There's no doubt that in this case Iowa doesn't make the cut.
I'd be willing to bet the next round of negotiations results in the B1G changing up its CFP/bowl game revenue distribution model, instead of an equal cut to every team, giving a bigger cut to the teams that made the CFP and earned the bulk of the bowl revenue. That would be the fair thing to do. I don't think we'll see unequal distribution of revenues from the media deal.
Gonna wait awhile, people have been banging this drum since Texas did it and nothing has changed. Just look at Indiama as exhibit A as to why that won’t happen. They set a record in the big ten championship for ratings and were the most watched big ten team by ratings this year. Before Cig came they have been a bottom dweller and now are probably favorites or close to favorites to win the big ten again.
I still want a title game and hate going to 24 team. Regular season football is just meaningless now. You would need to have a Penn state level debacle to miss the playoffs for most teams now and that’s just idiotic.
Indiana was a media darling because everyone loves the poor school rising up to win a championship. Do they have staying power to be drawing media numbers in a few years is the question. Much like EIU women's bb program, everyone wanted to watch Clark play, but after she left the ratings started to fall back down.
Totally agree about the staying power being a question, only thing I would say is that Clark was a one person show, not the program. Indiana football is a bit different in that the main draw is the coach. As long as he stays I see them in the top 3rd of the conference and drawing the views
We will see, after a season or two the average fan's interest will be drawn to somewhere else, unless they continue to win championships, but no one believes that is going to happen. Indiana unlike Ohio State, Michigan and a few others does not have a huge fan base. They have a small stadium, so unless they are planning on enlarging it soon, they are still going to be at best 52,000 or so, they average 8000 fans less than ISU.
They have massive donors. I don't know how you can really say nobody expects them to win more championships. Cig obviously is an amazing coach who knows how to put a team together.
I have a coworker that is an IU grad, he says they have a huge waiting list of people wanting season tickets and the university has jacked the price of tickets. I can't remember how much he said unfortunately.
They don’t have a huge fan base because their football team has been abysmal for decades on decades. They have a huge waiting list now, massive interest and a a huge state school. The fans are there and again stadium size and attendance has zero to do with ratings.
I’ve heard that Indiana has the largest alumni base in the country. I googled it just now and it looks to be accurate.
So the reason Indiana and Michigan are so high is that they count all the satellite campus’s that don’t really count. Getting into Michigan is very hard, getting into University of Michigan Flint or Dearborn campus’s are extremely easy. Not sure about Indiana’s competitive admissions in comparison and no idea if Penn state has satellite campuses.
Yep, even the Globetrotters understood the value of the Washington Generals. So schools like Purdue, Northwestern, Maryland, Rutgers, Miss State, Arkansas, etc. have value.
You are right about Indiana. The alumni numbers include the old IUPUI, which is now IU-Indy and IU-East in Richmond, IN among others. The analogy to Michigan is spot on.
Everyone likes a winner, but unless they plan to expand their stadium looks like 56K is as large as it can go.
