![]() ![]() Or perhaps I’d advocate a move to 10 conference games to give our television partners more quality inventory. For example, the volleyball teams could gather in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia for events.įootball would keep a nine-game conference schedule with a few fixed rivals. volleyball, soccer, baseball, softball), there would be two or three weekends per season where the entire 20-team conference would gather in one place and stage an event loaded with games/matches that would count toward the conference standings. In sports that frequently utilize multi-day tournament play (e.g. Cal, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC and Washington could mostly play one another in conference play. (Which might make any holdout presidents more likely to say yes.)Īdding those four would allow for the creation of a West Coast division for all the sports other than, say, football and men’s and women’s basketball. Oregon and Washington because they’d bring the biggest name-brand value for football Cal and Stanford because Big Ten presidents would want to rub elbows with universities that are academically prestigious. Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford would be the likely targets. This would allow a broad array of football offerings while allowing for a more reasonable administration of non-revenue sports. The logical move would be to take four more schools from the Pac-12 and create a West Coast wing of the Big Ten. That doesn’t mean it was going to happen - only that it remained under consideration. Before accepting a job with the Chicago Bears, outgoing commissioner Kevin Warren hadn’t given up on the idea of making the league even bigger. I’ll get to the expansion scenario our Anonymous reader presented later, but first, let’s work in the realm of the possible and the realistic. So let’s wake you up with the red meat: further conference expansion! This way, we could make enforceable rules regarding player movement and tampering while also significantly lowering the risk of antitrust lawsuits from athletes.īut while many of you who ask questions for #DearAndy are keenly interested in these issues, our metrics tell us that most of you are probably already asleep by now. I also would sketch out the framework of a revenue-sharing plan that, in concert with the move to an employment model, would allow the league to collectively bargain with the athletes. I could bore you with how I’d move to make revenue sport athletes conference employees - thus avoiding having to deal with multiple state employment laws - to get ahead of the inevitable business model shift in college sports. Justin is going to make me work for it, but I have to admit I’d absolutely steal his “Game of Thrones” theme idea for the Big Ten’s map commercial (which is by far the best conference commercial currently running). I like our Anonymous reader’s question better than Justin’s because it means I’m already guaranteed that sweet, sweet Big Ten commissioner salary. Who are you taking and what are you basing your decision on? - Anonymous Here’s the catch though: the school has to be Group of 5 or Independent and can’t have a historic winning percentage above. ![]() You now have to bring in four new schools in order to reach an even 20 teams in the conference. If the Big Ten brought in Andy Staples to interview for the commissioner position, what would your pitch as a candidate for the job be? Would you make it mandatory for the Big Ten commercial showing schools on a map to be set to the “Game of Thrones” intro music? - Justinĭear Andy, congrats! You’re the new commissioner of the Big Ten, with its staggering resources. Note: Submitted questions have been lightly edited for length and clarity. But college football news continues to happen at a blistering pace, so naturally, you have questions … The long offseason is upon us and I tried to take a vacation. ![]()
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