USC and UCLA to the Big Ten?
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I don't like it because you know we will start seeing Carl Jr commercials when all midwest people know they are talking about Hardees. And I found out from a Colorado man today that Carl Jr doesn't have the cinnamon raisin biscuits. I don't like it!!!!!
Basketball has absolutely nothing to do with this. Zero.
Yesssss!!!! Bring that to B1G country. 🤣
Just wait until they kick the small market second rate teams out. Purdue, Minnesota, Northwestern ... too much of a financial burden to carry them for long. Why share the pie with shabby teams that don't and can't contribute to it,
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I'd add us to that list. Football drives all of this and historically we are the weakest link.
No one's going to get kicked out, which university president(s) are going to float that idea? Plus, this is all about tv money, Chicago and Minneapolis are pretty large tv markets. Why did the NFL want back into LA even though the Rams and Raiders moved because fans attending games was a problem - tv markets. You have to think the folks in the B1G looked at the potential tv revenue when the contracts come up and USC/UCLA would have had to add more than $100 million just to break even on the share per team. I suspect the the potential increase was much, much larger than $100 million.
I think it’s a tongue in cheek thing. A reporter bashed on Minnesota and Purdue for being small time. It hurt some feelings.
predicting the potential increase is a much dicier proposition than one might think, and absent access to a parallel universe, is very subjective and very open to bias on the part of the predictor.
and i'd think it would take a lot more than a $100 mil increase, which again is difficult to impossible to prove in the first place.
and remember, the B10 already gets big bucks from the west coast.
someone citing the B10 would get X from the west coast isn't enough.
you'd have to cite they would get X more than they already do.
and other than BTN money, which is a fraction of tier 1,2 money, you can't say how much we get from the west coast now in tv money.
nor could you break that down in the future.
and in these prognostications of how much it would add in tv money, you can't use future contract negotiations as your base for your case, as in the next contract, there is no way to ever break down how much in increased money was due to adding UCLA and USC, and how much was due to the new contract, as every new contract in every sports league and conference, has been significantly more than the last.
as to added BTN tv money, a lessor part of tv revenues, you can predict it would increase those all you want. predicting increases and realizing them, are not one in the same.
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Big Ten reportedly waiting on Notre Dame before adding Washington, Oregon
Could the Big Ten be adding Notre Dame, Oregon and Washington as well? Reports indicate that could be in play
spartanswire.usatoday.com
I assume the B1G did the math. They would not have let in USC/UCLA without them "earning their keep" and not diluting the revenues of the existing schools. The current contracts pay $49.2 million per team. So the B1G had to know they could get at least that but probably much more so their membership increases the revenues to all teams. So when I said $100 million that would be only enough to cover their addition under the current contract. Therefore it must be a much higher estimated value that they could negotiate for with the additions than before.
Finally, may get Big bill Walton doing Big 10 basketball. Are these 2 schools bringing enough title to make Big 10 the Conference of champions.
I'm hoping Bill can't get out of his P12N/ESPN contract.
Is Notre Dame an AAU university? I’m not seeing them listed when I google it?Big Ten reportedly waiting on Notre Dame before adding Washington, Oregon
Could the Big Ten be adding Notre Dame, Oregon and Washington as well? Reports indicate that could be in play
I thought that was a requirement for B10 decision makers??!
Like anything else…it’s required unless you bring Notre Dame type money with you. And obviously they could be AAU and I wasn’t looking in the right place.
They bring NBC too.
I did hear something today about ND owing the ACC $150M to go anywhere else.
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