Convince schools from three different conferences to team together after booting the biggest moneymakers...
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Convince schools from three different conferences to team together after booting the biggest moneymakers...
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Western Division:
Iowa State
Kansas State
Kansas
Colorado
Minnesota
Eastern Division:
Indiana
Northwestern
Illinois
Purdue
West Virginia
Think about it. Take our beloved ISU as an example - we have 3 non-confernce games now then 9 games in the Big 12...we have to play OU, OSU, BU, TCU, UT, TT, KU, KSU, WV....That is a pretty stacked deck against ISU, KU, KSU etc...
Geography is killing us. Let's level the playing field. Think about basketball as well.
Give Texas and OKlahoma the finger and let them find a spot to land.
Fire Away.
The idea is "parity" at a conference level over the long haul. You might have a better chance of getting the 3-5 star southern recurits to come to your new "P6" conference to stand out at a national/conference/school level than just be another 5 star that goes to TX, Alabama, etc...and has to wait a few years to play.
LOL...
What is smart? Playing OU, OSU, TT, TCU, BU, UT every year and trying to compete geographically for the TX OK Southern kids or maybe trying something different. Think over the longer term - 20 yrs. I don't know what the right answer is - I was just tossing an idea out there.
People can argue if we did just this and this and this...this year we could've beat Iowa, KSU, and OSU (and Toledo but forget them for now)...I agree but my point is year over year/decade over decade - the Texas/Oklahoma schools are going to beat us 95 out of 100 times.
Sure we are going to have the occasional 1000+ yd rusher like Warren or beat a #2 ranked OSU etc...but year over year, decade over decade we lose.
Have to change the paradigm - otherwise we are okay with 4-5-6 win seasons with the occasional 7-8 win season a couple times a decade.
Change it up.
I got dumber reading this. And I didn't think that was possible.
You speak as though such a thing would be completely up to ISU. Like, we just float this idea and it will happen. Doesn't work that way, bro.Short term you may get an exceptional staff in who can recruit and has the X&O chops to compete for a couple of years but ultimately...
They will leave for greener pastures - more fertile recruiting areas and to schools with tradition to pull the 4&5 star recruits in.
Long term you will still have a program that finishes 7th thru 10th nine years out of ten in the new "Big 12" conference.
We must think longer term.
Every year:
Texas
Oklahoma
TCU
Baylor
Oklahoma State
Texas Tech
Kansas
West Virginia
Kansas State
Western Division:
Iowa State
Kansas State
Kansas
Colorado
Minnesota
Eastern Division:
Indiana
Northwestern
Illinois
Purdue
West Virginia
Think about it. Take our beloved ISU as an example - we have 3 non-confernce games now then 9 games in the Big 12...we have to play OU, OSU, BU, TCU, UT, TT, KU, KSU, WV....That is a pretty stacked deck against ISU, KU, KSU etc...
Geography is killing us. Let's level the playing field. Think about basketball as well.
Give Texas and OKlahoma the finger and let them find a spot to land.
Fire Away.
How about if leagues were set up alphabetically. We would be in the "I" league.
Iowa State, Iowa
Indiana, Indiana State
Illinois, Illinois State
Idaho, Idaho State
Illinois Chicago
Iona
Incarnate Word
IUPUI