The issue is that any new teams you add not only have to have value, but that value has to be higher than the average Big Ten team now. A different way of saying it is that you dilute the existing dollars by more teams, and any incremental amounts you gain get divided 16/18/20 ways as well.
I’m honestly not sure that exists outside of Texas and Notre Dame, full stop.
what the heck. I don’t want to join the SEC
Lol…this is getting just plain silly. What’s the end game here? This feels like the super league fiasco in Europe earlier this year.
Maybe you go all in with a high major football league with full on relegation and everything. I find it all silly because they’re only thinking about football…a sport that plays just 12-13 games.
This x 100! No interest from me in seeing Michigan in the SEC. Can you imagine how bonkers it would be to have Michigan in the SEC and MSU remain in the B1G? Or OSU in the SEC and Michigan remain in the B1G?
If we’re making a Mega-conference, why the fuuuck would it have Vanderbilt in it?
So a traditional power doesn’t finish last
Tbh, I might be willing to do a mega-conference but as I insinuated below, Michigan is not “joining the SEC” to play Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU and 10 other random southern schools. Any mega-conference would have to dump SEC bottom dwellers.
For sure. That’s way too good for the Miss St, Vandy’s, Missouri’s of the world
Football should probably just break off from the NCAA and do their own thing tbh.
Yep. Football is the only real factor when these things happen. Just break away from the NCAA, form some regional divisions or conferences and have a big playoff at the end of the season.
Why do they need to break away from the NCAA, when they’ve basically already done that? I-A College football is the only sport that doesn’t have an official NCAA championship.
Osu has been desperate to land a center and got one. He’s Tarris Reed’s teammate, so I watched a lot of him at peach jam and I don’t think he’s near as good of prospect as Reed despite what the rankings say right now.
I would have preferred they landed Favour Aire, I think he is a major bust. Okpara will be good
https://twitter.com/willbrinson/status/1419485806473908227?s=21
Me when Michigan Basketball is on 
Swimming is an interesting sport in part because most coaching is done through pelvic thrusts.
Why isn’t Oregon a bigger domino in CFB realignment? That seems like the premier P10 school from branding /competitiveness perspective. I know there are more cable subscribers in SoCal but I thought that was only one factor and not the factor nowadays.
They have a ton of $$ but nobody actually watches them, apparently. Other than the LA schools nobody on the west coast is much of a draw. As a long time #Pac12AfterDark viewer I don’t really get it but that seems to be the consensus.
When we beat UCLA at baseball in their home stadium during our magical run the crowd was 80+% Michigan. And this isn’t like the Rose Bowl 20 miles away from Westwood. This was in Westwood itself, in UCLA’s backyard. We were there and we were loud. Slight tangent but I don’t care because that ruled
(A) that story DOES rule and (B) I dk I think that’s probably pretty telling. I’m kind of surprised the LA teams actually do get eyeballs? Guessing it’s mostly just the absolutely massive local TV market and CFB owning fall Saturdays.
My take is that college football and college basketball should have their own conference, just as college hockey does.