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Because this is one area where we are ahead of quite a bit of the competition. Our social media presence is second to none.

And when it comes to his success, it was Penn State level success. Not like his teams were setting the world on fire. He did good....for Penn State.

I just dumped them for Hulu Live.

https://www.outkick.com/espn-charter-cable-bundle-sports/ Fairly long article but Travis is arguing that the Charter/ESPN spat is the harbinger of a collapse in the sporting world. I think that the way the Big Ten distributed it's games was probably one of the smarter moves.

One of the other sites is saying this relationship has cooled off.

So I am one of those people who doesn't really have the time or desire to follow sporting events unless I have a rooting interest in the team. I wish we could put together a football program AR some point in my lifetime so that there was something to watch in the fall. Groundhog Day gets old....

Depends on who they get instead. Not a fan of the Domers but if they add a Notre Dame and a UNC, UVA, Miami type of team, nobody will care.

I just hope we see a movement towards some of these kids committing.

They don't....did we maybe get them a little NIL to defray costs?

https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/TopRevenue/Conference/Big-Ten-Conference/ I thought this was interesting as it breaks out by sport and ranks them for the BIG. So Indiana football is the 11th most revenue generating team in the Big Ten while IU basketball is 15.

Somebody has to be the loser though. All of these "power" football teams are powers in comparison to teams like ours. You remove teams like that from the league and the "powers" have to play each other every year, you find out that you aren't the power you thought you were. Take a school like Texas for instance. They would be a "power" school that would get curb stomped in that super league right now. How long before they start getting agitated at being around a .500 team every year? Particularly when the "lesser" schools around them like a Baylor or Texas Tech are going 9-3 or better in whatever league they are in? Additionally, the money of the Big Ten is based on having a bunch of markets all over the country and having people interested in watching them. How many people in Indiana are watching a non-Big Ten related Ohio State? Most of these big games are barely a draw outside their own little footprint. I'm not watching teams I have zero attachment to.

Goodman talks about Indiana negatively because: 1. Negatively talking about sports teams tends to get a reaction more than positivity and 2. We are the premier fan base in this area. Next to no one gives a crap about a team like Iowa basketball right now. He has to sling sh** to get clicks and slinging sh** against big and invested fan bases tends to do that.

That would be on brand for them....if it comes to that take away the ACC's automatic bid for not being a real football conference. They barely are now. If Clemson and Florida State up and leave they are basically the Big East before it imploded.

https://www.on3.com/news/usa-today-releases-top-25-total-revenue-college-athletics-programs/ Look at #13....maybe we aren't as bad off as we think.

For all but a handful of schools it is almost all risk. They can do revenue share but if they do, then the days of "I have to have a multimillion dollar locker room, weight room, and separate practice facility that gets upgraded every 7 to 10 years" are over.

No he isn't. And the minute these schools have to do a revenue share is the minute this all comes crashing down. Get your facility upgrades in before revenue sharing starts because you won't have that much opportunity after the fact. The vast majority of schools lose money in athletics.

“I think it matters we’re in one of the two super leagues because you have coaches like Ryan Day, on the record, telling boosters I need $13 million for my roster. It’s not hypothetical, it’s actual. This is going to provide a great challenge for collectives to make a strong pitch to donors.” https://www.on3.com/nil/news/big-ten-expansion-nil-recruiting-wars-collectives-sec-oregon-washington-pac-12/ So anybody have any idea what our NIL collective is currently bringing in? If it takes $13 million a year to be Ohio State in football, what amount does it take to be Iowa or Wisconsin? If you want to have both a successful football and basketball program, do you need like $18 million a year? And all of that "donated"? This isn't sustainable. And there is a lawsuit where players at some of the less well off schools and/or sports are demanding to be treated like employees. Even with all of this money, most athletic programs don't make money. It all gets thrown back into crazy weight lifting rooms and player lounges (well, that which is not spent to support all the sports that just bleed money...i.e. anything not football and basketball). If schools have to kick in another $25k a year on top of scholarships for track team players, there is even less money to throw around. I like my college sports but I am kind of hoping this all implodes.

Michigan State isn't the Alpha, I don't think there is one in the league. And aside from that if your tiers have Iowa on par with Indiana I have trouble taking it seriously.

Eliminating a football power in our state wouldn't hurt either....

There are so many byes in that tournament right now, all you have to do is plug teams into earlier rounds where currently they don't have to play.

At the rate this is going, I think football is going to eventually kill whatever I like about college athletics. I hope I get to see one more championship team (in basketball) before that happens.

Isn't the buy out like $300M? That is an awful big ask...lol.

So I was thinking with 4 groups of 5 if you kept a 9 game schedule you would play the 4 teams in your divisions and then the 5 in one of the others and then you would just switch the division you play each year. So You Have Group A, B, C, and D. Group A would play each other every year and one year every team in Group A would play every team in Group B and then switch. C would play D. Then the next year A plays C and B plays D. Then finally A plays D and B plays C. Then you start over again but flip the location of the game.

So I had that initially set up (except swap Iowa and Nebraska) and then I thought that grouping for Indiana and Purdue was a death sentence. Like you have to set up the divisions to give teams a chance.

So to play around a bit, if the BIG added those 4 teams do we see 4 divisions that play games like the NFL for football? It would be an interesting split. USC, UCLA, Washington, Oregon, and Nebraska? Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan St. Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue, Indiana, Ohio State (too easy for Ohio St?) FSU, Clemson, Penn St, Maryland, Rutgers The 2 Illinois teams and the 2 Michigan teams were the hardest to place. Tried to kind of regionalize and those 2 make it the hardest to balance.