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Fishy said:
They’re still the same scrub-ass schools - they’ve just been handed such an overwhelming advantage that one of them managed not to suck for a change.

Remarkable how hard that league fails with all those advantages. Give Boise or Tulane that kind of money and you would never touch them again.
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Rarely have so many done so little with so much.
 
Rufus said:
My guess, and this apply to all B1G schools............

Locking down the resources needed for football first, because it pays the bills.

The second wave of spending is going to be basketball. The B1G was always kinda there as one of the best basketball conferences in most years outside of winning a national championship, so for many schools, it shouldn't take much to have elite basketball players.

We are already seeing progress with Women's Basketball in the B1G, - https://bigten.org/wbb/article/59177/

The Big Ten is the first conference ever to have nine teams in the AP Women's Basketball Poll in three different weeks in a single season. The December 2nd poll marked the first time since 1996 that any conference had nine ranked squads.

So we'll see how basketball plays out, but my best guess is that once all football investments have been made by the schools who traditionally didn't invest in football, basketball will be next. This would go for the SEC too. Most SEC schools already were fully invested in football, and so they already started investing in basketball, and you can see the results of that in how the SEC has improved in basketball the past couple years.
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"Fully invested in football" implies that there is a saturation point where all meaningful investments have been made and money can be safely allocated elsewhere. I see no evidence that exists. Football programs can and will always spend everything they can get. Behind the scenes I'm sure there is a major struggle at Alabama because the football coaches and backers think they didn't spend enough on their anchor sport while investing in basketball.
 
flywareagle.com

IndyStar sends SEC warning on the Big Ten after Hoosiers' rise to CFB overlord

The Indiana Hoosiers showed the power that's lying underneath the surface for many Big Ten programs as the power balance in College Football continues to shift
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The Indianapolis Star's Zach Osterman believes what the Hoosiers just did, going 15-0 en route to the CFP title game, dominating the SEC's Alabama Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl and the B1G's Oregon Ducks in the Peach Bowl, is replicable across the Big Ten.

Osterman cited alumni bases from each school operating in big cities across America's biggest cities for why just about any Big Ten school could become the next Indiana at any point in the next few years.

"The Hoosiers’ rise under Curt Cignetti traces its origins to so many root causes it’s not worth rehashing them all here," Osterman prefaced before saying, "What’s not lost on the league office is the extent to which this can be replicable elsewhere. That with the right people in charge, adequate resources around them and a sustainable long-term strategy, this kind of success can be repeated across the Big Ten.

"In the NIL-plus-rev-share era, a conference composed of large state institutions with robust alumni bases grounded in lucrative industries across many if not most of America’s major cities has more than just one sleeping giant.

"The way IU fans took over the Rose and Peach bowls across the Hoosiers’ first two games in this year’s playoff should open the eyes of programs elsewhere in the league. This is what pure football activation can look like."
 
What Indiana is doing may be replicable for most members of the B1G. Rutgers however would never be capable of winning at even an insignificant level, much less at the highest level in the most valuable sport.
 
After the fall sports season, the West Coast B1G schools are once again winning lots of conference championships. Travel impacts have thus far been minimal for performance outcomes.

Men's Cross Country - Oregon
Women's Cross Country - Oregon
Women's Soccer Regular Season - Washington; Tournament - Washington
Men's Soccer Regular Season - Maryland; Tournament - UCLA; National Champions - Washington
Field Hockey Regular Season - Northwestern; Tournament - Northwestern; National Champions - Northwestern
Women's Volleyball - Nebraska
Football - Indiana; CFP Playoffs - Indiana, Ohio State, Oregon; National Champions - Indiana
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
What Indiana is doing may be replicable for most members of the B1G. Rutgers however would never be capable of winning at even an insignificant level, much less at the highest level in the most valuable sport.
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You'd have said the same thing about Indiana a year ago.
 
hank970 said:
You'd have said the same thing about Indiana a year ago.
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Indiana has multiple national titles in men's hoops and was at one time a very formidable men's soccer program.
 
hank970 said:
You'd have said the same thing about Indiana a year ago.
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Dude, are you for real? Indiana a year ago was 11-2, ranked as high as #5, and was year 1 into a new era with a hot coach in Cignetti who won 19 games his previous 2 years at JMU. Rutgers...let's see...looks it up was 5-7 this year, 7-6 the year before, and is the midst of a very middling rut with Schiano on his 2nd stint as HC for The State University of New Jersey. Only way for Rutgers to win is to buy a team (staff and players), but Rutty being Rutty, they'd muck that up too.
 
Rufus said:
After the fall sports season, the West Coast B1G schools are once again winning lots of conference championships. Travel impacts have thus far been minimal for performance outcomes.

Men's Cross Country - Oregon
Women's Cross Country - Oregon
Women's Soccer Regular Season - Washington; Tournament - Washington
Men's Soccer Regular Season - Maryland; Tournament - UCLA; National Champions - Washington
Field Hockey Regular Season - Northwestern; Tournament - Northwestern; National Champions - Northwestern
Women's Volleyball - Nebraska
Football - Indiana; CFP Playoffs - Indiana, Ohio State, Oregon; National Champions - Indiana
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Combined those sports influence about 0.1% of what drives intercollegiate athletics.
 
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Kolumbo said:
of course Oregon is winning in running sports. west coast schools winning could be more of an indictment on the Big Ten in the other sports

and all is well in Big Country

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The UCLA women seem to have no problems winning with their schedule. Funny how the schedule is only a problem when you aren't a top program in the country.

And you still play an equal number of home and away conference games. So 5 of 7 on the road means the law of averages will see you likely have 5 of 7 at home at some point this season. And one of those road games won't even see you leave the city of Los Angeles.
 
Rufus said:
The UCLA women seem to have no problems winning with their schedule. Funny how the schedule is only a problem when you aren't a top program in the country.

And you still play an equal number of home and away conference games. So 5 of 7 on the road means the law of averages will see you likely have 5 of 7 at home at some point this season. And one of those road games won't even see you leave the city of Los Angeles.
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law of averages? wtf. I'm sure Cronin knows how many home and away games he has. His complaint is that the first 5 of 7 conference games were on the road. As the coach of the biggest basketball brand in the conference, he seems none too pleased about it.
 
Kolumbo said:
law of averages? wtf. I'm sure Cronin knows how many home and away games he has. His complaint is that the first 5 of 7 conference games were on the road. As the coach of the biggest basketball brand in the conference, he seems none too pleased about it.
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He also left out that if the early schedule is road heavy, he'll have an abundance of home games the rest of the way.
 
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Rufus said:
After the fall sports season, the West Coast B1G schools are once again winning lots of conference championships. Travel impacts have thus far been minimal for performance outcomes.

Men's Cross Country - Oregon
Women's Cross Country - Oregon
Women's Soccer Regular Season - Washington; Tournament - Washington
Men's Soccer Regular Season - Maryland; Tournament - UCLA; National Champions - Washington
Field Hockey Regular Season - Northwestern; Tournament - Northwestern; National Champions - Northwestern
Women's Volleyball - Nebraska
Football - Indiana; CFP Playoffs - Indiana, Ohio State, Oregon; National Champions - Indiana
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I wonder if they'll help the Big 10 to ever actually win a basketball national championship.
 
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