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Article saying Kansas Athletic Dept. mulling over leaving the Big 12 for the Big 10

Posted on 5/11/24 at 10:02 am
Posted by JetDawg
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Member since Oct 2020
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Posted on 5/11/24 at 10:02 am
If they joined the Big 10, perhaps they could finally -- FINALLY -- beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers! (how sad is that!).

With talk of them possibly getting an invite to the SEC (ok w/me), would the Big 10 be better for them?

A good read...... LINK
This post was edited on 5/11/24 at 10:05 am
Posted by clamdip
Rocky Mountain High
Member since Sep 2004
18601 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 10:31 am to
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talk of them possibly getting an invite to the SEC

Barf.
Posted by everytrueson
Los Angeles
Member since Mar 2012
6510 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 10:37 am to
I think it would be great if they go to the Big10.

Definitely don’t want them in the SEC.
Posted by Jrv2damac
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Posted on 5/11/24 at 10:55 am to
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Posted by dirty bastard
Delacroix, Georgia
Member since Aug 2020
2357 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:03 am to
They are NOT a SEC school. I don't know why people come up with crazy notions. He'll, Mizzou ain't a Southern school. They are both Midwestern, big10 schools.
Posted by au7342
Member since May 2020
387 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:14 am to
For the SEC, it's all about TV market money.

Kansas only has one TV market in the top100, so I doubt the SEC goes there.

If the SEC expands, I think it will be to Virginia and North Carolina to pick up their TV markets.

Here's a list of top 100 TV markets broken down by existing SEC markets, the one top 100 Kansas market, and the top 100 markets in Virginia and North Carolina. BIG difference in eyeballs between them.

Also, if I accidentally left out any top 100 markets, please add them in the replies.

Top 100 US TV Markets from LINK

Rank Metropolitan Market Regions / Areas
5 Dallas-Ft. Worth
8 Atlanta
10 Houston
13 Tampa-St. Petersburg
16 Miami-Ft.Lauderdale
19 Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne
21 St. Louis
29 Nashville
31 Kansas City
37 San Antonio
38 West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce
40 Birmingham
47 Jacksonville, FL
48 Memphis
49 Austin
50 Louisville
53 New Orleans
56 Little Rock-Pine Bluff
59 Knoxville
60 Mobile-Pensacola
61 Tulsa
62 Ft. Myers-Naples
63 Lexington
74 Springfield, MO
78 Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg
79 Columbia, SC
82 Huntsville-Decatur
84 Shreveport
86 Chattanooga
87 Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen
90 Jackson, MS
92 Tri-Cities, TN-NC-VA
94 Waco-Temple-Bryan
95 Baton Rouge
96 Savannah
98 El Paso
99 Charleston, SC
100 Ft. Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers

Adding Kansas

Rank Metropolitan Market Regions / Areas
69 Wichita-Hutchinson

Adding teams from North Carolina and Virginia
Rank Metropolitan Market Regions / Areas
9 Washington, DC
24 Charlotte, NC
27 Raleigh-Durham
43 Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News
46 Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem
58 Richmond-Petersburg
67 Roanoke-Lynchburg
Posted by MrMojoRisin
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Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:20 am to
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:20 am to
Who cares
Posted by au7342
Member since May 2020
387 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:39 am to
The SEC members care. Taking Kansas dilutes the revenue distribution from the SEC and increases travel costs for the conference teams.

Bigger TV markets means more revenue to be distributed to the members.

This will be -very- important if the AD's start paying players directly.
This post was edited on 5/11/24 at 11:40 am
Posted by Jrv2damac
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Member since Mar 2004
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Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:39 am to
More than the number of meaningful head coach candidates did about the Kentucky opening
Posted by New Money
Athens, GA
Member since Jun 2023
1824 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 12:07 pm to
The Big10 should take them and Mizzou both to reunite the rivals for the 23 people who care.
Posted by BlueMoonOfKentucky
Member since Feb 2024
278 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 12:21 pm to
That is exactly the reason the sec should not expand into kansas the future of sec expansion is north carolina and virginia.

If the sec were to expand to 20 teams take north carolina, nc state, virginia, and virginia tech.

Reasons to have to two sec schools in north carolina and virgina those two states are growing in population which bodes well for the sec long term in the future.
Posted by BlueMoonOfKentucky
Member since Feb 2024
278 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 12:24 pm to
I don't think the big ten will take kansas. If the big ten were to expand there going to target southern states growing in population like florida, north carolina, virginia, or georgia.
Posted by Auburn80
Backwater, TN
Member since Nov 2017
8158 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 12:36 pm to
Sadly, conferences aren’t regional anymore. The SEC would take Notre Dame or OSU in a heartbeat.

That said, realignment is going to damage smaller sports. Auburn is in the market for a softball coach and might get a very good one because softball players don’t want to travel across the country for a weekend series. The SEC is very attractive to smaller sport coaches because of this.
Posted by BlueMoonOfKentucky
Member since Feb 2024
278 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 12:48 pm to
quote:

Sadly, conferences aren't regional anymore. The SEC would take Notre Dame or OSU in a heartbeat.

That said, realignment is going to damage smaller sports. Auburn is in the market for a softball coach and might get a very good one because softball players don't want to travel across the country for a weekend series. The SEC is very attractive to smaller sport coaches because of this.
All this conference realignment and combination nil money and athletes wanting to be paid will cause a lot of these schools to shut down their non revenue sports programs and lot of the smaller schools that don't have much to pay for nil money and travel costs will have to scrap their athletics departments.
Posted by New Money
Athens, GA
Member since Jun 2023
1824 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 12:52 pm to
quote:

All this conference realignment and combination nil money and athletes wanting to be paid will cause a lot of these schools to shut down their non revenue sports programs


They would have already done so if they could. Read up on Title IX.
Posted by Che Boludo
Member since May 2009
19496 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 12:54 pm to
quote:

getting an invite to the SEC

We already have a KY for shooty hoops
Posted by BlueMoonOfKentucky
Member since Feb 2024
278 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 1:02 pm to
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They would have already done so if they could. Read up on Title IX.
I forgot all about that. I'm sure bigger schools be pissed. But the smaller schools I believe will completely scrap all their sports programs cause of travel costs and the students that participate any of their sports programs will demand nil money that they don't have.
Posted by Henry Jones Jr
Member since Jun 2011
70447 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 1:02 pm to
quote:

Sadly, conferences aren’t regional anymore.
The SEC is for the most part.
Posted by BlueMoonOfKentucky
Member since Feb 2024
278 posts
Posted on 5/11/24 at 1:06 pm to
quote:

The SEC is for the most part.
Well there's missouri a midwestern school in a southern conference. Be nice to kick out missouri.
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