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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At these prices, I think that the Big Ten needs to consider adding ASU (Arizona State University). Not on equal footing with the current 16 Big Ten member schools, but at a significant payout over every other option that ASU has now or in the near future.

The Big Ten Conference should not hesitate about offering U Washington & U Oregon. If that is the end of Big Ten expansion, then all Big Ten member schools are winners. But, a true coast-to-coast conference along with the possible purchase of ESPN from Disney by the Big Ten Conference is a victory that few, if any, saw coming.[/quote]

U-Arizona is the better academic fit for the B1G.

Just sayin'[/quote]

("Just sayin'" ???? Not an impressive expression.)

Yes, U Arizona is a better academic fit, but ASU has an enormous alumni base and is located in a significant media market.[/quote]

Arizona, UNC, Uva all have a split market with larger state schools. They have issues.[/quote]

Agree.

Much depends upon the Big Ten Conference's long-term vision.

How much control does the Big Ten want ?

If the vision is to replace ESPN and the NCAA, then schools such as ASU, UNC, & Virginia become more valuable to the Big Ten Conference.[/quote]

The Pac12 is dissolving in part because they didn't want to partner the Pac12 network with Espn or Fox and decided they could make more on their own. They were wrong. People who aren't fans of a given school or whose school isn't playing in a given timeslot watch whatever is on the networks. Any conference dumb enough to launch their own subscription product would find out how narrow actual interest is pretty fast. [/quote]

The quality of the Pac-12 Network was/is very poor. The viewing experience was not up to today's TV standards.[/quote]

It was one of a string of misfires (the bigger one being not taking Texas and Oklahoma in 2011) that led to this. If they had brought on ESPN or Fox as partners in the Pac12 network, they would be in a very different position now [/quote]

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