The "whole process" was started by the CFA back in 1977, and the subsequent lawsuit that they won against the NCAA. Two things happened there: 1) college sports caught a glimpse of all the TV money available that they could ***** after, and 2) the court ruling against the NCAA showed that any power that the NCAA had as an organization to set limitations on their member schools and the nature of the competition they oversaw could be challenged and defeated in court.
No one said that the Big East was going to collapse, but the feeling was the league was a BB league first and foremost, but with the money that football was bringing, it gave the football schools more power and rankled the bb schools. Many of the bb schools thought they had a great thing going and by brining in the football schools it collapsed the entire league, they wished that they had just stuck to bb.
That ruling was the first crack in the wall that opened up what it would become. I still believe that until BTN was started, the leagues were held in check by the lack of networks will to show their games. ESPN tried to lowball the B10 and Delany said he would just start his own network, it was a genius move and something that the B12 had wanted to do, but UT and others shot it down. The guy that came up with the idea, then moved to the B10 and they started the network there. Once BTN started rolling, and it was a struggle getting games to be broadcast, it took off. Their system of charging more if you had a team in your state than if you didn't started to bring in money that these schools could have only dreamed about before BTN. BTN was smart that they had to be on basic cable, and therefore they could charge everyone in the state the higher price. It did not matter if you were a fan or not, or even watched the games, everyone paid into the system. Its the reason they took in Maryland and Rutgers, because they could then sell to their service to NY, Baltimore and Washington DC, it wasn't the schools themselves that would help the conference but the money that the league could get from the people in those states.
I agree with some of this but the rest is nonsense.
The ACC And Big 12 are in survival mode now, that's it. Anyone who says any conference is sticking to their roots either isn't paying attention or just in denial of what's going on. If either the SEC or Big 10 called any of the Big 12 teams tomorrow and asked that school to join, you know there isn't one team in the Big 12 who would turn down the invitation. They would shove their roots right up all the other schools' asses. The schools who are in the Big 12 are doing it for survival and in hopes that one day, they get the invite to the P2.
I agree with that. Absolutely (although I’ll say I don’t think the B12 pursued nor would interest be reciprocated in Stanford or Cal due to fit).
Example No. 1 is the start time of the MSU-USC game. Even though that was determined by TV (who sits on the Big 10 board) the Big 10 members knew this was what they got themselves into when they started poaching other conferences.
Saying the B1G has little interest in passionate fanbases is just another ridiculous cope.
You’re kidding right. Yeah UCLA, Rutgers, and Maryland are definitely known for their rabid fan bases.
Yeah while I’m not in the camp that this is going to happen I’ve always thrown out that OSU would be a wildcard in this. Michigan won’t and I really don’t know a ton about how Penn state operates but if there was an actual push it really would/could come from OSU.
My guess is that OSU would only push it if Michigan and/or Penn State has their back.
Ever been to a Kansas game when their program is down? Lol.
Which Michigan won’t, Penn state I’m not sure about but they also are in a kinda weird tier
Couple reasons starting from the fact that Michigan has more money then just about anyone else so they don’t need it and more importantly Michigan wouldn’t want to do anything that helps OSU which this would.
Kansas was already in the B12. Should we look at Indiana and Illinois? How about Purdue? Northwestern? Minnesota?
Yeah this absolutely doesn’t matter
