Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Yes. The more way things are shaping out with BIG trying to grab markets to keep from the B12 the more I think BY is right trying to become the best bball conference. I feel it's the only way we'll survive long term.
Luckily, according to a certain MSU poster on here, this could never happen in the b1g.
There will still be Ohio State and Michigan and Penn State making the same TV money as Illinois and Purdue and Rutgers, which is the same point.
I think we are a couple decades away from that but it is coming.
Read as “B1G is trying to stir up a realignment storm to get ND to finally jump, but Networks aren’t having it and the SEC isn’t playing along this time.”
ND will only join a conference if they don’t have a seat at the same table as the conference commissioners.
If there's 18 teams, it might happen again.
If there's 20 teams, it will probably happen again.
I wouldn't say "survive" but maybe "thrive".
They say bball is 20% of the media value. What if that changes over the next 10-20 years as bball becomes more popular and football dwindles a bit due to CTE, interest, etc? Maybe becomes 60/40, and the Big12 has the majority of the big names? Maybe the money differential won't be 50%, maybe it will get narrowed to 20% and they can absolutely stand with the SEC and B1G.
Honestly that's what I think BY is working towards as a long term strategy.
Can’t shake the feeling that Utah and ASU aren’t going to have the stones to go through with it.
I think basketball will grow as a share of media rights value but by doing so it will make Kansas and Arizona more attractive to both the B1G and SEC as targets. So the Big 12 will rise but if it rises too fast its most valuable schools will probably get scooped up for the same reason.
KidSilverhair
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Kale is great in zuppa toscana soup, with some Italian sausage in a creamy base … yummy.
But that’s about the only way I’ll eat kale.
It will be between the BIG and the BIG, that way they can say they won the Rose Bowl,
Do you see football dwindling at that much in the next 10 years? Personally I don't. Not with how much more they are pumping into youth leagues, camps, flag football, womens flag football, etc.
From Thamel's ESPN+, interesting take on M. Crow:
"Crow has been at ASU since 2002 and has played a central role in keeping the school's sleeping giant of an athletic department, asleep. As former commissioner Larry Scott's staunchest supporter, Crow was a central figure in the league's failures during his tenure. ASU leaving would mark a Crow failure, something he's expected to be hesitant to do because of his role in the downfall."
"Crow has been at ASU since 2002 and has played a central role in keeping the school's sleeping giant of an athletic department, asleep. As former commissioner Larry Scott's staunchest supporter, Crow was a central figure in the league's failures during his tenure. ASU leaving would mark a Crow failure, something he's expected to be hesitant to do because of his role in the downfall."
