Next round of Big Ten expansion on the way?

[Street Novelist]

He is saying 20 team B1G by 2030... That is ironically when the buyout drops to 75 million. The ACC knows it's done but it was able to delay the inevitable for a few years.

That makes more sense. I believe the buyout is $160-170 million right now. What's even goofier to me is the two universities' locations. No one else in the Big 10 will be in that area; just Florida State and Clemson. It's not like when we added USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington. 4 teams on the West Coast adds more games in the same time zone. They've been playing each other forever. But FSU and Clemson is just 1 game. They can't play each other more than once in the regular season. They're going to have to travel quite the distance for some of these games. But I guess this is just about the money.

 

[Street Novelist]

I suppose it makes little economic sense but if the B1G is going to continue to grow I'd like to see some of our old Big 8/Big 12 brothers be invited.

KU, Iowa State, even KSU. It would be nice to have some reasonable road trips once again other than just Iowa.

Yeah, but like you said, those markets don't bring anything to the table; small fanbases and no adding to our geographical footprint.

 

[Hilltop]

That makes more sense. I believe the buyout is $160-170 million right now. What's even goofier to me is the two universities' locations. No one else in the Big 10 will be in that area; just Florida State and Clemson. It's not like when we added USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington. 4 teams on the West Coast adds more games in the same time zone. They've been playing each other forever. But FSU and Clemson is just 1 game. They can't play each other more than once in the regular season. They're going to have to travel quite the distance for some of these games. But I guess this is just about the money.

It's 175 million right now. I do agree with you regarding them being the only 2. That's why I think they add a couple more in the region.

That said, distance means nothing in today's college football. Look at what Stanford has to do lol.

 

[pigfarmer]

It's 175 million right now. I do agree with you regarding them being the only 2. That's why I think they add a couple more in the region.

That said, distance means nothing in today's college football. Look at what Stanford has to do lol.

Got to admit, I found it very amusing that with them playing in the ACC they go and start out their season by flying to Hawii!

 

[Archy1221]

That makes more sense. I believe the buyout is $160-170 million right now. What's even goofier to me is the two universities' locations. No one else in the Big 10 will be in that area; just Florida State and Clemson. It's not like when we added USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington. 4 teams on the West Coast adds more games in the same time zone. They've been playing each other forever. But FSU and Clemson is just 1 game. They can't play each other more than once in the regular season. They're going to have to travel quite the distance for some of these games. But I guess this is just about the money.

LA to Oregon and Washington is probably further travel than South Carolina is to Maryland, Rutgers, Penn State and Ohio State which are all in the same time zone.

 

[VectorVictor]

I could see this being a basketball-driven expansion—there are no football programs available that move the media needle…

…but teams like Kansas and North Carolina *WOULD* move the needle in basketball (more than many football programs available) and both are AAU members. And Kansas was part of the original five-team move to the B1G from the Big XII that aTm f***** up.