Two Schools Are Reportedly Considering Leaving The Big Ten

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Ope3 said:
I'm not a Vikings ticket holder so it for that alone the not playing on the "traditional" competition date (Sunday) in the NFL doesn't really bother me, at all. If I were, what would bug me is the Friday afternoon Christmas or the potential for a "home" game being moved to Dublin, London, Madrid etc.

What's is more "sad" is that now 2 of 9 Big 10 games won't be played on Saturday. That's a pretty substantial percentage, when it used to be 100% most seasons.

The sad part of now playing Oregon (or any of the 7 additions starting with Nebraska) is that previously, the Gophers would play all but 1 or 2 Conference teams. When it switched to Divisions, at least you then played everyone to identify in large part a winner. East-West was an additional improvement to at least play the 6 closest teams annually.

Now when identifying a Conference/Division-less Champion, without playing 8 of the teams it's just so nebulous. It's more about the CFP anyway instead of winning the Big 10 and getting to the Rose Bowl. I find all of that sad.

Meanwhile, when comparing to the Vikings to they still play all their Division rivals (not once but twice) as they compete to identify a NFC North winner and Playoff representative.
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Even though there's no trophy for winning the division, it still gets you a playoff berth so that is something.

Would love to get back to some kind of four-team division in college football, whether that's strictly in the Big Ten or as part of a super league.

At that point, I want to see 12 P5 games per (regular) season. So you'd play 6 games home/home against your division and then 6 other games somehow. Maybe you cycle through a whole other division and then play the __th place team in two other divisions ... maybe four divisions together is a "conference". Something could be figured out.
 


NBC has reportedly expressed frustration with its Big Ten contract, which it still hasn’t officially signed, after discovering restrictions it claims weren’t fully disclosed. Those restrictions include Ohio State and Michigan both being able to veto night games after the first week of November, which Ohio State seems to have acquiesced to. Additionally, Michigan is only obligated to play two primetime games per season, so spreading the schedule around to keep everyone happy isn’t exactly simple. Schools told ESPN in 2023 they weren’t informed the historic “tolerances” allowing them to avoid late-November night games had been eliminated from the new deal, which has created some ongoing friction between the conference and its broadcast partners.

Almost every week, the Big Ten faces some type of backlash over a channel or kickoff time issue, and that doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon.
 



Ope3 said:
With FOX owning 61% of BTN, I am not sure there's any incentive or reason to fix it.
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Then CBS and NBC were crazy to sign on and pay what they paid.

That could well collapse if the ratings don't pull through.

Without ratings, the $$$ won't make sense and it won't be there. So either FOX has to cough up the whole encilada, or else something is going to have to be figured out.



This was the first time I have read that the BTN owns all rights, and then just pieces them out to other network partners. That's how that works, now I finally get it.


It makes me feel like the right thing would be for the Big Ten to own BTN outright, then. The conference is trying to have its cake and eat it too ... not taking much risk or paying much for operation of the BTN, while getting a maximum payday.
 

GopherGrit said:
Then CBS and NBC were crazy to sign on and pay what they paid.

That could well collapse if the ratings don't pull through.

Without ratings, the $$$ won't make sense and it won't be there. So either FOX has to cough up the whole encilada, or else something is going to have to be figured out.



This was the first time I have read that the BTN owns all rights, and then just pieces them out to other network partners. That's how that works, now I finally get it.


It makes me feel like the right thing would be for the Big Ten to own BTN outright, then.
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Maybe.

Or perhaps Amazon Prime will just pony up the dough.
 

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