Conference Realignment..?

[Deleted User 863]

Welp....late night basketball games it'll be if it's PAC.

[NewtonHawk11]

That's interesting Infinite. Certainly not the greatest endorsement. But the presidents make the calls, not solely the ADs.

[Sparko]

Seems like there is a check measuring contest going on. The competitive balance in the BiG could use a boost.

[Deleted User 89]

Did you guys see the rumor that the SEC is trying to get tOSU and Meechigan from the B1G too to form a 20 team power conference? I mean, that's gotta be bullshit, right?

clemson and fsu too

then what would the B1G do? they’d surely want to add in order to prop up revenue as much as possible

[CrimsonNBlue]

Ohio St's AD retweeted this:

KU and WVU add TV markets to compete with SEC for even more revenue.

[nu_bronco]

Damn it. Why couldn't we get a decent football program going before this all happened again.

[Deleted User 863]

It's really interesting to see how widely opinions differ from the various fan bases on who each conference should add and what schools they see value in.

[CrimsonNBlue]

The competitive balance in the BiG could use a boost.

CFB sucks so much right now--it would be nice if mega conference realignment could change competitive balance, but I am not initially sure how it can.

NLI may be the better balancer, but certainly changes are happening and can hopefully fix that huge problem.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Damn it. Why couldn't we get a decent football program going before this all happened again.

The last two schools added by the B1G were Rutgers and Maryland.

[Deleted User 863]

Rutgers value comes in that NJ/NY market and in their academics, right?

Maryland always seemed like a weird fit.

[Deleted User 89]

tweets coming out now indicating that B1G is only interested in adding AAU schools

B1G may look to PAC for additions

[PhDhawk]

Rutgers value comes in that NJ/NY market and in their academics, right?

Maryland always seemed like a weird fit.

That was the thought. TV markets less important right now. Also, that was obviously dumb. Anyone who's been to NYC knows there is little to no interest in college sports. And the interest that is there are in transplants who root for their own team, not the state college of New Jersey, just because it happens to be nearby.

Same with Maryland was supposed to bring in the DC market, but again, it's a city full of transplants, many who only live their traniently. You don't go to DC to work for 3 years and suddenly change the college team you root for to the closest school.

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footb ... 2-for-sec/

[PhDhawk]

tweets coming out now indicating that B1G is only interested in adding AAU schools

B1G may look to PAC for additions

KU is an AAU school.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Rutgers value comes in that NJ/NY market and in their academics, right?

Maryland always seemed like a weird fit.

That was the thought. TV markets less important right now. Also, that was obviously dumb. Anyone who's been to NYC knows there is little to no interest in college sports. And the interest that is there are in transplants who root for their own team, not the state college of New Jersey, just because it happens to be nearby.

Same with Maryland was supposed to bring in the DC market, but again, it's a city full of transplants, many who only live their traniently. You don't go to DC to work for 3 years and suddenly change the college team you root for to the closest school.

I think the disconnect is the thought that adding those schools was going to secure the respective markets. I don't think that was ever really the promise. Adding those schools just at least gets you into those markets. Gives them something to sell to the tv companies.

[jfish26]

Rutgers value comes in that NJ/NY market and in their academics, right?

Maryland always seemed like a weird fit.

That was the thought. TV markets less important right now. Also, that was obviously dumb. Anyone who's been to NYC knows there is little to no interest in college sports. And the interest that is there are in transplants who root for their own team, not the state college of New Jersey, just because it happens to be nearby.

Same with Maryland was supposed to bring in the DC market, but again, it's a city full of transplants, many who only live their traniently. You don't go to DC to work for 3 years and suddenly change the college team you root for to the closest school.

I think the disconnect is the thought that adding those schools was going to secure the respective markets. I don't think that was ever really the promise. Adding those schools just at least gets you into those markets. Gives them something to sell to the tv companies.

Yes. Numbers on a page. Which is true vis a vis the KC MSA and the B1G.

[NewtonHawk11]

This guy has really detailed information. Seems like KU, West Va and ISU are not interested in re-upping any commitment to Big 12 and the GOR. The meeting spelled doomed for the conference as it stands right now with the remaining 8 members.

[nu_bronco]

Damn it. Why couldn't we get a decent football program going before this all happened again.

The last two schools added by the B1G were Rutgers and Maryland.

Yeah, I understand that. I would still feel more comfortable if the team was closer to .500 instead of .100.

[CrimsonNBlue]

We are all going to forget that West Virginia was in the Big 12.

[LVCHawk]

This guy has really detailed information. Seems like KU, West Va and ISU are not interested in re-upping any commitment to Big 12 and the GOR. The meeting spelled doomed for the conference as it stands right now with the remaining 8 members.

Hopefully its not the same WVU guy last time that kept saying Clemson and FSU were on the way to the Big 12