![]() ![]() Who knows? Maybe they even try to create their own streaming service. Or, even worse, what if the best 30 football programs in the country- Ohio State, USC, Penn State and Michigan for example, decide to leave their respective conferences and start something new? The Amazon Prime League. Top schools that will bring eyeballs and make the competition even tougher. The Big Ten is still looking to expand and it won’t be about location, so much as brand name. We are moving toward a streaming world, where anyone can watch anything. No, I’m more and more concerned that ratings won’t matter-algorithms will. They bring in eyeballs because of their location, the proximity to New York and amount of cable subscribers that brings.Īh, but I didn’t say they were getting kicked out. What if, five or ten years down the road, Rutgers gets left out?īut, Dave White, you narrow-minded basketball fan, you say, Rutgers isn’t getting kicked out of the Big Ten. Football wants to keep burrowing forward, taking out anything in its way in order to up its payout. College Football reminds me of the Nothing in the movie The Neverending Story-a power that destroys everything in its part by absorbing it all. Not wins and not entertainment, but money. The product won’t be as compelling, but the money would be great.Īgain, we’re cheering for money. As Gary Parrish says, after talking to people in TV, it would probably be “more lucrative” money wise if these football school winnow the teams down and away from the little guy. To me, as a college hoops fan first, that sucks. Peter’s and can still pull in huge dollars. “CBS isn’t paying for Saint Peter’s.They’re paying to see if Saint Peter’s can beat North Carolina.” These two conferences might be able to create a tournament where they don’t need St. Because basketball does not matter in this conversation and while the NCAA Tournament is a big time money maker, it could still go away if these two conferences can find a way to leverage more money without the smaller name schools. These power football schools seem to want to break away from everyone else-and that concerns me. As a basketball first fan, I am very, very worried about the long term prospects of the NCAA tournament. ![]() But UCLA and USC both finished in the top 15 of the Directors Cup standings, and the travel will be hell on all teams, particularly the Olympic sports.Īnd then, there are the long term concerns. Football is landing the players, but it is going to take some time for them to develop. At least at the moment, Rutgers basketball has things rolling from a winning and recruiting perspective. UCLA is coming off a recent Final Four appearance. USC just hired a fantastic coach and is going to be a football force. The Big Ten didn’t bring in slouches-they brought in brand names and traditional powers. In fact, some could argue that the job just got harder for Greg Schiano and everyone else in the athletic department. And, at the same time, everyone else in the conference will make the same amount, so while it will help Rutgers be step up from those left out to dry, it won’t help them vs. ![]() But beyond that, does the payout matter to fans? It’s not like Rutgers fans are going to see a dime of it. Maybe Rutgers fans can be happy that they won’t have to read long stories about spending after someone sends out a bunch of OPRA requests. The Scarlet Knights athletic department is about to make a windfall in TV payouts and that’s great. They have the R Fund to help build facilities and Knights of the Raritan and Knight Society to help with NIL. Scarlet Knights fans have taken great pleasure in these developments. And UConn was left in the dust after Rutgers and Maryland went to the Big Ten, and is now independent in football. Syracuse and BC bolted the Big East for the ACC as soon as they could and haven’t been the same since. They aren’t UConn or Syracuse or Boston College-teams that were strong in the early 2000s, but now have been weakened by conference movement. Short term, this is excellent for Rutgers. Conferences around the country have been crumbling under the weight of football movement, but the Scarlet Knights still have a seat at the table in the Big Ten-becoming one of potentially two power conferences along with the SEC. Rutgers fans were celebrating on Twitter about the story. That is what ran through my mind when news broke that the Big Ten was adding USC and UCLA. ![]()
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