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Future BIG expansion candidates to get to 20 teams

DrFumblerooski said:
(Frantically waving my hand in the air) ME! ME! ME!!!
Hey, ramelbm, as the old Bob Dylan song goes, the time's they are a changin'

Those old trips to Lawrence, Ames, Manhattan, and Columbia --- along with those longer field trips all the way down to Norman -- were a bunch of fun. But as much as we tend to lament what TV has done to our beloved sport, let's not forget WHY television has had the impact it has had on the game:

Impact #1 - Many of us on this board remember that radio used to be our 'go-to' for 75% or more each season's games. Back in the day, it was rare to see more than one or two Husker games on network TV. As much as I enjoyed 'the Voice of Husker Football,' Lyell Bremser, listening to a game on radio isn't anywhere close to the same as seeing it live on television. Unlike radio, with TV, you had a sense of being there to watch them play.

Impact # 2 - And let's not forget the enormous impact that the coming of High-Def TVs had on the game. With a HD, flat-screen TV, you suddenly felt like you had The Best Seat in the Stadium for all of the action. It's the reason why -- unlike Nebraska -- most CFB teams have trouble selling out their stadiums anymore.
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The biggest reason I was excited when we joined the Big 10 was BTN. I'm sure I'm not the only one that got tired of radio and PPV games.
 
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The population has increased 50% since I was born and the median age was roughly 28 years old and now its 37. The median buying power is higher per capita and the stadium barely increased the number of seats. I don't think a winning Husker team is in any danger anytime soon, especially with so many future NFL players visiting each season. People come to be entertained.

For the benefit of the fan they need to be sensitive to teams in close proximity. Stanford, Cali, and BYU make sense for West coast. Kansas, Okie St, and TCU would be good for Midwest teams like Iowa and Nebraska. If you go into the East then you need a cluster.
 
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DrFumblerooski said:
(Frantically waving my hand in the air) ME! ME! ME!!!
Hey, ramelbm, as the old Bob Dylan song goes, the time's they are a changin'

Those old trips to Lawrence, Ames, Manhattan, and Columbia --- along with those longer field trips all the way down to Norman -- were a bunch of fun. But as much as we tend to lament what TV has done to our beloved sport, let's not forget WHY television has had the impact it has had on the game:

Impact #1 - Many of us on this board remember that radio used to be our 'go-to' for 75% or more each season's games. Back in the day, it was rare to see more than one or two Husker games on network TV. As much as I enjoyed 'the Voice of Husker Football,' Lyell Bremser, listening to a game on radio isn't anywhere close to the same as seeing it live on television. Unlike radio, with TV, you had a sense of being there to watch them play.

Impact # 2 - And let's not forget the enormous impact that the coming of High-Def TVs had on the game. With a HD, flat-screen TV, you suddenly felt like you had The Best Seat in the Stadium for all of the action. It's the reason why -- unlike Nebraska -- most CFB teams have trouble selling out their stadiums anymore.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I enjoy that every game is on TV even if some of those broadcasts are a bear to watch - bad announcers, times that aren't consistent, constant breakaways to other games. I can't say I would want to go back to the days of 6 or 7 games on TV - usually 2:30 Central Time or and evening game - but sometimes it was much easier to plan my Saturday.
I do often have the radio broadcast on and the TV turned down. Heck, how many of us have the TV on, the radio on and are posting here at BHF???
Sometimes I miss the days of listening in the tree stand or doing yard work.
Anyway, I digress....the season is almost here. GO BIG RED!!!!
 
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I prefer to listen to the games and still do most of the time. I go out to our building and tinker on old iron while listening to the game. That is my preferred way to experience Husker Football. That or being in the combine with my grandfather, but he doesn't farm anymore so there goes that. Now if old Adrian Fiala would rise from the dead and Greg Sharpe kept doing radio I would think that would be perfect.
 
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Son of Charlie said:
I prefer to listen to the games and still do most of the time. I go out to our building and tinker on old iron while listening to the game. That is my preferred way to experience Husker Football. That or being in the combine with my grandfather, but he doesn't farm anymore so there goes that. Now if old Adrian Fiala would rise from the dead and Greg Sharpe kept doing radio I would think that would be perfect.
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When I was a kid, I hunted with the Sheriff of Adams county and his kid, we hunted in the morning, lunched at some berg in central Nebraka and listened to the Huskers game on AM radio and finished up the day hunting after the game. Best time of my life, good football and great pheasant hunting
 
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ATX_Husker said:
Paul Sullivan: Time to divide and conquer? Introducing the New Big Ten and Little Big Ten.

There’s no need for the Big Ten to stop after adding Oregon and Washington. Simply adding two more would-be Pac-12 refugees, Stanford and Cal, and he’ll have 20 schools that can be realigned into two separate, but moneymaking conferences — the new Big Ten and the Little Ten — both run by Petitti.

The New Big Ten would consist of the 10 schools with the most prestige, the ones you’d want to watch on NBC, CBS and Fox. With Ohio State, Michigan and USC at the forefront, it would rival the SEC as the most powerful conference and could send as many as four teams into an expanded playoff field.

The Little Ten’s conference games would mostly be relegated to the Big Ten Network. The best of the Little Ten would have a shot at winning a conference title and an at-large playoff bid instead of watching Ohio State or Michigan crowned in Indianapolis every December — and maybe someday it could replace the Pac-12 as a Power Five conference.

To make things more interesting, each Big Ten would have its own conference title game, played on back-to-back days in Indy. The winner of the Little Ten title would be promoted to the New Big Ten the following year, while the team with the worst record in the New Big Ten would be relegated to the Little Big Ten for at least one season.

Here’s how it would look to start off.

New Big Ten
— Ohio State: The Big Ten’s biggest and best brand with eight national championships

— Michigan: Winningest program in college football history with the greatest fight song

— USC: Tied for most Heisman trophies (7) with Ohio State, Oklahoma and Notre Dame

— Penn State: The most dominant program in the Northeast

— Oregon: Appeared in the national championship game in 2015

— Wisconsin: Six Big Ten championships since 1993

— Washington: CFP semifinalist in 2016 and ranked 26th in all-time wins

— Michigan State: Three Big Ten championships since 2010 and a CFP semifinal appearance in 2015

— Nebraska: Fallen on hard times of late, but is ninth on the all-time win list

— Iowa: Big Ten titles in 2002 and 2004

Little Ten
— Illinois: Rebuild on target under coach Bret Bielema

— Purdue: Managed to win the weak Big Ten West last year

— Indiana: Hoosiers always have 2020 to fondly look back on

— Stanford: Alums include Ernie Nevers, John Elway, Christian McCaffrey and Jim Plunkett

— Minnesota: Shared one division title in 2019, but lost the tiebreaker to Wisconsin

— UCLA: Haven’t won a Pac-12 title since 1998, but rivalry with USC remains must-see TV

— Rutgers: At least the New York-New Jersey market has a team

— Northwestern: Hazing scandal following 1-11 season spells disaster

— Cal: Still living off “The Play” from the 1982 game vs. Stanford

— Maryland: Never had a winning season in conference play since joining the Big Ten in 2014

Naturally, some of the Little Ten schools would cringe at the thought of being realigned to a less prestigious conference, but the sharing revenues from the new, $7 billion TV deal would make everyone happy.

And with Indiana, Illinois, Purdue and UCLA, the Little Ten would likely be the more dominant men’s basketball conference, while the New Big Ten would have the nation’s biggest women’s basketball star in Iowa’s Caitlin Clark.
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So, in say 10 years, the New Big Ten could decide, you know, why share this money with the Liittle Ten? They would just break off and start the New Old New Big Ten. Same with the SEC and ACC and Big 12. So in say 10-15 years, we could be back to our small 10 team conferences.
 
DrFumblerooski said:
Impact #1 - Many of us on this board remember that radio used to be our 'go-to' for 75% or more each season's games. Back in the day, it was rare to see more than one or two Husker games on network TV.
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In the 1940/50s radio was the ONLY way in Western Nebraska. Listened to all the non-TV games in 60/70s on the radio out in San Diego.
 
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Nebraska AD Trev Alberts predicts far more disruptive round of expansion coming

“History is unkind to conferences that have not had the courage to expand,” Nebraska athletics director Trev Alberts told the Lincoln Journal Star’s Amie Just. “I don’t believe it’s done. It’s never been done. It’s more likely than not that there will be continued periods of angst. I believe that the next go-around – that’s my basic conclusion – will be far more disruptive than anything we’re currently engaged in. We need to prepare ourselves mentally for that.”
 
Let's just put every P5 University in 1 league, and break it down into 8 divisions. The 1st place 8 teams fight for Nattie.

Geeze.
 
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