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Two Schools Are Reportedly Considering Leaving The Big Ten

by Larry Leo

November 13, 202520 Comments

Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports

The Big Ten is reportedly considering investment from private equity and would essentially be selling off part of the new corporate enterprise to an outside investor. According to reports, the deal would be a 20-year, $2.4 billion investment from the California Pension Fund. Two major schools are reportedly opposed to the plan: Michigan and USC...

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According to reports, the Wolverines and Trojans are so opposed to the private equity deal, that they are considering a nuclear option of leaving the conference.

Yahoo! Sports reported this week that Michigan and USC have received an ultimatum from the conference.

“In messages sent to Michigan and USC, the Big Ten has signaled that it is moving forward with the deal, even delivering to each program a proposed deadline for their decision. If they don’t agree to the deal, the schools may lose the additional capital as part of the landmark proposal and risk their future within the conference beyond 2036, the current end of the existing grant-of-rights agreement. League officials are socializing a specific date — Nov. 21 — for a vote on the capital investment proposal,” the story reads.
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According to reports, Michigan believes that the deal is essentially an unnecessary “payday loan” that would bail certain schools out for poorly managing their finances.

Meanwhile, USC, as a new member to the conference, would receive less upfront than schools like Ohio State and Penn State.

(The Spun)

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Black n Gold•3 months

UM and USC to SEC would be hilarious.

SidetrackSilvera•3 months

Pension Fund. Legalized gambling. I'm sure this will turn out fine.

FaCubeItches•3 months

To quote Casino: "We were given paradise on earth, but we fricked it all up.”

Rds21275•3 months

Trouble in paradise? LOL

Hard to believe Ohio State isn't with Michigan and USC on this.

ThatTahoeOverThere•3 months

Big money is ruining college football.

Michael T. Tiger•3 months

Anyone else ready to just go back to the old bowl system, give players some sort of stipend and fix transfer portal, have young men actually play for the name on the front of their jerseys, make college football more regional, and make it affordable for fans to come to games with passion and enjoy the pageantry of the games created by pride like before?

Jimmyboy•3 months

Southeastern Conference will be just THE conference

6R12•3 months

Soon the SEC will be about 30 schools. LOL

Timeoday•3 months

How about they go independent?

imjustafatkid•3 months

Getting in bed with California pensions is a terrible idea.

Koolazzkat•3 months

Conferences will eventually be 2. The college game will mirror the pro game.

WhoKnows•3 months

i favor USC leaving the Big Ten... i don't support Michigan leaving... i miss the old conferences of around 2008ish

HagaDaga•3 months

So this pension fund will have overall say? Over the NCAA, conference, and individual schools

Rex Feral•3 months

Michigan leaving the Big 10? frick what ESPN has done to college football

Bayou•3 months

Screw Blue

Zephyrius•3 months

2.4 Billion to buy a conference... 100 million+ to buy coaches... 10+ million NIL player deals. This is all ripe for corruption and/ or collapse.

atltiger6487•3 months

college football is broken

LSU Tiger Eyes•3 months

Oh, you thought things were bad? The Big10 says Hold my drink!

Lou Loomis•3 months

A pension fund is not “private equity”. They are passive investors that only invest for a return. They don’t operate businesses like PE. What a stupid author!

94LSU•3 months

Pension funds make bad bets all the time because they know a bailout is guaranteed if they ever go under. The world would have to end before govt employee pensions get touched.

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