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I am personally fine with Washington and Oregon, but it seems like the B10 would have pulled trigger if they were fine with it. I think we need to round out the west too, but if it makes the slice of pie smaller they may not be in any hurry. I don’t see the SEC going after them either. They will be available later. Having teams in the SECs backyard would be great I think. Texas is out of AAU and brand name schools. In order, I would say, Clemson. Miami or FSU. NC. Virginia. GT.

80 million might be enough to let them in, but I doubt Washington brings that much value. B10 might be after others instead. They should try and get in the SEC footprint. The state of Florida.

Right. If the B10 teams are going to get 100M per year after the additions of USC and UCLA, Oregon and Wash will have to add 100M in value each to be invited.

I do not know much about Walker outside of football, but Jessie "The Body" Ventura was Minnesota's Governor. --it happens.

For a second, I thought you were talking sbout Biden.

They are pulling your chain. The M and NU fans I am around only argue about who would have won the split Natty in 97 if they had played. That gets heated. if you want them to shut up, just mention Urbs and Tressel.

I am on Mich boards as well and I see these comments made, but I would say it is not prevalent. I saw similar comments about PSU after Sandusky, but now Mich, MSU and OSU all have their own versions of Sandusky. I also just saw a post about replacing Maryland and Rutgers with Army and Navy. No mention of NU. I would even go so far as to say that some Mich fans were hoping for a rivalry to develop with NU over the split NC, but after killing the Leaders and Legends division it seemed like the B10 wanted OSU and NU to play more often. Yes.... And the Grammer Nazis on their boards are insufferable. they think they should be an Ivy League school.

Saw the same retweet from Michigan 247 beat writer, Zach Shaw. I guess one guy can tweet something and it can go viral. The big10 might be bummed about NC and UVA, but this would push ND, Miami and some PAC12 leftovers our way….maybe Duke or Kansas.

I agree. It certainly seems like they are waiting. We may as well add two of Stanford, Oregon or Washington soon. We may be able to wait a bit on ACC teams.

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/07/03/oregon-health-officials-delayed-a-meeting-because-urgency-is-a-white-supremacy-value/ "Thank you for your interest in attending the community conversation between Regional Health Equity Coalitions (RHECs) and Community Advisory Councils (CACs) to discuss the Community Investment Collaboratives (CICs)," wrote [the Regional Health Equity Coalition Program Manager]. "We recognize that urgency is a white supremacy value that can get in the way of more intentional and thoughtful work, and we want to attend to this dynamic. Therefore, we will reach out at a later date to reschedule."

They were AAU when they joined the big10 and then got voted off the island sometime later. It was a very tight vote and ironically two big 10 institutions voted NU out. Wiscy and Michigan I believe…if you need some pompous a-holes to hate. Plus NU has a much better brand than TCU. ND is not AAU and either is OU, but the big10 would let them both in. Miami is in the same boat.

Maveric is right. Teams want 7 home games for the $$, which means 10 conference games at the most. Play everyone every 3 years and it's not bad.

From Eleven Warriors: The report says Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and Colorado are discussioning joining the league on Tuesday.

Seeing this on OSU and MSU sites. Washington is missing.

AAU is the problem, which leaves only Texas and TAMU. I do not think the other brands left are big enough to overcome the perceived lack of academics. I suppose Texas could back out of their SEC commitment, but I am not sure how that works….and do we want that baggage?

I have a gut feeling Oregon is in and the Big Ten is waiting on ND to decide who their partner(s) will be. If ND decides to join, we probably go to 20 with Oregon, Stanford, Washington and wait to see what happens to the ACC. If ND stays in the ACC we grab Oregon and Washington and call it a day. If ND goes to the SEC the Big Ten grabs Oregon and Washington and then goes after likes of Virginia, NC, GT, Miami. The ACC is probably promising their first born to keep ND right now.

What about 3-8-8 with the protected rivals and 1 non-conference game? With these teams, you won't need many non-conference games. Play one challenge weekend with the other super conference or pick one old traditional rival...Iowa vs Iowa St or ND vs Navy or NU vs CU.

I put the divisions up to poke fun at the Big10. good point on the 4-5-5-5 being equivalent to the pods. I didn't think of that. I like the pods system too, and I can handle playing everyone every 3 years. That's better than it is now. ND would not like my pods though. The ND pod...because they are spoiled. ND, USC, Stanford, Purdue, UCLA (pulled in for USC)

He wouldn't be wrong and I have been accused of worse.

I am seeing ND, Stanford, Oregon and then let Washington join. Oregon and Stanford have remained quiet, correct? Not sure how schedules will play out. Probably protected rivalries or pods. PODS: PAC - USC, UCLA, Stanford, Washington, Oregon West - Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern East - Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers, Purdue, Notre Dame Midwest - Michigan, Michigan State, OSU, Illinois, Indiana ...or protected Games: Mich: OSU, MSU, Minn ND: USC, Stanford, Purdue NU: Wiscy, Iowa, Wash USC: UCLA, ND, PSU OSU: Mich, Illinois, PSU UCLA: USC, MSU, Washington Wiscy: Minn, NU, Oregon Minn: Wiscy, Mich, Iowa Wash: Oregon, NU, UCLA Oregon: Wash, Stanford, Wisconsin Stanford: ND, NW, Oregon Purdue: Indiana, ND, Rutgers Indiana: Purdue, MSU, Maryland Illinois: NW, OSU, Rutgers NW: Illinois, Stanford, Iowa Maryland: PSU, Rutgers, Indiana PSU: Maryland, OSU, USC Rutgers: Maryland, Illinois, Purdue Iowa: NU, Minnesota, NW MSU: Mich, UCLA, Indiana Divions: Old School: Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, MSU, Minnesota, OSU, NW, Wisconsin, Purdue Newbies: NU, PSU, Maryland, Rutgers, ND, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington, Stanford

Right. And that is what Biden was alluding too and what I meant when I said Dems are enjoying this. Enjoying is an over statement because it will cost them, but they see an opportunity to ween people off of fossil fuels with pain at the pump. As Ram Emmanuel said….never waste a good crisis to help get your policies through. Every once and awhile politicians say this out loud. Oil companies are not in business to go out of business it would not surprise me to see them endorse and send money to candidates that help them stay in business. speaking of global warming, aren’t we doing better and better on emissions? Even in the Trump years? The pandemic probably skewed the 2020 data point, but I thought we were making good progress. Now, thanks to Russia, some European counties are firing up old coal plants.

This is sort of like social media and media in general picking sides in the last election to help move it in a direction they wanted.

Too many responses to cover everything…summary…. It sounds like people think oil companies like the Republicans better because Republican policies help the stock price and year end bonus versus the Democrat policies. Sounds reasonable. That means we might agree that Democrat policies do not favor the long term interests/profits of oil and gas companies. I would agree with this. Back to the original post. This is the second time Bezos has blasted Biden on Twitter for his actions and comments on inflation. This time he accused them of either not knowing economics or playing games. He seems concerned, and seems to think there are solutions the administration can implement to help. Maybe someone with Twitter should ask Bezos what those solutions are. Last I heard, Bezos was a Democrat.

Yes. And Russia will be weakened politically, economically and militarily when this is over. Less of threat, less of an adversary. Maybe that will cause a political revolution in Russia that will be to our benefit. The world’s benefit really.

Where did the idea of TCU come from? They are not AAU or ND.