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    New Ryan Field pricing

    Assuming 7 games per season, that’s roughly a $50 surcharge on each ticket at the cheapest price point. Will also indicate that the single ticket price get-in price for games against the likes of OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin will be a minimum of $150-200 a ticket. if the brochure is online...
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    OT: Whittingham to Michigan

    Unrelated, I’ll be surprised if Jason Eck Isn’t coaching in the B10 in 2027. Whatever team hires him (and it speaks volumes that Wisconsin couldn’t afford to), will be competitive and really fun to watch.
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    OT: Whittingham to Michigan

    Biff Poggi signed his own death warrant (proverbial) on Tuesday. If he gets to coach the Texas game, he should consider himself very lucky.
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    OT: Notre Dame AD says the ACC did “permanent damage” to its relationship with Notre Dame with its campaign for Miami in the CFP.

    In 2013, adding these schools to get BTN added at $1 per month-per subscriber to viable packages in NY/NJ and the DC Metroplex was good thinking. 6 years later, that value has completely vanished No. Not if the massive metro viewership doesn’t tune in (and they certainly don’t tune in to...
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    OT: Notre Dame AD says the ACC did “permanent damage” to its relationship with Notre Dame with its campaign for Miami in the CFP.

    FOX has made it abundantly clear that there are already enough teams in the Big Ten that nobody wants to watch (unless they are playing Ohio State) and that, with exceptions (and I think the list is basically down to ND, FSU and Miami), expansion is going to mean fewer, not more, dollars in the...
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    OT: Notre Dame AD says the ACC did “permanent damage” to its relationship with Notre Dame with its campaign for Miami in the CFP.

    Who is “them?” Notre Dame, the ACC or both? Jim Phillips deserves some criticism for not leading an effort to get Miami into the title game in place of Duke. I think I heard something to the effect of the deciding factor for Duke was the result of the Stanford/North Carolina game or...
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    Bowl Game slight

    Bowl games are about two things, ticket sales and TV ratings. Northwestern drew respectable to good ratings for games against Michigan, USC and Illinois, but the conference did not release ratings for the games on BTN. The only other game with released viewing numbers was week 1 against...
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    College sports has died

    I note the money to be paid to Utah is over twice the amount Tony Pettit was offering B10 schools. The most unfortunate part is the repayment (and profit) will be done to a significant part of the backs of “regular” fans.
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    First game in new Ryan Field

    The only other Big 10 controlled (telecast) game (currently) scheduled for 9/19 that would possibly be under consideration is Maryland hosting Virginia Tech for the James Franklin angle. Colorado pulled decent numbers early in 2025, through about early October before they were barely drawing...
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    Return of the Mack (Fitz Openly Seeming Jobs)

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    Return of the Mack (Fitz Openly Seeming Jobs)

    Fitz hired at MSU.
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    Minnesota game time

    Kicking after 6pm local time
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    Minnesota game time

    So did most of the league until they actually read the contract between the networks and the Big Ten. Many league members actually believed that NBC was paying hundreds of millions of dollars for a Big 10 Saturday night TV package that was going to stop after the first Saturday in November...
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    Minnesota game time

    Game time/network will be released late Saturday night. it appears FOX might take Oregon/USC (obviously not at noonET/9PT) creating a domino reshuffling. Are Northwestern games counted in the Cubs allotment of annual night games, meaning that the Minnesota game would not kick at 6pm or later...
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    Do you have an opinion on Tony Pettiti?

    Couple of thoughts here (finally migrated from the old board) The Big 10 is long past the days of like minded academic institutions partnering together. Once the partnership with FOX flipped from being controlled by the conference to the network, the BigTen is nothing more than a collection of...
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