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That indicates that Stanford, Washington & Oregon coming to B1G!Arizona, ASU, Utah, Colorado are the teams of interest.Big 12 Meeting Tuesday to Discuss Adding Four Pac-12 Teams: Report
The Big 12 is meeting on Tuesday about adding four new members from the Pac-12, according to a report from Wildcat Authority, part of the 247Sports.com network. Wildcat Authority, which covers the University of Arizona, wrote that sources indicated that the meeting would be about Arizona...
Would be surprised if Cal, with a much bigger footprint than Stanford in both the Bay Area and nationally, wouldn’t be a part of the mix.
This would make the most sense, we will have to see if it shakes out this way.
I really like the idea of Cal. Washington just does nothing for B1G. Also Oregon has a recent athletic pedigree but what market in the state brings anything but middling #'s to BTN? I understood RU and Maryland but Washington and Oregon?
Why do a pod? Draw a line underneath Illinois and then you have east/west. Each team rotates 2 teams from each division every 2 years. Just switch ND and Illinois from East to West to keep ND/SC/Stanford.
Washington adding nothing is not true at all.... It is one of the best choices...... It brings the Seattle DMA, the 12th largest with 2.1 million TV Households.... Just by adding UCLA and USC the B1G has already made major inroads to the San Fran/Oakland DMA which is where the U. Cal has most of its followiing... it's hard to add something you already control (over the SEC) .....
I like that, but it would be interesting to see what ND thought of it. They'd probably like their chances, if not the marquee.
How many do we have now? Who will we add next? I am confused.
B1g now has 16 teams with many saying 20 is possible. I have seen 24 as the number anticipated in the future as realignment shakes out.
Thanks. Very difficult for the university presidents to talk about education advantages now.
Minimal effect on education as teams will be grouped geographically. Chartered flights make it quite easy to travel.
Education was sacrificed, at least partially, many years ago in the pursuit of big time college sports.
With the symbol of B1G I would prefer calling the conference "the big one"
If that is paramount why is the PAC disintegrating? Something is fishy. Money should be no problem. A lot of TVs but damn few viewers? Somebody is throwing a feint. To hell with both states as far as the B1G is concerned.
That's nice from a geography standpoint but that's not the primary issue any more. $$$$
The ACC worked because they gave ND the ability to become a member for everything but football while also providing built in schedule certainty with a set number of available conference opponents each season. The BT wasn’t interested in an “everything but football” arrangement.
Your points are correct: ND joined the ACC for other sports and plays a few ACC teams each year in football. However, ND football doesn't play the same ACC teams each year, which was implied by the BIG pod proposal above that I responded to. ND's football opponents in the ACC are rotated so ND gets that geographic diversity desired.
All of the other ACC member schools play a rotating schedule, too, just like the Big 10. It wasn’t created to give ND some opportunity for a whirlwind tour.
IU plays different teams from the West every year, in addition to the locked East opponents. And no one said ND played an exclusive ACC schedule, only that they’re able to play a set number of ACC schools based on their availability. It’s how it’s been for them since Day One. Sorry, just assumed everyone knew about the BiG and ND arrangements.
The one and only reason they’d join the BiG is because the money is simply too good to pass up. If the money is that good, none of the other issues will matter.
ND doesn’t want to further tarnish their brand by finishing fourth in their conference every year.
Washington over Oregon & Cal all day & all night.
