adds members up to 18 or 20 teams just so the Pac 12 can't get all of us. (Thus, making it tough for them to add viable options down the road.)
It would be nice if ISU, KU, KSU and OSU somehow ended up in the Big 10 (Maybe WVU and some other school?). Because, from a national perspective, adding just ISU and KU isn't going to move the needle when the SEC just added UT and OU. They'll need to try to one-up the SEC a bit to justify such a move.
KSU and West Virginia have a better shot of joining the NFC North than the Big 10
What's Kevin Warren's address? We need to pool some funds and send him a gift basket from CF or something
Also posted this in another thread:
Look, Notre Dame is not going to leave for any other conference. They are tied to the hip with the ACC by playing 5 games with them a year as a partial member. It's a sweetheart deal. They are not going to give up their independence because, why would they? They get to schedule opponents all over the country and play games neutral site games wherever they like. They keep their west coast games with Stanford and USC.
Why does ND do this? It is HUGE for their recruiting purposes. They recruit from everywhere! They are always relevant from this aspect alone. They will never fully go all-in with the ACC. (And they are attached to the ACC's GOR's well into the 2030's.)
If I were the Big ten and I enjoyed my life the way it is I would essentially make my own AFL to the sec's NFL. Let the SEC bet on themselves and segregate their viewing audience to just that corner of the nation and allow the rest of the schools to continue with the current traditions rivalries and academic priorities that are already in the system. S*** add 40 teams if you want make it very hard for ESPN to get any more subscribers than they already would have.
Report: Kansas, Iowa State set up call with Big Ten
As the Big 12 implodes with Texas and Oklahoma's departure, Kansas and Iowa State have set up call with the Big Ten for conference realignment plans.
www.google.com
That report seems to be picking up everywhere. Could be something to watch.Report: Kansas, Iowa State set up call with Big Ten
As the Big 12 implodes with Texas and Oklahoma's departure, Kansas and Iowa State have set up call with the Big Ten for conference realignment plans.www.google.com
Of course it’s about money. But what source matters most? Is it ticket sales? Donors? Grant money? Subscriptions services? TV rights? How does ESPN value that these days? Is it by market size or actual eyeballs tuned in?
I laugh at folks like you who state your opinion as if it were fact. Hope you'll show up to eat your words if your opinion is proved wrong.
Iowa State
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Wisconsin
Illinois
Northwestern
Now that's a fun division that will spawn rivalries like crazy and every single destination is an easy days drive for everybody. The way it should be everywhere.
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Wisconsin
Illinois
Northwestern
Now that's a fun division that will spawn rivalries like crazy and every single destination is an easy days drive for everybody. The way it should be everywhere.
I think you can pencil in Oklahoma State and Texas Tech to the Pac 12. The biggest question is if the Big 10 will take Iowa State and Kansas. If not, then I'm guessing we'll be in the Pac 12 and Kansas either in the Pac 12 or ACC.
IMHO, the biggest gamble of all is ESPN's. They're using monopolistic practices right now in maneuvering the TX/OK move. Which could set them up for legal proceedings. If this goes through, the Feds will surely scrutinize the move and assuredly tax it. ESPN is already leveraged and will leverage their parent company's entertainment packaging even more. If other leagues do not follow suit, their plan will implode. Or, at the very least, be VERY expensive to sustain.
This is as entertaining as when Microsoft said to IBM, "you can have OS/2. I know we've built it together, but we're not positioned to deal with it now". 2 weeks later they announce Windows 3.1.
Office of Science National Laboratories
Office of Science stewards of 10 of the Department's 17 laboratories.
Time to start leveraging the US Department of Energy relationship with Iowa State
Office of Science National Laboratories
Office of Science stewards of 10 of the Department's 17 laboratories.www.energy.gov
Time to start leveraging the US Department of Energy relationship with Iowa State
Can we shut down Texas’s power grid again?
Let's just band up with Nebraska and use the base over in Omaha to turn the 40 acres to glass
In which of those categories would ISU be the desired target?
Dont get me wrong, the Big 10 would be ideal... I just dont see it happening.
