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Originally posted by Hannibal
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You mean for the regular-season title of the Laurels Division? -
Finally, in a non-expansion note, Bielema was running from Wisconsin as much as he was running toward Arkansas. He was told he should look at other options cause his days at UW might be numbered.
What is the basis (and/or evidence) for the above?Comment
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B10 and SEC are at war, not on the field but for markets to monetize their valuable assets: football. SEC is backed by ESPN, the B10 has Fox/BTN...
B10 and SEC are grabbing up major universities to grab as much market share as possible. These conferences are being run as much by the live TV sports providers as the conference commissioners. In this race for TV viewers & carriage fees, it doesn't help to 'double-up' in the same state; we won't see the B10 add Pitt...
After this is done, the new ACC might resemble the lesser half of the ACC and the Big East circa 2004 while the Big East will resemble the old C-USA.Comment
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B10 and SEC are grabbing up major universities to grab as much market share as possible. These conferences are being run as much by the live TV sports providers as the conference commissioners. In this race for TV viewers & carriage fees, it doesn't help to 'double-up' in the same state; we won't see the B10 add Pitt...
Which is why I'm not sure what the SEC's rationale is for being smaller, if indeed that's the case. Surely there could be one but I just don't know it.Comment
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'Which is why I'm not sure what the SEC's rationale is for being smaller, if indeed that's the case. Surely there could be one but I just don't know it."
Uh..gee. how about the smaller number in the top conference means each team gets a bigger part of the pie, and adding douchebag teams does nothing to enhance the product other than water it down. Business 101 "You don't know Jack, Hack"!
or how about as they stand they are presently the biggest conference as the Big 10 (14) doesn't expand for two more years and the SEC will have the pick of whomever they want because of the ginormous money to be made. Business 201 "You don't know Jack, hack"Comment
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so it shakes out something like
ESPN=SEC
Fox/BTN = B1G
NBC = ND = New York, Boston and New England
and the Texas network = B12
and who cares about the Pac 12 for the games after midnight
Texas is # 1 in profitability and ND is # 2 in profitability. As of now. The game boils down to content, and to making sure that neither Texas or ND have quality opponents, thus cutting the appeal of their networks.
I only see 3 superconferences.Comment
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I can see the Big Ten Four going after Pitt to solidify the base. And to keep the SEC from making an inroad.Comment
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This is a bit like a late night pot/beer induced game of Risk back on Sauer Court in the mid 70s, now that I think about it.Comment
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You got that right. Kazekstan here I come!Comment
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It is. Once you're on a roll, whether you hate the idea or not, the impulse to control more territory takes over...Comment
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Think of all the rubles if we could just lock up University of Irkutsk.Comment
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I got hack and Stan to agree on something. Don't I get an award for this?Comment
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14 is just a stepping stone to 16+, Maryland & Rutgers is just the start...Comment
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Unfortunately for him Stan agrees with me a lot more than he'd like to. He just thinks I'm particularly vulnerable to being wound up, which is true. That said, I'm pretty sure we posted that at the same time. Were I a minute earlier, he might not have agreed.Comment
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