I'm calling it now
Washington will be out of the Big 10 by 2031. There will be some revamped Pacific Coast Conference of which the Huskies will become a part. This will be due to finances and the logistics of having conference foes on the east coast and Midwest.
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Olympic sports should be. Football won't be. The next media contract is gonna be like $90,000,000 a year per program.
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If they take $100m from this private equity deal, they are owned forever.
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I think they'll still be in the Big Ten, but more teams might be in the mix and allow for a West Coast Division of the conference, thus allowing a bit of an old Pac8 flair to things.
I really think they need to pursue this, or interest in the West Coast teams from their own fanbases is going to really crater over time.
It's already done immense damage to my own interest, as someone who's been attending games since the early 80's.
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You rang?
That word, to me, is like the bat signal.
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Private equity ruins everything.
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I'm calling it now…will be owned by Saudi Arabia. Trying to sell every thing for the highest price you can get ends with being owned by the Saudis. Congrats.
In all seriousness, I think the opposite now. I think UW will hope to be in a trimmed Big 10 with the blue bloods or a combined NFL style league with the SEC.
They're not making any money off of Rutgers vs. UW or Maryland vs. Purdue etc, so they're gonna have to chase stronger games.
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I can't think of one instance in which a PE rollup made anything better
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It’ll start out by giving 1/19th equity to the investor. The schools will all spend their equity money way too fast and then will need to take a loan from the investor to maintain their spending. Then will need to get another loan. Then those loans get converted to even more equity for the investor and eventually they can just out vote everyone.
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Private Equity guy
Do we really need these high priced players? We could outsource to India and save a bundle. Or AI players in a virtual reality game
Let's get creative people
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The PE will encourage paying the players more. Their share won’t have real expenses, just cash flows from the media deals.
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Divisions within the conference makes the most sense, but you'd need 8 teams so that would mean adding Stanford, Cal, and probably the Arizona schools.
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I'm honestly shocked this hasn't happened yet. Football and basketball should be in separate conferences. Everything else should be regional smaller conferences. Not that hard. Cuts the cost of administering the Olympic sports down to a fraction. No reason we should be flying softball, baseball, whatever teams to Rutgers. Let them play on the west coast.
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Yeah I have never understood not having the football conferences be separate. I'm not sure basketball is even popular enough to warrant these national super conferences.
I don't buy folding back in the Bay Area or Arizona schools, etc. Those schools are dead and the gap will only get bigger each year. ASU is one bad year/Dilly leaving away from being irrelevant again.
Maaaaaaaaaybe BYU/Utah. Only programs west of Texas that would have the money and fan support to make it work.
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PE superiority guy
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Like most things PE, that gets reversed once it sucks
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It will always be an inferior product to the NFL. I hope the whole thing ends in bankruptcy and we end up back in the stone age of college football with UW playing the school for the blind while coached by Gil Doobie XIV. Maybe someone comes up with an idea for an annual game between the best teams on Jan 1, say in the Rose Bowl?
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We wanted the Big 16 in 2010
Pac 8 was the west
ASU and Arizona along with 6 Big 12 teams was the east. Could have kept Texas Oklahoma and AM out of the SEC
Instead we got Utah and Colorado and the deathwatch began
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I’m here for this because I want this udub playing Midwest teams crap to get off my lawn.
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you're an expert on PE too? what range you have
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In hindsight, that really was the beginning of the end. -
Youre the expert on getting butthurt on message board shit posting, so you have that feather in your cap.
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The divisions in the Big 10 should have already happened, but they won't because the powers that be want to game the system and set up schedules the way they want to and in the Big 10 they do not want to have to have Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State stuck having to take each other out.
It makes no sense we don't play the west coast schools home and home forever and that we don't play the western Big 10 schools like Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa as our main schedule to at least lessen some of the travel load.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the three flagship Big 10 programs have take trips to Husky Stadium in the first 3 years.
One funny thing is they probably gave Indiana easy schedules and thought who fucking cares, they'll never win anything and now they've set up a monster.
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agreed 100%
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I remember some savvy guys on Dawgman in the late 1990s said that super conferences would be formed…UW would be part of that.
Then 10-12 of the biggest teams would eventually leave those super conferences and try to get Notre Dame-type TV deals.
The B1G will continue to protect their top 2 moneymakers through corrupt ref-officiating. I've been watching Big 10 games for 40 years. Somebody should make a compilation of all the bad calls, which go in Ohio State and Michigan's favor. It could be hours long… Watch a bunch of Minnesota vs Michigan games, and you'll puke at how bad Minnesota constantly gets screwed over…4-6 bad calls in those games every year, and always in Michigan's favor. (Every play needs to be reviewable.)
I want the Pac 4 in the B1G to stay strong. The B1G heads will try to weaken them over time.
I'd say UW stays in the B1G until close to 2040, then the Pac 4 will be very tired of their crap by then.
UW constantly ranked between 15th-40th is going to frustrate a lot of UW fans.
ESPN will die, I'm not going to pay $100/month for ESPN in 10 years.
A new Pac conference with fractional shares will inevitably be formed. Maybe USC will get one of those Notre Dame deals. Seattle will be one of the top 5 biggest cities in the US, so maybe UW will eventually get an ND deal too. -
Do we? alternate USC/UCLA or has that just been happenstance?
I think divisions are stupid but having 3 locked-in regional opponents annually makes sense (vs 1). SEC just went to 3 annual rivalry games with the new 9 game scheduling. That would take care of it for the 4 west coasters.
Am I wrong, but don't some of the B1G teams already have more than 1 "rival" game per year?
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Yes, at the minimum, UW, UO, UCLA & U$C should all be playing each other every year.
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Every original team in the BIG 10 gets some dumb trophy every time they beat one of the other Midwest schools.
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I mean, Oregon beat Ohio State and Michigan last year when the wefs were B1G wefs
That said, the wefs suck ass, but this level of conspiracy ain't it
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Yes, but there are "protected games" played annually.
Here's the list:
Punch line: Iowa has 3, Purdue 2, Illinois 2, Wisconsin 2, Minnesota 2, Michigan 2.
One team already gets 3 locked-in opponents annually. Make it so for every team, just like the new SEC model. Solves the west coast travel thing for football.
