Big10 - Pac12 - ACC Merger
- Thread starter Beach_Tornado
- Start date
First there are NOT any blue blood programs that are willing and able to move, The ACC teams including ND are locked into their media deal for the next 14 years, so they are off the board. I rather doubt USC and Oregon want to move to the Big 10 by themselves and taking 4 to 6 teams from the league, destroys it, like the Big 12 has been destroyed.
I keep reading about the MEGA deal that the Big 10 is about to sign, if that is true, more money coming in, then how would signing 2 schools to the league, lower the amount of money each school would get? It would still be more than the $50 million they get now, it might not be as high as they would get without them, but no school will be getting less money than what they are now.
I didn’t read the whole thread but it’s amazing to me that Notre Dame gets to just sit back, kick their feet up and ******* watch all of this go down.
I understand Jamie can be a little prickly at times, but how can any Iowa State fan hate him? Especially after all he’s done at Iowa State
I don’t know, this new “news” doesn’t really move the needle for me in either direction. It’s interesting to me that so many of you are in an absolute **** storm panic about it.
Because Mccarney is a god to tornado man and JP fired him.
“WHY DONT THEY INCLUDE THE BIG 12?!”
Because the Big 12 is dead. It has been since the moment OU and UT officially announced they were leaving. You don’t include them the same reason you wouldn’t include your grandparent in hospice in the European vacation you’re planning in two years. But that doesn’t have any bearing at all on the fate of any of the schools (except maybe Baylor, they’re probably ****** no matter what).
I’m old, and I have seen Iowa State beat Oklahoma exactly 3 times in my life.
The two of those in the last 4 years have made me happier than any win over Iowa, even 1998
People freaking out need to chill. Remember, whatever information that reaches the public in this game is serving someone's agenda, not the actual truth. Not all of these conferences are going to want to stand pat forever.
Not sure it is as easy as that. Just like there is the ISUvIowa rivalry. There are other inter-conference rivals that probably prohibit a non-con schedule loaded up with Alliance games.
Florida v Florida State.
Georgia v GA Tech.
S. Carolina v Clemson.
Kentucky v Louisville.
An Alliance probably means a handful of high profile games between conferences and maybe one-offs between lower tier schools that could be put on Big10, Pac12 and ACC Network instead of those teams playing MAC, WAC or Sun Belt games.
Sheesh. I didn’t know one Athletic article meant it was a done deal. Slow down. This has all been going on for about a month now. No foregone conclusions can be made yet.
You’re talking to the dude that demands Manning be fired and that we’re going to lose the game if we don’t pick up a first down on the first drive of the game.
I think these decisions are far more complicated than you realize.
I have no clue how we’ll end up, but I think these decisions go way far deeper than just “brands” and who brings in TV ratings/streams.
These are academic programs.
Yeah I'M not saying that...there's just still fans that are in 1995 when it comes to what they value for the program since winning a ****ing Fiesta Bowl apparently wasn't a big deal.
Doesn’t matter what he’s done up to now. His legacy will be defined by whether he keeps Iowa State in a power conference or not. I bet he knows that.
I guess that's where I'm sitting on this. When I see "ACC/Big 10/Pac 12 alliance" without the Big 12 included, I see that as the Big 12 is as good as carved up at this point, and that to me means ISU has a place in this as a member of one of these conferences, likely either with the Big 10 or Pac 12. And I'm totally fine with that. I'm not one of those that is stuck on the sanctity of the Big 12 or pining for the old days of the Big 8 (in fact I was still a Hawkeye fan back then). All I care about is the future relevance of ISU, and if that's as a member of the Big 10 or Pac 12, or hell, as a member of the ACC, more power to us.
