Big Ten is going to invite Oregon and Washington to join the league

[LamarCheeks]

Oregon is coming??? 
 

 

[TheWatShot]

Going to take this opportunity to remind everyone that Oregon chickened out of playing a football game in Bloomington in 2005 after we somehow beat them at their place the year before. Can't run away from IU football this time, Ducks! Lol. 

[LamarCheeks]

1 hour ago, TheWatShot said:

Going to take this opportunity to remind everyone that Oregon chickened out of playing a football game in Bloomington in 2005 after we somehow beat them at their place the year before. Can't run away from IU football this time, Ducks! Lol. 

Guess you're saying they can no longer duck us!


 

[AZ Hoosier]

The chances of Oregon and Washington coming to the B1G got much better today ... the Big 12 just announced the addition of Arizona and Arizona State... meaning that the Pac-12 is most likely toast, having only 4 members: Cal, Oregon State, Stanford and Washington State

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

41 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

The chances of Oregon and Washington coming to the B1G got much better today ... the Big 12 just announced the addition of Arizona and Arizona State... meaning that the Pac-12 is most likely toast, having only 4 members: Cal, Oregon State, Stanford and Washington State

Oh, the chances are around 100%

[OGIUAndy]

41 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

The chances of Oregon and Washington coming to the B1G got much better today ... the Big 12 just announced the addition of Arizona and Arizona State... meaning that the Pac-12 is most likely toast, having only 4 members: Cal, Oregon State, Stanford and Washington State

It's already a done deal and been reported all day. 

[Hovadipo]

[Josh]

13 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

16 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

If they're joining in 2024, does that mean we're going back to playing the O$U/Michigan/Penn St triumvirate in football again?

Here's a logo that'll be obsolete in 18-24 hours.

Really Hova?  We gotta have this on every page of this thread?

[HoosierInParadise]

Now that Oregon is coming to the conference, maybe Nike can sponsor the entire conference and force a change for IU.

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[Hovadipo]

20 minutes ago, Josh said:

Really Hova?  We gotta have this on every page of this thread?

It must be shouted from the rooftops. 

[Demo]

Yup

[Alford Bailey]

Any truth to the rumors about the B1G going after Clemson and Florida St as well?

[lillurk]

In hoops, a 20 game schedule with 18 teams means you’ll play everybody else at least once — there’s 17 games — plus 3 double-plays every year.

I did a little back-of-the-envelope brainstorming of how to arrange that in hoops if you keep 3 protected rivalry doubles per team. I didn’t worry much about schedule strength, but tried to protect the best rivalries. Here’s a shot:

Team	Primary	Secondary	Tertiary
USC	UCLA	Oregon	Washington
UCLA	USC	Washington	Oregon
Washington	Oregon	USC	UCLA
Oregon	Washington	UCLA	USC
Rutgers	PSU	Maryland	Northwestern
PSU	Maryland	Rutgers	OSU
Maryland	Rutgers	PSU	Northwestern
Nebraska	Iowa	Minnesota	Wisconsin
Minnesota	Wisconsin	Iowa	Nebraska
Wisconsin	Minnesota	Iowa	Nebraska
Iowa	Nebraska	Minnesota	Wisconsin
Northwestern	Illinois	Rutgers	Maryland
Purdue	Indiana	Illinois	MSU
Indiana	Purdue	Illinois	Michigan
Illinois	Northwestern	Indiana	Purdue
Michigan	MSU	OSU	Indiana
MSU	Michigan	OSU	Purdue
OSU	Michigan	MSU	PSU

You can quibble with who’s left out in a few cases. I feel confident the ex-PAC teams should double-play each other. NW is a strange fit geographically with Rutgers and Maryland but if everyone has 3 protected double-plays, it has to work out somehow. The alternative is fewer protected ones, e.g. IU always double-plays PU but rotates the other doubles every year.

The teams with stronger B1G roots and hoops tradition end up with too few doubles — IU/OSU should probably be protected, for example, or Illinois/Wisconsin.

This exercise basically convinced me teams should just have the main rivalry protected, and the “primary” column above probably isn’t exactly right if you’re doing it that way. I would guess the PAC teams might stay west more than truly rotating unprotected doubles?

One final thought: conference tournament likely becomes 14 byes, with 15/18 and 16/17 “play-in” games to play seeds 1 and 2 in a 16 team tournament. So it’s an extra game for the top four seeds. I wondered if that would change the schedule but you actually don’t add a game to more than a couple schedules. The issue there: do you have eight games Thursday?? If so I think you’d need two gyms.

[lillurk]

4 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Any truth to the rumors about the B1G going after Clemson and Florida St as well?

No inside info but IMO Notre Dame, UNC, UVa and Stanford make the most sense, in that order.

[TheWatShot]

Does this mean the 2024 football schedules have to be redone? Watch the league somehow find a way to get OSU and/or Michigan back on our slate. 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Agree

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[go iu bb]

1 hour ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

 

 

Agree

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It's definitely more travel but them acting like the conference was all close together isn't really accurate. UofA to UofW, for example, is a 24 hour drive so flights and likely at least 1 overnight stay would be required for that. 

That said, it seems as though there was ~0% consideration to the athletes given by the conference and schools. At least we no longer have to listen to them spew crap about how "amateurs" can't get paid.

[cthomas]

I would gladly go back to a simpler time when I could work on my 40 hp Volkswagen in my garage and sports weren't all about money and gladly let everyone else go fearlessly into the future.

[str8baller]

On 8/5/2023 at 8:31 AM, Demo said:

Yup

That’ll be annoying…especially as I age. Lol…

 

On the other hand, Saturday late night college football is kind of cool. And if you’re an insane basketball junkie having basically 3 conf games every night—7, 9, and 11pm—will be fun at times. I would’ve loved it when I was in college.

[LamarCheeks]

When colleges shift conferences and leagues realign, new rivalries always develop. 

I'm guessing a few years down the road, Rutgers-Oregon basketball and football contests will be must-see TV. 

When the Scarlet Knights and Ducks hook up -- fuggeddaboutit!