Rumors are starting to float around that it will be announced soon.
USC and UCLA to the Big Ten?
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Newark-LAX is gonna be a long flight for those Rutgers games.
Wow, the 2024 TV contract just added a ton of 0’s. Good for us for sure.
Especially if the federal government is buying up all the seats late at night...amirite?
I hate this. I like the idea a buddy has (which fits better with football, but I think it's where we need to go for both "money" sports) which is make 4-5 super conferences for the money sports but then do the others back to more normal regional or traditional conference affiliations. There's no reason to force athletes in the other sports to have to travel the globe for their sports seasons.
Not to mention the 3 hour time change. Tip offs at 10 pm est?Especially if the federal government is buying up all the seats late at night...amirite?
edit: sorry Bulk, not sure how I replied to you. Oh well 😉
Eh I think it would be fine. Likely just west coast/east coast trips.
This will be good I think. It will get teams tournament ready. These are great teams to add imho.
My dad, for at least 20 years, has said football/basketball will just end up in a 24 - 36 team super conference and the athletes will just be paid to play with little to no academic affiliation.
These days he just mumbles about buying up "water rights".......funny guy.
Easy for you to say, but that would add a tremendous amount of travel time to some athletes. The other side that sucks is for the athlete's families often. When my sis lived in Buffalo her daughter wound up running at Syracuse... now in the ACC. All the big conference meets were down in the Southeast 500 miles from Buffalo. They'd have gotten to see her a lot more throughout her career if Cuse was still Big East. Adds a lot of complexity and not much fun to the "other" athletes lives.
Hahaha.
I was thinking of the end of The Big Short when they talk about Michael Bury investing in water. Considering his level of intelligence I should probably do the same.
I’m hearing you but with NIL they will be flying family to games. This is why all this will work.
Is it a coincidence that both are flush with research money and rank very high? Plus AAU.
I saw a guy hit a mineral water well and it was worth almost as much as the oil they were drilling for.
Plus southern California, LA, etc. The BIG has some pretty marvelous leadership all things considered.
Woody will just say,”west coast NBA ready”. This will show the SEC how things are done. 🤣 The contract money will be insane.
Can you imagine getting a southern Cal pipeline? Woody just glad handing Carmelo and Lebron with a recruit in tow.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
I’m going to have to get my road trip gear ready. Old nascar trailer with a bar.
Look for Stanford and Cal to follow suit.
Look for Oregon schools to join SEC.
Remaining schools will join with B12 to form the RHSC 20 (Red Headed Step Child)
Look for Oregon schools to join SEC.
Remaining schools will join with B12 to form the RHSC 20 (Red Headed Step Child)
So, schedules will be even more imbalanced??
call me old school, but I preferred no conference tourney, play everyone twice. I get the $$$$ though.
So will we still be called the B10 with 16 teams? Seems like the perfect time for a name change! The only bad thing is I can see the Leaders and Legends divisions returning!😒
Cross country runners? Golfers? Swimmers? I think it sucks for the "real student athletes". If you meant those guys, I think you're overestimating the effect (or I'm underestimating it!) on the regular college athletes. I don't think for most of them NIL will amount to much, even though I'm sure they appreciate any help at all.
Aren’t some of those very short season with a lot of combined events? Plus on the basketball/football side I’m assuming won’t be many games. Now if you start talking more West coast teams coming then there is a bigger problem.
I don't think it'll suck for them.
I'm guessing they'll still be somewhat of a regional scheduling format with one 'road' trip to the opposite coast.
The Big Mess? The Big 10 with 14, err 16, teams is just so great for a bunch institutions of higher learning! I say leave it!
Plus, do you want to put your fate in the hands of the brain trust that came up with Leaders and Legends? Leave it!
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well playedEspecially if the federal government is buying up all the seats late at night...amirite?
It'll suck for the kids and families of the athletes at USC/UCLA. Every conference event they are in will be away. And for most of those sports, there aren't a ton to begin with. I was shocked because in HS XC we generally had a meet (or 2) during the week with big meets on weekends. College is really only big Invitationals and then Conference and National qualifiers and meets. So they only race about 8-10X a season. I just think for all the non-revenue sports, leave them in regional conferences and don't go through the headache of sending them so far away for every game or meet. Golf, swimming, track, would all be similar.
If UCLA brings their cheerleaders to AH, I'm good
I would be very surprised if the B10 stops at 16 teams. Here's a list of other potential candidates, all 'AAU' universities...
Pac 12 - Arizona, Cal, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Stanford
B12 - Kansas
ACC - Pitt, UNC, Virginia, Duke
SEC - Vanderbilt, Missouri
I could see a few more from Pac12, Kansas, and maybe even 1 or 2 from ACC/SEC...
Ending up at 20 or so team "conference"...which will be dumb, because it'll be basically impossible to play everyone else in a single year, in any sport.
Make it 20 teams and then split them into divisions. You could have Big 10 West and East and then do a North/South split for each of them.
So if you had 4 divisions of 5, you play all the teams in that division once for football (4 games) and then you play all the other teams in another division once (5 games) and you are at your 9. Take the Top 4 and do a mini playoff. Just change up which divisions play each other each year.
Add 4 more teams to USC/UCLA and have 10 team East and 10 team West and the name makes sense again.
I was at the Bush Push game in 2005. You're right about the USC ladies. They got game.USC has the crème de la crème
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