USC and UCLA Planning to join BIG TEN.

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From a football standpoint, this is stupid for UCLA and USC

Getting your ass kicked for 60 to win or lose by 7 in west Lafayette in early November in 35 degree weather isn’t going to restore the USC myth
Maybe the home games against Rutgers and Indiana will
 


Honestly next targets logically would be some combination of Washington, Oregon, Stanford, cal, Colorado

Probably all but cal
If cal is added, add another in the east from the ACC
 

So, let me get this straight, there are a number of supposedly "diehard" Gophers fans (you are if you're on this message board and you aren't a troll) who are going to stop caring about a team/sport they have followed for 20/30/40/50 years because we added two of the best West Coast schools to our conference? I just don't get that.

I'll watch the Gophers every week if we were playing any team in the country. The fact we now get some regular games with brand schools like these is just more exciting.
 

WriterGoph said:
So, let me get this straight, there are a number of supposedly "diehard" Gophers fans (you are if you're on this message board and you aren't a troll) who are going to stop caring about a team/sport they have followed for 20/30/40/50 years because we added two of the best West Coast schools to our conference? I just don't get that.

I'll watch the Gophers every week if we were playing any team in the country. The fact we now get some regular games with brand schools like these is just more exciting.
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Depends on if the gophers still control their own destiny for whatever the prize is
 


Some guy said:
Honestly next targets logically would be some combination of Washington, Oregon, Stanford, cal, Colorado

Probably all but cal
If cal is added, add another in the east from the ACC
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I think they would try for ND over Colorado. If we add four to stop at 20 I think its four of these six: Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, and Cal. ND probably doesn't entertain any actual bids until Big ten and SEC are heading to 20. Past 20, the choices get a little less obvious.
 

I wouldn’t say adding UCLA is adding a top 2 team from west coast. If Oregon was in place of UCLA then yea we added two of the best. This had to happen after Texas and OU went to SEC. I think I remember back a time ago Texas wanted to come to B1G. That would have been huge. Now we lost them and gained USC. Lincoln Riley will have USC being a major contender and that’s what we need. Ohio State is our flagship, we haven’t had a team that really competes with them like Bama/Georgia. The more top tier programs only makes the B1G better!

Who doesn’t want to see highly ranked teams come to Minnesota!
 

swelna said:
I think they would try for ND over Colorado. If we add four to stop at 20 I think its four of these six: Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, and Cal. ND probably doesn't entertain any actual bids until Big ten and SEC are heading to 20. Past 20, the choices get a little less obvious.
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It won’t be wazzu or Oregon state
 







Face The Facts said:
The biggest question in this will be what Texas school does the Big Ten get, and things will definitely get interesting in ACC land. They are all frozen, but at what point does a majority vote to change that?
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I think no TX team. To me the next move would be Stanford and the Irish to get to 18.
 



With USC and Michigan in the B1G, you gotta think Notre Dame would be tempted. Having said that, the major conferences (including the B1G) have abandoned all football tradition through their configurations, and Notre Dame if nothing else is about tradition. So maybe they remain "meh" on joining.
 

TruthSeeker said:
The rest of the Pac 12 is not coming to the Big Ten. Notre Dame and ACC schools are the next targets.
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I believe that could be true.
I think Stanford, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Arizona state are the 4 that could add value.

I don’t think the conference would consider ASU.

If they have a set number involved that will dictate it.

Maybe the big ten takes those 5, notre dame, Boston college, Virginia, North Carolina, Clemson, Florida state, Georgia tech.

26 team league and essentially the big ten didn’t expand. It bought out all the valuable assets from the other leagues
 

Here are the largest TV markets Big 10 doesn't already have a footprint in:

5. Dallas/Fort Worth
6. San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose
7. Atlanta
8. Houston
10. Boston
11. Phoenix
12. Seattle
13. Tampa/St. Petersburg
 




everybody knows my name said:
No problem for the Pac Ten, they'll just reload.

Pepperdine and UNLV, your invitations are in the First Class mail.
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“Pepperdine?”

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SomeGopherFan said:
Not really a fan overall of the amount of conference realigning and the move to super-conferences, but if it is inevitable because of money, this round of USC/UCLA is a lot more attractive fan wise than Maryland/Rutgers.
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The two largest college alumni in NYC are from the B1G.
 



Announcement just went out from UCLA so I guess it's a done deal. Minnesota has been sleeping on beach volleyball as a sport for far too long so pretty excited for this.
 

USC and UCLA's commitments to their Fox PAC12 conference TV contract end in 2024.
The conference had asked them to update their commitments but the two schools hedged their bets.
The BIG gets entree into the huge LA market and the two schools get more $$$.
We get two decent FB schools and two very good academic schools.
And we also get the Song Girls and the UCLA cheer team.
Now let NE rejoin the BIG 12 and relegate NE back to fly over country.
I like change and this to me is win, win, win.
 


Does this mean we can kick Nebby out of the B1G?
 



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