Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

[2speedy1]

Friends have been telling me Big12 needs to move now with an announcement of expansion. Brett already said open for business. I bet this escalates for Big12 next week after Brett Yormark officially starts. We know he has been talking, but no decisions are going to be made till he is officially in office.

Part of it is also none of these schools or conferences want to step on the media days that highlight their programs and players. They know if they make a move with the media days going on, all the focus will be completely on that. Even though it already is to a point, it would be completely.

 

[cyIclSoneU]

You forgot to add Texas Tech and Arizona to that list. Each of which would be in the top half of attractiveness. Iowa State doesn't advance out of that group.

Disagree that Arizona (and probably Tech) would be in the top half, but agree that if it happened today Iowa State wouldn't get picked.

 

[StPaulCyclone]

Agree. ESPN literally told Syracuse to get out of the Big East before they torched it

BC too

Could be. Probably also a consideration to give another option for a late night game as well as get some ground in California. I assume unlikely to happen but I can see taking a SDSU over a Memphis or USF if you’re at an odd number of schools.

hoepfully, putting pressure on PAC schools. We should not be elevating anymore non P5 schools. Why create more competitio?N?

 

[StPaulCyclone]

Agreed; if for some reason 3 corner schools will move but one won’t, SDSU is not an awful option for #16.

Wait for ACC teams to come open.

 

[12191987]

If Big 10 takes Oregon, Washington, Cal, and Stanford, wonder if SEC answers with Ok State and Kansas for starters.

The SEC and Big 10 are billionaire leagues now. Billionaires think differently. You don’t accidentally become a billionaire.

If one of ‘em starts boasting about inane ****, the other is going to follow.

Contiguity is paramount now!

Colorado and Arizona are the two most important pieces on the table right now.

The map favors the Union Big 10. The Confederacy SEC is vulnerable on the Eastern Seaboard, with no path to the North.

 

[Rods79]

Dochterman reporting the B1G is wrapping up their future media deal before Labor Day.

 

[cyIclSoneU]

Dochterman reporting the B1G is wrapping up their future media deal before Labor Day.

Feel like the B1G would add the Pac schools before finalizing the deal if that’s gonna happen.

 

[Cloneon]

Feel like the B1G would add the Pac schools before finalizing the deal if that’s gonna happen.

Built in contingencies.

 

[cyIclSoneU]

Built in contingencies.

I’m sure they’d rather have it done and announce the top line f*** you dollar amount just before week 1 of the season. Why wait if they’re gonna do it anyway.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

Feel like the B1G would add the Pac schools before finalizing the deal if that’s gonna happen.

I have thought all along the B10 wants the ACC schools to box in the SEC and stop them from moving North. Is Oregon, Washington and Stanford that much better than Virginia, UNC and the big prize ND?

ND is the key piece to the puzzle and the B10 would be silly to expand without them on board. Waiting is good for the B10, not so much for the Oregan's, Washingtons and Stanford, because those are the schools that could be left out when the music stops. They prefer the B10, but also have to realize the B12 is better than trying to reform the P12 without USC and UCLA.

 

[WhoISthis]

Hold on, though - your first post was about demanding unequal shares. Now you're talking about actually achieving unequal shares. Two different things.

If Oregon and Washington can go to the B1G, they're going. If they aren't, or don't know yet, they can still request unequal shares - anyone can demand anything at any time, whether it makes sense or not. But they can't hold the threat of the B1G over everyone's head because nobody actually believes they'd stay in the Pac over the B1G under any circumstances.

Which is why the other schools should call Oregon and Washington's bluff, and not acquiesce to their demand.

Agree, no one is using the threat of leaving for a P2 on PAC or Big 12 or ACC.

The leverage behind unequal revenue share is the Big 16/18. If the top schools don’t get what they want from PAC, they’ll go make more in Big 18

 

[aeroclone]

Wait for ACC teams to come open.

Exactly this. You can have an odd number of teams in a conference, you don't need to go slumming for an SDSU to round out your membership when it looks like better options look to be on the horizon. The B1G was at 11 teams for many many years after PSU joined.

 

[HoopsTournament]

I have thought all along the B10 wants the ACC schools to box in the SEC and stop them from moving North. Is Oregon, Washington and Stanford that much better than Virginia, UNC and the big prize ND?

ND is the key piece to the puzzle and the B10 would be silly to expand without them on board. Waiting is good for the B10, not so much for the Oregan's, Washingtons and Stanford, because those are the schools that could be left out when the music stops. They prefer the B10, but also have to realize the B12 is better than trying to reform the P12 without USC and UCLA.

Not sure that having a team in your conference prevents a conference from going North of them. Is Big Ten going to build a wall and make the SEC pay for it?

 

[RustShack]

Feel like the B1G would add the Pac schools before finalizing the deal if that’s gonna happen.

They are waiting for ND. ND is waiting on NBC to say if they will pay them the 75 million they want(60 million increase). There’s no incentive for ND or NBC to move quickly.

 

[Cloneon]

They are waiting for ND. ND is waiting on NBC to say if they will pay them the 75 million they want(60 million increase). There’s no incentive for ND or NBC to move quickly.

And don't forget Yormark is in there somewhere.

 

[awd4cy]

If Big 10 takes Oregon, Washington, Cal, and Stanford, wonder if SEC answers with Ok State and Kansas for starters.

Nah, they are waiting to get Clemson, FSU, Miami, and UNC.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

Not sure that having a team in your conference prevents a conference from going North of them. Is Big Ten going to build a wall and make the SEC pay for it?

I mean that the B10 would like to expand more into the east, shoring up Rutgers and Maryland by adding Virginia and N. Caroline. The SEC would control the SE portion of the US, while the B10 would be a true coast to coast league, with many of the major cities under BTN, and the profits that will make them.

 

[cyatheart]

Dodd is confirming what McMurphy reported yesterday about the B1G eyeing some remaining Pac schools. Seems odd that the B1G would play this out so publicly, but maybe they don't care about secrecy anymore now that they got their biggest prizes. Or maybe it's all gamesmanship.

Crickets from Wilner, Canzano, and Mandel, who published a mailbag column today and didn't address it. Of course, all their Pac sources could once again be recalibrating and nobody knows what to think yet.

Big Ten evaluating Cal, Oregon, Stanford and Washington from Pac-12 as further expansion considered

Could the Big Ten balloon to a 20-team (or more) league?

www.cbssports.com

I really think that tweet killed the pac 10

 

[IceCyIce]

Money is driving realignment. Doesn't seem like there is much incremental $ for Big10 to add Iowa State when they already have Iowa. IMO we have a small chance at the SEC if they have an eye on new westward markets.

Not going to lie there is a part of me hoping the Big 12 stays put and competes a very high level, good enough for teams to stay. It will be nice For ISU to be in the middle geographically for the first time in existence. This beats always being the furthest out

 

[20eyes]

I really think that tweet killed the pac 10

Agreed. If the B1G is spreading west, UW is kind of a no brainer...gets Seattle and checks all the boxes for academic prestige. Cal is a "B1G" style property too. The next two would be UO & Stanford, who along with UW and Cal are talking to the B1G as we speak I would assume.