Washington Board of Regents Call Surprise Meeting
Sorry if this was mentioned in the realignment thread below...
I'm sure it is just an Exploratory meeting.
You can say that again
I did. Me double posting....
That GIF always cracks me up. I'd love to know its history and background.
Probably my favorite of all time. So appropriate in so many situations.
IIRC, it's a fake rap battle where the guy in glasses says totally banal stuff and everyone acts like he dropped the sickest verse ever.
The line that led to this amazing reaction..
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I agree with UMVAFAN's list of Oregon, Stanford, Cal, Washington, Fl. State, Clemson and Miami. You have to bring in at least 4 more teams out west so that USC and UCLA have someone to play. Colorado and it looks like ASU are off the table (both large media markets). I would give the nod to everyone on his list but I might switch out Cal because you don't get as much bang out of the Bay area with two schools as you would with one school plus a Texas school (choose one), BYU, Arizona, Kansas, or Ok. State.
On the east I might switch out Clemson and I would give strong consideration to UNC, Duke, Virginia, Ga Tech, Syracuse and Boston College. All of them are great brands or have large media markets. The Big10 has to think about more than sharing revenue. With some of the teams I mentioned, you could totally lock up college basketball and be on TV from January to April almost exclusively. Kids would be more attracted to going to a Big10 school and competing in the best conference in all of college sports. That's what it's about. This is Star Wars and who runs shit for the next century.
It could easily go from 24 to 28 or 32 teams and that would still be good for the conference. The next media deal would be crazy lucrative for everyone because no other conference has a better quality of teams in their product, with eyes from coast to coast and top to bottom. The Big10 has to be thinking about the long term benefits (20, 30, 50 years from now and not just about sharing what's on the table today. It's about the future and insuring your own relevance for the next 100 years.
Haha thanks but I almost wish I hadn't learned the truth—my imagination was more hilarious.
The "surprise" meeting shouldn't be much of a surprise in the aftermath of today's Big Ten story:
Can confirm that the Big Ten presidents have authorized commissioner Tony Petitti to explore expansion, as @PeteThamel first reported. Discussions have centered on just Oregon and Washington.
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) August 3, 2023
More on this in Nicole Auerbach's paywalled article in The Athletic:
Among other provisions that are covered in her article and in Pete Thamal's ESPN piece, the Ducks and the Huskies would initially get only half-shares of the B1G distribution bounty ($35 million or so) instead of the full shares UCLA & USC are immediately receiving in 2024. That still far exceeds what they'd receive yearly in the PAC or Big 12. Also very telling is that the B1G presidents did NOT authorize Commissioner Petitti to include Stanford and/or Cal in the study.
(PS: not posting the ESPN link, it includes a Pete Finebaum video)
I thought the rumor was Pac12 was getting 25-35M/school and the B12 confirmed 35M/school?
August 5th, 2023 at 11:42 AM ^
These are the numbers I've seen over the last few days (prior to the PAC being ransacked yesterday):
Big XII : $31.7 per school (not sure if this is the number prior to or after Colorado joined, but I do recall seeing this figure [or the rounded-off amount "$32 mil"] in various articles.).
PAC: This one is more difficult to pin down. But most guesstimates I've seen have been in the $25 million range. I don't recall seeing anything near $35 and all indications are that it was substantially less than the Big XII payouts.
my stupid comment deleted.
I'm sure it is just an Exploratory meeting.
August 3rd, 2023 at 11:14 PM ^
Horseshit.
This realignment is out of control. Without knowing how the B1G would be organized should it have four west coast colleges, it seems nuts to be scheduling all the sports to be making west coast trips during the school year. What a travel nightmare! It seems difficult enough just getting back and forth to Nebraska and Rutgers for Michigan students. Can't imagine the scenario for Rutgers or Penn State students. I say "Go Blue." Let Washington and Oregon figure out their own future and focus the B1G on the B1G. USC and UCLA are a massive change and need to play out for a while.
hate to break it to you xgojim, but you're going to be very disappointed going forward. the bigten won't stop until they get to 20.
New logo of “XB1GX” or B1G10*2?
The Big XX. That will prove we're superior to the Big XII.
Also, I'm told that "X" is the cool new thing that nobody has ever thought of before in the history of like ever.
If we added enough to get to 30, we could be the BIG XXX, and the halftime videos on the jumbotrons could be very entertaining.
NCAA would love it if it were mostly "amateur".
August 3rd, 2023 at 11:30 PM ^
NIL idea…
BIG XXX sponsored by DXL big and tall clothing
Have forgotten former backup offensive linemen who have gone to seed produce halftime dancing videos wearing DXL XXX clothing.
DXL pays the forgotten former backup offense linemen who have gone to seed real cash money for their efforts.
if Warde Manual were actually paying attention, this would have happened already.
B11G…
B1GGEST
2B1G2Conference
2B1G2 Fail.
Unlike some banks.
From old police/military usage: "What's your 20?"
August 3rd, 2023 at 10:58 PM ^
They should expand to 130 teams, and then change the name to the National Collegiate Athletics Aggregate, and have a bunch of idiots running it. That’ll show the NCAA who’s in charge!
August 3rd, 2023 at 11:30 PM ^
Isn't that already the basic operating plan?
That's the joke.
That’s why the conference should get Texas and Oklahoma instead. Or leave it the fuck alone
Football needs to be its own thing. USC traveling to Rutgers for a volley game is just dumb. You could unbundle but then again the cats already out of the bag.
yeah that would be a logistical nightmare and a financial impossibility.
football can do it as they only play a dozen games and make good money in the process - i dont see any way the emerging national conferences work for smaller, revenue-free sports
Not an impossibility. It's going to happen, soon.
Actually, adding more west coast teams could cut down on travels for the rest of BIG. The west coast teams can play some games among themselves and don’t need to schedule a lot of games with the rest. I can see USC, UCLA, STANFORD, UWASH, UO, UCBERK, NEB, UWISC, and IOWA forming the west division and rest to be in the east division.
Minnesota is definitely more west than Wiscy.
otherwise, I think this is the only plan that makes sense.
Actually adding 2 other west coast teams make it easier. Basketball for example, will for sure play back to back road games during week/weekend and just stay out west. Being just usc/ucla makes schedules harder to align, causing more “going out west just to play 1 game”. Think you see this on several sports. Like baseball, you will have a part of your schedule that is a west coast trip.
So much for wishful thinking. It is done.
If it was a surprise meeting, why would they “call” it? Wouldn’t that ruin the surprise? They should have just told each Regents’ spouse to take them out to dinner then bring them to the meeting after!
Maybe it's like a surprise birthday party where the honoree already knows about it but ACTS surprised.
So when the board gets together, the members will take turns being surprised.
I think it was Barstool Sports that ruined the surprise.
Aren't there rules about boards of regents providing info to the public so they can potentially attend? It's a public school obviously and I assume appointed by popular vote like in MI?
I know some meetings can be closed doors but I don't think clandestine gatherings are koshur?
Sometimes surprises can be dangerous.
If there was ever a sport in America that could do relegation/promotion ala European soccer, it's college football. And with all this realignment, I wonder if that's the best thing to do.
Wrexham to the B10! Book it.
Eh. That 2021 Michigan football season in the second division would have stunk.
Hello Bama, OSu, texas, UM, Clemson, Notre Dame, Tennessee, USC, LSU, Penn St, Georgia, Florida we have an idea for you. Now some of you are going to have rough seasons from time to time and here is our idea..
The realignment IS relegation and promotion. We're watching it in real time. What would you call USC, UCLA, Washington, & Oregon going from the PAC12 to B1G other than promotion? What would you call whatever is going to become of Wazzu and Oregon State other than relegation?
It's promotion and relegation decided by expected TV revenues rather than last season's W-L record (not that those factors are totally unrelated), but that is what's happening.
August 4th, 2023 at 12:26 PM ^
Sort of, but promotion/relegation is by nature a temporary thing. Changing conferences feels a lot more permanent.