Yea, I don’t think their going to pods…
Making Notre Dame think things over.. If the BIG goes to 10 conference games there won’t be any room for the Irish to play B1G teams..
Not sure exactly what the last point about advance scheduling means. I would think they'd at least schedule teams for 2 years with a home and away game for the same pair of teams. The expansion to 20 teams seems the most likely scenario mentioned by pundits with the additions of Oregon, Washington, Stanford and TBD (being either Notre Dame or some other team if Notre Dame declines).
Seems limiting to agree to expansion revenue terms without any advanced notice of which teams from which markets, wouldn’t you say?
We'd have to see the exact wording of the media contract to know the answer. Who's to say they didn't get a specific assessment for specific teams? My guess is that the future expansion teams were already defined. Oregon and Washington, for example, were widely speculated as expansion possibilities before and the B1G reportedly told them to wait for a final decision until after the B1G media deal was done.
ND plays what 1 B1G team per season these days? If that?
Well don't forget the equation changes IF USC and Stanford become part of the B1G. And ND used to play Michigan State and Michigan in the past.
Because Trev doesn’t have a lot of weight making the major decisions for the conference..
Well we don't know yet what is going to happen for sure. Although the pundits aren't mentioning the Arizona schools, you never know.
So what does that have to with the price of tea in China..
For sure no doubt but the question is do they want to be in the role? ACC with or without ND will always be behind in revenue share per team vs. the B1G and SEC. ND will never agree to share it's revenue equally with other ACC teams to take a "pay cut" and even if they did, the ACC still would be behind the B1G and SEC.
I said it before the deal was announced and believe it even more now:
But what's that got to do with ND being more powerful than the entire B1G?
ND being able to command about an equal media deal all by themselves makes this a pretty obvious answer
in 2018, ND went undefeated and lost to the eventual national champ in the playoffs. much better than KU playing in a meaningless bowl for nothing.
Well ND is widely expected to command a $70 million per year deal while the B1G will be getting $100 million. That's 42% higher but I guess if you don't care about $30 million it's about the same.
$70M is reported to be NBC’s portion only
Well I don't care that much about ND one way or the other myself but obviously you must be a huge ND fan to be making such a case for them. :Cool:
Notre Dame fans can sit around sipping drinks and reminiscing about the time they tied Kansas' record.
Fans of programs that will be in of one of these super-conferences for no other reason than being legacy members rather than on merit should probably sit out these conf expansion discussions and spend their time thanking their lucky stars knowing that otherwise they would be on the outside looking in
Maybe the thought behind that is if there is divisions the same teams will be playing each other year after year except for one game against someone in the opposite division..
Yes, the thinking is to ensure there's an opportunity to play everyone over the years in a big conference with a pod setup. If you have a big conference with only two large divisions then you might never (or very rarely) get to play a team in the opposite division because you're too occupied with just all the games in your own division.
The only real solution is to have a 32-team National Playoff. Or at least 16-team. Because conference play will have differing & unfair schedules. Make it like basketball, where it makes absolutely no difference as long as you're in the top few teams.
