They are coast to coast they have the East west and central time zones. The SEC has the south and a piece of the southwest.
You really think the Big Ten Network doesn't do a good job? Wow, you are really a tough critic. They do an outstanding job. Especially with basketball and football.
Texas trumps USC, sorry. Football is King in Texas and UT is the King of all of Texas. Yes, USC is big in SoCal, lived there for many years, but there is so much there to do that college football does not dominate like in Texas. UCLA football is an afterthought in SoCal unless they are undefeated. Oklahoma is a much bigger national football presence than UCLA.
In NJ there may be more fans of Kean U football than the Finebaum Show.
With UCLA and USC the BIG gets two storied programs and picks up a new market. The second largest market in the country. Along with another time zone to broadcast in. This will add millions to the broadcast rights. .They also bring a rich tradition and history in all their Olympic sports too. Probably the richest in the country. To go along with their AAU status.
Texas used to be the undisputed king in the state but they ceded that title with years of missteps. It allowed other programs to rise up as the best in the state didn’t automatically commit to UT anymore. So being king still is a notch or two below the hollowed ground they previously inhabited.
I thought more understood this.
Texas endowment $42 billion, USC endowment 8.1 billion. Yes, we pick up the SoCal market, but if we had added Texas we would have picked up the entire state of Texas market. Texas is a growing state, people of wealth are leaving SoCal in droves. UCLA is irrelevant in the discussion, it is like adding Purdue when you already have Indiana. Yes, UCLA basketball was big at one point, but I would ask you to take a look at the actual fans in the seats at Pauley this year when UCLA is very good, shocking. They might sell out the U of A game, but that is because the U of A travels exceptionally well. UCLA is redundant for the SoCal market, it is not a national brand in football, and football is King. Oklahoma is a national football brand.
I’d love to know what happened to him at Tennessee that caused him to go that way.
Agree to disagree.End of the day the BIG can expand west, wait for ACC schools or hold at 16. BIG is all AAU schools ( except Nebraska)
Don't disagree B1G has way more potential, my only comment was that to be a true "National" conference you have to have representative programs in the heartland of college football, which is the South.
Landing in Tuscaloosa is definitely big time ...and then you realize your in $hithole Alabama.
Pot meet kettle.
Literally no one gives a
about the guy. This is nothing more than a look at me thread that RutgersAl does. It’s just pre-k level.
Meanwhile the B1G Network competes with a one hour Minnesota vs.Purdue football replay. The B1G Network is embarrassing.
WRONG…Texas is one of many popular teams in here in texas. A&M is just as popular, wealthy and has a bigger and faster growing alumni base…period. Heck baylor, TCU, Arkansas, LSU, Tech, and OU are huge in this state…the uninformed view that Texas is the only and dominant game in town is just that UNINFORMED. it’s like saying that RU has no following in NY because it is all PSU and ND…just as uninformed.
Texas A&M really? Yes, Texas A&M is one of the country's biggest diploma factories, agreed. Texas A&M, University of Phoenix, Strayer University, all one in the same. UT is the flagship university of Texas and one of the great American research institutions.
Your complete understanding of that institution is laughable and shows what an uninformed buffoon you are. More research dollars at A&M than UT Md Anderson or UT…oh and Rutgers, while we are at it…A&M is on par with Texas and it’s network is unmatched in this state. You clearly have no ******* clue what your are spewing. Of course Texas is a top research institution, but your assertion that A&M is just a diploma mill when Texas is almost as big, makes you look Kamala-level stupid.
Exactly. Finebaum is a moron who has no clue about Rutgers and our market. Of course, we've struggled for nearly 10 years, but anyone with half a brain knows that a good RU team that goes to bowls most years delivers this market and a 2006 kind of team becomes a national story even bigger than in 2006.
When I think of Texas A&M, to be honest, I picture endless miles of cows farting causing global warming and a bunch of rednecks in pickup trucks harassing women and minorities, but wow, now you are telling me it is a legitimate university on the par with the world renowned pillar of educational excellence, the great University of Texas, that is hard for me to believe, but I will take your word for it for now anyway.
That's all a great plan. Now if we could just win...why haven't we thought of that before?!?!?
