Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:27 am Post subject: USC, UCLA to Join the Big Ten Conference in 2024
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USC and UCLA, two of the Pac-12's flagship programs, are considering leaving the conference for the Big Ten as early as 2024, a source confirmed to ESPN on Thursday.
There is still a formal notification process, as the two schools have to let the Pac-12 know their intentions to leave. USC and UCLA also have to formally apply to the Big Ten. According to a source, that process is underway.
The San Jose Mercury News first reported the news.
Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff was not immediately available for comment.
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:29 am Post subject: USC and UCLA To Join BIG Ten Conference in 2024?
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USC and UCLA are in conversations to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten as early as 2024, The Athletic's Nicole Auerbach confirmed. Big Ten presidents and athletic directors held a meeting last night on the topic. Pac-12 reporter Jon Wilner first reported that the two schools were planning to leave as early as 2024 but that the move "has not been finalized at the highest levels of power."
Multiple sources told The Athletic's Bruce Feldman that the two Pac-12 schools were the ones to reach out to the Big Ten about a move.
The Big Ten is currently in negotiations over its next media rights deal. Its existing deals with ESPN and Fox run through the next academic year, 2022-23. The Pac-12's current membership has been together since 2011, when Colorado and Utah joined the league from the Big 12 and the Mountain West, respectively. Before that, the last changes to membership were the addition of Arizona and Arizona State in 1978.
I'm not big on college sports, but damn, that would be a HUGE shift in the landscape for college conferences/TV rights/etc. Would make the Rose Bowl Game pretty interesting if UCLA/USC were to go against a PAC-12 team.
Shocking move if true, but then again the Pac-12's weakness as a conference led to something like this. I'm sure the Pac-12 network where its on a channel that has less exposure than something like Fox/FS1/Big 10 Network which is available in far less homes results in Pac-12 teams getting far less money than other conferences.
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:47 am Post subject: Re: USC and UCLA To Join BIG Ten Conference in 2024?
Lamar's Bud wrote:
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USC and UCLA are in conversations to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten as early as 2024, The Athletic's Nicole Auerbach confirmed. Big Ten presidents and athletic directors held a meeting last night on the topic. Pac-12 reporter Jon Wilner first reported that the two schools were planning to leave as early as 2024 but that the move "has not been finalized at the highest levels of power."
Multiple sources told The Athletic's Bruce Feldman that the two Pac-12 schools were the ones to reach out to the Big Ten about a move.
The Big Ten is currently in negotiations over its next media rights deal. Its existing deals with ESPN and Fox run through the next academic year, 2022-23. The Pac-12's current membership has been together since 2011, when Colorado and Utah joined the league from the Big 12 and the Mountain West, respectively. Before that, the last changes to membership were the addition of Arizona and Arizona State in 1978.
I'm not big on college sports, but damn, that would be a HUGE shift in the landscape for college conferences/TV rights/etc. Would make the Rose Bowl Game pretty interesting if UCLA/USC were to go against a PAC-12 team.
Gonna be sad to see the conference I grew up with from Pac 10/12 slowly dissolve but blame it all on this awful Commish that gradually led to this disaster over the past few years.
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:01 pm Post subject:
Pretty shocking at first. But thinking about the landscape of college sports... and the long standing problems of the Pac-12, I suppose it's not a surprise. _________________ "We got a new universe coming and he's going to control all our universes. We're going to put our universes together" - Metta World Peace
How does the Big 10 benefit by getting UCLA and USC?
How does a conference generate money? I'm thinking the same as professional leagues?
1) TV revenue
2) sponsorship deals
3) Gate receipts
4) Merchandise
5) Bowl games
I'm thinking revenues are split evenly across all the members of the conference. So, there's 14 teams in the Big 10, and now adding USC and UCLA makes it a 16 team conference?
So, what does the Big 10 get out of letting USC and UCLA join?
Do they get more TV revenue? More bowl games revenue?
Shocking move if true, but then again the Pac-12's weakness as a conference led to something like this. I'm sure the Pac-12 network where its on a channel that has less exposure than something like Fox/FS1/Big 10 Network which is available in far less homes results in Pac-12 teams getting far less money than other conferences.
There's a dude on YT whose chan I like to peruse on the telly for the old school NBA stuff from 92-94 and NCAA hoops. He recorded SportsCenters every day from 1991 to 2002ish and uploaded recaps in chronological order, probably 90-120 mins of content each. He's got NCAA seasons from at least 91/2 to 97/8. The 92 clips are especially interesting for The Shaq appearances and Dookies. Shaq was ridiculous next to the Lilliputians in college ball if you thought the NBA was puny next to him. Also the Fab 5 gms from 93. I went thru the whole list from 1994/5 to revisit some of the 95 Bruins and I was surprised to re-learn that there were 4 Pac10 teams in the Tourney that year. UCLA, Arizona, Mario Bennett Arizona St, Oregon. There might've even been 5 with Stanford, can't recall. It wasn't a sh-less conf for the Bruins that year. Iirc, UMass w/ Camby was the team people thot were gonna win in 95 and or 96, but Camby got injured in season in 95 and they didn't recover. UNC w/ Sheed and Stack in 95. I think they got beat in a nasty upset. Arkansas was a tough matchup for a lot of teams as the title game opponent because they ran all night like an Arkansan LMU.
Dat Tyus Edney drive vs Mizzou, do'. The Marques Johnson radio call of that moment is great (his son was a Bruin in 97, Chris, had weight issues). Second it went in, he started screaming "YEAH, BABAY!" fifty-leven times in a row. That drive was the margin of error for the last Bruins championship team (to come for more decades, prob). Great ride, tho. The run w/ the Farmar/Afflalo/M'bah-a-Moute team was good, but you knew Florida was going to beat them, and they did.
I remember keeping tabs on the 92 Trojan team just for the Baby Jordan, but they lost to this. James Forrest was a 12th guy on the Lakers one year. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
How does the Big 10 benefit by getting UCLA and USC?
How does a conference generate money? I'm thinking the same as professional leagues?
1) TV revenue
2) sponsorship deals
3) Gate receipts
4) Merchandise
5) Bowl games
I'm thinking revenues are split evenly across all the members of the conference. So, there's 14 teams in the Big 10, and now adding USC and UCLA makes it a 16 team conference?
So, what does the Big 10 get out of letting USC and UCLA join?
Do they get more TV revenue? More bowl games revenue?
Big 10 essentially marks Socal as their territory for recruiting now. This is huge especially for those midwest schools where they will get access to all that football talent. Also the conference gets the 2nd biggest media market under their control. USC and UCLA gets a better media package compared to what they were working with before. That means they will probably get more money than they were getting under Pac-12 media rights. Pac-12 really dropped the ball losing both Socal schools, I think they might have a problem keeping other schools like Stanford and Cal as they might be tempted to join another conference as well. Don't forget during the last decade a lot of talent left for the SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big 12, this really hurt the talent level in the Pac-12. With both schools joining a mega conference now they will probably stay home.
Wouldn't be surprised if Oregon and another Pac school like Washington or Colorado were next to the Big10.
Pac and Big 12 might need to combine in order to survive.
The SEC started the ball rolling. Look at how much their media rights go for compared to the other conferences. The other conferences will just end up snatching schools from each other and build their own mega conference to survive. A conference from the power 5 will eventually disappear because they weren't able to survive in this new media landscape. The downside of USC and UCLA joining the Big 10 is that all the traditional rivalries against schools in the Pac-12 will disappear because they will now face a predominantly Big 10 schedule.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:39 am Post subject:
lakersken80 wrote:
C-BUS LAKERFAN wrote:
Wouldn't be surprised if Oregon and another Pac school like Washington or Colorado were next to the Big10.
Pac and Big 12 might need to combine in order to survive.
The SEC started the ball rolling. Look at how much their media rights go for compared to the other conferences. The other conferences will just end up snatching schools from each other and build their own mega conference to survive. A conference from the power 5 will eventually disappear because they weren't able to survive in this new media landscape. The downside of USC and UCLA joining the Big 10 is that all the traditional rivalries against schools in the Pac-12 will disappear because they will now face a predominantly Big 10 schedule.
And that begs the question, if you’re now paying (at least the better) players (which I agree with) and you’re changing all of the old rivalries, what is even the value of having the colleges themselves involved anymore? Tradition is really the only reason, and that’s going by the wayside. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:49 am Post subject:
Basically this is just a lower level pro league. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
How does the Big 10 benefit by getting UCLA and USC?
How does a conference generate money? I'm thinking the same as professional leagues?
1) TV revenue
2) sponsorship deals
3) Gate receipts
4) Merchandise
5) Bowl games
I'm thinking revenues are split evenly across all the members of the conference. So, there's 14 teams in the Big 10, and now adding USC and UCLA makes it a 16 team conference?
So, what does the Big 10 get out of letting USC and UCLA join?
Do they get more TV revenue? More bowl games revenue?
LA market. Rumor is each team will receive 100 million a year in TV revenue with the new Fox contract. I heard that the current Pac revenue is 30 million a year. It's too much $ for them to pass up. UCLA has a 30 million athletic deficit.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:17 am Post subject:
C-BUS LAKERFAN wrote:
Omar Little wrote:
Basically this is just a lower level pro league.
Always has been. It's the NFL minor league system that they don't have to pay a dime for.
Right. So why perpetuate the myth? And why create a new system where there’s no attempt at parity or rules for teams. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
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