Breaking down POD Concept for Realignment

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fmlizard said:
Someone has to lose games. Not sure why everyone wants to load up on national powers.

Let's get Glass Joe in here. A nice western team with the KC media market to bring with. Maybe pair them with Boston College in the East. Mo money, mo wins.
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I agree with this. Rutgers and Maryland were great adds for programs like MN, northwestern, and Purdue

Add revenue while not moving you down a notch.


there aren’t many to add revenue without moving down a notch until the ACC teams are available. Good adds for revenue and academics would be:
Notre dame
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia tech
 

upnorthkid said:
I don’t really see how that increases their ability to monetize it and exposes them to greater risk by existing potential championship caliber teams to late losses, which have seemed to historically tank your odds more than early ones.

fun for teams in the sec to hang banners (pod a champion sure has a ring to it 😂) but yawn to most CFB fans id imagine
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It’s kinda like getting Rings for a meaningless bowl game wins, figured most here would be in favor of it.
 

I really think the Big Ten should have pounced on the ACC before the ACC locked down.
Florida St was interested, and I think that would have been a great add despite the geography.

Georgia Tech to me was the other option. Atlanta is a big market, and you aren't going to get Georgia (which most people are fans of over G-Tech, but a G-Tech in the Big Ten would get SEC eyes watching more Big Ten football and would be a boost for G-Tech.
 

Word said:
And NDSU is on the level of St. Cloud State.
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No, it's a land-grant university (NDSU) so it has as well of federally funded ag research as every other state's land-grant.

SC, like all the four year MNSCU schools, are just glorified community colleges ... not that there's anything wrong with that, in the slightest.
 


Face The Facts said:
I really think the Big Ten should have pounced on the ACC before the ACC locked down.
Florida St was interested, and I think that would have been a great add despite the geography.

Georgia Tech to me was the other option. Atlanta is a big market, and you aren't going to get Georgia (which most people are fans of over G-Tech, but a G-Tech in the Big Ten would get SEC eyes watching more Big Ten football and would be a boost for G-Tech.
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I always hear stuff like this and I just don't feel like that is how college football works. I don't think adding Rutgers did anything for us in the New York market. You are way more likely to find Michigan fans in NYC than you are Rutgers fans (from my experience).

Georgia Tech with Atlanta is slightly different (but not much). Then again, I don't really know anything about this stuff.
 

Face The Facts said:
I really think the Big Ten should have pounced on the ACC before the ACC locked down.
Florida St was interested, and I think that would have been a great add despite the geography.

Georgia Tech to me was the other option. Atlanta is a big market, and you aren't going to get Georgia (which most people are fans of over G-Tech, but a G-Tech in the Big Ten would get SEC eyes watching more Big Ten football and would be a boost for G-Tech.
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Georgia Tech would be a great add. Outstanding research school in STEM (obviously, per the name). Huge new market that is nuts about college football. Big middle finger to the SEC in putting up an outpost right in the heart of their territory.
 

MplsGopher said:
No, it's a land-grant university (NDSU) so it has as well of federally funded ag research as every other state's land-grant.

SC, like all the four year MNSCU schools, are just glorified community colleges ... not that there's anything wrong with that, in the slightest.
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I just meant as the caliber of student/admission standards. 😃
 




swelna said:
Would this include a protected rivalry game for MN/WI, I doubt either team would accept a scenario where they don't play every year...I feel like the same would apply for OSU/Mich and maybe Mich/Mich st.
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I hope so, but it would be hard to accommodate protected games and balance play. You'd want teams within a pod to play as many common opponents as possible for tie-breaking reasons.

Maybe swap MN and Illinois or Northwestern.
 

It’s actually not called a pod.
It’s technically a legume.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
I always hear stuff like this and I just don't feel like that is how college football works. I don't think adding Rutgers did anything for us in the New York market. You are way more likely to find Michigan fans in NYC than you are Rutgers fans (from my experience).

Georgia Tech with Atlanta is slightly different (but not much). Then again, I don't really know anything about this stuff.
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I agree. Sure you’d add the Atlanta market, but who cares if 90% of their college football fans really only care about Georgia Bulldog football.

Regarding the B1G, what about swapping Michigan with Purdue? I think that would balance the divisions pretty well. When the divisions were initially created, I’m sure they figured Nebraska would be much better. Part of the deal could retain the Michigan and Ohio State rivalry. That’s assuming Michigan wants to. They maybe happy to drop it.
 

PSU, Rutgers, Maryland, Pitt
OSU, MI, MI St, Northwestern
ND, IN, PUR, Ill
MN, WI, IA and Neb

Obviously adding Notre Dame and Pitt, but ND would love it in a because they are the one true leader of a pod and if the pod system serves as a type of secondary playoff for the B1G they would have a big advantage. Of course this means pulling away ND from ACC and not sure that will happen. Either this would be my choice and would easily swap Pitt for Virginia or NC.

Can you imagine a playoff system where last week of season you have.

Minn vs ND
PSU vs OSU

winners go to championship game.
 



MplsGopher said:
No, it's a land-grant university (NDSU) so it has as well of federally funded ag research as every other state's land-grant.

SC, like all the four year MNSCU schools, are just glorified community colleges ... not that there's anything wrong with that, in the slightest.
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Glorified community colleges? That is a truly ignorant comment.
 

Face The Facts said:
What would be the worst pod in a Big Ten pod?
NW, Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana?

Mich, PSU, OSU, and WI should all go in one.

MN, IA, Neb, and Colorado works for me.

Mich St, MD, Rutgers, and West Virginia would be a nice one.
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Id like to switch PSU and MSU, but other than that I'd rather take Syracuse or Cincinnati over West Virginia. Would be nice to bring a good/decent basketball program as well. Syracuse would be a good program to eat losses in football
 

There’s no such thing as a “pod”.
Stop it.
 


Word said:
I just meant as the caliber of student/admission standards. 😃
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Fair enough! Yeah, all the Dakota schools take a lot of MN high school kids.

I tend to think of universities in terms of research, but that is not always the right thing to do.
 

Block M said:
Glorified community colleges? That is a truly ignorant comment.
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Not really. And like I said, there is nothing wrong with that, in the slightest. There is nothing wrong with community/junior colleges, in the slightest.

They provide great value. Get your first two years done there, at a steep discount, then transfer for your last two years to the place you want your undergrad degree from. Would recommend that strategy to anyone.
 

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