So allow me to toss a wrench in here...Texas and OU to the B1G, Nebraska back to the Big 12 with Mizzoo, aTm, and Colorado.
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Is Delaney out of his mind?
- Thread starter bilsker
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It's too early to be this drunk.
You forgot Drake and Grinnell!
And eliminate 9 conference game schedules.
There......better!
It's even worse than that I'm afraid. Maryland and Rutgers are never going to contribute incremental revenue to the Big Ten. That's a fact Delaney had to know. BTN carriage fees and payouts are peanuts and ESPN/Fox Sports are not paying big dollars to broadcast Maryland or Rutgers vs. anyone. They will be a net drain on cash flow in perpetuity.
As I understand it, he's an east coast guy to the core (grew up in Jersey, undergrad at UNC) and simply wanted the Big Ten to have bigger east coast footprint. It was expansion for expansion's sake. Delaney sold it as a smart TV money move, but in reality it was just an ego move.
Yup. And the Big Ten has a ton of rivalry games. You can't swap an east power to the west without then creating a scenario where that team is playing at least 2 protected east rivalries, which jacks up the division schedule.
I do get protecting rivalries though. They are crucial to conference stability. I'm 100% convinced that if the Big 12 powers-that-be had protected the NU vs. OU game, Nebraska never leaves the conference.
I think it might have made a difference but not sure it would have been enough to keep us there. Just to many sour things with Texas. Keep in mind that had OU probably could have helped protect that game but didn't so they weren't high on our list for voting against us and with Texas on everything too.
I think the biggest problem is we are creating super-conferences and too many aren't playing each other in them. I can't imagine any other sport at any level where you don't play everyone in your conference. The entire college football system needs re-worked instead of continually putting a paper bandaid on it. You will never get equity relative to conferences or even divisions. Attempting to factor these inequities into a final season playoff without even factoring in the non-conference games is just adding to the mess.
