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I think we lose 2. Kansas will be a loss, Arizona a win and the other 2 are the toss ups.

I know they were asked for the New York market. I just don't think that market is necessarily loyal to college teams. You would get on TV in New York because you have the biggest programs in the country. Hell, Notre Dame would probably get you on in New York. As somewhat of a counterpoint to myself, I submit this (although I think our numbers are driven by who we play).

Is that market any more left out than it is now?

We wouldn't be in the Top 40.

The buyout is like $100 million give or take, no? I have seen estimates of $80 to $100 million a year media rights for Big Ten schools. I believe that the ACC is down in the $30 millions. That buyout is a drop in the bucket in potential earnings for a school like Notre Dame and Clemson to say deuces and join a super league. You'd recoup that loss and then some in 2 to 3 years. $60 to $90 million revenue from ACC and $100 million buy out is $160 to $190 million. 2 year earnings in BIG appear to be $160 to $200 million. That would adjust a bit as you added schools, but those additional schools would theoretically increase the value of your TV rights. If the superconferences want those ACC schools, they will have them.

You need 14 more schools. That is when the Oregon/Wisconsin level schools come into the equation. You have 18 there, do you think Indiana is one of the next 14? I don't. Not when football is king. Heck, I don't think any other blue blood basketball school cracks that next 14.

There are always teams that finish on the bottom. They are saying that adding UCLA and USC could bring TV rights for BIG schools up to around $100 million each. That is sharing money with the Northwestern, Rutgers, Purdue, Maryland, and Indianas of the conference. 32 team super league split into 4 divisions of 8 with their own playoff. For ESPN and Fox that are driving this, that is ultimately where the money is. We don't make that cut. We would be relegated to a second tier status. You know what else would happen? Those 32 teams would have all the money and NIL support to buy the best basketball players too. They can worry about their won/loss record while swimming in their Scrooge McDuck tower of money.

For football, my guess would be Notre Dame for those watching college.

Yet. Guess it depends on how big they want their super conference to be. Ohio St., Penn St., Michigan, USC, and UCLA get together with Alabama, Georgia, Texas and some of the Florida teams and start talking about cutting the dead weight and forming a true super conference is not out of the question. At a certain point, greed driving all, the want to share with the Indiana, Purdue, Northwestern, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, etc. of the world may dry up.

Indiana, Purdue, Maryland, Rutgers, and Northwestern are the lower revenue generators. Maryland and Rutgers add TV markets. Northwestern is unnecessary because of Illinois from a TV market standpoint. They are also a mismatch with the rest of the conference being the only private school in the Big 10. Indiana is a bigger draw in the Indy market and is a little higher on the revenue side than Purdue. Notre Dame throws a big wrench in things if they join the BIG though. For football purposes, you would still have the Indianapolis market and could kick out both Indiana and Purdue if you added Notre Dame....which makes me rethink asking them to join. I don't think we are safe at all. I also think that some of these big schools are overestimating how valuable these super leagues are when they kick out certain schools. I have zero interest in a college format that doesn't have Indiana involved. If I want to watch pro football I can watch the NFL and without the college pageantry, that is a superior product anyway.

Once football and NIL destroy college sports, I probably won't care anymore.

Stanford, Oregon, Washington, and I hate ND but I would ask them again.

If they are going to go to 16, they may as well make it 20 and have a Big 10 East and Big 10 West. The name at least makes sense at that point. You probably lose some of the traditional Big 10 schools out of IU's division though.

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/jaden-rashada-reportedly-agreed-9-020519526.html Holy. Crap. This isn't really sustainable is it? How many top rated kids do not pan out like expected. Just handing out that kind of money seems nuts. For comparison, Trevor Lawrence averages $9.1 million a year playing for Jacksonville.

Is one of the guys searing a Santa hat? In the pool? Lol.

Thank you for that. I think some of us got beat up when year 3 rolled around and we were still having the same issues with coaches. "It takes 4 years..." was uttered around here a whole lot and it just isn't true. We just had coaches who could not recruit, develop, and coach well enough to impact things in a positive enough fashion. That is the past so we can somewhat let it die. However, Woodson has maybe a decade of coaching (give or take) left in him. I hope that whomever is making decisions when he retires (after adding a couple titles of his own 😉) that those lessons of the past are remembered. You get the standards you set.

UCLA thumped us good preconference in the 1992 Final Four season. That same team got their doors blown off by Indiana in the tournament. Losing stinks, but when you have a good team (and we should) sometimes those early losses can pan out to better things later in the year. If a couple of pieces fall into place, I think we are a dark horse title contender.

Going into conference with 4 or 5 losses isn't a killer as long as we handle business in conference. This is one of those old Michigan State schedules that Izzo would have. You can take some licks early as long as you progress throughout the year.

We will win that game. Book it.

He's a modern Steve Fisher at Michigan.

There is only room for one crazy here and he called this back in March. 😛

Being selfish has really worked out well for him. Good call Dad.

I think we are building a team that can beat UK, regularly. I want that on full display in Indiana.

As a resident of Indiana and the Indianapolis area, f--- Chicago. Why on earth would we move the game there? Indy has better walkability to the venues, Indianapolis reaps some economic benefits from the game (as opposed to a city in another state), it is closer driving distance for both fan bases.... If you cannot get the game at home, there is no way in hell I would want it in Chicago.

Wait until we actually start playing well, nobody is going to like IU fans.