If a super conference is added short of 64 teams, I'm going to short Disney.
COLUMN: What happens to Iowa State if the Big 12 implodes?
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Now hear me out with this. One thing people over look is that by adding two teams. A conference may decide to add a conference game and cut a non con. The conference games are worth more than nearly all non cons. You get it every year and not every other pending on the other team. Something like that could create more by adding two more teams. Yes, it may work with many teams, but it isn’t just a no brained that adding two non blue bloods will have diminishing returns.
Yeah I’m pissed at all of this from a shareholder standpoint too. All this does is drive more fans away and hurt ESPN long term. It may help short term but when nobody cares that is a disaster.
$30M in donations, and a $59.9M bond:
Regents issue nearly $60M in bonds for for major athletic projects at ISU
The Iowa Board of Regents issued $59.9 million in revenue bonds earlier this month that will assist the funding of a new Sports Performance Center near
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More money for TV, but they lose a home game every other year because most of these non-con games to not alternate home and home. And if it's a home and home with another P5 team, they're getting the TV revenue anyway. What the net difference is I don't know. ISU/Iowa would be accretive to the conference because the conference would get the TV money every year instead of every other one.
Cyclone brother, with respect, a reconstituted XII is G6. And G6 is death. Cyclones fans will not accept a product, an opponent, or facilities on par with Tulsa. If not P4, we have no interest in following ISU football. ISU football goes on one of two ways, in the B1G or in the Pac. That's it.
Taking OU and Texas by the SEC is the first step in one gigantic league, run by the SEC / ESPN. It may not be soon but they'll next try to grab the top ACC teams such as Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, Miami, Virginia, and Syracuse. Having the ACC under ESPN will help this grab. And maybe before that, they will work on taking the top teams from the Pac-12. Finally, there is one conference left - the Big 10. At this point, the SEC / ESPN has the entire nation blanketed except the Midwest. The SEC will have their own college football playoff. The Big 10 will be shut out and the top powers (Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Penn State) will be forced to join this super league - with ESPN owning all the inventory and Fox shut out.
This ploy is similar to what happened in Europe a couple months ago where all the top teams from different leagues banded together to try to form a super league. Luckily, the players and the fans were were against this and it didn't happen. Well, I don't see the players caring and they don't have the power. The fans are too sensitive about being left out that they will go along with it.
This ploy is similar to what happened in Europe a couple months ago where all the top teams from different leagues banded together to try to form a super league. Luckily, the players and the fans were were against this and it didn't happen. Well, I don't see the players caring and they don't have the power. The fans are too sensitive about being left out that they will go along with it.
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The argument for these schools will be, "why make $50 million carrying the other schools in your conference, when you can compete with the best players in the country that money can buy in our super conference and bring home $85 million? Your conference mates are just holding you back."
It is a seductive message. Especially if the schools believe "additional educational benefits" is something the rest of their conference cannot afford to provide.
It is a seductive message. Especially if the schools believe "additional educational benefits" is something the rest of their conference cannot afford to provide.
It’s going to be the Big 10 or PAC-12
I’m at peace if this is the eventual Armageddon. The schools that would rather be football teams than universities can enjoy being NFL lite. The rest will be poor but maintain our integrity. Or regain it, depending on how you feel about the last 30 years of making crazy tv money.
The immediate financial implications are worrisome, and I know many will lose interest, but I’ve been going to games since I was five and I have no intention of stopping. Besides, ticket prices would eventually go down, and it’s still a good time back at alma mater.
Depends. If its 2 super leagues with 60-70 teams, we would have a good chance.
if it is 1 super league with 20-30 teams, then not so much. BUT the consolation there is that if there are 40 good programs left (from Purdue to Ga Tech to Ole Miss to Arizona) then there is plenty of teams to redo some conferences under the NCAA and do college football. Won't be $50M per year, but if everyone is on the same level it will be fine.
Personally, I've lost interest in most football outside of Iowa State. The long term brain impacts just don't sit well with me anymore. But whatever level Iowa State ends up at I will still go to and watch games. The second tier bundesliga has some of the highest attendance figures in europe, granted they still have realistic dreams of getting into the top level. I had thought the expanded playoff would finally give teams like Iowa State and many others a realistic chance at a National Title but those hopes appear to be short lived.
Lol there isn’t going to be a “New Big12”.
The best interest for Iowa State is-
B1G>>>>>>>>Pac16/20>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>New Big12.
The best interest for Iowa State is-
B1G>>>>>>>>Pac16/20>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>New Big12.
There's a 3rd option of the Texas Legislature killing the move. That in itself doesn't do anything for the longterm viability of the league, but if Texas decided to become an independent, we would have the revenue bonus of retaining OU and the cancer of the conference is gone. And obviously that wouldn't be a G6 league. It's plausible that we could add some disgruntled teams from other leagues and work to build the number of teams back up to 12. The odds aren't great, and no one knows what the revenue of such a league would look like, but it remains a possibility. It would boil down to just how small we (the other 8 schools) could cut the loss, and of course would have to allow OU or anyone else to maximize Tier 3 money to justify them sticking around.
I think OU would have great difficulty finding a second school to go with them to the SEC as everyone in the ACC is locked down for a decade.
