Conference Realignment

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A lot of people in this thread don’t know a lot about NASCAR but seem to keep talking about it lol
 
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TentakilRex said:
1. The trick is that it also came with Pac-12 leadership which is its own can of worms.
2. I think everybody else got caught with their pants down on everybody but USC and UCLA
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Yeah, but even with USC & UCLA already decamped to the B1G, it remains puzzling to me that despite a year of trying Kliavkoff couldn't get anything from a linear network that topped Apple's $20mm/year offer, considering that those same networks now will be paying around $30mm for the next 7 years to each of Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah. I mean, the media rights for Stanford, Cal, Wazzu and Ore St. might not be worth $30mm/year . . . but they must be more than zero . . . right?

It's also remarkable that the conference that was left two years ago with only Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU, Iowa St., Okla St., WVU and two Kansas schools (with only KU and WVU being the leading brand in their respective states), is the one that survived the death match against the conference with the top brands in every major media market west of Dallas.

What an epic botch job by Larry Scott and Kliavkoff.
 
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Ander1345

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I like picking up 2 more teams to make 4, 5 team divisions with top 2 teams in East/West conferences playing for representation in champ game.

There's no point in acting like the status quo of a singular championship game needs to be followed, the B1G has more teams than some pro leagues.
 
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WeWillWhen said:
The strangest thing to me about this shuffling is that Fox and ESPN are willing to pay $31 million (or significantly more) for the future broadcast rights of USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah . . .

. . . but wouldn't pay them if the package also included Stanford, Cal, Wash St. and Ore. St.

Weird that no arrangement could be worked out that also included those four weaker sisters.
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While it's been whined about here regarding the conference capitulating to networks, those same networks have really hitched their wagons to a conference.
 
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Perry Range's Van said:
From a research standpoint they would still be considered to be one. However from a student body standpoint they have made great progress (as with all FL schools due to lottery $ actually going into education in the form of scholarships). Their acceptance rate in recent years went from 62% (bad but better than Iowa), to 37% (on par with the beloved). If this holds, other measures will also rise.
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Acceptance rate is a poor indicator of academic quality.
 
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I get people hate ND but adding them to our conference would just absolutely sky rocket the value. So many immediate natural rivals. A natural villain to add to OSU and Michigan. A team Michigan hates too, and has played OSU last season and this season already.

Not to mention the Fandom that ND has. Love them or hate them, they'd make the B1G amazing in this wild west realignment.
 
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LouHenson said:
I hope the BIG does not go after Cal and Stanford. With the assumption that ND won’t join the BIG, my preference would be to add Clemson and FSU.

Then you would have 4 divisions that would look like this:

West
UCLA
USC
Washington
Oregon
Nebraska

Midwest
Illinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Iowa

Mideast
tOSU
scUM
MSU
Purdue
Indiana

East
Clemson
FSU
Maryland
PSU
Rutgers

You could then have a 4 team playoff at the end of the year. That would make travel easier and really look like an NFL model they seem to be trying to emulate?

Clemson and FSU and so much more than Cal and Stanford as far as footprint into the SEC’s backyard and that would be really valuable to the BIG.
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I hope they do add Call and Stanford- How is Illinois going to get six wins a year?
 
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