USC & UCLA to B1G by 2024; conferences react; TV contracts thread
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Certainly would make the Big Ten West much more difficult for Wiscy and Iowa. (assuming divisions stay the same)
The Big Ten would stretch from "sea to shinging sea".
Given the B10's expansion history watch it be Cal and Oregon State.
PSU has a fairly sizable alumni base in SoCal. Have to think that some other schools would want to make a jump also. If they could get Colorado/Utah, Arizona/Arizona State in the mix, then you could drive from the East Coast to the West Coast and be entirely in Big Ten Country.
At what point does a conference become a league?
This becomes 16 team conference. I see them going 20. I see 3 more PAC teams. Bets guesses Washington Oregon and pick one of 4 Stanford/cal/col/Utah. It would give 5 team grouping out west. Then go for best team East/Midwest. This would be Clemson if OSU or WVU. This would make great conference. This would allow Pods that rotate. 5 teams. You play your 4 pod mates yearly and then rotate through The other 3. For other sports you could do H-h with your pod and play the others to save travel.
When it is old enough to shave.
Hell, at this point, go for it. College football has already become a circus.
It's in all those commercials on the BIG10 network, from the Rose Bowl to Lady Liberty.
Yeah, not a big fan of super conferences. I think we’re at the max amount already. But, the B1G is wanting to keep pace with the SEC. This is as good a move IMO, and better academically, but don’t add anymore.
Also, wondering if UCLA has the autonomy to do what it wants since it’s part of the Cal system. Would think the state government folks there might have concerns.
A joke so nice you said it twice!
I don’t think that matters anymore. We kept hearing OU\Osu (okie) we’re a package. It’s survival and $ will win out. With USC/UCLA on island I can’t imagine this is it. Though I could see BIG going east instead and allowing the pac to merge with BIG 12 to save rose bowl.
Also I expect to have the next round of expansion for B1G announced and official by early season. The TV rights is set to expire and the new one would be impacted by who is added. This was leaked. Why? Because the BIG is going after others and wants them willing to talk. The BIG is looking up make statement.
1. Should change the conference name to The Big Infinity.
2. So, does this mean the Rose Bowl will pit the Big Infinity against the PAC less than 12?
2. So, does this mean the Rose Bowl will pit the Big Infinity against the PAC less than 12?
Exactly. Might as well sit back and enjoy it, or not. One way or another, we’ll be bitching about one thing or another, so we should just find the entertaining in the whole sorry situation.
Son1 lives in Echo and is finishing his USC masters in a few months THIS IS AWESOME for State away games SO PUMPED
Agree. Down for trips to both. Frose and I’m letters to order at my tailgate in Pasadena. HMU.
So let's talk pros & cons:
PROS are academics line up, athletic commitments to Olympic sports line up and there would definitely be a huge revenue increase from TV rights.
Positive for recruiting
Positive for B1G baseball & softball as they can play early Spring schedule in SoCal with more favorable weather.
Basketball & Olympic sports like soccer, swimming/diving, volleyball, track, etc can lump multiple games on a east, west or midwest swing for a week @ a time.
CONS are scheduling, predominantly for football would be very challenging with constantly going across these major time zones during the season.
Other Con: I don't think USC & UCLA have ice hockey and wrestling teams.
Additional comments welcome.
WE ARE...PENN STATE!!!
PROS are academics line up, athletic commitments to Olympic sports line up and there would definitely be a huge revenue increase from TV rights.
Positive for recruiting
Positive for B1G baseball & softball as they can play early Spring schedule in SoCal with more favorable weather.
Basketball & Olympic sports like soccer, swimming/diving, volleyball, track, etc can lump multiple games on a east, west or midwest swing for a week @ a time.
CONS are scheduling, predominantly for football would be very challenging with constantly going across these major time zones during the season.
Other Con: I don't think USC & UCLA have ice hockey and wrestling teams.
Additional comments welcome.
WE ARE...PENN STATE!!!
I, the Once-ler, felt sad
as I watched them all go.
BUT…
business is business!
And business must grow
regardless of crummies in tummies, you know.
I meant no harm. I most truly did not.
But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.
I biggered my wagons. I biggered the loads
of the Thneeds I shipped out. I was shipping them forth
to the South! To the East! To the West! To the North!
I went right on biggering… selling more Thneeds.
And I biggered by money, which everyone needs.
To further this exercise in biggering stupidity, let's just keep expanding the conference size ... eventually, we'll have a single 125 team conference, and we'll rename it "The NCAA D1 FCS Conference in NCAA D1 FCS." It'll be awesome! We'll be so biggered!
as I watched them all go.
BUT…
business is business!
And business must grow
regardless of crummies in tummies, you know.
I meant no harm. I most truly did not.
But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.
I biggered my wagons. I biggered the loads
of the Thneeds I shipped out. I was shipping them forth
to the South! To the East! To the West! To the North!
I went right on biggering… selling more Thneeds.
And I biggered by money, which everyone needs.
To further this exercise in biggering stupidity, let's just keep expanding the conference size ... eventually, we'll have a single 125 team conference, and we'll rename it "The NCAA D1 FCS Conference in NCAA D1 FCS." It'll be awesome! We'll be so biggered!
I’d prefer to have the best school in a given state as opposed to taking two teams from a given state. Take USC, Washington, Oregon, and ASU and these teams can schedule OOC games with their in state rivals. Maybe USC and UCLA are a package deal though.
If anything, UCLA and UC-Berkeley (Cal) would be a package deal. Both of them being the two "big dogs" in the UC system.
USC & UCLA have no real formal ties - one of them is, of course, private and the other public.
Let's not forget what got the ball rolling for everything we're seeing today was Penn State joining the Big 10.
They should have let Joe join the Big East when he wanted to. It would not have been as big of a deal. But, they forced his hand to join the Big Ten, and there are at least two programs who got the short end of the stick on that.
So....FU Syracuse and Pitt. FU to hell.
State Government folks will be fine when they see how much money the move will bring to UCLA with the new TV deal coming for the BIG.
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