Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Fran knows. 2 top 10 NET rankings joined or are joining the BIGXII. That guy is going to love his job even more.
With all of this re-alignment being about money and the athletic departments being not for profit so they have to spend the money on something, what is the point of getting more money if it doesn't lead to winning more. Vanderbilt is getting gobs of money for the athletic department from the SEC and doesn't win and doesn't have top facilities. What do they spend their money on if they have to spend it? What is the point of having more money in athletics if you don't win? Buying more buildings for the sake of buying buildings etc doesn't make much sense to me.
pretty sad for the Beavers who just had one of best seasons in their history. very similar program history to ISU. imagine just winning 10 games and now facing reality of MWC as your future.
still think them and WaSt can beg their way into Big 12 or Big 10 accepting a much lesser share. it'd still be better than MWC.
still think them and WaSt can beg their way into Big 12 or Big 10 accepting a much lesser share. it'd still be better than MWC.
I didn't love the add of 4 to get to 12. A ten team conference was really nice for the Big 12 for a long time. I especially didn't like Houston or UCF.
That being said Houston would have be #1 target of the PAC 12 when USC/UCLA left so it was good to have them not be an option. I'm still not convinced they would have taken BYU as they had the opportunity to take them a while ago and the religious school issue.
Had we only taking BYU/Cinci, you can see the Pac 12 taking Houston/SDSU and stayed at 12, having at least one of those off the table really made the Pac 12 wait it out
I’ve heard that the top SEC teams have started talks of a breakaway conf to shed the bottom 1/3. I could see B1G doing the same.
If something could stand less than 0% chance of happening this would be it.
Illustrates why VT, NCSU, Pitt are the best options for us
If Arizona applied and was approved last night, why in the world did nobody report it this morning during the hour of panic? That bit of news would have told us those leaks were BS
And why has it still not been reported widely even now?
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We literally almost faced it two years ago. So we don’t need to imagine.
Translation: We are f'ed. I feel for them, we could easily be in a similar position
And in 10 years or so, the bottom programs that are left will now be the bottom 1/3. Keep going until it's just Alabama/Georgia and Michigan/Ohio State?
Hoops:
- Already #1 on the court, have been for 12 years statistically
- If we aren't #1 in basketball media value it would be close
- Very likely close to #1 in attendance
- Big East is the clear top competitor in on the court reality and their best program could flip to us. The football analogy of that is Michigan or Ohio State flipping to the SEC.
FB:
- #3 on the field, maybe close to #2 on field some years. Talking top to bottom, not NC contenders.
- #3 in media value
- 0% chance of ever catching #1/#2 in media value
- Close to 0% chance of losing #3 position in media value
We are what we are in FB. Utah is nothing in FB that OK St, Baylor, TCU, UCF and I hate to say KSU already are not, they're good but they aren't a regular NC contender. We could push forward to an even greater level in hoops, create separation, adding a second true blue blood to the 5-10 elite to very good programs we have.
Feels like this could have been written by an ISU alum. Although we wouldn't be as gracious to the Hawks.
the case studies of the last 2 years will be interesting. thankfully the big 12 got poached first and had time to recover.
