If you took a vote of Legacy B10 fans/boosters as well as Legacy B10 Presidents, the vast majority would prefer a 10 school B10 with doubling of the current payouts (resulting from media rights pooling and 7x10 realignment) over the current 18-school dysfunctional clustereff.
A bit confused as you said the legacy presidents would want this but then have no quotes from them and now have moved the goal posts to taking a vote. Btw the vast majority of big ten fans have no problem with the moves that have been made and wouldn’t trade any potential additional media revenue for other leagues catching up. It’s part of the reason I came to the board to chat about realignment, most big ten fans don’t care as it doesn’t really effect them or has even benefited them with how spread out so many alumni are.
Agreed with what you’re saying but most of the legacy big ten fans also don’t care, now the new 4 schools might feel differently and I do get that.
Yeah, typical dumbass B10 fans. Would rather sustain existing revenue advantage instead of doubling/tripling revenues with a reduced revenue advantage. Rational legacy B10 Presidents would vote for the latter with a 10 team conference. No quotes available that I am aware of but none needed for an obvious solution that would benefit all FBS schools. But there were anonymous quotes from multiple B10 ADs who opposed adding the PAC schools and destroying thr PAC in the process of doing so.
Why on earth would Northwestern agree to go to the Big 12? How does that make sense? They'd be way more of an outlier in the Big 12 than they are in the B1G. Lol.
They are the only private school in the legacy B10 with no significant conference rival so they are an outlier and would be the logical legacy school to leave. And as mentioned earlier, they would receive B10 level payouts (at least doubling their existing payouts) and maintain existing academic/research alliances with non con scheduling preferences with B10 schools.
How many private, non-land-grant, academic blueblood universities are there in the Big 12? Who would their significant Big 12 conference rival be?
1) BYU. So NW would have a peer in the B12.
BYU is nowhere close to being an academic blueblood at the level of Northwestern. Lol.
It makes you wonder how they ever made it to a major D1 power conference in the first place. They seem like being in the old MTW would have been a better fit for them all along, probably them and OSU too.
BYU is top 100 level university, public or private. Not at the level of NW but certainly no slouch.
The school that sits 4 miles from the league office needs to be moved for geographic reasons?
If you're going by US News national university rankings BYU is #110, falling in line squarely behind the likes of Iowa and Missouri. Northwestern is #7. Lol.
