College Football 2021: Cash is King

[French Rage]

There are two things I can no longer predict the status of by 2030: what conferences which schools are in, and the per-state abortion laws.

 

[LynahFan]

5

Dallas-Fort Worth

Texas

2,962,520

Texas? Rice?

TCU/SMU would get far more DFW eyeballs than Rice. Or are we still pretending to care about academics?

 

[TalonsUpPuckDown]

Not for anyone who cares about tradition...

Sorry if I don't watch USC and UCLA play now why the hell would I care about them just because they joined our conference? I dont care about Rutgers or Maryland...hell I barely care about Nebraska and Penn State. All of this unnecessary expansion (and the fake Final Four they run for funsies) has diluted what was once an awesome product. Now it is a more annoying version of the NFL.

+1 to everything you say, but I'm already seeing FB posts from high school friends who have migrated to metro-Phoenix talking about going to LA to see the Buckeyes. And they'll watch UCLA/Michigan for the spite.

This feels different than the Maryland/Rutgers add.

 

[dxmnkd316]

5

Dallas-Fort Worth

Texas

2,962,520

Texas? Rice?

TCU/SMU would get far more DFW eyeballs than Rice. Or are we still pretending to care about academics?

It's pretty clear they do still care. Considering Minnesota pulls in 50% more in just research money than the BTN does as a whole.
USC pulls in $941M, and UCLA pulls in $1.4B. These are two Tier 1A research universities that actually increase the average R&D money spent for the entire conference.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

5

Dallas-Fort Worth

Texas

2,962,520

Texas? Rice?

TCU/SMU would get far more DFW eyeballs than Rice. Or are we still pretending to care about academics?

They care way more about research dollars than sports dollars.

 

[St. Clown]

Now that the Big 10-20 has grown yet again, can the Big 6 hockey conference once again be abandoned since it’ll once again be too few schools playing as a proportion of the overall conference? It’s been a while since our last complete realignment of college hockey.

 

[Kepler]

Now that the Big 10-20 has grown yet again, can the Big 6 hockey conference once again be abandoned since it’ll once again be too few schools playing as a proportion of the overall conference?

ECAC hockey has 12 members.

The ECAC has 220 members.

 

[dxmnkd316]

ECAC hockey has 12 members.

The ECAC has 220 members.

I thought it was a Big Ten bylaw.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

I read something that Rutgers is almost as close to Iceland as it is to UCLA.

Closer.

With a very quck check of "measure distance" on Google maps, Rutgers to Iceland is 2,000 miles. Rutgers to LA is 2,400+ miles.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

I thought it was a Big Ten bylaw.

Yes. Which is why it got tiggered when Penn State created a hockey team. A bylaw the ECAC doesn't have, because the ECAC is a grouping of schools under a different definition.

Besides, to Kep's point, the ECAC Hockey League is no longer a part of the ECAC as of 2004. It just uses its name now in a marketing agreement.

 

[Jimjamesak]

I’ll link to the Reddit thread that summarizes this: link

Minnesota reporter talked about USC joining the B1G back in March.

According to his source, Notre Dame is working on a move to B1G.

Washington, Oregon, and Stanford are waiting on Notre Dame.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

I’ll link to the Reddit thread that summarizes this: link

Minnesota reporter talked about USC joining the B1G back in March.

According to his source, Notre Dame is working on a move to B1G.

Washington, Oregon, and Stanford are waiting on Notre Dame.

I remember seeing his videos in March and just thinking “why”? Filming from his car, late night phone calls, being on-watch by the league. It was so off the wall that it almost had to be true, but at the same time no other reporters mentioned it there’s certainly been issues with recruiting site journalists pushing bad stories in the past.

I like that he still isn’t verified and is still doing videos from his car.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I remember seeing his videos in March and just thinking â??whyâ?? Filming from his car, late night phone calls, being on-watch by the league. It was so off the wall that it almost had to be true, but at the same time no other reporters mentioned it thereâ??s certainly been issues with recruiting site journalists pushing bad stories in the past.

I like that he still isnâ??t verified and is still doing videos from his car.

Reading back through the past tweets from that guy tagged with BTM though almost read like a newspaper six months early. It's pretty impressive.

https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3...d_query&f=live


I will say this, I think he was wrong about UCLA. It's a far better fit than USC. Far better.

edit 2: Actually, the further back you go, the more he seems to get wrong... Like, this gem
"The short list of expansion candidates are strictly Big 12 schools if Big Ten explores expansion in next few years.”"

 

[Bronco]

So we are all just going to glance over the fact that the B10 just let in a directional school?

 

[dxmnkd316]

So we are all just going to glance over the fact that the B10 just let in a directional school?

Still nonzero chance they end up with a school with a north in their name.

 

[LynahFan]

They care way more about research dollars than sports dollars.

How, exactly, is UMinn better off if the 15th member of the B10 has professors that get a lot of grants?

Does the athletic conference “tax” those academic grants in some way and then fund other stuff at the conference level?

 

[Kepler]

Still nonzero chance they end up with a school with a north in their name.

 

[dxmnkd316]

How, exactly, is UMinn better off if the 15th member of the B10 has professors that get a lot of grants?

Does the athletic conference “tax” those academic grants in some way and then fund other stuff at the conference level?

Google big ten academic alliance. It's the new CIC. The research sharing between the schools is a big enough deal that it's a barrier to entry for most schools.

 

[LynahFan]

Google big ten academic alliance. It's the new CIC. The research sharing between the schools is a big enough deal that it's a barrier to entry for most schools.

Yeah, I know about that. Still do not get it.

It's not like researchers at Ivy+SEC or Big10+Pac10 or Sunbelt+Oxford don't/can't collaborate. Is a UMich professor *really* more likely to share data and techniques and ideas with a Nebraska professor than, say, a Princeton professor, just because their respective lunkheads toss a pigskin around every so often? In my experience, professors these days collaborate with the best people doing similar/complementary/synergistic research literally anywhere in the world regardless of well, anything. Any result that is remotely interesting (and gazillions that are NOT) is published for all to see anyway, so it's not like the BTAI is hoarding trade secrets or something.

 

[MichVandal]

Yeah, I know about that. Still do not get it.

It's not like researchers at Ivy+SEC or Big10+Pac10 or Sunbelt+Oxford don't/can't collaborate. Is a UMich professor *really* more likely to share data and techniques and ideas with a Nebraska professor than, say, a Princeton professor, just because their respective lunkheads toss a pigskin around every so often? In my experience, professors these days collaborate with the best people doing similar/complementary/synergistic research literally anywhere in the world regardless of well, anything. Any result that is remotely interesting (and gazillions that are NOT) is published for all to see anyway, so it's not like the BTAI is hoarding trade secrets or something.

It does not have to be super close to eclipse the athletic dollars, given the financial scope. But, yea, the alliance is stronger than “non” schools.