Jon Miller has a new write up on realignment...surprising and worth the read.
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I’ve always liked Jon Miller. He’s a Hawk but always seemed like a decent guy and fair for the most part.
Deace is super talented as a radio host. He’s opinionated and that’s part of what makes him so good, and I say that as someone who doesn’t align with him politically at all.
Jon Miller has kind of done a 180 as a human over the last decade, and this kind of seals it. He was gleeful about ISU getting relegated in 2010.
Go listen to the podcast he did with Williams last year. Guy has really grown and it’s hard to not admire that.
Go listen to the podcast he did with Williams last year. Guy has really grown and it’s hard to not admire that.
"Iowa State’s facilities are pretty much Big Ten worthy. They have the third largest football stadium in the Big 12 and had the 21st highest attendance average in 2019. You know who is at #20? Iowa. Iowa had the 7th highest attendance average among Big Ten schools. Which means Iowa State had a better home attendance average than Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, Illinois, Maryland and Rutgers. We all know how much of a snake pit Hilton Coliseum is for opposing teams in basketball and ISU’s wrestling program is on the rise…and the simple fact that they have one is a good thing. Also, Iowa State is a fantastic education institution and is a member of the AAU. It’s a geographic fit, a cultural fit and it just fits in my mind."
"In my opinion, and given the new area of television contracts I expect to see relative to streaming services entering the fray, the Big Ten adding Iowa State and Kansas, along with the Pac12 adding Oklahoma State and Kansas State"
Btw, anocronym wizzard, what's an msm terd anyway?
Hum. Where there's smoke, maybe fire? Jon is a handsome guy. And the Hawkeyes maybe not so bad either. Cough, that was a little hard to say.
I’m not even talking about Deace’s take on politics. I’m talking about a guy that flat out admitted to Iowa State fans that he’s a Wolverine pretending to be a Cyclone fan because he was being paid to be one. Once that happened, I couldn’t care less about his really bad takes on ISU athletics.
But wait, has he heard we don't add any relative value in terms of media market and cable subscriptions? Streaming?
Don't you be pumping your optimistic BS here, luckily plenty of CFs here will surely set him straight!
Don't you be pumping your optimistic BS here, luckily plenty of CFs here will surely set him straight!
I actually think he's just doing the sports thing now because he wants to, not because he has to. He's driven me crazy in the past but I think he's grown up now.
That was an excellent podcsast and it was neat to see the growth and transformation Jon made. I like the guy, and enjoy his take on stuff sports or not.
I have a good friend of mine who works for one of the top ACC schools. He is not in the athletics dept but is in a leadership position at the university and has some insight into some of the conversations that are happening...
I don't think anyone knows for sure what will happen... but his sources are saying very similar things. WVU is the current target for the ACC (this is new, he has told me for years that they were hoping to add tx & nd - which is not happening now. The idea was, once you add those two you reopen the contract and cash in. The ACC deal is getting worse and worse every year, they need to add someone, anyone to reopen it and get market value for the current teams. They are desperate and must add, WVU makes sense geographically and have natural rivals in pitt, vt, uva, etc.). So, ACC is going to add, but likely only one for now (they still *hope* to get ND at some point but clearly won't happen soon enough to keep up on TV money with the b10, sec). The scheduling will be 3 x 5 pods with each team playing 4 from their pod + 2 from each of the others.
However, for this to happen before 2025, other schools need to find a home... otherwise the GOR will keep the B12 together until 2025. He said he believes the B10 is likely to add ISU / Kan and the PAC will take some (not all) of the others). Once there are enough schools with life rafts, they can vote to dissolve the B12 and the GOR will be void allowing all the schools to leave...
I don't know how far along these talks are. I don't think he knows if this WILL happen or just conversations... But it is interesting that multiple reports are lining up on this.... He told me this weeks before Wannstedt made his comments.
I will wait for it to be official but some of the things he has said make sense. His comments were that geography and rivalries matter more this time around to the conferences and are being considered to:
1) Maintain ticket sales (attendance is becoming a concern for many schools)
2) Increase value of streaming content, drive subscription revenues in new tv models.
I am not counting on this until it happens... but I am a bit more optimistic. We will see..
So if this happens.........do we go from being mad at UT and OU to sending them a thank you card? It could be a situation where we are dumped at a bar by a semi attractive beatch of a woman, but get sympathy from the smoking hot model who has decided to take a guy home that night.
@TheFarCyde He hasn't posted on here since he was doxxed.
Doesn't feel weird putting your key in a car knowing that ToE drove it first? Or were they always stuck in the friendzone?
WWII probably needed to happen, but we aren’t thanking Emperor Hirohito or Adolf Hitler for getting us there are we?
Reminds me of an old friend who was laid off, then found employment with another company and quickly became the CEO and a multi millionaire in the process. Hope this situation ends the same way.
More the lackey who tags along and gets a cheap feel by brushing up against her in a crowded bar. Buys her drinks and gets nowhere is how I picture the Hawkeyes.
It’s like the Luke Combs song When It Rains It Pours. Get broken up with and then get hit with a flurry of good luck.
Do you thank your C-tier ex-wife who has been cheating on you for more than a decade just because your second wife is an S-tier woman who is crazy about only you? Nope - you’d probably still hate her, even if things ended up better for you in the end.