Two Schools Are Reportedly Considering Leaving The Big Ten

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No clue if this is legit or not, but interesting regardless.

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Two Schools Are Reportedly Considering Leaving The Big Ten

Two big schools have reportedly considered leaving the Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten Conference has gone through a number of changes over the past decade or so. The conference added the University of Nebraska in 2011. A couple of years later, Maryland and Rutgers joined. The league expanded...
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The league is reportedly considering investment from private equity. The Big Ten Conference would essentially be selling off part of the new corporate enterprise to an outside investor. According to reports, the deal would be a 20-year, $2.4 billion investment from the California Pension Fund.

Two major schools are reportedly opposed to the plan: Michigan and USC.

According to reports, the Wolverines and Trojans are so opposed to the private equity deal, that they are considering a nuclear option of leaving the conference.

Yahoo! Sports reported this week that Michigan and USC have received an ultimatum from the conference.

"In messages sent to Michigan and USC, the Big Ten has signaled that it is moving forward with the deal, even delivering to each program a proposed deadline for their decision. If they don’t agree to the deal, the schools may lose the additional capital as part of the landmark proposal and risk their future within the conference beyond 2036, the current end of the existing grant-of-rights agreement. League officials are socializing a specific date — Nov. 21 — for a vote on the capital investment proposal," the story reads.

Why Michigan, USC are opposed to the deal​

According to reports, Michigan believes that the deal is essentially an unnecessary "payday loan" that would bail certain schools out for poorly managing their finances.

Meanwhile, USC, as a new member to the conference, would receive less upfront than schools like Ohio State and Penn State.

Michigan and USC could ultimately choose to leave the Big Ten and be independent, like Notre Dame. Or, maybe, they could shock the college football world and join the SEC. Oklahoma and Texas just did it, after all.

It's unlikely that this would happen, of course, but nothing is a given in today's world of college athletics.
 




So USC wants to collect on money that the Big 10 conference worked to achieve for many years and USC has been around only for a couple of years but wants to reap the benefits. Meanwhile, Michigan who has a 105,000 stadium wants to hog more money than the smaller schools saying that they are mismanage etc. I'd say something else, but then I'd roasted like I was on the off-topic board.

I think Michigan is getting tired of getting their ass kicked by Ohio State, and USC is looking for an excuse to get out.
 


This has been in the Twitter world for some time. Sounds like 16 teams are interested and the two aren’t. Investment discussion is beyond my brain.
 


#2Gopher said:
So USC wants to collect on money that the Big 10 conference worked to achieve for many years and USC has been around only for a couple of years but wants to reap the benefits. Meanwhile, Michigan who has a 105,000 stadium wants to hog more money than the smaller schools saying that they are mismanage etc. I'd say something else, but then I'd roasted like I was on the off-topic board.

I think Michigan is getting tired of getting their ass kicked by Ohio State, and USC is looking for an excuse to get out.
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What? What money is Michigan hogging? They are saying they don’t want extra money.

Do you think the Big Ten should take the PE money?
 

I think the entire article is BS. Anyway, the last sentence of the article is It's unlikely that this would happen, of course, but nothing is a given in today's world of college athletics.
 



matt said:
What? What money is Michigan hogging? They are saying they don’t want extra money.

Do you think the Big Ten should take the PE money?
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It has been clearly stated that Michigan wants more money than some of the other schools as they say they are mismanaged. As to whether the Big Ten should take the PE money...I'm open further for discussion. I'm not an expert on this. I just didn't like what Michigan's playbook is on this issue.
 


How often will Minnesota-Michigan play Non-Conference for the Little Brown Jug?
 





#2Gopher said:
So USC wants to collect on money that the Big 10 conference worked to achieve for many years and USC has been around only for a couple of years but wants to reap the benefits. Meanwhile, Michigan who has a 105,000 stadium wants to hog more money than the smaller schools saying that they are mismanage etc. I'd say something else, but then I'd roasted like I was on the off-topic board.

I think Michigan is getting tired of getting their ass kicked by Ohio State, and USC is looking for an excuse to get out.
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Michigan hasn't lost to Ohio St since pre-Covid
 


Only one certainty with private equity, they’re blood sucking vermin with only one goal in mind - maximizing profits. Ask yourself; what could you do to those schools or which schools would you have in the conference to maximize profits?
 


FredCoxRocks said:
The path to college athletics suckness is getting suckier.
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This greed is killing college football - the insane portal, where kids may play at 3 or 4 schools; the NIL and pay-for-play lunacies - which most schools will not be able to afford and which is totally unfair to individual students and to most schools. It will lead to a small true professional group, many other schools dropping the sport, and others going to court to lower the temperature to a more traditional, affordable level. The Supreme Court may make the final decision. Meanwhile we have the B10 hanging a string of 18 teams with no divisions, caring nothing for fans. Worst of all, no matter how much money they strive for, while sacrificing more than a century of sports culture, they will never have enough.
 

FanSinceTheFifties said:
An interesting thought. Why do you wish this?
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I used to be the biggest Big Ten lover and apologist. But it's changed from a prestigious and serious athletic conference with academic ambitions to little more than a money vehicle. We used to promote amateurism and academic excellence, and now we're only about money and winning, all the time.

There are days when I'd like to blow up the whole conference and start over. The Pac-2 is looking for more members. Maybe we head over there and take Iowa and Nebraska with us.

I know. I'll shut up now.
 


everybody knows my name said:
I used to be the biggest Big Ten lover and apologist. But it's changed from a prestigious and serious athletic conference with academic ambitions to little more than a money vehicle. We used to promote amateurism and academic excellence, and now we're only about money and winning, all the time.

There are days when I'd like to blow up the whole conference and start over. The Pac-2 is looking for more members. Maybe we head over there and take Iowa and Nebraska with us.

I know. I'll shut up now.
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Take 10 of the closest schools in the Midwest and redo the Big 10. If you have to call it something else, so be it. MN, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, and Michigan State. Perhaps bring in Missouri and another school if you don't want Ohio State and the eastern schools.

When you do that, you can dump the big 10 hockey league and start over with a new WCHA of sorts. MN, Bemidji, MN Duluth, St. Cloud, Mankato, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and perhaps bring in a couple more. Cap it with an even number though and everyone plays everyone equally.

I don't know, perhaps less tv income on the football side of things.
 

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