OU to BIG10 Heating up
- Thread starter helechopper
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One big Division 1 football league. 6 team conferences realigned and seeded every 3 years. Seeded like the NCAA basketball tournament. Similar to Iowa High School. Your could still choose your non conference schedule.
The funniest part of this topic was Hawkeye Nation a week or two ago. Talking about which teams they would like to poach. Someone brought up OU and they seriously thought a big downside was the academics (and they do matter). Except the argument was that NU already brought the conference down and OU is another notch below the buggeaters. HAHAHA. 
I couldn't stop laughing and then turned it off.
I couldn't stop laughing and then turned it off.I don't know who would be besides TV execs. I'd think coaches don't enjoy mega conferences either. Isn't it more complicated to prepare for a revolving schedule vs. getting years of experience vs. a certain type of system?
Only kind of thing I think would be fun (not gonna happen because of TV sets) is some sort of Midwesternish Conference with all Kansas schools, ISU and Mizzou (?) with B10 schools but drop Maryland and Rutgers.
Why would OU leave for a conference where they’re not the big dog?
The only problem with that is that it would still be a 16 team conference. It would be the best one we could hope for, but 16 team conferences aren't ideal. I agree with wanting a midwestern conference though
That's what I mean. The whole concept sucks but if they were to do it, at least keep it somewhat regionally based.
Not sure where southern school go in that scenario but either way Baylor needs to go haha.
But really 16 team conferences are just 2 8 team conferences with a couple tie in games. You would play a max of 2 inter division games a season for football. So really, tour division is more important than your conference.
Well we know one thing, either the article Chip Brown, or whoever it was, wrote about their dinner with a high ranking executive at Amazon was garbage, or this article is garbage, or both are garbage.
Maybe ol' OU is sly like a fox. They are talking Tier 3 rights. They push their weight around and get a full share from the start from the B1G. They make the extra money that comes from being on the B1G Network over their own doing. In 2024 or 2025 or whenever, Amazon comes in and poaches all of the top 8 or 16 teams in the nation, pays out money like a drunken sailor on leave, OU and I guess OSU take the crazy money and run. At that time, with expiring contracts and crazy money being thrown around, even the B1G will get poached. All of this conversation will be for not.
Maybe ol' OU is sly like a fox. They are talking Tier 3 rights. They push their weight around and get a full share from the start from the B1G. They make the extra money that comes from being on the B1G Network over their own doing. In 2024 or 2025 or whenever, Amazon comes in and poaches all of the top 8 or 16 teams in the nation, pays out money like a drunken sailor on leave, OU and I guess OSU take the crazy money and run. At that time, with expiring contracts and crazy money being thrown around, even the B1G will get poached. All of this conversation will be for not.
The posturing level is only going to go up as we slide closer to 2024. I do like the trend curve that ISU is on with respect to football as this will figure big time in potential reconfiguration.
Posting stuff from another message board from a guy who doesn't have any relevant insider access about realignment should get you a lifetime ban from CF.
This is well put and easily understandable. Our future is in our hands, and that is not a bad thing.
CycloneErik
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I didn't read the article. Was this a Chip Brown thing?
If so, who wastes their time believing Chip Brown? Stirring this up is his hobby.
The entire state of Oklahoma, which is like a MILLION people larger than Iowa, and then probably a small sliver of Dallas. Dallas is Texas country with a side of A&M and then a smattering of TCU, Baylor, and OU.
I think they can be resurrected. Look at Alabama football in the late-90s/early 2000s. They went through a series of awful coaches, they had some really bad (by Capstone standards) seasons. Mike DuBose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Shula. I think there was a coach in there that got fired before he even coached a game too?
Not saying that Frost is Nick Saban, but when you're at a blue-blood, all it takes is the right coach to recapture some past glory.
I'm waiting for the leaks from commissioners who are thinking about alternative conference formats, like "premier leagues with relegation." It could be 24 team conference with 12 in the upper division, but with the possibility of being replaced by someone in the lower division who does better.
Mike Price, it was either strippers or a hooker scandal.
