nic
-
Posts
3,703 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
2
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Articles
Media Demo
Posts posted by nic
-
-
I thought this was an interesting piece about Texas. It might be relevant to the rumors.
http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/texass-deloss-dodds-grapples-with-losing-legacy.php
-
1
-
-
Dodd also re-opened the exapnsion talk after attending the Big Ten media days and writing the quote below. He might be full of crap.
http://www.cbssports...ason-media-days
'Big Ten expansion: It isn't done. That's about all I can say. Hint: The conference will begin negotiating on a new TV deal next year. The current contract expires in 2016. Definitely stay tuned.'
Joe Schad @schadjoe
Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione on Sirius XM College: I don't believe realignment is over.
12:31pm · 7 Aug 13 · Twitter for iPhone
Seems like something is going on. Here is the entire quote.
'I know it may not be popular for me to say it. I don't believe that realignment is over. I don't have any evidence to prove my point. It's just a gut feeling.'
I got it from here. http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlyblog.aspx?articleid=21676&PrintComments=1
He says a lot of positive things about the Big 12 in this too. Could mean the Big 12 is looking to expand. Maybe the writing is on the wall with regard to 4 super conferences in this new upper division that will probably be formed with or without the NCAA. I hope not. More than 16 teams is too many. Seems like 5 conferences would be better.
-
Dodd also re-opened the exapnsion talk after attending the Big Ten media days and writing the quote below. He might be full of crap.
http://www.cbssports...ason-media-days
'Big Ten expansion: It isn't done. That's about all I can say. Hint: The conference will begin negotiating on a new TV deal next year. The current contract expires in 2016. Definitely stay tuned.'
-
And I fail to see how its shocking when media,who pay attention to " mighty have fallen stories" more than "feel good" stories anyway, give more attention to the all time winningest school with the largest living alumni base in the world over Iowa. Once again. Media smut that's irrelevant to reality. Iowa has a BCS win in the past 10 years. ann arbor does not.
Didn't Michigan beat VT in a BCS bowl just 2 years ago? Anyway, I have to defend PSU too. I have been to two games at Beaver Stadium (Iowa,USC).
I thought the fans and atmoshere were great. Just my experience, don't need to see any videos of idiots or anything.
As for ND Joe, he mentioned to me once that he joined this forum to warn NU against joining the Big10, so he has been here awhile beating the same drum. Best to just ignore him when he brings it up.
-
Not to beat the dead horse, but you knew this was coming when you joined this conference. The culture is centered around the medium 2, and you don't play regular games in Texas or Florida.
You beat this horse to death along time ago. And Michigan hasn't been in the top two in years. I don't' believe it, but if the UT OU chatter is true, that will be 6 marquee programs.
-
1
-
-
Personally, I would love to go to 16 and use the pod system. We play each other more that way. I would like VIrginia and OU. Screw Texas.
-
So that would probably make it
East:
Ohio St.
Michigan
Michigan St.
Penn St.
Purdue
Rutgers
Maryland
Indiana
West:
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Perhaps unbalanced to the West in that scenario but that would make things interesting.
It would probably be 4 team pods versus 2 divs. NU, OU, Texas and Iowa in the west pod maybe.
I posted something from Dennis Dood on the older expansion topic ....maybe this is it. Heard a possibility of OU and Texas.
Also read UVA, Kansas, and/or MIssouri, but who knows.
..............................
Well this started a buzz again....
http://www.cbssports...ason-media-days
'Big Ten expansion: It isn't done. That's about all I can say. Hint: The conference will begin negotiating on a new TV deal next year. The current contract expires in 2016. Definitely stay tuned.'
Is Dodd credible? Hope this doesn't mean Uconn and Missouri.
-
Well this started a buzz again....
'Big Ten expansion: It isn't done. That's about all I can say. Hint: The conference will begin negotiating on a new TV deal next year. The current contract expires in 2016. Definitely stay tuned.'
Is Dodd credible? Hope this doesn't mean Uconn and Missouri.
-
Bummer for me. Loved the Michigan vs. NU games. Great games great fans.
-
"$195 (Notre Dame) per seat. Michigan-Ohio State is estimated at $175 per seat at this point."
Well lookie here. I bet now Brandon can imagine a world where he has to play Nebraska, anOSU, and ND just fine. Too bad it will stay in his dreams.
The last game under the lights at the Big House was spectacular
and this will be the last one for a long time.
Not surprising this is selling out first. Too bad the series is no more.
-
Not many Michigan fan posts in this thread....plenty from NU and OSU fans. I think Michigan Man just tossed the greneade and left.
Entertaining indeed.
-
Bought and paid for.
No I meant Pryor....not his ring :-)
-
Bought and paid for.
-
-
I read somewhere that Michigan and Wisconsin are the top B1G schools in terms of research dollars, and JHU doubles their $$ amount. That doesn't make JHU better or not want to be part of the CIC. They just get more more research $$ than anyone else. This may give people a false impression that they are #1, but its only one measure.
I thought I read that JHU membership is for 5 years at which time they can get out if they wish. I suspect CIC membership would only happen after they commit for good.
-
The bigger deal whether JH joins the CIC....big research bucks.
-
People sure are hyper sensitive these days. He was just trying to joke around. Sometimes jokes bomb or aren't taken well...shouldn't be a big deal.
I retract my statement. Now he's an idiot. They released more audio....
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/77718/audio-reveals-more-gee-controversy
-
People sure are hyper sensitive these days. He was just trying to joke around. Sometimes jokes bomb or aren't taken well...shouldn't be a big deal.
-
Did you see who Rutgers drew? OSU, Mich, MSU, PSU, NU and Wiscy. Ouch. Check out this article from sbnation.
I think the author forgot that NU was in the western division or maybe he forgot they are even in the Big Ten.
"With the new East-West divisions in the B1G, each team plays every division team, plus two cross overs from the other division.
Who did Maryland draw in 2014? Iowa (home) and at Wisconsin, arguably the two best programs in the Western division."
-
OUCH !!!!!!!
Not really. Finding room for two patsies a year to have more home games is pretty common place
among the conference affiliated teams. Everyone wants 6 mil from home games. Pay the patsies1 mil and pocket 5.
Hopefully the Big 10 keeps its word about not playing FCS anymore.
Not sure when that will start....I guess 2016.
As Hoke just said, one of the great things about Michigan is playing ND, OSU and MSU. Only two left now for a long time (2020 maybe).
I think Michigan is bummed about losing the ND series. Arkansas, Oregon St, VT, Utah, Colorado, BYU, Cincy, Uconn...
they just don't carry the same excitement. I for one am bummed about not being able to look forward to an ND match up early in the season.
Maybe in a bowl game.
-
They had already scheduled two hiatus in little over a decade, effectively ending it as a regular game. Michigan had been making a lot of statements, officially or through their surrogates, that the ND series was going to come to an end. My favorite being
I have to have seven home games a year. If you think about a nine-game Big Ten schedule, there will be one year I have four home games and one year I have five. In the year that I have four, I have to play every one of my non-conference games at home, so I can't be in a world where I have four Big Ten home games and I'm supposed to play Notre Dame (in South Bend). I can't live in that world. Those are the kinds of issues I have to deal with.
http://collegefootba...gan-rivalry.htm
They knew they couldn't live in a world with the 9 game conference schedule that Michigan/OSU had to approve of.
.......
And they credit for all 3 of those wins. When dealing with Blue tinted statistics, remember to ask about the record since a TD was worth 6 points (1910). In this case the series remains 15-15-1.
This is funny. The stats are from Wiki, but feel free to spin it however you like. And last I heard Swarbrick gave Brandon the 'dear john' letter just before the kick-off of last years game....not the other way around. I doubt ND quit because Michigan wants 7 homes for the money and they wanted to help. Instead of ND, Michigan went out and scheduled home and home with Arkansas and VT. They would have kept the home and home with ND, if ND was willing. Personally I like ND-Mich better than either of those series, and would have liked to see Michigan replace ND with someone like USC, UCLA, Stanford, Alabama, maybe Texas or even OU, but oh well.
ND quit the series because they sold out to the ACC for 5 games and had to dump to someone. Even though the MSU and Purdue series have more history, people are more interested in watching ND-Mich. Not sure ND-MSU really means much nor does ND-Purdue outside of Indiana.
-
MSU > UM lately.
Michigan had already cancelled the 2017 game and said repeatedly that the series had to end. We just set a date.
Everyone beat Michigan during the Rich Rod years...oh wait....except ND. OK they won one against a 3-9 team.
Series record: Michigan 23-16-1.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick informed Brandon in September that Notre Dame would exercise a three-year out clause in the schools' contract, meaning the teams would stop playing annually after the 2014 game in South Bend, Ind. Michigan and Notre Dame had extended their contract through the 2031 meeting but on a three-year rolling basis, which gave one side a chance to back out.
Would ND be playing football if it weren't for Michigan?
1887: Michigan teaches the game to Notre Dame
The first game in the Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry occurred in November 1887. Michigan had been playing football since 1879. Two players on Michigan's 1887 team, George Winthrop DeHaven, Jr. and William Warren Harless, had previously attended Notre Dame. In October 1887, DeHaven wrote to Brother Paul, who ran Notre Dame's intramural athletics program, telling him about the new game of football. Michigan had planned a game in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, and the three men, DeHaven, Harless and Brother Paul, persuaded their respective schools to play a football match on the Notre Dame campus on the day before Thanksgiving.[5]
After Michigan's visit to South Bend in November 1887, football became a popular game on the Notre Dame campus. A football association was formed with Brother Paul as the president. In the spring of 1888, Brother Paul challenged Michigan to return to South Bend. Two games were scheduled for a weekend in April 1888. Michigan won the first game by a score of 26 to 6 and the second 10-4.
-
Forbes article from Jan 29th. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/pete_thamel/11/19/maryland-big-ten-money/index.html
1. Big Ten ($310 Million)
2. Pac 12 ($303 Million)
3. ACC ($293 Million)
4. SEC ($270 Million)
5. Big 12 ($262 Million)
6. Big East ($94 Million)
7. C-USA ($26.5 Million)
8. MAC ($22 Million)
9. MWC ($21.5 Million)
10. WAC ($10 Million)
I think TCU and WV dont get full shares, but basically the Big12 is 26.2 million per team. Big Ten is 25.8 million per team (NU doesn't get a full share)
The projected jump is up to 43 million per team in 2017 for the Big 10 (even with 14 teams, 602 million total).
-
It is interesting that with the new scheduling they chose to have the East get the 5 home games first. I heard that messed up Purdue and Sparty ND series with regard to getting in 7 home games. It wouldnt have if they had the West go first. I am sure there were lots of other issues beside the ND series, but it sure is gonna be a pain for MSU and Purdue. Let the conspiracy theories start. I am surprised Michigan has so much power, after all, they did get kicked out of the Big Ten for awhile....amost a century ago.
expansion news
in The Big Ten
Posted
Its fun to read about longhorn misery.