Big Ten eyeing UNC, Kansas?

As for the KU and UNC thoughts ... they make sense ... Missouri would love to join, too, but that's down the road ... in-fact so would Kentucky, WVU, ISU, etc.

I see Virginia & Kansas as the next step and then UNC & Duke ... then with the ACC decimated (FSU/Clemson would be leaving for the Big XII surely) Delany can be confident that Swofford will be calling him this time around *evil grin*
 
Every B1G move by Delaney has been about one thing: $$$ . . . eyeballs from cable/dish and federal funding on the academic side. If Maryland meets that description, especially being near the people in DC that redistribute other peoples' money, then Virginia meets the description as well.

Remember Delaney saying the population was moving south so conference survival meant expanding south. Nice misdirection by the Commish. He adds New Jersey/New York market and the not-so-south "south" school of Maryland.

Virginia is next.

An then on-ramp to the B1G will be left open for Notre Dame for a little while. If they don't take it within a few months of adding Virginia, then there are a couple of other options for the B1G and Big Del.

There's a reason the ACC took the 50million Big Stick approach rather than the Gold Carrot approach for retaining its members. They realized they were in the weakest position and could lose schools to the SEC, B1G, and XII if those conferences really want to expand.

There's a reason the ACC took in Notre Dame in non-football sports, offered them five guaranteed games each year in football without being a member school, and let them keep their own tv revenue: it was to squash the temptation of member ACC schools to move to more prosperous ground.
 
Scorpio79 said:
I wouldn't mind UNC joining up, based strictly on selfish logistical reasons. It would be sweet to be within 2.5 hours of a Hokk road game every couple of years.
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With 16 teams in the league how often will this actually happen? Every 10 years or so?
 
You realize Kansas granted its TV rights to the Big 12 for the next 13 years, right? I.e., they ain't goin' nowhere unless the BoneG can carve out enough cash to come close to matching the TV revenue that Kansas would get through the Big 12.
 
kmajhawk said:
The driver in this would be the $$$, specifically revenues from the BTN and to a lesser degree shared bowl revenues. They would be leaving weakened conferences that increasingly can't compete, at least financially, with the super conferences.

Between UNC/KU and Rutgers/Maryland as additions to the B1G, I would have preferred the former for the basketball gravitas they would bring.

This still may happen. I can't imagine KU being happy with the realigned Big12. I have to think UNC leaving the ACC would be a harder sell.
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You don't know what you are talking about. Teams in the Big12 currently net $28 MM a year in TV revenue. There would be hardly any financial gain, and a grant of rights is built to hold up in court. Kansas signed one. The person from Kansas who is in the know is obviously not.
 
brett108 said:
You don't know what you are talking about. Teams in the Big12 currently net $28 MM a year in TV revenue. There would be hardly any financial gain, and a grant of rights is built to hold up in court. Kansas signed one. The person from Kansas who is in the know is obviously not.
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And you don't know what your talking about either, by the time KU would join the Big Ten (2015 at the earliest) the Big Ten is set to renegotiate their TV rights in 2016 and it is estimated that with the addition of Maryland and Rutgers each school will receive somewhere between $36 to $42 million a year. Now add in KU and UNC and that number may be pushing $50 mill a year for each school. That is a huge financial gain considering the Big 12 just signed for 13 years so that $28 mill isn't going up anytime soon for them.

I'm not trying to say they will join or not. I'm just pointing out there would be a financial gain and a large one at that.
 
brett108 said:
You don't know what you are talking about. Teams in the Big12 currently net $28 MM a year in TV revenue. There would be hardly any financial gain, and a grant of rights is built to hold up in court. Kansas signed one. The person from Kansas who is in the know is obviously not.
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Every contract is built to hold up in court, until it's ripped apart by some lawyer, or a settlement is agreed upon.
 
nationalchamps said:
Meh. My second home is in Scottsdale so I guess it's me FTW pal. Plus, I can see the Hawks pretty much anytime I want, unlike you. Although, this year that is probably a good thing.
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LOL do you ever NOT start a childish d!ck-measuring contest on this board??
You are a psych grad student's wet dream, little man
 
The thing that people are missing is it is not only the BTN, but Fox is getting ready to roll out their national network and they want a firm foothold in college hoops and football. Their goal is have more major college sports contracts than ESPN. They have built these contracts with 20 regional networks. They will bundle the Fox network with B12, B10, and P12. That is why they are encouraging those conferences to expand, because it increases their market share.
 
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