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bendm said:
TLDR but UVA is a garbage football program. 0% chance they’re invited to sec or BIG and the big12 would take Lville and Pitt over them, Not to mention NC State and VTech. Do not reply with something about academics. if the BIG still cared about academics they would have taken Cal & Stanford. Both have better academics and football pedigrees than UVA.
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The B1G will take Cal & Stanford at some point, it likely is more than a decade out however. Oregon and Washington were only added as early as they were due to a) the PAC imploding and b) their willingness to join at a greatly discounted price.

The end game in this is for the B1G to grow to 24 members, four divisions of six schools. Once they gat there the west coast will be UCLA, USC, Cal, Stanford, Oregon and Washington.

I'm pretty confident that UNC and Virginia are part of their ideal east coast division.
 
KryHavok said:
That distinction goes to Wake Forest. Wake Forest entered the ACC in 1953 while Virginia entered in 1954. Using 1954 as the start year, WF averages 4.35 wins and 6.77 losses vs. Virginia's 4.99 wins and 6.30 losses. Puke is second worst during that same time with an average of 4.61 wins and 6.45 losses.
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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.
 
Exit 4 said:
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.
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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!!
 
billybud said:
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.
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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
 
freescooter said:
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!!
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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.
 
Exit 4 said:
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.
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So then where’s our BIG invite?? We check 5 of those 6 boxes. All but endowment.
 
UConnJim said:
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.
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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.
 
freescooter said:
The Big 10 has made some inexplicable choices particularly in Rutgers and Maryland which seem to have been cable driven.
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Those choices are readily explainable. You may not like the explanation, but there is no doubt it made financial sense.
 
freescooter said:
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!!
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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.
 
Stinger92860 said:
I’d like to believe this, but until schools are dropped from existing conferences due to the updated metrics I cannot.
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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.
 
Kolumbo said:
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.
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Maryland has had 3 head coaches (plus an interim) since joining the Big 10: Edsall, DJ Durkin, and Mike Locksley. I wouldn't call any of them great coaches. Rutgers has had 3 coaches as well: Flood, Ash, and Schiano. Again, not good coaches. Schiano has not had a winning Big 10 record in any season and he is 13-34 in the Big 10 since he returned.
 
UConnJim said:
Maryland has had 3 head coaches (plus an interim) since joining the Big 10: Edsall, DJ Durkin, and Mike Locksley. I wouldn't call any of them great coaches. Rutgers has had 3 coaches as well: Flood, Ash, and Schiano. Again, not good coaches. Schiano has not had a winning Big 10 record in any season and he is 13-34 in the Big 10 since he returned.
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Shame on Rutgers and Maryland, they should have done better. To be fair, it would be very difficult for any new member no matter their pedigree to become a top 20%-er in that conference with Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, USC... More likely any new member is going to be like Nebraska, or Rutgers
 
Chin Diesel said:
From USA Today this morning.

www.usatoday.com

No time to stand still: SEC needs Florida State, Clemson to close gap with Big Ten

Florida State and Clemson showed last weekend what we've known all along: they're the perfect fit for the SEC. Sooner than later.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com
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FSU is obvious. UNC over Clemson might be the better overall play vis-a-vis CR and eminent domain. The top 30 "most valuable programs" not in the P2 include FSU, Clemson, Miami, UNC, Utah, TCU

Followed by:
Va Tech, NC State, Texas Tech, Okie State, Arizona State......

www.nytimes.com

College football program valuations: Ranking every Power 4 team by how much they’d sell for

College football programs may not be for sale, but what if they were? Here's our best guess at how much the Power 4 would sell for.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
Kolumbo said:
Shame on Rutgers and Maryland, they should have done better. To be fair, it would be very difficult for any new member no matter their pedigree to become a top 20%-er in that conference with Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, USC... More likely any new member is going to be like Nebraska, or Rutgers
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Someone has to finish in the bottom half of every conference, it just should not always be the same teams, but in CFB, that will be the case more often than not. Rutgers should be better in FB and Bball based on recruiting area.
 
Kolumbo said:
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.
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Maryland and Rutgers still aren’t receiving full shares, but they are close to it now. They have been at a financial disadvantage compared to the rest of the B1G. They are now close to being an equal share member. Doesn’t mean that will translate to success, but it’s hard to be successful in a conference where you are paid less than everyone else in that conference.
 
Kolumbo said:
Shame on Rutgers and Maryland, they should have done better. To be fair, it would be very difficult for any new member no matter their pedigree to become a top 20%-er in that conference with Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, USC... More likely any new member is going to be like Nebraska, or Rutgers
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If you are mediocre or worse heading into a new conference, you will continue to be mediocre or worse unless you make wholesale changes.
 

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