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RE: Been quiet on the rumors front...
(10-27-2019 11:02 AM)JRsec Wrote: (10-27-2019 12:57 AM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: (10-23-2019 11:42 PM)JRsec Wrote: (10-23-2019 11:07 PM)BewareThePhog Wrote: There's no way that the Big XII can pull the AZ schools. I agree that a larger scale merger with the PAC and many Big XII schools (and unlikely, but maybe even a return of Nebraska) involved would both make it more palatable for the Big XII schools (keeping a significant percentage of their games against familiar opponents and more importantly in the Central time zone) and more palatable for the PAC schools (they stay mostly on the coast, but the conference gains almost everything significant in the Central to Western U.S., with lots of inventory in the desirable Central time zone.)
There'd be a host of challenges not the least of which would be cultural issues, but it seems more likely that something huge like that would happen rather than a small scale raid by the Big XII.
You mean something more like this:
Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State
Arizona, Arizona State, California, U.C.L.A., U.S.C.
Iowa State, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
Colorado, Texas, Texas Tech, Kansas State, Utah
And the Big 10 gives up Nebraska so they can put this together:
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern, Wisconsin
Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue
Maryland, Notre Dame, Penn State, Rutgers, Syracuse
Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Virginia
And the SEC could put together this:
Arkansas, Louisiana State, Missouri, Texas A&M, T.C.U.
Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt
Kentucky, Louisville, N.C. State, Tennessee, Virginia Tech
Clemson, Georgia, Florida, Florida State, South Carolina
I like this proposal. The compensation varies with each conference now, so that will have to be addressed. I doubt any school will take less compensation. Logistics will be awful, as current conferences have to decide all kinds of issues such as existing rules, offices and staff, TV contracts, etc. There will always be some schools who will fight relocation proposals. I think Nebraska will be the first to say no to leaving the B1G. Thoughts?
Reasons Nebraska might say yes: It gives them back some old rivals. It places them in a conference where they would be more competitive.
But if they said no they would remain in the Big 10 and Miami would likely be left out and there would be a slight shift in each of the divisions proposed.
Since Nebraska would be the only moving part that's a minor issue. All of the Big 12 and ACC schools would be getting a better payday with the ACC getting a raise of about a 1/3rd of their current media revenue.
The question then would be whether the SEC wanted Miami or Louisville. Louisville is the better revenue producer, Miami is the better market, but a market that would be fairly well covered by Florida and F.S.U..
If Nebraska wanted to stay there is one way you could keep Miami in the Big Ten: move Georgia Tech to the SEC. But you run into the same problems here that you do with Miami: market overlap. Between UGA and Auburn, I think you have Atlanta covered, IMO and Clemson only strengthens that, IMO.
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