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RE: Poll: Stanford's Go-Forward Conference Alignment - chrisk - 08-04-2023
(08-04-2023, 08:18 PM)norcard10 Wrote: Can someone explain succintly why Stanford joining the Big10 is out of the cards for now?
Money. Fox scrounged up another $35M/year to pay half-shares to UW and Oregon.
With the Big 10 at 18 teams, Stanford's incremental value would be minimal, meaning reductions in
money to the other teams.
RE: Poll: Stanford's Go-Forward Conference Alignment - TooMuchTV - 08-04-2023
(08-04-2023, 08:54 PM)chrisk Wrote:(08-04-2023, 08:18 PM)norcard10 Wrote: Can someone explain succintly why Stanford joining the Big10 is out of the cards for now?
Money. Fox scrounged up another $35M/year to pay half-shares to UW and Oregon.
With the Big 10 at 18 teams, Stanford's incremental value would be minimal, meaning reductions in
money to the other teams.
There's also the part that while Washington was wanted by the presidents and Fox, the presidents wanted Stanford to be the 18th member but Fox wanted Oregon, or so I've heard.
RE: Poll: Stanford's Go-Forward Conference Alignment - yvonne - 08-04-2023
(08-04-2023, 08:33 PM)French Rage Wrote: If geography is apparently no longer a constraint, I say we join the Bundesliga.
Are you crazy? The money's in Saudi Arabia.
RE: Poll: Stanford's Go-Forward Conference Alignment - Canalejas - 08-04-2023
I'm still hoping for the Big Ten, even in the face of this week's bitter news.
But if we do go independent, I'm going to cast a vote for joining the Big West. Maybe it won't do much for basketball or soccer, but it does have its strengths in baseball and volleyball. And, as a personal bonus for me, it is the conference that contains the schools that my siblings attended for undergrad and (starting in a few weeks) for med school. So I'd be able to replace my family's annual showdown that was Stanford-UCLA with matchups in other sports.
And if we care even a little bit about what used to be the Pac's brand (all R1, and mostly AAU universities,) the Big West is home to 5 UC campuses (all of them in the AAU) plus Hawai'i. That's not something we'd find in the WCC. And, finally, if Stanford and Cal can manage to stay linked, the Big West will probably be an even better fit for the school across the bay.
Anyway, I hope it all works out. Go Stanford.