USC/UCLA to the Big Ten in 2024?
Source: USC and UCLA are planning to leave for the Big Ten as early as 2024. Move *has not been finalized* at the highest levels of power.
— Jon Wilner (@wilnerhotline) June 30, 2022
Looks like we found the winner of the internet today!
Dunno man. Look up Lincoln Riley on Twitter and you'll see there's a lot of competition.
If you really want to see who won the internet today look up Radioshack's twitter...damn
I need to get down there and buy some 555s and an op amp.
Can I get the same reaction shot, but with Bill Walton?
This image works for so many scenarios... perhaps the greatest legacy Beilein left us (and that is saying something).
That's one way to improve the B1G West.
Rutgers and Maryland are going to the MAC. USC and UCLA are the new teams in the B1G East.
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lol well done
Add a few more members for the Big XX
Or all of these: Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Purdue, Indiana, the State, UCLA, and USC, and we'll be the new Big 12!
OR maybe the State migrates to its its "academic" (sic) home, the SEC, and Northwestern joins Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, etc.
In that case, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the . . . wait for it . . . the Big Ten.
If this means we finally get to play in the Rose Bowl again then I'm all in!
USC will be our protected rivalry (sorry Rutger!) and we play them every other year!
I’m ok with that as long as our home games against them are in November.
Holy cow, huge if true.
Yep; and both of those schools are really top notch in academics - nothing like letting Nebraska in.
spiritual bovine, massive if factual
Holy cow: a cow squirting cash money from its teats?
Away game trips going to be awesome!
or home games for a lot of us out here.....
I'm wondering about the impact on the other sports. That's a lot of money and time spent on travel.
Also, do we get at least one Michigan-UCLA softball series a year? Does this raise our profile as a baseball conference?
I have to imagine the AD's know that the extra $$$$ they will make in TV rights thanks to football and basketball will more than make up for the additional travel costs in non-revenue sports.
Those TV negotiations are about to take on a whole new life. Anybody who said they were out are about to run back to the negotiating table.
Does this mean USC will no longer play ND? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! F ND.
I'm laughing with you. But in reality ND will get to keep their cake and continue leeching off ours without really having to join a conference. The universe craves darkness.
i think it's entropy
I think this is going to be easier because America is getting rid of the midwest, from the Mississippi river to Denver, since there's actually nothing there. So it will be a much shorter trip to LA. Goodbye to Iowa and Nebraska, thanks for the corn.
Do you know what corn does? Iowa ain't going nowhere g
This guy Wilner is w Pac 12 hotline and has more than 30K twitter followers. Where there's smoke.....I see USC cheerleaders on the horizon
Man I will be trying to get down to that corner for the USC game. Probably have to pay some fat cash and give up my seats. Those Song Girl outfits are the best.
Go Blue!!!!
These uniforms were always the high point of watching the Rose Bowl when I was a kid.
I think the outfits are the key part of the presentation. IMO there's not a big difference otherwise between theirs and ours.
Nicole Auerbach from the Athletic reporting the same.
SI as well
We love it!
Damn...... Wow.....
A) so much for the alliance
B) Guess they were tired of looking up at Oregon and Utah
... and Washington
Hell in UCLA's case theyre looking up at half the Mountain West too
The Alliance Point was the first thing that came to my mind.
The SEC and B1G are going to be so far separate from the other conferences that there will be more dominos soon, I predict.
FSU, Clemson, Miami, someone else to the SEC.
Duke, UNC, Virginia, Ga Tech to the B1G and it's over for everyone else.
I'm pretty sure Notre Dame and Oregon would get an invite over any of those teams, especially Virginia and Georgia Tech
I have always been in favor of pursuing Georgia Tech. B1G football in Atlanta would be fun to see, and it's not an difficult trip. I know this is about football, and money, but sending student athletes from other sports to LA for mid-week games/events doesn't seem like the best idea.
We should be scheduling home and homes with GT in every sport all the time. Great alumni base in ATL, GT is a great school, and we would acknowledge and rectify the great injustice done to Willis Ward.
A fantastic academic institution, home of 6th largest metropolis and center of a fantastic recruiting hotbed … get GT and ATL in the B1G asap.
UVA can't go anywhere without VT. The state legislature will make sure of that.
Their tune might change if the choice is between letting UVA leave or both becoming mid majors.
As was once said in regards to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
Just like Oklahoma couldn't go anywhere without Ok St until they did.
I don't think those two are comparable. Oklahoma is a blood-red, yeehaw-football state. Virginia is a blueish-purple one. The legislature is made up of people with interests other than football, and the VA legislature already proved once that it will tie UVA and VT together. (They threatened a lot of funding to UVA unless UVA switched its "no" vote to "yes" in favor of VT to the ACC.)
What about Stanford and Cal?
Neither fits in SEC or mid-majors. Hard to imagine UofC Board of Regents negotiating a conference change for UCLA which doesn’t include the flagship Berkeley campus.