AAU Schools Left to Poach
AAU schools left that aren't in BIG or SEC with okay/good athletic tradition:
Duke, GA Tech, Stanford, 'Zona, Cal, Colorado, Kansas, UNC, Oregon, Pitt, Utah, Virginia, and Washington
To get to 20 school super conference focused on TV markets: Cal, Stanford, Colorado, GA Tech
To get to 24, add four more: UNC, Oregon, Washington, Virginia
Good luck to the rest, hope the SEC will pick up the phone!
I can see Arizona before GA Tech, but yeah, this is about how this will go. West Coast has the best/most vulnerable options.
Does Arizona have the Phoenix market?
Otherwise, why?
Let's un-ass Penn State, Rutger and Maryland and pick from your list to get to 20. For those saying get rid of Nebraska, I say, let them stay. It's great how he disappoints his mom every year.
Despite some folks here's desires, there is a 0.00000% chance of any current B1G school being "un-assed."
Outstanding, Red Team, outstanding! Get you a case of beer for that one.
Don’t they teach grammar at PSU
Nittany is 100%. There is no way NW, Iowa, Maryland, Rutgers, Purdue, IL, let ANYONE get kicked lest they be kicked. There will be solidarity at the bottom. Suggesting otherwise means you are a dumbass who doesn’t understand shit.
mich is Su., wtf are you doing?
It seems like it's bound to be 20, one way or another.
And the most obvious path there seems like it would be:
- UC-Berkeley as 17, because of their UC system connection to UCLA.
- Stanford as 18, because of their connection to UC-Berkeley.
- 19/20 would be either "Colorado/Kansas" or "Oregon/Washington."
The Midwest schools would prefer the CU/KU package. The Golden State schools would prefer Oregon/Washington.
If we then go even further to 24:
- 21/22 are "Virginia/UNC."
- 23/24 are whatever package of "CU/KU" and "Oregon/Washington" wasn't part of 20.
Just saw this FWIW, no idea who this is though
Either way I doubt Kansas is a big target
Basketball isn’t worth enough $$ to let Kansas in, frankly.
I like the Cal/Stanford/Oregon/Washington package.
Gives USC/UCLA a legit division to play in with less traveling, the schools are all solid academicly and would bring solid sports across the athletic spectrum.
This makes much more sense to me than Colorado/Kansas.
I also wouldn't want to be the first league to try and mess with the ACC grant of rights. I'm sure it won't stand until 2036, but it is going to be a major hassle to get whatever school out of that.
That would be my preference as well, they are the cream of the crop of what's left in the Pac12. If raiding ACC schools becomes an option then either it changes this equation or go to 24 teams.
At least if the conference gets to 20, the name takes care of itself.
Just add an “s” and call it the Big Tens.
The B1G also looks at television revenue. What does adding both Cal and Stanford financially bring to the B1G?
You take one and then look at Washington/Arizona/Oregon for the other.
Not one person gives a shit about Kansas.
Stanford, uva, UNC, Duke
no standford without Cal
roll on you bears
F*** Duke. Much rather have UVA.
All I hope is that ND gets completely left out of this reorg. I hope they have to play MAC schools to finish their schedule.
BTAA ($BILLIONS$) > NCAA ($MILLIONS$)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Academic_Alliance
Everyone SLOW down.
I don’t think any of the universities listed are slouches in term of academics, research grants, etc.
B1G Billion$ sounds like the perfect new league name.
Here you go. Embedded for easy reading.
I mean obviously you go for the big pac12 schools: Oregon, UW, Stanford, maybe Colorado or Arizona. Why wouldn’t they join? They have no other choice
Stanford-Cal. Biggest metro area not already in B1G. Best academics.
Next four in should be Stanford, Cal, UW, and either UNC or UVa.
Oregon, Utah, Washington, Cal, Stanford
GT, UVA, UNC and Duke says the ghost of Jim Delany
I would love GT and UVA (and sure Carolina and Duke for basketball and non revenue sports).
Grant of rights (expires 2036) could be an issue, unless multiple teams leaving results in a contract renegotiation.
I say give Texas a call to pitch them on joining the real money conference/getting way more $$ than Oklahoma. This is America and they are Texas, 50% it works.
Ideally the Power 2 has WWE/WCW vibes so the more hijinks they can pull now the better the show will be.
Fuck Texas. No rednecks.
Now I see where we're headed: the Blue Conference and the Gray Conference.
Kansas couldn't decide, so they have to play as an independent.
Notre Dame, Stanford, Cal, Oregon.
To hell with Notre Dame. Give me Oregon, Washington, Stanford, Cal. The West Coast teams can be in a scheduling pod, playing home and away for basketball and playing every year in football, so you limit west coast trips for weeknight basketball games, and you keep protected rivalries for both current and new members.
the home/away basketball plan would necessitate either a larger conference schedule (fine, since we have a larger conference) or not playing everyone. I’d prefer the latter; the six west coast teams play each other home and away, then host five “eastern” teams and make five eastern trips, and miss the remaining four.
The eastern teams would have to play two western road games each (two teams would play three) and host the same amount, leaving 15-16 games to spread among their 13 eastern brethren. So you get 2-3 home/away games against nearby teams, only make two long trips (hopefully one is on a weekend, or you can schedule them on the same trip, like a Thursday and then Sat or Sun), and still play the rest of the “old” B1G. The Eastern teams would also only miss 1-2 west coast teams.
F*** ND.
Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, let's go.
I've wanted UNC, UVA, Duke and GA Tech for a long time. But I'm still thinking that we end up with Pitt and VA Tech.
Now that I think about it, Pitt's addition would really piss off Penn St. So we'd have that going for us.
We just took two teams from LA and folks are still trying to make things make geographical and competitive sense?
What value does Duke add from a TV perspective?
This is about FB. Rutgers makes more sense than Duke from that perspective (and Maryland).
UNC next.
I don’t think acc teams are currently poachable due to contractual reasons. The additions will all be from the West.
My preference in order would be Stanford, UNC, Oregon, UVA.
I've always thought the B1G should have targeted Georgia Tech before Maryland - even more fertile recruiting area, airline hub making for ease of transportation, greater expansion of the TV/marketing region, and invading the middle of SEC territory.
I agree with f*ck Notre Dame, but this will push them to the B1G with USC and ACC now pretty much meaningless, especially if FSU, Clemson, and Miami join the SEC. The remaining 3 would then be 3 of UNC, Washington, Oregon, Standford, and maybe Cal.
Whatever happens, leave ND out.
Fuck ‘em. Leave ‘em out in the cold and on the outside looking in every single year.
They would just join another mega conference. They aren't getting left out in the cold, lol.
Notre Dame, Oregon, Washington, Stanford.
That's the move.
Your Pac-5 teams create a pod.
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois is a pod.
Michigan, MSU, ND, NW, Purdue is a pod.
PSU, Maryland, Rutgers, OSU, IU is a pod.