re: Great Article about the B1G and its Obstacles

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the B1G is printing money and does equal revenue sharing. So what incentive is there for Indiana to pay the cash to build a program when they collect the same check as Ohio State?

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Huge problem for the conference and it will only get worse with the addition of poverty Rutgers.

There is obviously short term value in the adds, but because no one knows if bundled cable pricing is going to remain there is obviously a risk here.

This article sums the whole issue up perfectly.

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The superconference experiments failed because you can’t manufacture tradition, and tradition is the only thing college football has to offer. Without tradition, college football is just an NFL minor league. Big Ten football mainly consists on a week-to-week basis of games like Michigan versus Minnesota and Illinois versus Wisconsin. Those games have meaning to the fans in ways outsiders can’t grasp. The series have gone on for a century. They often have funny old trophies. Every game is lodged into a long historical narrative of cherished (or cursed) memory. Replacing those games with some other equally good (or, as the case may be, not good) program is like snuffing out your family dog and replacing it with some slightly better-trained breed. It is not the same thing.

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The population shift stuff is a farce. The midwest still produces as many if not more top pro athletes than any other region

All offensive players:
South: 26%
Midwest: 19.7%
Plains: 18%
West: 17.7%
East: 14.9%
West (non-Pac-10): 3.7%

Quarterbacks:
West: 29.2%
Midwest: 25.5%
South: 18.9%
Plains: 17.9%
East: 8.5%
West (non-Pac-10): 0%

Running backs:
South: 31.1%
East: 20.8%
Plains: 15.8%
Midwest: 14.8%
West: 13.7%
West (non-Pac-10): 3.8%

Wide receivers:
South: 30.9%
West: 18.8%
Plains: 17.9%
Midwest: 15.7%
East: 14.8%
West (non-Pac-10): 1.8%

Tight ends:
Midwest: 25.8%
West: 19.4%
Plains: 18.5%
South: 16.9%
East: 16.1%
West (non-Pac-10): 3.2%

Offensive line:
South: 25.5%
Midwest: 21.1%
Plains: 18.9%
West: 14.9%
East: 13.4%
West (non-Pac-10): 6.2%

13th largest in the country:

Harvard
Yale
Toronto(canada)
Illinois
Cal Berkeley
Columbia
Texas
Michigan
UCLA
Wisconsin
Cornell
U of Chicago
Indiana
Washington
Minnesota
Alberta(Canada)
Ohio State

6 of the top 17 libraries.

Hell yeah!