Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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It literally has a major fault line running damn near down the center of the field.
They spent about $500M on the retrofit/upgrades and a new sport’s performance center about 10 years ago.
Lack of investment isn’t the reason Cal has been bad the last few years.
For that matter, it isn’t lack of talent either (this year was the first time in 50s years where a former Bear didn’t play in the Super Bowl two seasons in a row).
They’ve struggled for the same reason most schools go through periods of struggling: Running a successful D-I football program is ******* hard.
Is this the highest number of schools changing conferences in one day? Can't recall the timeline of Realignment War I (2010/2011)
Not that there is any doubt, but ASU notified their athletes.
If Bowlsby was still in charge, we would be in the same position as the PAC-12. Yormark is a boss.
They are going to be constantly red assed. And they've never had to deal with fan bases that actually care. Buckle up skin flUtes.
ASU and Utah deserved to be shorted down to about $25 million for being a pain in the ass.
Feels like everything jumped ahead 5 years today. B1G made a move for their future. I’m okay with BY moving the next chess pieces. The man has a vision and he’s proven thus far he’s worth trusting. If anything he’s punching first and he’s punching hard.
I know people keep talking about conferences and research dollars. But athletic conference has zero impact on research dollars. People that make that connection are wrong. The big 10 research alliance gets cited, but if you look at their site it’s basically economies of scale in subscriptions and purchasing. Based on their reports their savings come out to a few hundred thousand $ per institution. They state something like “over $X in research.” That’s just the sum of research dollars garnered by Big 10 institutions.
The athletic conference you are in has no effect on research dollars. That’s not at all how it works. ISU could move to the Big 10 and it would have zero effect on research dollars. Almost all competitive research dollars are developed at the grass roots. It’s individual faculty with ideas that collaborate with colleagues at other schools that are complimentary. They don’t give two ***** what athletic conference the school is in.
I think these Presidents etc, just like being affiliated with the other high profile schools. ASU liked being affiliated with Stanford. They all claim that affiliation somehow gave them a better image, and more money, but most of all it was all just about optics.
In FB I really would like to keep Farmageddon. I'd like to play KU home and away every yr in MBB. Yeah I know this yr we play them once and in Hilton, but I like the KU-ISU series even if KU doesn't consider it a true rivalry.
Not really 100 years. The current PAC 12 dates back to 1959.
