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Go Big or Go Home!
Merge with PAC and add two more teams from the east to create the first Mega Conference. Call it say the Midwest Coastal League. 24 teams. Four 6 team divisions, or three 8 team divisions. Offer cross country games to give the coastal teams exposure in other parts of the country (what UCLA and USC lacked). NO non-conference games ---The TV networks do not want to broadcast games against the Minnesota Fly Fishing Academy, the Montana Wool Gatherers College, or the Louisiana Bayou University.
In addition to the traditional broadcasters, we now have several streaming broadcasters sniffing around college sports, greatly increasing the potential revenue to the conference. If we had four 6 team or three 8 team divisions, offer home games in each division as a separate first tier package to the big boys, and secondary and tertiary game choices to the streamers. Everybody will be seen in sites across the country, leveling out the most desirable regions and least desirable regions through matchups. A bigger pie equals larger pieces.
Iowa would never allow ISU to join the B1G, so forget it.
All the talk about Kansas ignores the fact that basketball is a second tier sport in broadcast land, and has no football cred to interest either the B1G or SEC.
Go Clones
Go Chiefs
Go Big or Go Home!
Merge with PAC and add two more teams from the east to create the first Mega Conference. Call it say the Midwest Coastal League. 24 teams. Four 6 team divisions, or three 8 team divisions. Offer cross country games to give the coastal teams exposure in other parts of the country (what UCLA and USC lacked). NO non-conference games ---The TV networks do not want to broadcast games against the Minnesota Fly Fishing Academy, the Montana Wool Gatherers College, or the Louisiana Bayou University.
In addition to the traditional broadcasters, we now have several streaming broadcasters sniffing around college sports, greatly increasing the potential revenue to the conference. If we had four 6 team or three 8 team divisions, offer home games in each division as a separate first tier package to the big boys, and secondary and tertiary game choices to the streamers. Everybody will be seen in sites across the country, leveling out the most desirable regions and least desirable regions through matchups. A bigger pie equals larger pieces.
Iowa would never allow ISU to join the B1G, so forget it.
All the talk about Kansas ignores the fact that basketball is a second tier sport in broadcast land, and has no football cred to interest either the B1G or SEC.
Go Clones
Go Chiefs
