TV metrics: 50%
Attendance: 20%
On-field performance: 20%
Market size: 10%
On Rutgers being added to the Big 10. Wasn’t that when tv contracts were structured differently (when size of market mattered and not number of subscribers)?
On UCLA being added despite some lackluster performance on some of the metrics above, isn’t that explained by the fact that USC needed a travel partner, and UCLA was the best fit? Additionally, the Big 10 emphasizes academics, so they were a good fit that way. I’m not sure that UCLA being in the LA market was a huge reason for adding them. I could definitely be wrong though.