Y'know for a fanbase that gives Iowa fans grief for "obsessing' over Iowa State, we sure have plenty that obsess just as much about Iowa. What a weird post...
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We better be a able to compete in revenue. Especially if athletes become university employees. Who knows how the NIL revenue stream will evolve. Will big donors be relied on to fund NIL deals and AD will rely on ticket & media rights to fund facilities, scholarships, salaries and other operating expenses.
Sure the Big10 & SEC are beyond the Big12's reach, but we will need to stay competitive with the ACC and Pac12. If the Big12 media rights can't- then the most valuable media rights schools will continue to get poached.
Let's not be afraid of competition.
Yes, NIL is payment outside the school. Schools are limited at this point what they can do. If you think boosters dropping cash is a new thing, you’re fooling yourself.
Unless I am thinking about this wrong ----
10 team league, total of 9 weeks of conference games = 45 conf games
12 team league, total of 8 weeks of conference games = 48 games
12 x 9 weeks = 54 games
I'm not particularly invested in taking a conf game and making it non-con, but if we have 4 non-con games instead of 3 games -- I think that gives JP more room to add a for-sure extra home game in the years we play CyHawk out east, and/or add a decent home-and-away with say an AAC school or something else fun along with 2 cupcake warm-up games. Another opportunity like the UNLV trip.
We’re discussing about competing with BIG and SEC, as the Iowa fan brought up how much more they’ll be making. We don’t need to stack the deck against us in the field to be able to compete with ACC and Pac12 revenue. Those conferences are mediocre even before their looming exits. Don’t chase marginal increases in revenue for more certain conference losses.
If the transfer rule gets amended, and caps on roster numbers remain, the impact of NIL won’t be too bad. This conference is already not getting top recruits. Go look at the average recruiting class rankings from 2016-201 of Cincy, Houston, UCF, BYU, Baylor, Ok St, Iowa St…not a bad bowl season though.
You could also say if one thinks schools aren’t involved in NIL one is fooling themselves.
Without a doubt the Big 10 and SEC are both going to be far and away the highest leagues, but that has nothing to do with the Big 12 and this discussion, other than to gloat of how much money EIU is bringing in because of being a member of one of those two leagues.
As long as the Big 12 champion gets a auto bid to the playoff in expansion and the TV revenue does not drop or even increases with the new contract, then the Big 12 and ISU specifically will be fine. The other 3 conferences will never be able to get the money that the Big 10 and SEC receives, but we also cannot survive getting what the AAC was getting either.
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I sense #1 is not going to happen. ESPN did not take very many, if any opportunities during bowl season to talk about the New Big XII. Or for that matter they did very little positive talking about the current conference members when the the opportunity presented itself. IMO
Chad on the radio talking about Iowa fans attacking Spencer Petras.
Said factors are alcohol, gambling, and politics
Said factors are alcohol, gambling, and politics
Chad, please just keep doing the Karate Kid routine: “wax on, wax off” to keep those credentials.
