Conference expansion winners and losers

[Hector.sixpack]

Winners
SEC...again. With A&M and Missouri, new markets, natural rivalries, bigger recruiting footprint (TX) and much more money. This helps us. The SEC check is a very high % of our budget. This doesn't affect Bama and LSU as much as it affects us in that regard.

Pac12 Stable, smart, well rounded conference. Very top heavy but that's gonna happen from year to year.

Losers
Big12(9,10..whatever they are). TX is still dictating everything. Dysfunctional family that will continue to give everything to TX, who will in lose in the long run because keeping them down, doesn't make you better. Btw- West Virginia!!!! After all this talk about integrity of the conference, academics, our poop doesn't stink....you get WEST VIRGINIA!!! Yeah, thats gonna work out. I can't even come up with a comparison that fits.

BigEast- Will no longer be in existence

ACC Still pending. Sure,they picked up a couple nice basketball schools, but your football programs overall are growing weaker across the board.They'll still be in the BCS, butthey better pick it up. We've got to play somebody in the bowl games.

 

[patdog]

Looking at it in terms of grades, I'd go with:

SEC - A+ - easily the biggest winner in the conference realignment

ACC - B - didn't pick up much for football, but 2 big pickups in basketball. gets them a lot more exposure in the northeast. they may not be finished yet. WVU may have jumped the gun in jumping to the Big 12.

Big10 - B - Nebraska is a big-time football addition.

PAC - 12 -C - 2 decent adds, but neither is a knockout.

Big 12 -D - at least they've held the league together. If you'd told me 2 years ago they'd lose those 4 teams and survive I'd have thought you were crazy.

Big East - I - probably will be an F, but we'll have to wait and see what happens with the CUSA/MWC/Big East teams.

 

[rebelrouseri]

they decide they have to go to a conference. Of course, that shoe is starting to smell like Whoopi Goldberg's sandal. I'm pretty surprised they can't pick it up in football. Stanford seems to be doing fine w/ academic restrictions on athletes.

 

[MaroonedNdaRock]

How the hell can the Big10 get a C for adding Nebraska and us an Afor A&M and Missouri? Because Houston, KC, and St. Louis have more TV sets? ********. More TVs across the nation will be tuned in to watch Nebraska vs Ohio State or Michiganthan.....let's say Alabama orFloridavs Missouri or A&M.

SEC gets a C at best. The additions of those two does nothing really. The SEC could have negotiated a bigger contract anyway based on what the other confernces have negotiated and the fact the national champ will come from the conference yetagain. Also, now the check goes 14 ways instead of 12.

Comparing whatlittle has really changed......the Big10 added a big time football school. So, they get the better mark. AND if the Pac12 eventually adds Texas, OU, and OSU because we f'd around andinvited in abunch of mediocre programs.......they will have kicked our *** too.

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[Incognegro]

No way aTm and Mizzou "does nothing" in terms of revenue and tv sets. Personally, I'd give the SEC, ACC and B10 a B while I'd give the Pac-12 a C+. It should already be pretty well known that aTm has a pretty big fan following, but a lot of people here seem to underestimate Mizzou's fanfare which is pretty decent especially considering KC and St. Louis. Maybe we could haverenegotiatedour contract, but adding 2 new schools gives us more bargaining chips which should should increase the chances of those changes happening down in the future. Theoretically, (from what I've been reading) with these 2 new schools if renegotiation talks do occur, even though the pot will split 14 ways instead of 12, we still gain more than what we would beforehand.

 

[rebelrouseri]

was surpassed by the Big 10, Pac whatever, and even Big 12. However, the deal has a clause that conference realignment means we get to renegotiate the deal. Nebraska might have a bigger following than A&M and I stress might. I would bet that more people watch A&M on any given Saturday. Add to that the Missouri market and we are clearly the winner. The fact is we had to add schools to be able to renegotiate.

I'll bet you any amount of money that Nebraska vs. OSU or Michigan gets its *** kicked in ratings next year by A&M vs. LSU or Bama.

 

[BehrDawg]

He knows what he is talking about here.

 

[patdog]

I gave them a B. Nebraska was a very good addition for the Big 10. But they bring very little to the table other than their football program.Over the last 10 years, Missouri has been almost as good as Nebraska in football plus both Missouri and Texas A&M bring a lot more to the table in basketball and the other sports. As for TV footprint, the Big 10 added a population base of 1.8M. The SEC added a population base of 31.1M. So tell me again how the Big 10 kicked the SEC's ***.

 

[mstateglfr]

I gave them a B. Nebraska was a very good addition for the Big 10. But they bring very little to the table other than their football program.

F that. Nebraska dominates women's volleyball. The big10 makes up about 30% of the top25 and Nebraska is at the top of it all.

Boom.