[Husker] Lucky 13?

[Mike Jaixen]

Nate Silver, the New York Times statistician that nailed the presidential election prognostician, called Rutgers the second best addition to the Big Ten during conference realignment.

http://t.co/XYaBqGLc

His point is that while Rutgers gives you a fraction of the market in New York City, it's a fraction of a huge market.

The other thing to think about is that while Rutgers doesn't do much in the NYC market as a Big East member, it should do more in the B1G.  Two likely home games between Rutgers vs. Mich/Ohio State/Penn St/Nebraska/Wisconsin each season have to sell better than games like Rutgers vs. Louisville/Syracuse/UConn/Cincinatti .

As for the home game playoff, the SEC was NEVER, EVER going to agree to playoff games in B1G country if they had any say on the matter.  The SEC knew their cards were that bowl sites in New Orleans, Atlanta, Miami, and now Dallas all give the SEC a competitive edge.  The Pac-12 saw advantages with games in Pasadena and Phoenix.  The ACC likes Atlanta and Miami too.  And the Big XII still likes Phoenix and Dallas.

You do the math.

Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
http://www.cornnation.com

--- On Mon, 11/19/12, Jon Johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jon Johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Husker] Lucky 13?
To: "David Elfering" <aroundomaha at gmail.com>
Cc: "Husker List" <husker at tssi.com>
Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 12:37 PM

What benefit does Rutgers give the Big Ten? Don't say NYC market because no one anywhere gives a crap about Rutgers. Even Rutgers hates itself. 

What "amazing set of markets" has he picked? 

I don't get this view of Jim Delany as some super genius college conference wizard guy. He got BTN going. Good job, Jim. 

Other than that, he traded away the chance to have home-field playoffs in favor of TRADITION AND  OMG THE ROSE BOWL. And with that went a playoff spot in a midwestern stadium. 

So, wow, the B1G expands and there's no one for this change except Penn State. 

Jon Johnston
Corn Nation

On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:28 PM, David Elfering <aroundomaha at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Delaney is playing conference alignment poker and doing rather
> well at it.
> 
> From a scholastic and market standpoint these two moves make sense.
> Are either of them stars on the grid iron? Nope but that can be
> changed. Empires rise and fall with regularity.
> 
> At this point Delaney has locked in the populace areas of the Midwest
> and now extended to the significant areas of the upper Atlantic. If
> you look at the potential business side of it, he has cherry picked an
> amazing set of markets. You could make an argument that Nebraska is
> the least logical of all these moves.
> 
> They should consider renaming from B1G to "Industrial" or "Abe Lincoln
> would approve" ;)
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/19/2012 11:07 AM, Dick Karre wrote:
>>> The Newark Star Ledger reports that Rutgers expects to accept an invitation to join the B1G today, with a formal announcement tomorrow.
>>> http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2012/11/rutgers_to_join_big_ten_once_f.html
>> Make it lucky 14. Maryland is apparently in as well.
>> http://sports.omaha.com/2012/11/19/hello-maryland/
>> 
>> Delaney's wish to move to a nine-game conference schedule makes a little more sense now.
>> 
>> -- Dick Karre dkarre at comcast.net
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