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Regarding Big Ten Conference expansion, Stanford and Notre Dame still make the most sense. And, yes, I understand and respect that Notre Dame is not yet ready to follow its true path to its final destination, but the time is now for Stanford to join/be admitted to the Big Ten Conference.

While the TV overlords may prefer FSU--and FSU would attract viewers--the Big Ten Conference is about more than just football. And this is a significant difference between the Big Ten Conference and the SEC.

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Stanford has a huge endowment but wants poorer schools to get a lower payout. [b]Stanford could probably generate 20-30 million in TV revenue[/b] so it should get ratio to the 100 million members will get in 2024.

They should always be at 20-30 percent the payout of other members since that’s what they generate and they have abundant resources to afford it. That’s their own progressive ideology as well.[/quote]

Stanford is NOT Notre Dame or any of the top/middle B1G schools in terms of eyeballs. It is a relatively small, private school with a corresponding small alumni and fan following where the football team has usually played second fiddle to an apathetic student body, where the joke "marching" band is the big attraction. There is no planet where Stanford is worth the money from a conference. The fact that they have been left behind with Cal is the tell. If it were a hot property, it would have been snatched up.[/quote]

Okay. It is understood that your focus is solely on Stanford's football viewership. Fine. But the Big Ten Conference is much more than football--it is not the SEC.

[b]Big Ten Universities are academic research institutions first and foremo[/b]st and NFL training grounds as a distant second.[/quote]

Keep telling yourself that. Just keep in mind that it was a Big10 quarterback who said ""we ain't come here to play school" in a press conference.

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