One other issue with the Big10, I see. With all the talk about TV ratings and markets. Say FSU goes to the SEC with Clemson and we go to the Big10, potentially with Notre Dame, though that shouldn’t be a given.
Historically what are our biggest rivalry games and with it, attendance and TV ratings, FSU, Notre Dame, UF? All that goes out the window when/if we move to the Big10. The expansion to 9 conference games will mean realistically the end of scheduling big OOC games. FSU will drop us from the schedule just like UF did in 1988. The only sold out games we will have regular season, will be OSU once every couple years. Miami only sells out when we’re winning or against the above mentioned rivalries. That will be gone.
I’ve read our TV ratings will improve in the Big 10. Based on what? You think anyone is going to give a **** nationally to watch us play Maryland, Illinois and Nebraska?
Some of the most watched games in Miami history were when we were an independent and against independents, PSU, Notre Dame, FSU. The common denominator was winning, not being in a particular conference.
Of course I’m not advocating being an independent, that would be financial suicide, but leaving our traditional rivals and regional games where people can travel, is going to offset any attendance or TV ratings potentially gained from being in the Big10. There will be unforeseen consequences and if people think the ACC has been tone deaf to the needs of UM, FSU and Clemson, imagine when we enter a conference owned by OSU and Michigan?
We will have to win like we haven’t won in over 20 years just to break even, every year, and in a far more difficult landscape and with a more daunting schedule. Not because the Big 10 has a bunch of elite teams outside of OSU, Oregon, PSU and Meatchicken, but because of mitigating factors, weather, travel etc. when we are equal to UF and FSU, we beat them, because we’ve been living rent free in their head for 30 years. There is no one in the Big Ten that fears us, no one with a history outside of OSU and PSU that will make JRSRock Electric.
Historically what are our biggest rivalry games and with it, attendance and TV ratings, FSU, Notre Dame, UF? All that goes out the window when/if we move to the Big10. The expansion to 9 conference games will mean realistically the end of scheduling big OOC games. FSU will drop us from the schedule just like UF did in 1988. The only sold out games we will have regular season, will be OSU once every couple years. Miami only sells out when we’re winning or against the above mentioned rivalries. That will be gone.
I’ve read our TV ratings will improve in the Big 10. Based on what? You think anyone is going to give a **** nationally to watch us play Maryland, Illinois and Nebraska?
Some of the most watched games in Miami history were when we were an independent and against independents, PSU, Notre Dame, FSU. The common denominator was winning, not being in a particular conference.
Of course I’m not advocating being an independent, that would be financial suicide, but leaving our traditional rivals and regional games where people can travel, is going to offset any attendance or TV ratings potentially gained from being in the Big10. There will be unforeseen consequences and if people think the ACC has been tone deaf to the needs of UM, FSU and Clemson, imagine when we enter a conference owned by OSU and Michigan?
We will have to win like we haven’t won in over 20 years just to break even, every year, and in a far more difficult landscape and with a more daunting schedule. Not because the Big 10 has a bunch of elite teams outside of OSU, Oregon, PSU and Meatchicken, but because of mitigating factors, weather, travel etc. when we are equal to UF and FSU, we beat them, because we’ve been living rent free in their head for 30 years. There is no one in the Big Ten that fears us, no one with a history outside of OSU and PSU that will make JRSRock Electric.
