Gonna be hilarious when this ends with a 36 team Big-10 and a 36 team SEC where different teams have different tiers of media rights and then de-facto play in rough approximations of their old conferences

Great timing man.

Within 24 hours the campus will be moved north and the Trojans' 40 times will slow.

maybe the b1g will add washington and oregon and cal and stanford too?

and create two divisions, a b1g west and east?

and then every year the champs of the two divisions can play each other?

maybe in like, pasadena?

maybe have a parade or something? some floats?

also so weird how like, 100 years of tradition apparently means nothing, but wtf is up with Oregon and Washington and Cal and Stanford getting left out on a limb while Rutgers gets to stay in the B1G?

Rutgers is that stain you just can't get out of your carpet.


The whole thing is pretty absurd. I guess on some level it makes sense -- maybe the B1G's only somewhat incompetent leadership can extract more revenue than the PAC's demonstrably incompetent leadership. But in terms of travel, matchups, history, getting teams into the playoff, whatever it's uhhh WTF.

Rutgers NYC media market carriage rates are why the B1G is the 1a conference to the SEC imo

i released a hearty guffaw

gg Pac12

Picked a good time to stop following college sports and stopping my ASU season tickets

my guess is arizona, arizona state, colorado and utah to the big-12 to get them to 16, which then either splits into:

West:
Arizona
Arizona State
Utah
BYU
Colorado
Texas Tech
TCU
Baylor


East:
WVU
Cincinnati
UCF
Iowa State
Kansas
K State
Oklahoma State
Houston


Or they go with the pod model, where you have 3 permanent opponents and then play 6 of the 12 every other year:
Arizona / Arizona State / Utah / BYU

TCU / Baylor / Houston / Texas Tech

Colorado / Oklahoma State / Kansas / Kansas State

WVU / Cincinnati / UCF / Iowa State



Then, maybe this is wishful thinking, but I think Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford slide into the B1G as well. I mean what else are they going to do, pretend like east/west matters? It's not like Wisconsin is meaningfully closer to LA than Penn State is.

I have no idea how to make 20 work. 18 is actually pretty doable I think, unfortunately for cal & stanford

Honestly they should just add Washington, Oregon, Cal and Stanford and boot Rutgers and Maryland.

Ohio State
Michigan
Penn State
Michigan state
Purdue
Indiana

Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Northwestern
Illinois

USC
UCLA
Oregon
Washington
Cal
Stanford

Every year you play the 5 teams in your pod and 2 teams from each of the other pods

lol this whole thing is so ****ing stupid

B1G now targeting ND

Hopefully with nuclear weapons.

It's official, USC and UCLA with statements. Damn.

wish UNC was crafty enough to have made this move first

especially after we just finished off dook and won that rivalry this year

I don't know if it's true, but I read somewhere that ACC schools have tied up their media rights for years to come, making it very difficult to make a move.

From ESPN:

the w1de hexadecimal

Are TV contracts more or less valuable going forward with everyone cutting cords? Sports are the only reason to have satellite or cable, so does the NCAA, ESPN, whatever have them by the balls?

live sports are the primary reason i have cable, and i'm aware i could be an absolute rube and i don't care.

I wrote that poorly. All sports do indeed have Comcast, Spectrum, Timewarner, etc. by the balls.


I stream sports in a not regulated way. My internet provider could definitely crack down on that ****.

The providers keep increasing what they pay for rights, so clearly they’re not expecting the cord cutting to impact their bottom line. Sports still bring the eyeballs like nothing else.

def true Booker. but then again we live in the era of 'fake' facts and lax laws.

the Athletic has an article up tonight talking about what becomes of the ACC now?

https://theathletic.com/3393364/2022...en-notre-dame/

edit: meant to add that i hope UNC's AD was on the phone with Kevin Warren today.

back to the pac-10 which becomes about B12 level... or basically merge with B12?

That statement from February definitely sums things up. This is such a happy day that I've been waiting for quite some time. We're drinking champagne tonight!

Anyways, I fully expected 4 teams to leave, and maybe the B1G isn't done but as it stands this makes 16 teams in the B1G, so if they were to do a 4-team pod system I assume it would be USC, UCLA, Nebraska and Iowa in a pod?