Posted on 06/30/2022 11:52:04 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
Is more realignment coming in college athletics?
USC and UCLA are planning to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News is reporting. According to Wilner, arguably the most plugged-in reporter on the Pac-12, the move could come to fruition as early as 2024 but “has not been finalized at the highest levels of power.”
Minutes after the news from Wilner dropped, several other outlets reported that USC and UCLA are in negotiations to join the Big Ten. Big Ten presidents and athletic directors met Wednesday night to discuss adding USC and UCLA to the league, according to The Athletic. On top of that, Sports Illustrated is reporting that the Big Ten is prepared to announce the news.
The reported move for the two Los Angeles-based universities would come on the heels of Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for the SEC.
It would be the latest shakeup in the world of college athletics, which has been undergoing a massive transformation in the past few years. Texas and Oklahoma will officially join the SEC no later than 2025. The departures of Texas and Oklahoma spurred the Big 12 to add BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF. Those schools will officially become Big 12 members in July 2023.
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If they cannot win the Pac title, how are they going to win the Big 10?
All about $$$&
Too phallic like…
The Big TenT
Once the Pac-8 expanded it was dead to me as far as something worth regional allegiance, unless one was looking forward to it becoming a Pac-6 comprised of Arizona, Oregon, and Washington schools, and expanding to a Pac-7 by adding UNLV.
Go Beavers.
Being a grad of the Univ of Minnesota, my take has been and will continue to be NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I’m a traditionalist in the sense that these conferences should represent geographical segments of our nation. In the Big 10, we have Penal State, Rutgers and Maryland. These ARE NOT midwestern in nature. They don’t belong in the Big 10 - but the focus is on the money - particularly the DC and NYC media markets. I do get it. It’s all about the $$$$.
Though I know they bailed out for the SEC, a school like Missouri would be a better fit than UCLA for the Big 10. So would Iowa State or Kansas.
Oregon and Clemson will remain less relevant than Notre Dame, and the Pac-10 and the ACC will have to work hard to ensure the power five doesn’t become a power 3 or a power 2.
If you are not in the Big 10 or SEC, you are minor league.
In a four team playoff, pick the SEC west champion and any three of:
Clemson, Notre Dame, Oregon, SEC east champion, the Big 10 Champ and runner up, and the champ of whatever is left of the Big 12, the best of the next 5 leagues (including, at this level, the Pac-10 and the ACC if Oregon or Clemson didn’t win), and the runner up in the SEC west, and Alabama and Georgia if they aren’t already covered by the above
Division I will be down to 50 schools, with many giving up football since it costs too much to run.
I’m sure the players at Southern Cal or UCLA will be looking forward to those mid-November games in Iowa City or East Lansing.
It’s official. The world has come to an end.
It is time for the University of Chicago to go back into the Big 10 and really shake things up.
Yeah, they should talk to Nebraska about joining the B1G. Didn’t quite work out.
Big 10 TV just added the second-largest market in the country to its viewing audience. $$$$
It’s not about being a powerhouse, it’s about TV markets, the SEC over the years has added South Carolina, Missouri, Texas A&M, and Arkansas now Oklahoma and Texas.
The next SEC television deal is estimated to bring in 75-100 million per year per team, the Big 10 the same thing, other conferences were slow to act and will be irrelevant if they don’t change course quickly
Indeed
This NIL crap is the last straw for me, I’m done.
The ideal number would be 64, with divisions and conference championship games being considered playoff games you and advance or go home
That presumes that any of those viewers will care two shakes about a midwestern match up
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