A suggestion for B1G expansion: Kansas and Colorado

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From collegefootballnews.com, one of their “22 thoughts for ‘22” is a question about what the B1G should/could/might do for expansion, in reaction to Texas and Oklahoma entering the SEC. Their thought is to add Kansas and Colorado.

collegefootballnews.com

Big Ten Expansion. NOW What Does It Do? 22 Thoughts For 2022, No. 14

Big Ten expansion – what can the conference do to keep up after the SEC landed Texas and Oklahoma?
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The next team to join the B1G will be usc.. then UCLA... Then Oregon... Then Colorado.. Stanford says don't forget bout us .. and then they snag a tx team.....
 



pk2 said:
From collegefootballnews.com, one of their “22 thoughts for ‘22” is a question about what the B1G should/could/might do for expansion, in reaction to Texas and Oklahoma entering the SEC. Their thought is to add Kansas and Colorado.

collegefootballnews.com

Big Ten Expansion. NOW What Does It Do? 22 Thoughts For 2022, No. 14

Big Ten expansion – what can the conference do to keep up after the SEC landed Texas and Oklahoma?
collegefootballnews.com collegefootballnews.com
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Didn’t read the article but did they explain how Kansas and Colorado would bring 1.2 billion in additional revenue per year to make it a break even deal?
 


Nebraska is the only member of the B1G not in the AAU. I’d like to think they won’t make the mistake of downplaying the academic profile of prospective members. Sure, Rutgers and Maryland were mostly for east coast TV and they don’t elevate the B1G academically but they are AAU. THe question is which schools in a reasonable geographic footprint will increase share of a new metro TV market while also fitting the athletic and academic profile of the B1G? KU and CU seem like pretty good fits.
 

Catechol said:
Nebraska is the only member of the B1G not in the AAU. I’d like to think they won’t make the mistake of downplaying the academic profile of prospective members. Sure, Rutgers and Maryland were mostly for east coast TV and they don’t elevate the B1G academically but they are AAU. THe question is which schools in a reasonable geographic footprint will increase share of a new metro TV market while also fitting the athletic and academic profile of the B1G? KU and CU seem like pretty good fits.
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If they add the Cali teams they control the west coast market.. that's why you bring Oregon with.. Colorado is a middle point and add a Texas team.. you now have full dominance of east to west coast television and then add tcu or t.t. and have a Texas market as well... Major major major money

Add Washington as well..

Usc
UCLA
Oregon
Washington
Colorado
Tcu
 

Off-GridTNgopher said:
If they add the Cali teams they control the west coast market.. that's why you bring Oregon with.. Colorado is a middle point and add a Texas team.. you now have full dominance of east to west coast television and then add tcu or t.t. and have a Texas market as well... Major major major money

Add Washington as well..

Usc
UCLA
Oregon
Washington
Colorado
Tcu
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Would make more profit to just have BTN bid for tier 3 big 12 and pac 12 tv rights.

Broadcast the games but don’t have to revenue share beyond the bid.
 

When Texas nope s out of the SEC, B1G will get them.

Nebraska might not like it tho…
 



Off-GridTNgopher said:
If they add the Cali teams they control the west coast market.. that's why you bring Oregon with.. Colorado is a middle point and add a Texas team.. you now have full dominance of east to west coast television and then add tcu or t.t. and have a Texas market as well... Major major major money

Add Washington as well..

Usc
UCLA
Oregon
Washington
Colorado
Tcu
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Not appealing for teams to travel that far west and south to So Cal. More than twice as far as the east-west span of the current conference and would span 3 time zones instead of one. That’s also not appealing for game times. Even a western division would span 2 extra time zones and would be about 3x the mile span of the current division. Would be nice to have UCLA/USC come up for late November games though!
 

Here is my shot at making some nice even divisions, obviously mostly based on East/West. I made up some numbers for overall football rank by looking at records.

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Okay this required a bit of fudging. I imputed a conference finish for football because of the East/West, and I gave Colorado and Kansas 12th and 14th for football conference finish because they are in smaller conferences than the B10. I doubt Colorado would actually finish #4 in the B10 in basketball, but I had to stop fudging numbers at some point.

I wanted to keep Illinois in Plains, but I paired them with NW and gave the Great Lakes a weak FB school and strong basketball.

As you can see from the average and median rank, both divisions are pretty evenly matched. B10 Plains is stronger in basketball, and weaker in football. Great Lakes is similar in both.
 

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B1G is not expanding. Fun to speculate but not happening. Alliance is in place.
 

PMWinSTP said:
B1G is not expanding. Fun to speculate but not happening. Alliance is in place.
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Alliance is in place until the next contract for B1G, then USC sees it and says wtf and leaves.
 



Off-GridTNgopher said:
If they add the Cali teams they control the west coast market.. that's why you bring Oregon with.. Colorado is a middle point and add a Texas team.. you now have full dominance of east to west coast television and then add tcu or t.t. and have a Texas market as well... Major major major money

Add Washington as well..

Usc
UCLA
Oregon
Washington
Colorado
Tcu
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Then Global Dominance?
 


mngolf said:
Alliance is in place until the next contract for B1G, then USC sees it and says wtf and leaves.
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If USC is worth 80 million per year they won’t join the big ten, they’ll go independent

If USC isn’t worth 80 million per year they aren’t going to make the conference a net gain.
 

It seems like The Big Ten does a whole lot to keep Penn State happy. And Penn State doesn’t want more schools that border Nebraska.
 




I see Kansas as well, Colorado though....mehhh, terrible in both sports
 




Unregistered User said:
Perv.

Just stick with your online porn.
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The govt probably tracks the porn link you select so just going to a game to watch the song girls is probably a much safer bet to get your rocks off as long as it's not in a bathroom stall with a hogeye chick
 

Kansas would be interesting proposition, trade away all basketball conference championships in exchange for free wins in every other sport.
 

Some guy said:
If USC is worth 80 million per year they won’t join the big ten, they’ll go independent

If USC isn’t worth 80 million per year they aren’t going to make the conference a net gain.
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They're leaving kills the PAC. So then ucla, Oregon, plus a few others also come. That comes with necessary money I gotta believe.
 

PMWinSTP said:
B1G is not expanding. Fun to speculate but not happening. Alliance is in place.
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But they (Big Ten) decided not to do Alliance scheduling in football.

That was going to be the point. Now I have no idea what the point of the Alliance is, perhaps other than just to oppose the SEC in voting.
 

Supposedly the Nebraska add already got the BTN into the KC and Denver markets.

Adding Kansas would be about if they wanted a national champion basketball program, and would have been a "bridge" to OU and Texas, but that ship obviously has sailed.
 


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