Big 10 expanding?

[Toga]

Wut?

 

[Eric15]

If we were given the opportunity, I would jump over to the Big Ten in a second.

 

[Ttk.gman2]

What are you talking about?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

UMass to the Big 10. Imminent.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Maryland AD running his mouth...

Paywalled:

 

[Chip]

A conference of 18 wants to go to 20 in 5 years?

Zzzzzz

(I hope we're not asleep when approached).

 

[Ttk.gman2]

Hopefully we can join the big 10 and they drop Rutgers and northwestern

 

[OrangePA]

Wut?

Wait until a private equity fund takes a stake in the Big Ten. It's coming. And, it's a shame what is happening to college athletics.

 

[upperdeck]

Private Equity would take it over and decide that the best way to make money is to be a 2-team league and have OSU/Mich play 12 times.

 

[SU91]

Hopefully we can join the big 10 and they drop Rutgers and northwestern

I consistently hear this about Northwestern on this board but Northwestern has been better than SU in football over the past 20 years and let’s not discuss its institutional standing.

 

[qdawgg]

Private Equity would take it over and decide that the best way to make money is to be a 2-team league and have OSU/Mich play 12 times.

That’s actually as close to the truth as anything. Then have them play a 10 round playoff against each other.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Maybe they want to grab UNC and UVA before UNC commits to the SEC, which has been rumored. Isn't 2030 the year the ACC media rights buyout goes down enough that schools can afford to move?

 

[SU in Hershey]

That’s actually as close to the truth as anything. Then have them play a 10 round playoff against each other.

Make it like the World Series; best of seven (or nine).

 

[SU94]

Maryland AD running his mouth...

Paywalled:

I have not read the article. But if B1G get all imperialistic, which they've done the last 15 years...

• (If not a sturdy ACC), SU alums/fans should root like hell for UNC and UVa to the SEC (they will be B1G targets).
  • Let's keep winning and attending games. Faith in Fran "saving" SU and college ball in the Northeast!
• Unfortunately, B1G would have to expand to 24 for us to even be in a conversation. It is illogical for a headliner school from NY State school to be excluded, but it could happen.
• Clemson, Cal & Stanford always in play for B1G.
• Others are the periphery (beyond UNC/UVa, along with SU): Colorado, Utah, one Arizona school (ASU mostly likely), Virginia Tech, Kansas, Georgia Tech, Miami, Florida State.
• And of course, Notre Dame could be admitted by lunch today if they wanted.

 

[SU in Hershey]

If this trend, or whatever you want to call it, continues, then all the more important that SU returns to relevance with HCFB. Otherwise, I fear we will fade to no more than an afterthought…and a, “Remember when…”

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Maybe they want to grab UNC and UVA before UNC commits to the SEC, which has been rumored. Isn't 2030 the year the ACC media rights buyout goes down enough that schools can afford to move?

I think it was 2028, so announce 2026.

Edit

Here is a breakdown

So if a school announces before the 2026 season that they are leaving after the 2027 season, they have roughly the last two years of their ACC payouts withheld. Not much of a cost for a school that can get a P2 offer. So 2028 might not have all of the current ACC teams still around.

A year later would cost roughly 3/4 of a payout and a full payout. So no real difference waiting a year.

Two years later would cost roughly 1/2 of a payout and a full payout withheld. Still not significant to wait till then.

Leaving for the 2035 season would be dumb. Either wait a year and leave for free, or leave a year earlier for the same price.

So we could see a team leave after the 2027-28 season. Could another so-so BBall season by UNC make them open to leave? Could the B1G offer Miami looking to start a chain reaction?

 

[HRE Otto IV]

If they are adding just 2 teams now then SU won’t be on the radar. Heck even if they were adding 6 teams now we probably don’t make the cut.

 

[FloridaCuse]

From a month ago: Kansas & Iowa St.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

From a month ago: Kansas & Iowa St.

Is that a parody? I think KU has a chance but is not a priority.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Is that a parody? I think KU has a chance but is not a priority.

Yeah, looks like it. In the meantime some FSU posts on X saying it's them. Maybe wishful thinking.

 

[CuseCactus]

It would be great to be in the B10. Similar geography and culture. And many more games I’d enjoy than we have in the ACC - Penn St., Rutgers, MD. Gamedays in Madison, the Big House.

Less South. More Midwest/North of the Mason Dixon. It would elevate SU both athletically and academically.

It’s a prayer that this will happen. But maybe a new, dynamic Chancellor can pull it off?

 

[orangefog]

It would be great to be in the B10. Similar geography and culture. And many more games I’d enjoy than we have in the ACC - Penn St., Rutgers, MD. Gamedays in Madison, the Big House.

Less South. More Midwest/North of the Mason Dixon. It would elevate SU both athletically and academically.

It’s a prayer that this will happen. But maybe a new, dynamic Chancellor can pull it off?

You wouldn't miss Bojangles commercials?

 

[SU94]

Is that a parody? I think KU has a chance but is not a priority.

It won't be Iowa State. Redundancy is not good for the financials.

 

[NJneer12]

I've been running an AI with this for the last month or so: and this is their Scenario (Gemini AI):

SEC will get to 20 first and add 4 teams. Clemson, UNC, FSU, Miami.
B1G will go to 20 and add Duke and UVA.

If they expand beyond this:

B1G adds 2 more in Utah and Stanford. (22)
SEC adds 4 again and get GT, Louisville, Arizona, and Kansas. (24)
B1G adds 2 final teams in Pitt and Cuse (24).

This creates a comprehensive 2 tier league that spreads across all major states and population centers.

Do I think this happens? No

 

[KaiserUEO]

Emerging candidates are Iowa State for the Des Moines/Ankeny Media Market and Kansas, for the Kansas City/Lawrence Media Market.

That is hysterical.

More people lived in my building on 1st & 72nd than do in those ‘markets’.