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Posted on 6/17/17 at 5:40 am to Cheese Grits
Posted on 6/17/17 at 5:40 am to Cheese Grits
I guess you guys are just more generous.
The fact is that you have to wait for total revenues to catch up. That is, no one else in the conference is willing to take a lower share in order to accommodate a Rutgers or Maryland.
However over time as total revenues increase the new teams can be brought up to equal footing without asking the older schools to take a pay cut.
Maybe SEC expansion was done in combination with major revenue increases like renegotiating tv rights. Maybe other SEC teams didn't mind taking a haircut for Missouri. But something tells me adding Texas to the tv deal massively increased tv revenues allowing expansion on equal footing.
Either way Rutgers and Maryland et al will be equal partners soon. If they didn't like the revenue escalation deal they didn't have to join.
I don't think other conferences were beating down the door for Rutgers.
The fact is that you have to wait for total revenues to catch up. That is, no one else in the conference is willing to take a lower share in order to accommodate a Rutgers or Maryland.
However over time as total revenues increase the new teams can be brought up to equal footing without asking the older schools to take a pay cut.
Maybe SEC expansion was done in combination with major revenue increases like renegotiating tv rights. Maybe other SEC teams didn't mind taking a haircut for Missouri. But something tells me adding Texas to the tv deal massively increased tv revenues allowing expansion on equal footing.
Either way Rutgers and Maryland et al will be equal partners soon. If they didn't like the revenue escalation deal they didn't have to join.
I don't think other conferences were beating down the door for Rutgers.
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Posted on 6/17/17 at 7:27 am to Arksulli
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I know people from the Coasts, NE and West, that were honestly surprised that the South had indoor plumbing. I kid you not.
When I was a boy an uncle from New York City came down to visit. I rode into town with he and my dad, and when we parked and walked down the side walk he remarked, "everyone is wearing shoes".
His view of the south was from the book, Tobacco Road.
This post was edited on 6/17/17 at 10:09 am
Posted on 6/17/17 at 10:45 am to OlGrandad
Yankees can go frick themselves. Without the south yanks and west coast pussies wouldn't be wearing shoes. They'd drop to their knees and beg if the south seceded.
Posted on 6/17/17 at 11:07 am to CrimsonCrusade
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Seems like they're being paid in accordance to their contributions, whereas the SEC lets low income teams leech off of the high earners
I would say that while the SEC subsidizes less competitive members,i.e. the Mississippi schools, no offense intended, the B1G is using financial leverage to keep the haves and the have-nots separated. Rutgers probably won't ever be a national power, but they probably have the ability to be a very good upper middle of the pack program like an Iowa or a Nebraska given their location and their positives if they got equal share and could pump some money into programs and facilities. Michigan and THE Ohio State shitheads don't want too much competition so they financially hamstring the lesser programs.
If the SEC ran things like the B1G, programs like Mississippi State, South Carolina and Arkansas would never make it to Atlanta and would seldom have a winning season. The Big 6 would really be the big 2 of Alabama and another big 6 school and the other 4 would be the Wiskeys and Mich States of the conference: always close, always competitive, but hardly ever breaking through.
No thank you, I like our conference and the way we roll, much better.
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