Yeah I just can’t believe it either. Like how could every other source on this be so wrong. I don’t know much about Wannstedt but I also can’t believe he would just make up the story. Like some meeting must have taken place where they were talking about the merits of the different schools and which ones would fit where. I don’t think anyone disagrees that if you had to find homes for the Big8 schools something like what he describes makes geographic sense. But are all of the other schools OK making less money just so teams don’t get orphaned?
Only sometimes a stray dog can provide a benefit to those who take him in.
Yeah, I don't see it for a few of reasons.
charity. do the "right" thing. Its wrong but I could totally see U Prezs coming to that decision. We are all united kind of thing with 56 teams or whatever it would be.
I doubt it, but several sources have speculated over the past few weeks that ISU will end up in the BiG. So this guy is an outlier but he isn't alone.
Correct, the PhD's do. Their mindset may be way different.
Presidents, or whatever. Same deal. They aren't gonna vote yes to less money for their respective schools. The B1G is not going to add 2 of the worst P5 football programs of all time in response to the SEC adding 2 of the best.
To clarify, my point is that the remaining Big 12 schools add less value than a stray dog.
Spoiler alert - the President of the University of Michigan doesn't give a damn about Baylor.
Baylor is not one of the teams mentioned as being part of the charitable outreach. And these are the PhD's not the ADs. They run in same circles and have a bit different mindset.
WVU to the ACC or KSU and OSU to the PAC is even more ridiculous.
How does the BIG taking ISU and KU pre-empt the SEC from grabbing ACC teams in the future? If anything it does the opposite. It leaves the BIG bloated with historically bad football programs with no room to invite ACC schools or Notre Dame. The BIG is better off staying lean and flexible.
In whatever this alliance is, the Big Ten is the big dog and we should not agree to anything that makes us equals. Our say should be the greatest. Otherwise we may as well have Bowlsby as our commissioner.
No they all have the same mindset. What's the bottom line. They all live and exist to blow out their numbers.
University Presidents are different kinds of people. The upper crust intellectuals. Different mindset.
Unless there was some sort of transition built in for 2025 for those 6 teams. BUt yeah, Baylor and whoever else would be left out in the cold would just bolt most likely and say F the rest of you guys.
