Future of the B10

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and why certain things are happening. look at the b10 on a map. now look where expansion is and will be going. The future is big confs who can carry all the teams, invertory, markets, fans land, claim everything possible and still be helf together under 1 name. thats going to be 3 or 4 big boys and several mid majors who will never get to group like that and make money due to have's and have not's lifestyle and riches.

the b10 will go to 20 teams, its just a time frame issue. what needs to be figured out is the split. what seems to be the big issue is that tosu is the lone loser(somewhat) in it all. but maybe they are okay with whats coming and we just don't know about it. maybe they agreed to it with the sense that they influence picks for the confrence. who knows. psu was never going anywhere, but always wanted a east coast league. well here it a coming. but why so B1G? the answer is different then the obvious invenotry and $ answers. a 20 team league allows the confrence to split into two 10 team divisions. get ready for this, a B1G West and a B1G East. with those comes something even better, a 2nd tv channel. B10N1 and B10N2. yup, double up the tv, gamechanger and i'm sure digital straming and all that jazz will be taken care of. the important part of the 2 tv stations is being able to have both carried, here is how.

expansion will happen and the schools picks will be the best for the longterm future of the confrence, not a good now but who knows later pick. they have to have certain metrics they either posess or can within the near future. aau comes to mind, market share, fanbase size, alum in certain places and other key stats. so lets split the B1G up and see where the possiblities are.

Neb/Iowa/Wisc/Minn/Ill/NW are for sure west schools
PSU/Ruty/MD are for sure east schools
lets put Mich/MSU out west also
tosu in the east and then take a look

B1GWest=Neb/Iowa/Wisc/Minn/Ill/NW/MSU/Mich
-thats all tradition + Neb who while new fits everything about that group. with 8 teams we still have room for 2 more.
B1GEast=tOSU/PSU/Ruty/MD
-this is the new blood and future of the confrence with 2 major traditional schools to carry the flag as the others grow into roles. plenty of room for expansion.

Ind and Purdue are both left off for now. we could slide both into the west or east or split them. it depends on what happens with expansion. canidates? issues only cited not positives...

UVA-
UNC-
GT-not geographically perfect, clearly 2nd to another school in state
Kansas-can it get out of the b12 gor?
Mizzu-was passed once, would it leave the sec and its new network coming?
ND-aau but whose asking....
Cuse-lost aau recently can it get it back?, private
UConn-not in aau its expected to be 2014/15, stadium size
BC-not aau, private
Pitt-play in a pro stadium, market covered, half private
Duke-private, market share vs other NC teams, behind UNC, football potential is questioned
-thats 11 realistic schools that can fit those 6 slots left, now the game begins. depending on who the confrence adds, the division will be settled.

Lets say that UNC/UVA/UConn/ND/BC/Cuse
-cuse vows to regain aau
-uconn gets aau and expands to 50-60k as expected both are in works
-nd joins up for fear no landing spot will ever be this good and the playoff future will **** them if they dont.
-bc bring bu as a academic member to the b10(chicago) and they join the confrence for puck also. HE just lost its 2 best teams and 2 biggest name add all together. Cuse joins Ind and a few others and adds puck down the road btw...college puck is forever changed. anyway now you have this. its hte best football confrence and both divisions more than hold there own, in bball its a mega round robin which i will explain why. in other sports its divisional or round robin based on amount of teams that play the sport. max in conf games for all other sports means more inventory and less competition from smaller leagues sucess as a growing competitor.

B1GWest=Neb/Iowa/Wisc/Minn/Ill/NW/MSU/Mich/Ind/Pur
B1GEast=tOSU/PSU/Ruty/MD/ND/UNC/UVA/UConn/BC/Cuse

now back to tv, its safe to say if there was 1 b10 network then all the major markets and areas would carry it considering this lineup of 20 teams. nd trumps and east coast area on the fringe of getting the market cable boxes. bos, nyc, phila, dc are just 99% B1G all day every day among all the smaller markets. amazing what a flip happened. the east coast is locked up from NC north. how do you get 2 networks carried everywhere and cash in on that?

you make 1 the east and the other the west network. you base all inventory on who the home team is. if uconn is @ wisc for puck, its on the b10nwest channel. that simple, now uconn fans in ct want to see the game. when you do this for football and bball especially then you have something special. how would you get this in fball? you would have to play a cross over game. but remember i said were going to freeze out other confrences as much as possible and try to be the biggest and badest on the block. so with 9 in division games you play 1 cross over for 10 games. those cross overs can be major missed rivals or new ones. tosu-mich comes to mind among others. thats how you get the 2 tv channels on in the whole b10 footprint. in fball you will be left with 2 ooc games, the b10 will encourage/impose a rule for no fcs games and only bcs games i feel in the future. this will eventually turn into a 20 deal battle with the sec in week 1 every season. will be insane tv and $ wise let alone of the field, you know the sec and b10 will counter each other tv/contract/$ wise. thats leaves 1 game for each team to fill. mac teams mostly or other rivals will fit. psu-pitt, ucomm-umass, unc-duke. what ever floats the boat. in bball you play a 19 team round robin, home away rotates by year, you get 1 rival game(same as fball). that just seals the deal with the 2 tv channels. base don how many teams play a sport for all others you handle what has to be done schedule wise. the east and west winners will play in the confrence ship game at the higher ranked teams house(thats why alls tadiums must be 50k+). winner is a bcs playoff bid.

significant adds:
-bu for academics and puck
-wvu for soccer only

in 2017, the b1g tier 1 rights go up for sale, open bid war. fox has already said the open bid from them will be atleat $25mil. espn and fox will fight to the death for it.

now lets have more fun $ wise, lets remember the b1g network 1&2 are seperate $ wise from the actual b1g confrence. they pay the league for the content. so lets look at the c7 who will be adding to make a nice confrence and play hoops, there is rela potential here. b10N can tell them who to add to get to a huge confrence, try this on for size.
prov/shu/sju/gt/nova/bu/vcu/siena/david/quinn/school from buffalo/dep/marq/day/slu/ xav/but/drake/creigh/duq

that doubles down in the foorprint all ove. for tier 2 rights for bball games only they give the league a cool 1mil per team. they play friday night games and other winter hours w/e. its 4 on the networks to big balls and puck. it works. its a relationship with great advances for both sides. the b10 confrence makes sure both its netowroks ar esolid all over the foorptint and those sub fees are high now, not cheap. the bball league can have a schedule challeneg vs the b10 and so many other smaller things that are now friendly like a soccer game between duq and syracuse type bull ****.

that is the future of the b10. the sec will have no choice but to counter almost he same
sec+fsu/gt/clem/ncst/vt and 1 open slot. its miami, wvu or the left over texas team(maybe tcu). dont cry about markets and footprint, the b10 beat you to it somewhat. but you already made guge moves getting into texas, st louie and now norty cary and va. the filler schools are solid school and they help raise the network sub fees. now its a game of 2 networks vs 1 and ehat else can u do. the b10 is blazing thi trail and the sec is shaking, so much so that its forcing the 1st network channel down throats quickly. when u hear bama say something like we don't mind fsu, thats how u know the game is on. ppl bitch about florida and they are 100% wrong. florida can't block fsu, is the ****ing state really going to **** one of its schools when it can have both in good hands? jesus? remember va and vt? schools will use politics to help save each other but when one can advance more, they do it. remember when texas had a am and tech probelm? well its half that now hugh? fsu's market is 10 times more covered by bama then fl market share wise. lets go with wvu being the final piece to the puzzle, gets the secN's into pittsburgh and really pushes the b10 border lines which is now a serious culture war north vs south, fun times.

the pac and the b12 will get all warm and fuzzy. when that happens wvu will round of the sec at 20 and 1 of the 9 teams left will get ****ed for sure and possibly more. baylor, tcu, kst and iowastate will battle to live while teams like unr, bsu and byu among others will be #beggingharder. the pac will get to 20 and do the same **** as the other 2 confrences. you know have 3 of the 4 bids locked up. but i thought the bcs was going to 8 bids soon? it did, when the top 4 confs split the conf ship games for each became 1st round games for the 8 basically. it moves the playoff timeline up and the bowl systeam is now just 15 other bowls for above .500 teams. so the end result is you see about half the teams in this break away from the ncaa be post seaosn on a given year. better balance/reward. bowls are filler to the bcs playoff, both do well tv wise.

but who is that 4th conf? i couldn't tell ya, but i bet its a national one. duke, wake, pitt, b12 leftovers, mwc leftovers, more fl and texas schools, potentials, any great mac schools etc....

bring the noise and ring the bell. #B1GHARDER

I agree with everything except I think it will be a zipper scheduling format.