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Rutgers would definitely bring in the NY market for the Big Whatever...
Rutgers is what I've read in several articles lately. Rutgers makes a lot of sense, good school and part of the NY market.
Rutgers would definitely bring in the NY market for the Big Whatever...
Im with this, best tv market of all the teams that have been mentioned. Then the Big East takes Memphis to replace them.
Pac 10 takes Utah and Colorado
Big 12 adds TCU, but what to do about the north/south divisions?
Boise St takes Utah's place in the MWC
and finally CUSA shifts Tulane to the east and takes UTSA
Big 11 won't take a school unless said school makes their tv revenues go up up up from 22 mil a yr to more.
That makes Texas, ND as the only real factors. Rutgers and the 'Cuse add the NY market, but NY only really cares much about college bball so 'cuse is the only dark horse that can add tvs in NY because of the 2-3 zone.
You are missing the point. UT already gets more than any other AD in the nation total. Therefore, why would you take an 8 mil raise per year to get the same thing that Northwestern and Purdue and Minnesota get when you already get 10 mil more than BU and CU and ISU get?
In the B12, they are #1 in the nation and miles ahead of their conf mates. In the B10, they would be #1 in the nation and equal to their conf mates. Economically not smart for them, and they know it.
I think he's trying to say UT would be better off the huge fish in the smaller pond where the other schools don't have the revenue to keep up with them. Not that anyone short of Ohio st in that conference has anywhere near the facilities or compt advantage anyway.
I see where you are coming from, but I just disagree with your perspective.
Lets say the Big Ten ended up taking Missouri and the Big 12 added TCU to replace them. The Big 12 will lose the TV revenue from the media market Missouri brings to the table, while TCU won't add any TV revenue because the Big 12 already has the entire state of Texas media market with the current Big 12 teams in that state, which means that the Big 12 TV revenue goes down if they were to lose Missouri and add TCU.
Texas knows that. IF Texas were to join the Big 10 they bring the entire state of Texas to the Big Ten Network, likely increasing the reveue of the current TV deal substantially. Yes, Texas is the king fish in the Big 12 since they do get the lion's share of the TV revenue, and if they were in the Big Ten they would share the revenue with the other schools. But is sharing money with other schools that bad that Texas would be willing to turn away an extra 8-12 million a year in just TV revenue and access to the CIC reseach fund. Perhaps, but I don't Texas would look at the move because they are top dog in won conference in terms of TV revenue and not in another confernce even though Texas would stand to make a lot more money from year to year.
I think Texas will isten to what the Big Ten has to say, if the Big Ten comes calling because (a) it doesn't hurt to listen and (b) they know if the Big Ten does expand to either 12 or 14 teams that it is likely to have a domino effect and Texas just wants to be prepared of the effects to its own conference if expansion is the route the Big Ten goes.
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