Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[bendm]

It is relative...of late, or all time...Wake has beaten Virginia their last 5 match ups...Virginia has had 3 winning seasons in the last 15 and Wake has had 8....Wake has 8 bowl wins since 2000.....Virginia has 4.

Wake and duke were my next guesses. no one is arguing on behalf of wake being a valuable addition to the P3, and rightfully so, and duke is in its own category thanks to having the most valuable bball brand in the country

 

[UConnJim]

Stop it! You are just trying to find a justification. The Big 10 has made some inexplicable choices particularly in Rutgers and Maryland which seem to have been cable driven. They seem to have returned to a football oriented process in the last round. Bringing in Virginia and even UNC would be a return to the Rutgers model without the access to cable carriage fees. Next you’ll be telling us they are doing it because they think Thomas Jefferson was a smart guy!!

I don't think bringing in Rutgers and Maryland was a bad move over the long run, but neither school has shown much so far. Both of those schools have football potential if they get alumni/donors to support them and they make the right coaching hire. Schiano and Locksley are not the right coaches. Look at Iowa. Middle of nowhere with no local recruiting base and from 1961 until 1980, they were bad until they hired Hayden Fry.

 

[bendm]

The value of schools is shifting back to the long term model; total endowment, total student population, amount of state support, academic stature, amount of living alumni, does your school bring two senators that your conf doesn’t already have?

Football record matters- but near term and long term economic and political clout also matter.

So then where’s our BIG invite?? We check 5 of those 6 boxes. All but endowment.

 

[How Sway?!]

I have a feeling this will go as well as the regular season games he wanted to hold in Mexico

 

[Kolumbo]

I don't think bringing in Rutgers and Maryland was a bad move over the long run, but neither school has shown much so far. Both of those schools have football potential if they get alumni/donors to support them and they make the right coaching hire. Schiano and Locksley are not the right coaches. Look at Iowa. Middle of nowhere with no local recruiting base and from 1961 until 1980, they were bad until they hired Hayden Fry.

When the Big Ten brought in Rutgers and Maryland, there was a P5. The ACC, Big 12 and Big Ten were just feeding from the Big East buffet and yes, Maryland was the biggest surprise leaving the ACC. I don't think the B1G envisioned a complete consolidation to a P2 and having the Big Ten invite the PAC schools and having the SEC invite Texas and Oklahoma. If they envisioned this is how things would play out, I don't think they would have invited Rutgers and Maryland. Every program has football potential if you have P2 money and hire great coaches. It's been 11 years and Rutgers and Maryland are just barely average programs.

 

[CL82]

The Big 10 has made some inexplicable choices particularly in Rutgers and Maryland which seem to have been cable driven.

Those choices are readily explainable. You may not like the explanation, but there is no doubt it made financial sense.

 

[BigTenFan]

So then where’s our BIG invite?? We check 5 of those 6 boxes. All but endowment.

Add AAU to the list

 

[Purple Stein]

Dave Portnoy: bringing UConn, the Big 12, and Connecticut Pizza together

If all we have to do to get Iowa State's vote is build a Sally's in Ames then that is a very good deal.

 

[Exit 4]

Stop it! You are just trying to find a justification. The Big 10 has made some inexplicable choices particularly in Rutgers and Maryland which seem to have been cable driven. They seem to have returned to a football oriented process in the last round. Bringing in Virginia and even UNC would be a return to the Rutgers model without the access to cable carriage fees. Next you’ll be telling us they are doing it because they think Thomas Jefferson was a smart guy!!

Its all about economics...never really been about winning. And as we enter the new world of the prof paid athlete model - its all about economic capacity and depth.

 

[Exit 4]

So then where’s our BIG invite?? We check 5 of those 6 boxes. All but endowment.

Need AAU...need a much bigger endowment.... need a football culture that is closer to the B1G. We are making some progress.

 

[Exit 4]

I’d like to believe this, but until schools are dropped from existing conferences due to the updated metrics I cannot.

I don't see how conferences are going to drop schools. At least not for a long while yet. They would need to fail to meet certain min spending levels on sports, some sort of objective criteria that is not W-L related.