Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Once the Big 10 starts paying their players, the players become university employees which opens up a massive can of worms that forever changes the face of collegiate athletics.
Imagine the workman comp claims…….
Imagine Northwestern and the Chicago unions. "It's not my job to cross that goal line... No. I don't know who's job it is. Ask Local 542."And the unions....
I think USC and had a +1 on their Big 10 invite and took UCLA. Now the CA BoR is trying to get a +1 for UCLA.
If the Big 10 only took USC and UCLA at this time so they'd have reasonable cover for accusations of blowing up the PAC, the CA Board of Regents forcing their hand is a great way to go ahead and take what they want and the blame goes elsewhere. Our hand was forced!!! We had no choice!!!
Option 1 is the Big 10 accepts that they have to take Cal, then they need one more to even out the numbers. Stanford is geographically redundant with Cal and the Big 10 would be doubling up in both the LA and SF markets. UW makes the most sense as the 4th - large TV market, good academics, good history, strong fan support. I think they'd get the nod over OR.
Option 1A is accept Cal is part of getting UCLA and then take Stanford, OR and WA since the PAC is dead now and they wanted these three anyway.
Option 2 is they jettison UCLA for Stanford, which is likely the school they'd prefer in the Bay Area. This seems less likely as the Big 10 Commish wasn't shy about further expansion, though this would probably be a preferred stopping point if the Big 10 wanted to stay at 16 for awhile.
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not going to go read that #*@$, but how can they want something that is ultimately bad for the state. I assume it is lost on them that realignment may eventually reach them, as well? The fact that they are already in is providing them protection, for now.
What’s going to be fun is when ESPN decides to outbid NBC for the Notre Dame home games that are up soon. Throws a bit of a wrench in NBC’s Big Ten idea to push things toward those Notre Dame home games.
The other part of this is Big Ten deal is this draft for the games by Fox, CBS and NBC. If Fox indeed always gets the top game at noon not sure how the order goes for CBS and NBC or if they just rotate every other during this draft. Regardless look at a lot of those weeks in the Big Ten, that third best game, which NBC or CBS would get is a lot of Minnesota v. Michigan State, Iowa v. Purdue, etc. I just went through the weeks, so yes to keep media partners happy (consideration going how much they are paying) they are going to need to schedule smart and find more big games.
Also Ohio State is going to be seeing a lot of noon ET kicks, so hope the Buckeye fans like that. Unless they are going to be able to flex games like NBC Sunday Night Football has. Will be interesting.
Either way the Big 12 needs to have a couple of teams replace OU as the consistent CFP threat to build up the brands of those schools and create bigger games. Will take awhile but view it kind of like Gonzaga bball. They are one of the elite college hoops brands after two decades of winning like they have. We need a couple of schools like that for football moving forward to build to that. Unfortunately Baylor could be one of them barf.
The other part of this is Big Ten deal is this draft for the games by Fox, CBS and NBC. If Fox indeed always gets the top game at noon not sure how the order goes for CBS and NBC or if they just rotate every other during this draft. Regardless look at a lot of those weeks in the Big Ten, that third best game, which NBC or CBS would get is a lot of Minnesota v. Michigan State, Iowa v. Purdue, etc. I just went through the weeks, so yes to keep media partners happy (consideration going how much they are paying) they are going to need to schedule smart and find more big games.
Also Ohio State is going to be seeing a lot of noon ET kicks, so hope the Buckeye fans like that. Unless they are going to be able to flex games like NBC Sunday Night Football has. Will be interesting.
Either way the Big 12 needs to have a couple of teams replace OU as the consistent CFP threat to build up the brands of those schools and create bigger games. Will take awhile but view it kind of like Gonzaga bball. They are one of the elite college hoops brands after two decades of winning like they have. We need a couple of schools like that for football moving forward to build to that. Unfortunately Baylor could be one of them barf.
No, but the regents could. Cal and UCLA are governed by the same regents. It'd be a big power play by the regents, but they could tell the UCLA administration to pull from the Big 10 unless Cal were invited too.
And put a nail in both of their coffins.
I think Fox gets the #1 pick for the season each of the 7 years, which means they'll likely take tOSU v. Michigan each year. Beyond that, the picks rotate, so there's still going to be tOSU v. PSU, Michigan v. USC, Michigan v. PSU, USC v. PSU, etc. as far as the bluebloods, along with a lot of other second tier matchups like Wisco v. Iowa, Michigan v. MSU, Wisco v. tOSU, etc. You're also likely going to see more frequent ND v. Michigan games between 2023 and 2030.
That's like telling your son who has a date to the prom with the hottest girl in school they can't go because their dumbass brother doesn't have a date. It's absolutely stupid.
The simple fact is both of these programs are hemmoraging cash. They'll never block it because the alternative is that the taxpayers pay off facility upgrades for UCLA.
Your right, I don't think it happens either. I was just stating that the Regents, if they wanted to, could make UCLA back out of their Big 10 invite if they wanted to as some kind of power play to have Cal invited to. It would end up embarrassing them as I think the Big 10 would pass on that offer and invite a Stanford or another Pac school in UCLA's place.
I think it was already mentioned but short of trying to block the move, I could see the regents try getting UCLA to kick back some of its B1G cash to Cal.
I'll admit I would laugh pretty hard if the regents try to drag Cal along as a package deal and end up getting both Cal and UCLA left out. Even funnier is if UCLA gets traded for someone like UW instead of Stanford. At least if Stanford takes the spot some of that money still flows in to Cali. But I can see UW being a more appealing option.
Has Brett McMurphy always been a ****** reporter?
Bryant Gumbel: Could you see the Big 10 eventually getting to 20 teams?
Kevin Warren: Yes I could see that
Brett McMurphy: Big 10 looking to go to 20 teams
Bryant Gumbel: Seems like everyone is getting paid except for the players, could you foresee paying your players
Kevin Warren: One of the things I'm excited about is being able to have honest dialogue with our student athletes
Bryant Gumbel: Could you foresee paying your athletes?
Kevin Warren: Yes
Brett McMurphy: Big 10 looking to pay players
Bryant Gumbel: Could you see the Big 10 eventually getting to 20 teams?
Kevin Warren: Yes I could see that
Brett McMurphy: Big 10 looking to go to 20 teams
Bryant Gumbel: Seems like everyone is getting paid except for the players, could you foresee paying your players
Kevin Warren: One of the things I'm excited about is being able to have honest dialogue with our student athletes
Bryant Gumbel: Could you foresee paying your athletes?
Kevin Warren: Yes
Brett McMurphy: Big 10 looking to pay players
