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I Yea I’m calling BS. No doubt Kansas would love to join the B1G. My question would be whether the B1G really wants Kansas. Have my doubts there. Sure, they have a great basketball program and are an AAU school. The reasons for adding them pretty much end there. Would Ohio State/Penn State be...

It’s real early to be so sure about any of that. These things take time. It took six months of talks between Texas/OU and the SEC before anything happened. There is so much money involved, so many stakeholders, and so many legal hoops to jump through that I wouldn’t expect to see the ripple...

The fact that the Big 12 is going after ESPN so hard is a tell that they know their days are numbered. Even if the conference survives to 2025 they will need a new TV deal at that point. The two major TV routes for college football right now are FOX and ESPN. If ESPN isn't an option for the Big...

I'm not panicking right now. I only see a few that are. But I think if I see one more person post that it's not time to panic yet then I am going to start panicking.

I'm not saying they would keep the after dark games I'm saying they could if they wanted to. That's up to the TV networks to decide.

The bolded part is why it is so hard to get rid of schools. The SEC would love to get rid of Vanderbilt. Heck, I bet most Vandy fans would even admit that. But the problem is they need 11 of 14 votes to bounce them. There is no way Mississippi State, Ole Miss, or Arkansas are voting for that...

Agree 100% that this really wouldn't be much of a problem. And there could still be some "after dark" games, it would just have to be when two of the west coast team played each other. Can still have a 7:30pm PT kickoff for Stanford vs Washington. If they really wanted to make it a priority just...

Vandy and Miss St would be gone tomorrow if it were easy for the SEC to dump them. Much easier to add schools than get rid of them.

What I don’t get about that is why the B1G would do it. It’s not the B1G’s fault that the Pac 12 has royally goofed up media rights negotiations. The B1G doesn’t need any help in that area, so why do the Pac 12 a favor worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars without getting something...

USC/UCLA might get some negative fan feedback on it, but if that many teams moved from Pac 12 to Big Ten there would still be some familiar teams and more traditional kickoff/tip-off times when they played each other. Their payout from the TV deals would be virtually guaranteed to go up 60-100%...

As would expansion to Texas. Just curious, why would you say you’d give A&M a call, but not UCLA/USC? All of them are big fish who would have reason to listen if the Big Ten called. A&M is a little closer than the CA schools, but it’s still a plane ride away from every B1G school and in a...

I’m not totally sure what I think the outcome will be. Adding those Pac 12 teams to the Big Ten would be a seismic shift in the landscape of college sports. Could easily see some school presidents getting cold feet about a change like that. What I’m trying to get at is that if we are talking...

The geographical identity ship sailed away when Maryland and Rutgers were added. It’s all about money and institutional fit. I agree it wouldn’t be a bad idea to check in with A&M. They don’t fit at all geographically with most of the Big Ten, but the money and institutional fit are there.

First off, I think you are overrating the prestige of the Pac 12. Many of those championships are either from a long time ago, or they are in non-revenue sports in which many other D1 schools don’t even compete. Those things don’t write checks, and most 18 year olds don’t care about them. As...

I think the stronger brands of the Pac 12 would be more likely to join the Big Ten than let the Big 12 leftovers latch on to them. The money and synergies are way stronger between Pac 12/Big Ten

I think most of the stronger brands in the Pac 12 (USC/UCLA/Washington/Stanford/Cal/Colorado) will join the Big Ten. Then the Arizona schools and maybe Utah join what’s left of the Big 12. Wash State and Oregon State end up in the Mountain West or also head to the Big 12. And I have no idea what...

I’d prefer Notre Dame and Virginia. Doubtful either would happen. ND seems pretty happy as an independent (plus they already kind of get to have their cake and eat it too with the ACC), and it sounds like Virginia is pretty locked in to the media rights deal with the ACC. I say look west or...

Shaka. I think their fan base is pretty happy with it, and Marquette is a lot better fit for him than Texas.

I do wonder what the deal is with Gates. He seemed like one of the top prospects in a market where a bunch of jobs that were potentially good fits (BC, DePaul, Minnesota, Marquette) came open, and he didn't get any of them. 3 of those 4 made hires that were somewhat underwhelming. Could be a...

Eh, ultimately this is a big nothingburger to me. Gard maybe has some growing to do when it comes to all aspects of being a head coach, but his results haven’t been terrible so he’ll get a couple years to work on it as long as next season isn’t a disaster. He let his players talk and listened to...