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Quote:“I did prefer 10 until I sat down and put a pencil to it,” Alvarez said. “I don’t know if we’d ever get seven home games (with 10), so I guess I’m leaning toward nine.”

“If you go to 10, you can forget about seven home games. You better make up the difference in the TV revenue, so that’s why I like nine.”

Quote:Regarding the new division alignment of the conference when Maryland and Rutgers join, Alvarez said he thinks “…it’s going to be an East and a West” alignment.

Under that setup, the East would likely include Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers with the West consisting of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, and Wisconsin.

Thoughts? I've read a few places now about a east-west division setup like this. I'm surprised to see they are debating putting Michigan, OSU, and Penn State (even with the tough road they face) in the same division. I'd love just about every game in this division each season.

The east would be a stronger division.

(02-18-2013 03:56 PM)chrisRU Wrote:  http://www.fbschedules.com/2013/02/barry...-schedule/

Quote:“I did prefer 10 until I sat down and put a pencil to it,” Alvarez said. “I don’t know if we’d ever get seven home games (with 10), so I guess I’m leaning toward nine.”

“If you go to 10, you can forget about seven home games. You better make up the difference in the TV revenue, so that’s why I like nine.”

Quote:Regarding the new division alignment of the conference when Maryland and Rutgers join, Alvarez said he thinks “…it’s going to be an East and a West” alignment.

Under that setup, the East would likely include Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers with the West consisting of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, and Wisconsin.

Thoughts? I've read a few places now about a east-west division setup like this. I'm surprised to see they are debating putting Michigan, OSU, and Penn State (even with the tough road they face) in the same division. I'd love just about every game in this division each season.

Making up the difference in TV revenue? You mean such as selling the conference's two semifinal games leading up to it's championship game for perhaps 30 million for the pair? How about signing an all new Tier 2 deal since basically now FOX just lets everything fall to Tier 3 and the BTN which FOX is doing in order to pay itself back for it's investment?

A nine game schedule means some teams have four conference home games and some have five. Have fun figuring that out. It gets complicated when these schools have to start working out home, away and home series's while at the same time the conference is debating on doing away with FCS matchups. FCS matchups are the easiest to line up home games with.