Ander1345
I ain't got friends, I got FamILLy
The Big Ten has essentially said 'we do not care about geography'. TV wants BRANDZ, markets and nashnul prestige.
No one in the country (outside of alums) cares about Nebraska (It ain't the 90s anymore), Iowa, Minnesota, NW, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Rutgers ("NYC" thing is bullshit), Maryland (I guess at least they bring DMV).
So why would you even have them in your league? What's the point? Clearly no one on earth is like "Man, I gotta watch that Purdue football game!".
Well I don't think you want to effectively kick schools out of a conference just cuz they're not football power houses. You would lose a lot of viewers that way when you can just expand and use whatever scheduling algorithm you need. There's no upside to removing positive revenue schools.
But it's all upside for the conference yo keep expanding really and there's no reason they need to stop at some arbitrary number. They could get 32 big money schools and have a literal minor league NFL experience that just happens to be colleges. Every league has bad teams, but even like bad NFL teams for instance make fucktons of money.
Football sells. That's why there's still rich idiots trying to run leagues in spring. There's so much ad time, fans wanting to get plastered while watching dudes smash into each other, etc.
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