Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[Hodgepodge]

Yeah, I can see that the ACC would want to protect it's interests, but the statement came directly from the member schools most speculated to leave: Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Clemson, North Carolina, and Florida State.

They are also the five teams that are usually the biggest football recruiting powers in the ACC (plus Miami who is currently circling the drain). It may simply be that these shools came out with this statement as a way to take away feelings of uncertainty from prospective recruits who might otherwise be wondering in which conference they may be plang and whether that conference is going to be any good.

 

[ulukinatme]

They are also the five teams that are usually the biggest football recruiting powers in the ACC (plus Miami who is currently circling the drain). It may simply be that these shools came out with this statement as a way to take away feelings of uncertainty from prospective recruits who might otherwise be wondering in which conference they may be plang and whether that conference is going to be any good.

Yeah, it makes sense. I still think it's likely that one or two teams will leave when the Maryland exit fee fiasco is settled, I assume it will go in their favor. The B1G money will be too hard to turn down for some of these schools, and the B1G will certainly want the schools in the big markets. I think the "ACC destruction" won't occur in the short term though. I expect the B1G to take on at least a few more schools and the ACC will replace again from the Big East or another conference.

 

[scarletmike]

Oh, it will be destroyed, in terms of value. While the conference may not go away and may remain strong in basketball, if you lose any of the other schools where football is as big or bigger than basketball and replaced with worse football teams, the value of the league will plummet.

 

[Abenaki]

Eleven Warriors ‏@11W So, Barry Alvarez told reporters that B1G added Rutgers and UMD to placate Penn State. Barry needs a mic in his face all of the time.

I'd be much more in favor of the B1G telling Penn State to STFU, but they don't usually ask my opinion about these things.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

Yes, it's that NW douche again, but here's his latest unsubstantiated...

http://northwestern.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?SID=901&fid=57&mid=182238260&tid=182238260

 

[Bleed S & G]

FSU & GT please.

 

[Muck]

Yes, it's that NW douche again, but here's his latest unsubstantiated...

http://northwestern.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?SID=901&fid=57&mid=182238260&tid=182238260

Even the purple kool-aid drinkers have turned on PBC.

 

[Piney]

Of course from the Gordon Gee thread but fits better here...

BEAU BISHOP ‏@BeauBishop

Dr Gee just said we will have Super Conferences in 5 years. There you go.

Even the purple kool-aid drinkers have turned on PBC.

Yeah, PBC is really sticking to that Texas train. The beauty of him is Texas can't move to the Big Ten for another 13+ years with that Grants of Rights they signed to the Big XII. So in 13 years he 'could' be right... like the internet is going to be around to prove he is right

 

[Muck]

Yeah, PBC is really sticking to that Texas train. The beauty of him is Texas can't move to the Big Ten for another 13+ years with that Grants of Rights they signed to the Big XII. So in 13 years he 'could' be right... like the internet is going to be around to prove he is right

If it really came down to it I don't think the GOR would prove to be the insurmountable barrier that everyone wants to believe.

People forget that all other factors aside it becomes weaker as time goes by. In 2016 it will only cover 9 years of media rights, in 2020 it will be down to 5.

Edit: To clarify I'm not saying that GOR are impotent, merely that if a school wants out bad enough (and another league wants them enough) they'll find a way; even if that way costs them upwards of nine digits.

 

[Hodgepodge]

Eleven Warriors ‏@11W So, Barry Alvarez told reporters that B1G added Rutgers and UMD to placate Penn State. Barry needs a mic in his face all of the time.

Although the implication is that PSU was looking to leave because of the garbage that Ped State fans keep spouting about the B1G trying to keep them down, this is what Alvarez actually said:

?That northeast corridor, all the way to the south, continues to grow?Jim felt that someday, if we didn?t have anyone else in that corridor, someday it wouldn?t make sense maybe for Penn State to be in our league.

?That they would go into a league somewhere on the east coast. By doing that, it keeps us in the northeast corridor.?

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/182573751.html

 

[alexhortdog95]

Barry been gone pretty much from the public eye for about 6 years, and NOW he wants to start talking a bunch of ballshiat....

 

[VBSJ]

Barry been gone pretty much from the public eye for about 6 years, and NOW he wants to start talking a bunch of ballshiat....

That and to take attention away from Bret Bielema taking off and bad-mouthing his school as "Small Time" (more/less).

I don't believe for a second Penn State was about to leave the Big Ten, especially since the school is about to lose a good amount of money in settlements.

So you're going to go to the ACC and make less TV money?

 

[BUCKYLE]

There's no harm in Delaney having Alvarez say this. Right now, there is a vocal fan minority crying that the B1G hates PSU. Even tho it's on the fringe, they exist. I don't think for a second it was a factor. Saying "we're doin this for you!" pretty much shuts them up on the brink of increasingly shitty years for PSU football...without actually doing anything for them specifically.

 

[Hodgepodge]

Also of note (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/182573751.html):

Alvarez added one other school was interested in joining the Big Ten but the league presidents were not interested because of the team?s academic profile.

He did not identify that school.

 

[Bucky32]

Also of note (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/182573751.html):

UC?