This post made my belly jiggle with joy and happiness
Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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For a span of 18 months, Bowlsby worked with Sankey on figuring out how many conference champs and teams to make the playoffs. 6 conference champs was decided. Sankey was probably trying hard not to tell Bob that 5 will be the end result after the behind Bob's back scheming with Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC and the eventual status downfall of the Big 12. Sankey has got a little snake in him, reminds me of a Larry Scott.
You have zero clue what a top 25 basketball program looks like.
In football I'd easily throw Iowa in there. It's been multiple decades since the basketball program was in that range.
Addendum: State of Texas in emergency legislation to establish laws securing the state's authority in approving such moves. But, not likely to be done in the short time needed to prevent the Texas move. A few posts revealing the value of the academics when compared to the athletics. A few comments on Iowa's political lack of contribution to AAU status. A few comments on ESPN's position in all this. And, as far as I can tell, the other 99.9% is speculation.
Somewhere in all this my gut tells me ESPN broke some laws. Wouldn't it be just like A&M to back channel a legal investigation.
Yes. Iowans should be proud of the investments made in all of our Regents schools. I agree that legislators, school administrators and most importantly voters will not allow any one of these schools to be relegated to a lower status in anything.
exactly. iowa state not getting into a power conference would be an economic disaster for central iowa. iowa state employs a lot of people. football gamedays bring in a lot of money to businesses within 150 miles of Ames. the central iowa media market and advertising would lose 55% at least of their business.
This was true long ago. Look at trends in funding and try saying that again with a straight face.
Yeah I thought the same thing. Legislators do not care.
They sure haven’t shown it by slashing budgets over the last 20 years.
LMAO at calling Iowa a top 25 basketball program. Just because you had a decent year in hoops last season does not make you a top 25 program. That is equal to Cyclone fans on here saying we are a top 10 football program because we've had a top ten team last year and heading into the next.
I know it's been floated, but if this has been posted, I'll remove it:
B12 merging with another conference?
B12 merging with another conference?
Somehow you managed to avoid addressing what he said entirely. The point wasn’t that ISU and Iowa have been equal programs historically the point was Iowa and ISU offer the same amount to a conference. Saying “Iowa is a value to a conference because they are too 15 in revenue” just proves how clearly you don’t understand what is happening. Iowa is top 15 in revenue because it is in the Big 10 and the Big 10 has that value because of other brands that are part of it besides Iowa. I know this makes you frustrated, trust me we all understand, but burying your head in the sand and citing Rose Bowls from the 80s will only make reality hurt worse.
I’m sure this same post is buried in here somewhere, but I perused TexAgs last night. If you want a silver lining in all of this go there. The amount of butthurt there is absolutely unreal. Because I can’t stand their cultish weirdo fanbase, it was extremely satisfying.
My biggest concern is what would be the reaction or benefit of adding Kansas and Iowa State to the Big Ten? The SEC adds two bluebloods to their already insanely strong conference and the Big Ten's response would be to add Kansas and Iowa State? I don't actually think the Big Ten needs to expand right away and would have time to evaluate their options. They know we're not going anywhere. With how much the Big Ten is making, would we be just another mouth to feed? Could the Big Ten be eyeing an ACC team like Virginia and North Carolina and be willing to wait until their GOR expires? I know college football today isn't what it used to be, but remember, they stayed at 11 teams for 21 years and missed out on all the revenue they could've made that entire time with a conference championship game until they felt they had a 12th team they thought would be a good addition. Could the Big Ten want to actively expand but only with national brands in new markets? Maybe make themselves a more national brand of a conference? As crazy as it sounds, any chance they think a couple west coast schools would be interested in forming their own superconference, such as Oregon, USC, Washington and Colorado? All would be new markets, all are AAU with excellent academics, all could likely intrigue the big ten athletically, academically and financially. Those schools could also be interested too with how dysfunctional their conference has been and how low their revenue distributions have been, making less than the Big 12 and ACC.
Don't get me wrong, Iowa State would compete fine in the Big Ten and geographically makes perfect sense, but that doesn't always matter. I think for us to get into the Big Ten, afew things might need to happen:
1) Big Ten decide they want to expand and not willing to wait until 2036 for a potential ACC addition.
2) The Big Ten doesn't pursue west coast teams and the top west coast teams don't approach the Big Ten. With how much of a pay increase it'd be and a competitive conference, financially I think schools might be interested but with how many Olympic sports the Pac-12 has, that could be brutal if California and Oregon schools were flying to Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey for week day swimming, track, volleyball, etc. matches.
Guess we'll just have to wait and hope for the best and pray Pollard is able to navigate us through this.
Don't get me wrong, Iowa State would compete fine in the Big Ten and geographically makes perfect sense, but that doesn't always matter. I think for us to get into the Big Ten, afew things might need to happen:
1) Big Ten decide they want to expand and not willing to wait until 2036 for a potential ACC addition.
2) The Big Ten doesn't pursue west coast teams and the top west coast teams don't approach the Big Ten. With how much of a pay increase it'd be and a competitive conference, financially I think schools might be interested but with how many Olympic sports the Pac-12 has, that could be brutal if California and Oregon schools were flying to Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey for week day swimming, track, volleyball, etc. matches.
Guess we'll just have to wait and hope for the best and pray Pollard is able to navigate us through this.
