The big ten is actually dumb af for sitting on 16. Adding Oregon/UW/unc/Duke/fsu/Miami would put it on par with the sec + make it the premiere basketball conference. Only a few schools really generate money from Bball, and the big ten would then have most of them (Duke, unc, md, msu, UM, Wisconsin, Illinois, purdue, ucla)
They can't sit at 16. It's an arms race with the SEC and they only have 2 west coast schools.
Sure they want to expand east and get some schools that could either go SEC or B1G, but they can't leave the LA schools on an island.
No one here is mentioning that you have to appease your largest customer, which is FOX. FOX wants a West Coast pod.
Sure doesn’t seem like FOX cares about that. They could have UW & OR any time they want in the BIG10. And yet here we are…
There are factors at play beyond "fuck it lets just publicly skin 7 schools who used to be our business partner."
Additionally this whole shit show forces UW and Oregon to accept less than a full share which makes all the fucking truck stops happy like Minnesota and Illinois, so that they can easily get the votes they need.
It helps those schools wit travel too. You'd see more of a pro style road trip where ah Indiana plays USC and then flies up to Seattle, does online lecturing/tutoring and practices in a public park before kicking UW's ass. Rather than flying back and forth to wherever the fuck their campus is, Hawkins?
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