Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

[HFCS]

The last thing the B12 needs is another commuter school with a trash off-campus football stadium/

I was pounding the drum for BYU the minute Nebraska was sniffing around 15 years ago so I'm not against expansion when I think the program can add a lot of new value, but I think we'd be pretty crazy to add anybody for football now until the ACC situation becomes fractured or cemented.

UConn/Gonzaga for basketball only is a mixed bag but it makes more sense than adding any of the readily available football schools out there.

 

[StPaulCyclone]

Don’t know how it is at Minn, but at ISU if you’re a student that enters the ticket lottery and doesn’t get selected, that’d be a double blow to have to pay for facilities and still not get to buy tickets to go to the games.

Isn't the lottery for Freshman only? Your point still stands, but may have a more limited impact.

 

[StPaulCyclone]

I was pounding the drum for BYU the minute Nebraska was sniffing around 15 years ago so I'm not against expansion when I think the program can add a lot of new value, but I think we'd be pretty crazy to add anybody for football now until the ACC situation becomes fractured or cemented.

UConn/Gonzaga for basketball only is a mixed bag but it makes more sense than adding any of the readily available football schools out there.

No Basketball only schools. they would have an unfair advantage in spending.

 

[Clonedogg]

If Memphis was added, there would need to be a change to the number of conference games (8 or 10) or a 18th school added.

 

[IceCyIce]

If the SCORE bill gets passed in Congress, any school earning over $50M/yr in media revenues cannot apply student fees to athletic funding.

They need to push that to 75MM thats basically the BIG and SEC. A nominal student fee would catch us up the the big boys an create a more level field. not perfect but it's something.

 

[2speedy1]

Isn't the lottery for Freshman only? Your point still stands, but may have a more limited impact.

Yes, and only for all sports (which is really just MBB). I believe at least in recent years all students that request get FB tix. The lottery is for those that want all sports. Although I believe they get in free to everything outside of FB and MBB, so saying all sports is really making it more than it is.

 

[Acylum]

Interesting. Everybody thought they’d go b1g when the ACC broke up.

 

[ZorkClone]

Interesting. Everybody thought they’d go b1g when the ACC broke up.

If this report is true, it is looking like they will try to move in 30-31. If that's the case, I'd have to believe that these discussions are super preliminary or perhaps UNC wants this leaked to signal interest.

 

[Acylum]

If this report is true, it is looking like they will try to move in 30-31. If that's the case, I'd have to believe that these discussions are super preliminary or perhaps UNC wants this leaked to signal interest.

This isn’t a horrible scenario for us:

 

[ZorkClone]

This isn’t a horrible scenario for us:

A lot better than the Big 12 imploding...We'd be the Syracuse, Pitt, Boston College, Wake Forest in the reverse scenario.

I'd wonder if the Big 12 would consider a total merger.

 

[Gonzo]

This isn’t a horrible scenario for us:

There's a lot in there that I have a hard time seeing actually happen.

 

[JP4CY]

Virginia academically just seems so much more "Big Tenny" to me than SEC.

 

[MugNight]

Hard to picture Cal and Stanford getting left in the lurch. UNC to the SEC actually helps my dream of NCST to the XII. I don’t see the SEC taking both, and NCST doesn’t seem like a B1G target.

 

[JP4CY]

Hard to picture Cal and Stanford getting left in the lurch. UNC to the SEC actually helps my dream of NCST to the XII. I don’t see the SEC taking both, and NCST doesn’t seem like a B1G target.

NCSt's ag and research area screams Big 12 to me.

 

[Gonzo]

Hard to picture Cal and Stanford getting left in the lurch. UNC to the SEC actually helps my dream of NCST to the XII. I don’t see the SEC taking both, and NCST doesn’t seem like a B1G target.

I was watching Finebaum a while back and there seemed to be a consensus among him and many of his callers that NC State was a much better fit for the SEC than UNC, which they consider non-football academic snobs.

 

[ClubCy]

Having done zero research with no information. I have never understood everyone’s obsession with NC State to the Big 12.

 

[MugNight]

I was watching Finebaum a while back and there seemed to be a consensus among him and many of his callers that NC State was a much better fit for the SEC than UNC, which they consider non-football academic snobs.

Absolutely so. The vibe at UNC and Duke are hoity toity. NCST people just seem much more down to earth in my anecdotal experience.

 

[cykadelic2]

Having done zero research with no information. I have never understood everyone’s obsession with NC State to the Big 12.

The obsession with Louisville is worse.

 

[qwerty]

Hard to picture Cal and Stanford getting left in the lurch. UNC to the SEC actually helps my dream of NCST to the XII. I don’t see the SEC taking both, and NCST doesn’t seem like a B1G target.

NC State is my 2nd favorite college, as I used to visit a plant outside Raleigh all of the time. There were many NCST grads working there.

 

[MugNight]

Having done zero research with no information. I have never understood everyone’s obsession with NC State to the Big 12.

I’ll take a crack at it. Culturally it seems like a fit. Strong engineering and AG. Decent football and fan support. Good academics but not elite.