Realignment and expansion on hold, for now (WVSports.com)

[bobbyinaz]

Which is why the ACC is operating on borrowed time. You think UNC and FSU are going to just sit around letting Rutgers cash those kind of checks?

They could care less about Rutgers cashing those checks. They've demonstrated their futility. It's schools like OSU. Michigan & Michigan St that they care about. Those are the schools they are trying to keep up with

 

[Fishy]

Which is why the ACC is operating on borrowed time. You think UNC and FSU are going to just sit around letting Rutgers cash those kind of checks?

What choice do they have?

Maybe North Carolina can move, but what's FSU going to do? Stamp their feet?

 

[upstater]

I'm not buying Terry's argument at all. $15m is a lot of money for a school. Don't look at the billion dollar budgets. Look at the operating budgets. The rest of the money is not fungible. When people hear about a $3m or $4m shortfall, you start seeing administrators banging their heads against tables.

A school like Virginia, for instance, thinks $15m a year is a very big deal.

Also, the B12 ended expansion right when the B1G numbers came out. They are anticipating a shakeup, and hoping it's not the B12 that will quake.

 

[TheDoggPound]

We need to focus on what we can control, even if we were added it would take a couple years transition anyways where we would have to keep playing in the AAC for the time being. Let's go and run the table in the AAC for the next 2-3 years and let the chips fall where they may.

 

[TheDoggPound]

Also I try to look at it this way: life is cyclic, we've been held down for so long (CT college/pro sports) it's only a matter of time until we catch a break. Glass half full.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Until someone proves otherwise, I am convinced that the B1G and SEC are sitting tight. They won. It is like being a partner at Goldman Sachs before it went public. Do you think Goldman partners would sit around giving two spits what some MD at Citibank did, or worrying about who they should recruit? They were freaking Goldman Sachs. The B1G and SEC are the college athletics equivalent of Goldman Sachs in the 90's.

 

[NYUConn]

Until someone proves otherwise, I am convinced that the B1G and SEC are sitting tight. They won. It is like being a partner at Goldman Sachs before it went public. Do you think Goldman partners would sit around giving two spits what some MD at Citibank did, or worrying about who they should recruit? They were freaking Goldman Sachs. The B1G and SEC are the college athletics equivalent of Goldman Sachs in the 90's.

Except Goldman Sachs didn't stop trying to make money in the 90s, which is to say that if other opportunities become available (UNC, UVA or ND for instance) that will add to their portfolio, they aren't gonna let them slip through their fingers.

 

[upstater]

Except Goldman Sachs didn't stop trying to make money in the 90s, which is to say that if other opportunities become available (UNC, UVA or ND for instance) that will add to their portfolio, they aren't gonna let them slip through their fingers.

If the B1G were Goldman Sachs, they would bring in UNC, UVA and ND, kick out Northwestern, then assassinate Mike Slive.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

If the B1G were Goldman Sachs, they would bring in UNC, UVA and ND, kick out Northwestern, then assassinate Mike Slive.

If the B1G was devoted to athletics only like the XII, SEC, and ACC (sorry ACC, after adding Louisville, its clear how important academics are to that conference) then yes. But, academic are very important to the B1G and no way would they ever consider kicking out a founding member that is a top 10 university in the US that generates over $500 million in research grants annually (2013).

 

[pj]

If the B1G was devoted to athletics only like the XII, SEC, and ACC (sorry ACC, after adding Louisville, its clear how important academics are to that conference) then yes. But, academic are very important to the B1G and no way would they ever consider kicking out a founding member that is a top 10 university in the US that generates over $500 million in research grants annually (2013).

Not to mention is their sole outpost in the Chicago metro area.

 

[NYUConn]

Not to mention is their sole outpost in the Chicago metro area.

I mean to be fair there are two other B1G schools 2 hours from Chicago and 2 others within a 4 hour drive.

Also, Chicago is hardly a Northwestern town as it is.

 

[Stinger92860]

If the B1G was devoted to athletics only like the XII, SEC, and ACC (sorry ACC, after adding Louisville, its clear how important academics are to that conference) then yes. But, academic are very important to the B1G and no way would they ever consider kicking out a founding member that is a top 10 university in the US that generates over $500 million in research grants annually (2013).

How much of that 500m is shared with other B1G schools. That's 10x what they will get with the new TV deal.