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Post by mplsgopher on Jul 6, 2024 8:04:16 GMT -5
Meh - Washington as a market and Oregon, as a brand, are more valuable than 2/3rds of the Big 10, including your preferred school, Minnesota. The Big 10 saw it as an opportunity to get those schools at a discount because of the landscape, not a determination on the schools value. It was a smart move on the Big 10’s part. Also, the Big 10 didn’t even want UCLA originally, they wanted USC and Oregon, UCLA came as a package for USC, so let’s not pretend that all invitations are as granularly applied as you are making it out to be. UCLA was always included with USC when it was announced two years ago. There was no,USC only. We can always speculate about what was or wasn't discussed behind closed doors.
Regardless, for the Big Ten it would have been tough to make 14 schools take plane trips just for a single conference game/match/meet. That's why it made so much sense to have UCLA included, 2 for 1 plane trip.
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Post by VBallLife on Jul 6, 2024 9:05:07 GMT -5
UCLA was always included with USC when it was announced two years ago. There was no,USC only. We can always speculate about what was or wasn't discussed behind closed doors.
Regardless, for the Big Ten it would have been tough to make 14 schools take plane trips just for a single conference game/match/meet. That's why it made so much sense to have UCLA included, 2 for 1 plane trip.
Which reiterates they were always in the conversation from the start.
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Post by mplsgopher on Aug 30, 2024 12:27:32 GMT -5
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Post by mplsgopher on Aug 30, 2024 12:28:52 GMT -5
Indeed, the very core thing that is the reason this thread exists in the first place:
people living out West simply just do not tune into college football games like almost anywhere else in the country. The Northeast is the only other part that is similarly as dismal.
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