(08-21-2017 02:35 PM)murrdcu Wrote: (08-21-2017 12:58 PM)JRsec Wrote: (08-21-2017 10:48 AM)murrdcu Wrote: Greg Flugaur @flugempire
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Obvious take on BTM's info this morning..
Joe Castiglione is the canary-in-coal mine internally at University of Oklahoma.
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Active B10 advocates for OU receiving invite in 2022/23
WI President, Alvarez
Ohio State, Nebraska AD's Smith & Eichorst
MSU AD Hollis.
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Greg Flugaur
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Joe Castiglione is Pro-Big Ten. OU Placing Castiglione as President is placing OU in Big Ten. OU has heavy B10 support.
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Big Ten perception:
Presidential Succession at University of Oklahoma resulting in Joe Castiglione as new President looking more likely
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Woah...
BTM has just sent me current Big Ten perception on expansion landscape.
Stand by...
So an Athletic Director is going to take over the entire University by becoming President? Not sure that has ever happened. Might as well give Bob Stoops the University's President spot once Boren steps down as he's probably just as qualified.
If any tweet has ever proven that the Dude of Gopher knows nothing then this one is it. For once the other Dude may be more accurate in his predictions of who is on the B1G's wish list. But I think that list is dated by about 7 or 8 years.
The only way I see Oklahoma headed to the Big 10 is if they can land Texas and Texas wants the Sooners as their travel buddy. So I don't see much of a chance.
BTW: G. Poole is the progenitor of Leather Helmet blog but has been acquaintance of the Dude for about a decade.
Poole and the Dude of WV have done several podcasts together over the years as well as published realignment articles. I believe Poole sold that blog but might still work there. Seems unlikely a Georgia blogger would be the Dude's "B1G source". JR, why did you bring this up?
He probably did sell it, or a portion of it, and I knew he still operated part of it. His old format was fun. There would be a blog piece instead of a thread and then everyone could comment. I wrote a few blogs for him when it was under the old format. One of them got picked up nationally. I had a lot of fun there and they had some great posters. I was actually asked one time if I would like to be a part of one of those podcasts. That wasn't my cup of tea.
10 years ago Lambert had some connections and some credible information. But at the height of the pre Big 12 invitation in the 2010 pre realignment phase he picked up MHver3 got hooked up with Tuxedo Yoda and it all got to be a big circle jerk of conflated information and wild speculation. They started driving hits instead of simply passing on information. That's where he lost his credibility.
I was interested in realignment because I saw the market model as a ploy to break up large states with influence and to divide states between conferences to keep conferences from fully being able to leverage a state's commercial value. It was a winning strategy for the networks only. You will note that ESPN managed to own all of the properties within the ACC & SEC states, but kept most of the states from being a monopoly for the conference. That's why UNC fights any thought that includes N.C. State or another Carolina school from heading to another conference and why Virginia now does the same. Virginia and North Carolina as a block is almost 3/4's as large as Texas in terms of population It is why ESPN permits the perpetuation of the "gentlemen's agreement myth", and why they worked behind the scenes in '91 to keep F.S.U. out of the SEC. They didn't want to negotiate with an SEC that owned the state of Florida.
So I didn't agree with the concept of the market model because it was a ruse. Content is all that ever ultimately mattered because it is the # of eyes on an event that drives that events value. Holding all of the key schools in a state is another way to maximize ad revenue through leverage. If an advertiser wants to reach the markets in that state it has to go through one conference to do so. ESPN hated that. Poole and the Dude were sold on it. I didn't want to be in constant disagreement with them. But time has proven me to be correct, and moving forward even more so. I stated prior to 2010 that the networks would switch from the market model and do so to a pay model based solely on content value and that when that happened there would be many schools and conferences that would catch the short end of the stick. Well it's about to happen.
My information has always come from knowing who the players were, having family and friends literally in the know, and using reason. All I ever wanted to see the SEC do was to add the best possible brands. It was and is the safest way to expand.
Frank the Tank did a great piece back about that time on the priorities of the Big 10 as it pertained to realignment. Oklahoma didn't make that list. The Dude made a big deal about Frank's list without giving Frank much, if any credit. Frank's list then was worked around the market model.
Obviously Texas and Notre Dame would be massive content adds that also carried significant market presence. If Oklahoma has gained steam it is because of content value.
Personally I think that Delany is doing what he has always done, fake left when he wants to drive right. I think Kansas and Oklahoma is a misdirection.
The Big 10 would probably take Kansas to get to Texas. But the only way they take Oklahoma is if Texas insists upon it. That means Texas has to want to head to the Big 10. They don't. So,... no Oklahoma either.
I think the Big 10 might make another run at Virginia, Notre Dame, and North Carolina. I know the ACC GOR doesn't expire until 2036, but that will only be 10 years away after then next round of expansions. Who knows? They could make a pitch for the combination of any of these: Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, or Oklahoma. Remember the PAC rights expire at the same time. They would gain a lot from the additions of Colorado & one of the others.
In the end the Big 10 like the SEC will go for brands. Delany got hoodooed with the market additions of Rutgers & Maryland (which were a nod to Penn State). Next time around they will be going for content.