Iahawkeyes - even better on facts and stats. I do think Yeah Buddy is taking my stuff on Iowa stats and other conference stats and ISU's plight to post on CF which is great since I won't post in that cesspool. But CYTwins and their groups' new argument is Iowa and ISU are similar cause neither has won a conference title since 2004. Great position since Iowa did win last in 2004 and ISU is what 1912 or something? And they wonder why nobody would ever take them in a new conference. I want the Big 12 implode for 2 reasons. First, ISU will end up for sure in a non-power conference so we have an excuse to get out of a game that kills Iowa win or lose. 1 argument on that: we won by almost 40 and dropped in the rankings. Second, teams are dying to get into the Big 10 conference which will only help us to be choosers not beggars.
You have been spouting the same garbage over and over, and yes, there are ignorant posters here and you are one of the biggest. You are letting your HATE for ISU get in the way of your thinking, and you just said so. All the stuff about ISU being one of the worst P5 schools, only 15% fan base, not in a major market, they may be true, but it will not matter at all if and when the Big 12 goes under. And ISU will end up in the Pac 12 and here is why. Right now Iowa makes more money from the share of BTN than they make in ticket sells, and how does BTN make money, not from advertising, they make the lions share by being able to charge every person in a given state a set monthly fee. The fee is 10 cents to every household if the state does not have a conference team and 1 dollar a month if they do. So if you have cable, satellite tv service you and I every other person in the state of Iowa pay BTN 12 dollars a year. The genius about the system is no one is allowed to opt out, does not matter if they are a fan or not, everyone pays the 12 bucks a year. So TV ratings do not matter, being one of the worst P5 Programs do not matter, the BTN does not give a break to Rutgers fans because the suck, they all pay the same rate. The key then becomes to pick new teams for states you do not currently serve, increase your conference footprint and no more than one team per state. Now the first couple expansions, the best teams jumped, this has left us with Texas, and Oklahoma left, they have better options then go to the PAC 12. After the SEC, BIG 10 and ACC pluck the best schools the PAC 12 will have to take the ones left over. The other leagues will not allow them to stay at 12 when they are at 16 nor will the networks. One of the few things your are correct about is ISU has no value to the Big 10, but its not because they suck at football, its because the conference already has a team in the state. So choosing ISU brings the big 10 zero extra dollars in, but that is not true for the PAC 12, Iowa outside of Texas is the largest population state that will be left and available. Oklahoma and Ok. St. will be in the SEC, so now that changes the picture quite a bit, here sits ISU, AAU school, stadium that seats 65,000 people, a school that its football attendance for 2016 would have placed in 5th in the league. A men's BB program that has made the NCAA tournament six straight years. So please name me the four schools that will go in place of ISU, remember you do not need more than one per state. I will be watching for your response.