Big Ten and Shifting Power Dynamics from South to North

[Knight Shift]

Interesting article on the shifting landscape of college football from South to North. Interesting how aggressive Michigan is with soliciting donations from non alums. It's good to be in the B1G. There's even a Rutgers mention!


Through expansion, the Big Ten has cornered big markets like Los Angeles (USC and UCLA), New York (Rutgers), Washington, D.C. (Maryland) and Seattle (Washington). Those big markets plus the long-standing ones like Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis give Big Ten schools fertile financial grounds to solicit donations, NIL deals and partnerships.

The Big Ten's weaponization of clean cash -- and lots of it -- is shifting power dynamics from South to North

The Big Ten can pay players now -- guilt-free. Does it mean the end of the SEC's utter dominance?

www.cbssports.com

 

[mdk01]

Interesting article on the shifting landscape of college football from South to North. Interesting how aggressive Michigan is with soliciting donations from non alums. It's good to be in the B1G. There's even a Rutgers mention!


Through expansion, the Big Ten has cornered big markets like Los Angeles (USC and UCLA), New York (Rutgers), Washington, D.C. (Maryland) and Seattle (Washington). Those big markets plus the long-standing ones like Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis give Big Ten schools fertile financial grounds to solicit donations, NIL deals and partnerships.

The Big Ten's weaponization of clean cash -- and lots of it -- is shifting power dynamics from South to North

The Big Ten can pay players now -- guilt-free. Does it mean the end of the SEC's utter dominance?

www.cbssports.com

The article says Ellison has no obvious ties to Michigan, but isn't his wife a Michigan grad?

 

[Knight Shift]

The article says Ellison has no obvious ties to Michigan, but isn't his wife a Michigan grad?

Good catch. But the first question that came to mind was "which wife?" She is #6, 33 years old, while Larry is 80 years old.

Just goes to show you, money can't buy you love. Or maybe it can buy you love 6 times if you don't succeed the first five times? I'm derailing my thread!

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[PSAL_Hoops]

And then there are the southern takes grasping at straw!

Mussatto: Has Big Ten passed SEC in college football hierarchy, or is this just a blip?

If Ohio State beats Texas, the SEC will be shut out of the national championship game in back-to-back years. That hasn't happened in two decades.

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Forget the bowl games with opt outs - if our middle of the pack is “still” so much worse than theirs why did ours go 2-0 in direct match ups? USC beat A&M. Illinois took down South Carolina. Seems more like their middle of the pack records are being propelled by an extra cupcake game.

 

[rutgersguy1]

As a I’ve said here a bunch of times it’s harder to create and maintain a super team than in the past. Talent spreads out and playing time is finite. Add in now schools being able to pay players and it may spread out a little more.

 

[ru109]

Interesting article on the shifting landscape of college football from South to North. Interesting how aggressive Michigan is with soliciting donations from non alums. It's good to be in the B1G. There's even a Rutgers mention!


Through expansion, the Big Ten has cornered big markets like Los Angeles (USC and UCLA), New York (Rutgers), Washington, D.C. (Maryland) and Seattle (Washington). Those big markets plus the long-standing ones like Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis give Big Ten schools fertile financial grounds to solicit donations, NIL deals and partnerships.

The Big Ten's weaponization of clean cash -- and lots of it -- is shifting power dynamics from South to North

The Big Ten can pay players now -- guilt-free. Does it mean the end of the SEC's utter dominance?

www.cbssports.com

What I found more interesting than the media markets is how the state of Alabama has no one on the list of Forbes 400 and then it mentions all the multibillionaires that are BIG alumni. If it comes down to who has the deepest pockets the BIG will pull away from everyone.

 

[RC1978]

Like I posted in another thread. The SEC was paying their players for the last few decades. As soon as NIL came around it leveled the playing field allowing all schools to pay players and the portal also helped. Saban was no idiot, the second he saw the dynamics shifting he got out .

 

[Knight Shift]

What I found more interesting than the media markets is how the state of Alabama has no one on the list of Forbes 400 and then it mentions all the multibillionaires that are BIG alumni. If it comes down to who has the deepest pockets the BIG will pull away from everyone.

Perhaps the Big 12 will overtake the SEC, or at least be nipping at the SEC's heels? Big 12 has some big money states Texas (TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech, Houston), Colorado, Utah (Utes, BYU) and Arizona (ASU, UofA).

SEC has Texas, (UofT, which always seems to be upper tier or top tier) and A&M (which is middling), but Oklahoma has been floundering. Oklahoma and Texas have lots of oil money, and Texas has some corporate money too, but that is spread out more with Big 12 schools.

 

[RUSK97]

What I found more interesting than the media markets is how the state of Alabama has no one on the list of Forbes 400 and then it mentions all the multibillionaires that are BIG alumni. If it comes down to who has the deepest pockets the BIG will pull away from everyone.

Possibly true, but I really don’t care that that much about how the B1G fares down the road nearly as much as I care about how Rutgers does down the road. And from that perspective I feel like we’re doomed. Not the proverbial ‘we are doomed’ but really doomed as we have zero financial support and no billionaire backing. And to be transparent, despite how much I’ve contributed to alma mater and the Scarlet R, I’ve not given a dime to NIL. Maybe I’ll come around (I realize full well I am part of the problem), but I suspect more than a few supporters of the R are like me.