UM Regents Discussed Leaving the Big Ten

Good. Would expect no less. We don’t need to be sharing revenue with Iowa, Rutgers and a whole lot of other schools.

and...?

Bet!

Glad to see they are discussing it because its one thing when we throw it around on a message board, but quite another thing when school regents say it.

well stop discussing and actively start the legal process 

Honestly....the multi-team collusion against M, the bullshit cheeseburger suspensions, and this....not to mention various other bullshit.....the weakest and most tepid, spineless reaction last year after the tunnel assault.... other stuff going back....decades?

Does it really make sense to stay in the B0G? 

If we start the process of moving to the ACC...I know the immediate $$ doesn't look as rosy, but add ND full on, Stanford....I guess Cal if you have to, but the TV rights for those first seasons would be astronomically valuable. We would easily get a larger payout share at/close to what we get in our equal share arrangement from the The Big Zero where we carry so many deadweight teams that, let's face it....are freeloaders and seasonal fodder and never going to amount to anything but an anchor in terms of revenue. Remind me again why we share equally?

Fuck them.

Hockey would be welcome with open arms anywhere.

I'll bet you can get Fox Sports to cover the revenue difference for the initial few seasons while they sue for a reduction in their B1G $$ because of our departure. They can pay us with what they get back in court.

Michigan/OSU have always been the brand and the draw, slightly different with the 4 west coast schools now, but M leaving still hugely diminishes the conference overall.

FIne, I'll join in...BET!

Telling ESPN before telling us by a half hour was a nice touch.

I really just want to cry… my favorite sports team, the University (where my sister, brother in law his two brothers their dad, my grandfather who had season tickets for 30 years before I took them over then didn’t renew them during the Hoke years) I love. I would never have thought would be in this predicament, on the verge of the greatest season since 97 would be treated so unfair due to media. 
 

I hope this just pisses off Harbaugh I hope he signs a new contract and comes back with vengeance. I hope that Michigan wins the Big Ten title game and this asshat has to hand Jim the trophy..

They leaked to Thamel before notifying UofM? #ClownShow

Please be true.  We need to leave as soon as practicable. 

Leave this conference NOW

Michigan to ACC or Independence whichever is more lucrative.

Wow. Everything is going against my internal predictions. All of it. 

I didn't think Ono would publicly support Harbaugh... boy was I wrong there. Happily. 

Didn't think there was any chance Petitti would actually try to suspend Harbaugh... he did. 

Didn't think we'd seriously consider, or even discuss leaving the B1G... they are. 

So I have no fucking idea what's going on, or likely to happen from here. This is just wild. 

Over what??

Canceled my ESPN subscription. GOD THAT FELT GOOD.  NOW let's Cnx the B10 conference 

Do it !

When UM wins the Big Ten title, the players and coaches should just leave the field and send the lowest level Grad Assistant to accept the Big Trophy from Petitti.

LET'S FUCKING GOOO be indepedent or something besides this cunty conference

That’s crazy.

I have been a Michigan fan for 20+ years. In that time, I also earned a degree from another Big Ten university, which is one of the little 12. I am a dear fan of that university.

If my other Alma Mater is backing a scheme to screw over a Big Ten brethren, I am ashamed. Absolutely ashamed. In that case, they deserve the revenue loss of the premiere conference program saying goodbye.

ESPN getting word before Michigan is a very, very big insult.

The threat has to have teeth. This is unprecedented and absurd by a feckless commissioner with, what, TV executive experience?

The nuclear option must absolutely be on the table.

Might as well leave the entire NCAA.  Find some financial backing to start a new league (how about the American Football League?) that leverages the university's brands and professionalizes the players. Hire a well respected commissioner (David Silver anyone?), negotiate a new TV contact, and challenge the champion of the teams that remain in the NCAA to play the champion of the new league.  Nah - that's too far-fetched… Nothing like that could ever happen.

And maybe there's a way to avoid breaking whatever existing agreements there are with the Big Ten the NCAA and the existing TV networks - is there anything that prevents Michigan from fielding two football teams? one would be a shell of the existing team that remains in the NCAA and is in effect the Washington generals, and the other one is the real team with the players we've been rooting for.