it wouldnt stay like that though. first add Zona and ASU which would create four pods of 4 teams: western, texas, plains, and eastern. we'd be grouped with cincy, wvu, and ucf. then once the ACC dissolves the BIG12 would absorb a couple more eastern schools e.g. pitt and lville.
I believe the rules are a bit looser than he claimed. ND is in the ACC but doesn't play football as a conference member. Navy plays football in the AAC but is not a member for any other sports. As someone pointed out in this thread, BCS football isn't under the NCAA's umbrella as deeply as all other sports so the rules (as they pertain to conference membership) may be a bit different.
"Can't get much worse"If you think BE officiating of UConn games was bad this year....imagine how bad it will be if we are going to Big12 down the road.
Yeah, it may be that you cannot be a member of another conference in a specific sport, yes you are a member of a different conference that offers that sport.
I honestly am not sure on how this works but I would think if you are in a FBS football league you have to be in that league for hoops too
They just signed a new contract. Are you talking 20 years from now?
Rutgers had a buy in of 7 years, and that was less than 50% for many of those years.
lol of course he did. Goodman is such a bozo
For the last time, a school cannot complete in a separate conference if their primary conference offers that sport. They can compete as an independent, as I have stated.
OK, that's a little different than the way you first explained it. Do you have a link by any chance?
You can say that Fox overpaid for the Big East and the next deal won't be as generous just as easily. They did so to pry BB away from the FB monstrosity they didn't want to pay for.
The best guide for understanding conference realignment has always been how are the people who are putting up the money for the moves going to profit by it. In this case, it looks like the end game is to eliminate the big east and the ACC so that networks don't have to pay for the deadwood in that conference.
But as you reduce the # of conferences, you give all the leverage to the remaining conferences. You can't squeeze one conference with the threat of featuring another.
How is it different? I said they can compete in the same conference, or as an independent.
yeah I remember that. Even with those terms UConn would and should accept the B12 invite even if UConn thinks that the ACC or B10 would come calling. My point was that with the smaller revenue in the first few years that would be the only reason I could think of why UConn would be hesitant and that if they think the B12 could get ripped apart soon which is not likely.
He said the name. Rhymes with Natt Morlander
You can say that, but Fox has been extremely happy with their deal. It was set up so the schools payout grew incrementally over the course of the contract, and they've been making a profit off of it for the last 5 years.
More validation that it makes sense to look into moving to the B-12.
If they offer a full share of the TV contract, UConn basically has to go.
True, but the loss of bargaining power is offset by not being forced to pay a premium for deadweight.
If this is true someone explain how this works financially 1 game over 250 games? I don’t understand the audience and ad revenue economics of this.