B1G New Additions Offseason Thread

[medinabuckeye1]

Not sure where this belongs so here:
https://amp.awfulannouncing.com/tv/pac-12-network-final-sign-off-2024.html

[847badgerfan]

So, who is gonna hire the world's worst officials?

Casualties of conference realignment, Pac-12 officials detail hope, devastation in search of new opportunities - CBSSports.com

[FearlessF]

unfortunately, same number of games, they'll probably get a job

[847badgerfan]

We are not going to like the fact that Oregon is coming.

[FearlessF]

well, there's always a limit

[utee94]

I do wonder how much money will flow to Oregon NIL after Knight is... well... no longer providing it directly?

Will he set up a foundation with an endowment or something?  It'll be interesting.  Not many programs with that level of available resources are so reliant on one single benefactor.

[CatsbyAZ]

Came across the below post about the Cal Bears traveling approx 24k roundtrip miles to keep up with their new ACC football schedule.

So doing the math for the new B1G members – values in roundtrip travel miles:

UCLA: @Hawaii: 5116 + @LSU: 3196 + @Penn St: 4498 + @Rutgers: 4856 + @Nebraska: 4086 + @Washington: 1920 = 23,672 miles

USC: Vs LSU: 550 + @Michigan: 3888 + @Minnesota: 3048 + @Maryland: 4620 + @Washington: 1920 + @UCLA: 20 = 14,046 miles

Washington: @Rutgers: 4890 + @Iowa: 3124 + @Indiana: 3750 + @Penn State: 4436 + @Oregon: 486 = 16686 miles

Oregon: @Oregon St: 94 + @UCLA: 1476 + @Purdue: 3910 + @Michigan: 3946 + @Wisconsin: 3424 = 12850 miles

Tens of thousands of miles – how environmentally sustainable of our preachy West Coast universities.


https://twitter.com/LateKickJosh/status/1809957778892480998

[FearlessF]

yup, Coach Rhule promotes Lincoln, NE as the best spot to be in the Big Ten

[utee94]

yup, Coach Rhule promotes Lincoln, NE as the best spot to be in the Big Ten *

* For obtaining runzas

[CatsbyAZ]

“The USC Trojans and Ole Miss Rebels have cancelled a future home and home football series scheduled for 2025 and 2026. It seems Lincoln Riley and Co. are doing all they can to dodge future SEC opponents following the program’s move to the Big Ten.”

To draw from the same article quoted above regarding the cancelling of marquee cross-conference matchups: “Unfortunately, this is a trend that seems likely to continue across the sport. Conferences will have sights set on landing as many at-large bids as possible in the new 12-team playoff setup, meaning losses need to be at a premium for the league as a whole.”

I post the above quote as an explanation for why UCLA reached mutual agreement with both Georgia and Auburn to cancel their upcoming series. For UCLA travel costs/distances likely played a part, but for Auburn and Georgia I’m betting it all goes back to lightening their burdens to increase their (conference's) chances at one of twelve playoff bids.

From the LA Times–
“UCLA is dropping two college football heavyweights from its future football schedules in favor of far more familiar foes. Gone will be Georgia and Auburn, titans of the Southeastern Conference. Arriving will be Utah and California, former Pac-12 Conference rivals who joined the Big 12 and Atlantic Coast conferences, respectively, in the wake of UCLA’s departure for the Big Ten. Now they will be nonconference opponents who need no introduction.”


https://twitter.com/latimessports/status/1811083472762507268

[utee94]

well, there's always a limit

Sure.  Right now, for Phil Knight, that limit is "whatever it takes to outbid every other school on every player I want."

Like I said on the other thread, Oregon and Phil Knight are uniquely situated to take advantage of the current system in a way that not even Texas can compete with.  Knight has literally established a specific division of his company to manage NIL for Oregon.  Nobody at Texas has done that and realistically nobody at Texas has the right kind of company/capabilities to do it.

I'm not asking anyone to cry for Texas, we're still toward the top of the NIL programs.  We're just not AT the top.  Only Oregon is.

And current recruiting is bearing that out-- Texas is getting its ass handed to it in battles for any and every recruit that Oregon decides it wants.

I'm glad we're not in the same conference as them, and we only have to deal with the old-school antiquated recruiting methods employed by the majority of the SEC.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I'm not asking anyone to cry for Texas

That's good 

[utee94]

And I'm not crying for y'all-- you're the dummies that let this fox into your henhouse when there was absolutely no need to do so.

[847badgerfan]