THis kinda makes me think the big ten might eye an eastern TV market team for #12, ie rutgers or syracuse. Yeah, everybody thinks that either the big 10 will only go to 12 with ND but i don't buy it.

Quote:THis kinda makes me think the big ten might eye an eastern TV market team for #12, ie rutgers or syracuse. Yeah, everybody thinks that either the big 10 will only go to 12 with ND but i don't buy it.

The Big 10 got the jewel of Eastern football with Penn State. Notre Dame may be midwestern in location, but if you have Notre Dame and Penn State, you control the Eastern market. They'll wait forever for the Irish.

CardinalJim Wrote:

gdayre Wrote:My question is how is this going to effect espn game plans schedule?

It's not. Thats the point I was trying to make. Nothing changes unless of course you follow the non-revenue sports of the Big Ten.
What ESPN will do is select the Big Ten games it wants, the marque match-ups, broadcast one or two each weekend and shelve the rest. Shelving means ESPN will own the rights to the games but won't broadcast them. This is what they do now. ESPN / ABC just paid a ton of money for Big Ten basketball and football. Does anyone really think they will broadcast fewer games for more money.
CJ

It will affect ESPN Game Plan and Full Court. ESPN won't own the rights to the games they don't telecast anymore, they'll belong to the Big Ten and FOX. They won't have the ESPN+ telecasts from the Big Ten to offer anymore. Those go to the Big Ten Network. The Big Ten isn't expected to offer those back to ESPN for Game Plan, especially now that FOX is involved with the new network.

I'm not sure about ABC regional games either. If Big Ten games are going to be on ESPN in markets where ABC isn't carrying the game, why would they offer the game on Game Plan?

bluesox Wrote:THis kinda makes me think the big ten might eye an eastern TV market team for #12, ie rutgers or syracuse. Yeah, everybody thinks that either the big 10 will only go to 12 with ND but i don't buy it.

What the hell are you talking about!?

Just alot of TV sets in New York/NJ to sell for the big 10 network. Yet, the big issues holding the big 10 back from expansion are no ND and UM/OSU don't want to diminish their end of year game, kinda like how harvard and yale don't won't to allow ivy teams to go to the 1-AA playoffs since it would also take away from thier little party.