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The B1G has won. It’s over. It has the Northeast metropolitan area… the entire Midwest and Chicago plus the entire West Coast. Outside of ND there are zero reasons to add. The other conferences will make less money but need to be in existence for the B1G schools to keep their money without political fireworks. [/quote]

B1G's primary media partner Fox has also won, both in terms of eyeballs and $.

Will that translate into nattys? Depends if that $ (including NIL) can overcome climate and cultural conditions that had favored the SEC (and Clemson/FSU) in the BCS era.  Texas and Oklahoma won, but now they are in the SEC.  The only non-Southern teams to have won were USC and Ohio State.

If B1G/Fox hadn't done this, we would have been subjected to another 20 years of ESPN/SEC/Finebaum telling us "it just means more".  Hope that's not the case in the new era.

And that's only football. B12 got stronger in basketball, but college basketball is withering, with more NBA prospects figuring out that G-League or Europe/Australia is a better place to spend that 1 year before turning pro.  Basketball's charm is in March Madness, but if Fox/ESPN complete the reverse takeover through football, the Cinderella teams are going to become fewer and fewer.

Also, unless donors figure out how to fund the non-revenue sports more effectively via NIL, etc., our US olympic teams are going to suffer in the future, because many of those summer sports were supported by PAC schools.   Maybe they should just turn Stanford and Cal into a USOC megafacility  to deal with this.

Finally, no one has commented on how this will impact Title IX, because again many women liked playing in the PAC.  Sure, the B1G and SEC will spend more now on women's sports, but to what end?

It's all about football because of the $, but the impact will be widespread.[/quote]

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