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Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

FinalFourCy
Kinch said:
No they weren’t. It was nationwide.
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Completely different era that far back. TV (money) didn’t drive things.

Conferences/conference HQ have become much more important (and expensive) since rights were ceded to conference level. The Big 12 and ACC were/are essentially corporate marriages for TV rights. The P2 now too, particularly national BIG

Returning to national pooling is stripping the conference of that importance
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Hardest to watch next season.

BWRhasnoAC
demoncore1031 said:
Tough question. I never thought Rocco was anything more than an average QB but he's tough as nails and was really good when the game is on the line. I chose Audi because she went to a Big 12 school. That will be hard to watch.
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He has a really good arm, like you said he's really tough and he's a great leader from what we have heard. He's lacking in physical ways compared to other ideal quarterbacks but it will really comes down to his processing pre and post snap. I'm not sure we're going to really know how much of that he's doing until he gets into the league because other than Brock, Campbell has been pretty consistent on his short leash with quarterbacks.
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Hardest to watch next season.

cyclones500
coolerifyoudid said:
The worst part about these three was they were all here three years
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This is an x-factor that makes it even more difficult for sure.

If any/all were 1st or 2nd year who showed lots of potential and had impact as part of good teams, but not as much of a focal point of success, maybe it's easier to shrug (something similar to Tyrese Hunter, in general sense).
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CascadeClone
cycopath25 said:
As an Iowa State fan, I’ve reached the final stage of grief: acceptance.

Rocco Becht didn’t just transfer to Penn State. He packed up the moving truck, followed Matt Campbell to State College, and apparently left the door open so half the roster could follow him. Reports had Penn State adding more than a dozen former Cyclones, including Becht and a long list of Iowa State transfers.

The worst part? It’s not even hard to imagine. Becht enters the season as one of the most experienced quarterbacks in college football, and Penn State's schedule has already been described as favorable enough to put them in the playoff conversation.

Now we get the joy of watching Penn State roll through a schedule that looks like it was generated by a Make-A-Wish committee, finish 11-1, and have every national analyst say, "What an incredible turnaround by Matt Campbell." Meanwhile, Iowa State fans will be sitting in the corner screaming, "THAT'S OUR OFFENSE! THAT'S OUR QUARTERBACK! THAT'S OUR TIGHT END! THAT'S OUR SAFETY! THAT'S PROBABLY OUR BACKUP LONG SNAPPER TOO!"

So congratulations to Penn State. You didn't hire Matt Campbell. You purchased Iowa State's roster in the transfer portal DLC pack
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They will drop an inexplicable CMC game and be 10-2. Then get boatraced in the playoff and all you will hear is how they should have never fired Franklin lol.
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Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

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1UNI2ISU said:
That chart just screams out loud how poorly the BOR and legislature treat the 3 public ADs in this state...
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The BOR and the legislature are never going to treat the three state universities the same. They still provide EIU with more money per student than the other two. The is no doubt in my mind that if ISU was not in the picture, the state would be kicking in more money to EIU for athletics, the only thing stopping them is that people that support ISU would raise hell. UNI gets lost in shuffle, of the battle between support between ISU and EIU.
Look back to the push in the legislature to make each athletic department self funded after EIU achieved it. We started to hear whispers that the state was looking into cutting funds for ISU, within a couple of years, ISU was also self funded and the whole story went away. It was never brought up again the UNI was never self funded and never be.
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When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?

NorthCyd
MeowingCows said:
You just explained why they shouldn't make an EV in your own post:
* Companies struggle to make EVs that look normal. Look is a massive part of these companies.
* EV typically don't have the handling and driving response that expensive sports car buyers are looking for. Typically a lot heavier, tougher suspension to support it, meaning affected feel and response.
* Ultimately, it's not about speed. Ferrari and Porsche don't make the fastest cars on the planet. They make a driving experience attached to an identity. The driving experience of an EV is vastly different from existing ICE cars.

Sure, they can make them, but sales will be dismal for brands that are already low-volume sellers. I've seen little to no evidence that their actual customer bases are interested in buying these products. Like I said before, if you want the fastest EV around, Tesla already did that and has been doing it for years.

As for a 911, again, that's the driving experience attached to a small, highly-powered, relatively-light and nimble car. An EV will have a tough time replicating that with current technology. I'm not an anti-EV person at all -- I simply don't think they make sense for this particular segment of buyers. These people are not focused on practicality or being the Jetsons, as you said.
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You may be right that electric super cars will never find their market, but I also think that Tesla and other manufacturers being able to offer super car performance in an affordable sedan is going to lead to the death of super cars over the next couple of decades. You can't sell the nostalgia of the old school driving experience to younger people who won't care about it. So if they can't find a way to adapt to electric you're going to see the death of companies like Ferrari in our lifetime.
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