Have you tasted the water in Michigan, Ohio, or Western Pennsylvania?
IOWA STATE TO BIG TEN?!? Dave Wannstedt thinks so.
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18 months? If it were me, I'd make the first couple of these meetings happy hours while telling my wife that I have serious work to do on the "expansion subcommittee".
UConn is 63. Colorado State is 153 as well.
My biggest takeaway from that list is that, if academics play any role, it will likely be as a negative for Boise and Memphis, and maybe a bump for USF as a UCF travel partner type of thing.
BYU is the best school, and the best financial option, but we know it comes with lots of baggage. There would be real pushback to associating with BYU as a conference member.
I could see Houston, Cincinnati, UCF, and USF being the four at the end of the day. All the additions are in growth areas with lots of recruits. They are good football teams that have won recently, or at least semi-recently in USF's case. USF plays in an NFL stadium too. Just purely guessing, they probably have the top four TV brands in the American; maybe Memphis is better than one but they're all top 5 or 6 in that league for sure.
Rivalry weekend would be something like:
UCF-USF
WVU-Cincy
KU-KSU
UH-Tech
BU-TCU
ISU-OSU is kind of the leftover but it's Big 8 so I'll take it.
Or stick KU-OSU here and give us Farmageddon instead.
He impresses me as someone who is not happy with his potential landing spot. Maybe the PAC 12 isn't interested in TT?
Be like OJ and search on golf courses around the country.
Agreed. It really seems that the silence by the other AD's mean that they know how this plays out. But Hocutt continues to be the lone voice chirping (not screaming) so it seems he's not quite satisfied with Tech's landing spot.
I'm not sure I would call it optics only. I'm sure they have been and will continue to discuss options for expansion. Surely this is a contingency/fallback to the preferred options. Even if there's a handshake or under the table agreement, I don't think expansion options are going to stop being explored.
I don't want to be the one to say it but a remodeled Big 12 isn't going to be a super awesome recruiting tool....
Discuss? Sure. Reach out to schools to take their temperature? No way, not yet anyways.
So true.
Another tidbit that happened toward the end of Mack Brown's era and they are still struggling with this. The Texas campus is like 40 or 50 acres of concrete, but they pulled it off very well. Austin is a very expensive town to rent in and like most college kids, they want to get out of the dorms after their freshman or sophomore year. Apparently, in Mack Brown's final two years, half of the team had at least a 30 to 40 minute drive to get to practice. The scary part is the apartments weren't that far away, but with Austin traffic and being six seven miles away, if not more, it is not very conducive to creating an hour-by-hour and day-by-day culture.
Sometimes my endowment is higher and sometimes it is lower. It's just nature.
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Pretty sure a decent chunk of that is going to be in the form of land, real estate, property, non-liquid assets, etc.
I used to follow a number of national guys. I follow NONE now. I quit most, prior to the B12 stuff, but the final few got cut becasue of that.
No, I'm afraid it's worse. We'll get the Rutgers of the Plains, but without all that sweet NYC carriage fee action:
Same here. I dropped a bunch after watching the way they conducted themselves during the realignments of a decade ago, and the few that were left are gone after the last month.
I don't need someone to blow smoke up my ass about all this, but the dancing on graves is gross. The next time the media industry contracts and one of these guys is out of a job, I'll be sure to get in his mentions and tell him he adds no value to any other publication.
You have to explore what expansion looks like and what the effects are on the revenue stream from TV. This will help and calculating the tortious interference damages. There are several irons in the fire and you got to keep working all of them at the same time.
Probably less than 25% is not liquid. That is my estimate. However, even if it's farmland, it will make you somewhere between 2 and 5% of the annual value as a recurring income stream.
