Jon Miller has a new write up on realignment...surprising and worth the read.
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They are also going to look at the school's near ISU that have attendance issues. MN, NW, and IL will all get an attendance bump from ISU joining the league. It sounds like kNu may need help soon too. In Minnesota alone, attendance will go up by several thousand for any game with ISU.
Absolutely not. They wrecked a good conference and we no longer get to do March in KC. Even if we end up in a far better situation and get to marry that smoking hot model, **** them and the horse they rode in on. My hatred for those ******* and everything they represent will be infinite. We were finally getting into a position where we could compete and beat them on a regular basis. They can all eat a bag of *****.
I'll see your album cover and raise you... hmmm, maybe that's not the best way to phrase that...
I agree with you. The Gophers stadium is never full unless Wisc or Hoks are in town. That stadium only holds 50k and they still don't come close to filling it. ISU would have ZERO problem filling it up.
We absolutely would be receptive. Our problem has always been resources and the need to keep feeding the revenue generator. (football) The pot of money that would come with joining the conference would provide those resources.
WVU is not their first choice. They were hoping to get to 16 with ND + Tx. That was ideal option. If tx did not come when nd was ready to join, UConn or WVU would have been options with ND.
the problem is that nd is not planning to join near term and the b10, sec, & pac are all getting new deals that will leave the ACC in the dust (the early years of the ACC deal were competitive but behind the B12, and ahead of the PAC on a per team basis, but that will change very soon). Not to mention these new deals will come up for renewal again before the ACC can renegotiate in 2036.
so, point is, they were planning on adding ND…. That's not happening any time soon. Now they need to act because their deal is about to be left behind. That is why it’s happening now but didn’t before. Just a bad deal signed by the prior commissioner.
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If ISU has potential to add $20M+ of revenue annually, it would seem adding 2 sports would be pretty easy.
A men's sport like soccer would be easy to add ot even swimming since the facilities already exist. From a nostalgia perspective- baseball would be nice.
From a women's side maybe we see field hockey or rowing.
They aren’t going to say, “you need to have x sport added day 1”.
If I recall history correctly at the time Deace became a Cyclone no one was talking Cyclones. He was one of the first and only to attend ISU media days. He also called out Iowa b.s. snobbery when no one else would. Yeah, he was a fake Cyclone but he helped Cyclone athletics by giving them a platform. Hard to hate him for that.
He could laugh at their attitude since he was a Michigan fan.
Thought the C class was the coupe. Fun to drive, exciting to look at, not real practical.
S class is the sedan. Bigger and less sporty, but more comfortable, and a lot easier to get in and out of.
From the Alliance press conference:
“We want and need the Big 12 to do well,” Phillips said. “The Big 12 matters in college athletics. The Big 12 matters in Power 5 athletics. I can tell you we’ll be watching closely what occurs here.”
If we take that at face value, their preference would be to see the Big XII reconstitute itself and remain viable. And if that's the case, they're not going to press the Destruct button by taking the two best schools. I think they'll provide some limited help, but we're probably on our own. Of course that could all change tomorrow.
“We want and need the Big 12 to do well,” Phillips said. “The Big 12 matters in college athletics. The Big 12 matters in Power 5 athletics. I can tell you we’ll be watching closely what occurs here.”
If we take that at face value, their preference would be to see the Big XII reconstitute itself and remain viable. And if that's the case, they're not going to press the Destruct button by taking the two best schools. I think they'll provide some limited help, but we're probably on our own. Of course that could all change tomorrow.