I just can't wait for the SEC chants from the 8 schools whenever OU/UT lose....so excited for that
Personally I would wait to see what happens with the other conferences and would definitely not look outside of current P5 teams. No reason to bolster other teams value like we did with TCU a decade ago.
My hope is that the legal threats by the Big 12 against ESPN worked to get deal in place and ESPN's cooperation at getting every Big 12 team into a current P5 conference. The Big 12 office seemed to drop their public legal action strategy fairly quickly. There was great potential for some very long term expensive court battles over damages would further bankrupt ESPN. I think it would be relatively easy to prove ESPN initiated this whole mess, and Texas and Oklahoma violated the current Big 12 contract. Just my hope in a settlement.
I still don't get the attraction that the B1G would have to KU at all? Is just being good at basketball enough?
Completely agree. KU fans wave the "We are blueblood in bball card"...Then the KU fan base got sent back to reality in the recent Dodds article that showed that KU football actually brings in more revenue than KU bball...lol.. I actually found this surprising as well.
Given that...KU football is truly atrocious. Adding NDSU would be a far better pull for the BIG and far more competetive. That stadium at KU is laughable.
Who knows.
That makes sense, kind of. However, market size is a huge factor in determining potential viewership. If Arizona State is doing well, the entire Phoenix market hears about it from local media sources promoting it. If Iowa state is doing well, the entire Des Moines market hears about it and promotes it. Just because Iowa state has better attendance numbers than Arizona state, the potential viewership for Arizona state is still 7X larger.
I live in Phoenix and have personally seen the dramatically increased viewership for both Suns and Cardinals games due to increased success. Winning and success draws viewers and the number of potential viewers is certainly influenced by population size.
Nobody gives a **** about the Cardinals in Phoenix. It's the worst NFL city in the league. The Diamondbacks could leave town and nobody would notice. The Suns do have pretty decent support. It's a transplant city.What you are saying is true, its better to be good in a large metro area than a smaller one. But you also have to remember that with 3 pro teams in the Phoenix area they are also going to draw fans dollars from ASU. There are only so many dollars going around from fans and the Phoenix area is splitting them a lot of different ways. Here in Iowa there are NO pro teams in any sport, just high minor league, so there tends to be more fans that go to ISU or Iowa than say UA or ASU.
Kansas gets more money from their football rights than their basketball. Let that sink in to let you know how much basketball doesn't matter. AAU though, that is some big money.Completely agree. KU fans wave the "We are blueblood in bball card"...Then the KU fan base got sent back to reality in the recent Dodds article that showed that KU football actually brings in more revenue than KU bball...lol.. I actually found this surprising as well.
Given that...KU football is truly atrocious. Adding NDSU would be a far better pull for the BIG and far more competetive. That stadium at KU is laughable.
Who knows.
Completely agree. KU fans wave the "We are blueblood in bball card"...Then the KU fan base got sent back to reality in the recent Dodds article that showed that KU football actually brings in more revenue than KU bball...lol.. I actually found this surprising as well.
Given that...KU football is truly atrocious. Adding NDSU would be a far better pull for the BIG and far more competetive. That stadium at KU is laughable.
Who knows.
I could care less, I am not making the case that any of the teams in Phoenix draw well, but in metro of 7X larger than ISU, somehow ISU is outdrawing ASU by about 5,000 fans if not more per game and has for the past 5 to 7 years.Nobody gives a **** about the Cardinals in Phoenix. It's the worst NFL city in the league. The Diamondbacks could leave town and nobody would notice. The Suns do have pretty decent support. It's a transplant city.
5 star fans vs. 5 star marketI could care less, I am not making the case that any of the teams in Phoenix draw well, but in metro of 7X larger than ISU, somehow ISU is outdrawing ASU by about 5,000 fans if not more per game and has for the past 5 to 7 years.
It would be a huge embarrassment for many of the conference’s football programs.B1G ain't bringing in NDSU.
I think it’s more the idea of forcing UT/OU’s hand. Do a buyout, or stay until 2025.Now, the people voting for ISU to stay in the Big 12/make UT and OU stay for 4 more seasons: do you think that would actually happen or just thinking ideally?
SEC and ESPN wants OU and UT to join ASAP, they are locked by the contract for 18 more months, which gets us to Jan 2022, they will leave after the spring seasons of 2022 and pay the payout. Under the contract ESPN that started this whole mess will be required to pay the remaining money to the conference until it ends in 2024. They may not like it, but I really cannot see them going to court to break the contract, doing so would be difficult and then it sends a poor message to the other leagues, which I am sure that ESPN would like to bid on those leagues in the future.Now, the people voting for ISU to stay in the Big 12/make UT and OU stay for 4 more seasons: do you think that would actually happen or just thinking ideally?
Cards are all in. If this bluff doesn't work, look for Disney to dump ESPN.ESPN is bankrupt?
lmao