There are actually "fans" on twitter saying ISU would be just fine joining the AAC or MWC. These people are not sane.
COLUMN: What happens to Iowa State if the Big 12 implodes?
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No they didn’t. Wisconsin and Michigan actually led Nebraska to lose their AAU status.
It's naïve to think only Texas and OU have been approached by the SEC. Why stop at 16?
Let's say ESPN is driving this as a move to breakup the NCAA and CFB and capture those billions in revenue. Offer the top performing and storied teams in each conference a hundred or two million to be grafted onto the SEC and create a whole new league with their own football and basketball playoffs. Would Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, USC, etc... say no to that? Would the other conferences and networks be able to counter? We may be looking at the upending of college athletics as we know it.
Let's say ESPN is driving this as a move to breakup the NCAA and CFB and capture those billions in revenue. Offer the top performing and storied teams in each conference a hundred or two million to be grafted onto the SEC and create a whole new league with their own football and basketball playoffs. Would Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, USC, etc... say no to that? Would the other conferences and networks be able to counter? We may be looking at the upending of college athletics as we know it.
When I read the A&M athletic director's comments it sounds like this was news to him just like everybody else. He also sounded like he was going to fight it with everything he had. I wouldn't be surprised if this is something Texas leaked to a reporter as leverage to get more concessions from the big 12.
He has to in public. No greater way to fundraise at A&M than being able to make Texas the bad guy all the way up to being the lone vote against them (when they know damn well they're getting in).
Fundraise on the front end, happily cash the bigger checks that having Texas around provides on the back end.
I believe it was the opposite, I believe a Texas A&M source leaked the news (so that the news could spark controversy against Texas and force them to stay in the Big 12 as a last ditch effort by A&M to block it)
They left the conference because of Texas. It wasn't just for publicity. They were serious.
"BTAA members, when viewed collectively, conducted a combined total of $9.8 billion in funded research" BTAA is the new name for the old CIC.
I'm only halfway through this thread and I already can't keep my mouth shut.
Iowa would ABSOLUTELY fight ISU to the B1G. Some of you are probably too young to remember but this has come up multiple times in the past, all the way back to the 70s. Iowa has all but come out publicly and said they would NEVER allow it to happen. Ever.
To you people who say we'd be fine dropping to a lesser conference, you are not being logical. We DEFINITELY lose Campbell if this happens. No way ISU could afford even his current salary as a member of a lesser conference.
If the B1G actually cared about academics like they claim, ISU would already be a member. They don't. (See Nebraska.)
Iowa would ABSOLUTELY fight ISU to the B1G. Some of you are probably too young to remember but this has come up multiple times in the past, all the way back to the 70s. Iowa has all but come out publicly and said they would NEVER allow it to happen. Ever.
To you people who say we'd be fine dropping to a lesser conference, you are not being logical. We DEFINITELY lose Campbell if this happens. No way ISU could afford even his current salary as a member of a lesser conference.
If the B1G actually cared about academics like they claim, ISU would already be a member. They don't. (See Nebraska.)
Door #1: you are 8-4 and just miss the playoff with $70M in your pocket,
Door #2: you are 10-2 and ineligible for the playoff with $10M in your pocket
I get the sentiment that adding ISU to the Big 10 is not a net positive for revenue, but look at the coming landscape. If Tx and OU bolt, the Big 10 will be forced to join the arms race, and keep parity with the SEC. Even if a school like ISU won't bring in the median revenue of the current set-up, when will the next opportunity to scoop up a relatively large fanbase come about? You gotta look comparatively across the other non P5 schools, or the ones left in the stripped out Big 12. ISU to the Big 10 if this all goes down does not seem like a stretch to me. If it happens, the Big 10 will have to eat the best scraps left.
That's still collectively. It's not stating how much of that was spent collaboratively. The University of Chicago could have spent 2 billion and Iowa could have spent 1 billion; independent of each other.
This is actually a nice division. No powerhouses sure, but plenty of viable programs.
The goal is one college football superleague, under the direction of the SEC and ESPN. If that is the endgame, the Big 10 stands the same chance of losing teams (OSU, MI, PSU) that the Big 12 does, right?
I'm not sure what about the current circumstance demands the Big 10 add more teams.