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don356 said:
Delaney better spend some time figuring out why the majority of teams in the big 10 are below 50 in the rankings. You can have all the tv's you want to but if you want them on you need better football.
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Absolutely, the Big 10 is down in football right now. But football isn't what keeps conferences healthy and growing. There's a reason you never really hear about anyone leaving or possibly leaving the Big Ten.

A lot of the traditional football programs in the Big Ten are down. But with the right hires, they should be right back to being a top football conference.

Penn State- The sanctions are coming off. Recruits should be returning. Hopefully they grow.

Michigan- They need to get the right coach. I think they can.

Nebraska- Will have to wait and see about Riley. But again, with change comes opportunity.

Wisconsin- Gary Andersen was a solid coach. Should be interesting to see who their next hire is.

Minnesota showed major growth this year. MSU and OSU are going to be strong for awhile.

The Big Ten doesn't need every team to be great in football. No conference has that. But if just a couple programs with rich traditions return to a high level, the Big Ten will be fine.

The BIG champion still made the playoffs anyways and I don't see the conference being much weaker than it was this year.
 
Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 3h 3 hours ago
Bowlsby has put all his chips in the middle of the table(declaring only through reform legislation does Big 12 play CCG in 2015) Delany and

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 3h 3 hours ago
Slive calmly take a few chips off the top of their huge stacks and calls the bet. Bowlsby holds 2-7 off suits in his hole cards.

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 2h 2 hours ago
If the Big 12 actually is successful in obtaining the rights to holding a CCG through reform legislation myself and the Wife will take out..

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 2h 2 hours ago
....the dude of wv and his Wife out to dinner the next time we visit West Virginia. Divisonal Reforms will pass...not waiver from 12 to 10

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV 2h2 hours ago
@flugempire call me. You have my number right?

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 2h2 hours ago
@theDudeofWV I believe I do. Will call tomorrow

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV 2h2 hours ago
@flugempire Cool.

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 47m 47 minutes ago
3 months ago I tweeted the Irish days of Football Independence was coming to an end. I explained the reasons why, soon I will tell you how.

Aaron ‏@posas13 37m37 minutes ago
@flugempire If ACC, who is #16? or is UMD a bridge to the ACC?

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 35m35 minutes ago
@posas13 I don't know who #16 will become. ACC voted and stayed at 8 Conference games...with the hope of the ND to ACC scenario happening

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 33m33 minutes ago
@posas13 Everyone is being told the ND brass is JUST NOW thinking and talking about this scenario internally. Incorrect..started months ago.

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 29m29 minutes ago
@posas13 ND still needs its 4 games of OOC games in its schedule. Many will say Navy #16 for obvious reasons.I'm being told Navy is longshot

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 29m29 minutes ago
@posas13 ND setting up negotiations..... More on the "how" later.

Aaron ‏@posas13 27m27 minutes ago
@flugempire Navy, UConn, Temple, PSU ... of those four UConn seems most likely..no?

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire 24m24 minutes ago
@posas13 Not trying to avoid answering because I do not have a single name for #16. But the "how" is part of the "who". I'm getting....

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire 21m21 minutes ago
@posas13 .....the "how" in segments as this flows. Not much else I can say at this point. But this process did not start 4-5 days ago.


ME: You guys will let bygones be bygones, right? :cool:
 
Hawkins said:
Absolutely, the Big 10 is down in football right now. But football isn't what keeps conferences healthy and growing. There's a reason you never really hear about anyone leaving or possibly leaving the Big Ten.

A lot of the traditional football programs in the Big Ten are down. But with the right hires, they should be right back to being a top football conference.

Penn State- The sanctions are coming off. Recruits should be returning. Hopefully they grow.

Michigan- They need to get the right coach. I think they can.

Nebraska- Will have to wait and see about Riley. But again, with change comes opportunity.

Wisconsin- Gary Andersen was a solid coach. Should be interesting to see who their next hire is.

Minnesota showed major growth this year. MSU and OSU are going to be strong for awhile.

The Big Ten doesn't need every team to be great in football. No conference has that. But if just a couple programs with rich traditions return to a high level, the Big Ten will be fine.

The BIG champion still made the playoffs anyways and I don't see the conference being much weaker than it was this year.
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True it was a down year overall for the B1G. Several of my neighbors who are all Rutgers alumni were very pleased with their record in their first year playing football in the B1G; but, admitted that they were lucky in that Michigan and Penn St. are down right now. Of course, as they know I am a UConn Alumni, I kept quiet and drank my beer.
 
CoastAtlantic said:
Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 3h 3 hours ago
Bowlsby has put all his chips in the middle of the table(declaring only through reform legislation does Big 12 play CCG in 2015) Delany and

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 3h 3 hours ago
Slive calmly take a few chips off the top of their huge stacks and calls the bet. Bowlsby holds 2-7 off suits in his hole cards.

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 2h 2 hours ago
If the Big 12 actually is successful in obtaining the rights to holding a CCG through reform legislation myself and the Wife will take out..

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 2h 2 hours ago
....the dude of wv and his Wife out to dinner the next time we visit West Virginia. Divisonal Reforms will pass...not waiver from 12 to 10

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV 2h2 hours ago
@flugempire call me. You have my number right?

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 2h2 hours ago
@theDudeofWV I believe I do. Will call tomorrow

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV 2h2 hours ago
@flugempire Cool.

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 47m 47 minutes ago
3 months ago I tweeted the Irish days of Football Independence was coming to an end. I explained the reasons why, soon I will tell you how.

Aaron ‏@posas13 37m37 minutes ago
@flugempire If ACC, who is #16? or is UMD a bridge to the ACC?

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 35m35 minutes ago
@posas13 I don't know who #16 will become. ACC voted and stayed at 8 Conference games...with the hope of the ND to ACC scenario happening

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 33m33 minutes ago
@posas13 Everyone is being told the ND brass is JUST NOW thinking and talking about this scenario internally. Incorrect..started months ago.

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 29m29 minutes ago
@posas13 ND still needs its 4 games of OOC games in its schedule. Many will say Navy #16 for obvious reasons.I'm being told Navy is longshot

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 29m29 minutes ago
@posas13 ND setting up negotiations..... More on the "how" later.

Aaron ‏@posas13 27m27 minutes ago
@flugempire Navy, UConn, Temple, PSU ... of those four UConn seems most likely..no?

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire 24m24 minutes ago
@posas13 Not trying to avoid answering because I do not have a single name for #16. But the "how" is part of the "who". I'm getting....

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire 21m21 minutes ago
@posas13 .....the "how" in segments as this flows. Not much else I can say at this point. But this process did not start 4-5 days ago.

ME: You guys will let bygones be bygones, right? :cool:
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Under the golden rule, i.e. the ACC will do whatever it takes to screw UConn the most, if the ACC expands, it will take either 1) Cincinnati to expand their Midwest presence, or 2) Navy as a football member (maybe lax, too) with the rest of Navy’s athletic teams stay parked in the Patriot and then take Georgetown in all other sports. That would provide a marquee football name, make ND really happy as that could count as one of their ACC conference games, make the old Big E teams, specially Syracuse, really happy in basketball, while filling in the space that Maryland’s departure created.
 
This was where ND was supposed to carry us into the ACC with them for all of our good intentions over the solid wall of fear, envy and sour grapes of our former league mates. Rejoice!
 
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The 3 tradition games for ND are Michigan, USC and Navy. I assume the 4th game would be a floater for the NBC contract. Is this accurate?

They may have to give up the floater or the ACC stays at 8 games. The Navy/Georgetown scenario make sense.
 
Stinger92860 said:
The 3 tradition games for ND are Michigan, USC and Navy. I assume the 4th game would be a floater for the NBC contract. Is this accurate?

They may have to give up the floater or the ACC stays at 8 games. The Navy/Georgetown scenario make sense.
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The Michigan game is no longer being played.
 
Stinger92860 said:
It's on the schedule for 2015. Is that the last one?

Then ND needs games for the NBC contract.
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Michigan is not on the 2015 contract. That was under the old deal that was cancelled.

Since then, ND has scheduled series with Texas, Georgia, Arizona State, Ohio State and others.

You left Stanford off the "Must be Played" games. ND alternates home/homes with Southern Cal and Stanford so that it always finishes the regular season in California.
 
Michigan and ND cancelled their series for now. I think it depends on which fanbase you're talking to to try to figure out who is more responsible.

I think OOC games that ND would like to schedule more often than not (assuming their conference would be the ACC), would be: USC, Stanford, Navy, 1 local B1G school (Purdue, MSU, Mich, etc).

Like @TerryD already said, ND has already really beefed up their OOC schedule for the next few years.
 
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Dooley said:
I would like this too...but am FAR too lazy to put it together. UCONN jumps up into the Top 30 I would think, right?
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You guys would be 30-35 based on a $15-20 million increase in revenue, as would Cincinnati. To be fair, we both might be pulling just a bit too much of our revenue out of student fees subsidizing athletics (which I'm not a huge fan of...), so I'd expect some of that revenue to actually come in a decrease in the pull on student fees (18 million for UConn, 21 million for UC).

But at least neither of us are Rutgers where over half your athletic department comes from ripping off students and/or loans (47 million/79 million). UNLV is next in line with 36 million out of 63 million.

The real shame in this realignment mess is that its selectively hurting institutions of academic learning for the sake of financial enrichment of a few Universities based off of football prowess in the past and "School Spirit".

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/schools/finances/
 
Broman said:
You guys would be 30-35 based on a $15-20 million increase in revenue, as would Cincinnati. To be fair, we both might be pulling just a bit too much of our revenue out of student fees subsidizing athletics (which I'm not a huge fan of...), so I'd expect some of that revenue to actually come in a decrease in the pull on student fees (18 million for UConn, 21 million for UC).

But at least neither of us are Rutgers where over half your athletic department comes from ripping off students and/or loans (47 million/79 million). UNLV is next in line with 36 million out of 63 million.

The real shame in this realignment mess is that its selectively hurting institutions of academic learning for the sake of financial enrichment of a few Universities based off of football prowess in the past and "School Spirit".

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/schools/finances/
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Don't forget the increase in money from interest in the games.
 
CL82 said:
Thank God for Fluguar. He may well be full of crap, but at least it is hopeful vaguely plausible crap.
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If nothing else, it's spreading the word to how many followers he has of some of the things that UCONN has going for it in CR. If they tell 10 people and those people tell 10 people...it will take 1,000 years for this information to reach critical mass.
 
anytime I see Flugaur's name, this runs through my mind:
"Go ahead, make your jokes, Mr. Jokey... Joke-maker. But let me hit you with some knowledge. Quit now. Save yourself the embarrassment of losing with these losers in Las Vegas, La Fleur."
 
Uconn to the B1G with in 18 months. If it is on the internet it must be true. Right? So I am putting it on the internet. Please Please Please BE TRUE!!
 
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MH3 @MH3 · 22h 22 hours ago
FOX has pledged to rework the B12 contract if the additions can increase the conference's national footprint by 1 timezone and at least 25%

MH3 @MH3 · 21h 21 hours ago
Big12 currently has a footprint of a paltry 16 million tv households. So any additions will have to add at least 4 million more

MH3 @MH3 · 21h 21 hours ago
The extra timezone gives Fox an extra slot to put a B12 match-up in every other week.
 
Dooley said:
Gee, I wonder what school is available in a different time zone that can bring a ton of TV sets to FOX???
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Isn't West Virginia in the eastern time zone?

No schools in Mountain West.
 
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Dooley said:
Gee, I wonder what school is available in a different time zone that can bring a ton of TV sets to FOX???
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That still points to BYU (Mountain) and Cincinati (Eastern) time zones, adds to the XII's home time zone (Central), except for WVU, which is Eastern.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
That still points to BYU (Mountain) and Cincinati (Eastern) time zones, adds to the XII's home time zone (Central), except for WVU, which is Eastern.
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Cincinnati doesn't bring 4M TV sets in any possible DMA division scenario. UCF/USF would bring more TV sets than Cincinnati as would UCONN if you give UCONN its fair stake into NYC and Boston.
 
upstater said:
Isn't West Virginia in the eastern time zone?

No schools in Mountain West.
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West Virginia brings negligible audience in the Eastern Time Zone. Fox already has Pacific and Mountain time zone content through its Pac-12 agreement, and Central time zone content with the B12. It is looking for East Coast households.

It's hard for me to see Fox pushing for anything other than UConn and UCF as the top two choices, if TV markets are the dominant factor. BYU is another possibility depending on how the numbers play out.
 
this is it folks... this is the one we've known is coming all along.
sit back, relax, and wait for the Big 12 to come calling.

Oh, and you might want to strap on that steel reinforced cup because this one is gonna hit square in the nuts and is gonna hurt like a mother. Not sure how it's gonna happen, but we're all aware of the Uconn Law of CR.
 
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