So what about the non conference games? Still gonna play those? Is the scheduling going to be done in tiers so the can squeeze the most money out of every game? How about the tune up games? Wasted revenue those weekends..nobody watches those. Are those going to be a thing of the past? This is all sick money crap. Aren't the schools still kinda in charge of what's going on?
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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I don't know enough about Minnesota, but Illinois just seems like a state where people born there only know pro football exists.
Even having the Packers, every single person I met from Wisconsin while I lived in Chicago loves college football. On the flip side, living in Chicago for 15 years I met two NW fans and one Illinois fan...total. "DAAAA Beaaaahrs" is real.
The bars in my urban Chicago neighborhoods would be full of fans, just not Illinois and NW fans. I think ISU might have more passionate fans in Illinois than Illinois. They certainly did in the two north side neighborhoods I lived in.
Nebraska is just on the fast track to being a have not in a league that got even bigger and faster today. They are treading water at best with USC and probably Oregon/Washington coming on board. I guess they can take solace in the idea that Big 12 and ACC teams might slip slightly as they become permanent bottom half of their conference.
Oh not saying that is what is going to happen just what has been discussed so far. Again if they go to 20 you could totally be right but the 3 is what was being talked about.
As far as this expansion I was 100% off and was told the exact opposite so yeah I was totally wrong there.
Nobody on here cares how the B1G schedule would look. Go away.
So from 15 opponents just randomly generate a 9 or 10 game schedule every year with no divisions, pods or rotation?
I mostly hate it, but I kind of dirty like it that the idea the Pac and ACC were ever any safer than the Big 12 is being exposed.
ACC is falling apart this minute without that gigantor grant of rights and ND's spite.
Thoughts? Makes the UCF add look silly. Maybe add Va Tech and NCST?
I think it’d be contingent on a total collapse of the conference. SEC picks up Clemson/Miami/FSU/Miami and B1G picks up NC/ND. B12 swoops in ang gets Louisville/Pitt. Just for arguments sake….
How would they enforce the grant of rights when half the conference is out the window?
There wont be divisions, at least not in the traditional sense.
SEC adds Florida State, Miami, NC State, Virginia Tech, Clemson, maybe even West Virginia.
B1G adds UNC, UVA, Duke, Georgia Tech.
Louisville, Pitt, and Syracuse would then be solid Big 12 options. Ironically, the league could have added Louisville and Pitt when it added West Virginia to go to 10, and we would have just been at 12 and more stable all along.
Ideally the SEC is kept from adding both FSU and Miami by the Gators brass, and then we can add Miami and create a Miami-UCF rivalry.
That still leaves a lot of schools left in the ACC that could backfill with AAC teams and hold those media rights hostage.
So I suppose it depends what the ACC bylaws say for dissolution and what % vote is required.
Part of me wants this to all work out somehow.... for ISU's sake.
The other part of me doesn't care if it all comes crumbling down.... and the greed destroys college sports completely. I generally like for there to be consequences to one's actions. All these actions are ruining college athletics, so I'd like for there to be some huge negative consequences.
Every time I see the idea of adding both Arizona schools and Colorado I wonder about the benefit of adding the worst teams from the Pac 12? Going after the northwest schools and Utah would seem to me to have a much greater benefit. And then you can add the petty “screw“ Colorado since they bailed on our conference in the first place.
The ACC GOR has that Conf, locked for another Decade, unless you get enough of them to figure out how to break it or dissolve the conference.
I guess with the SEC and ACC both being under ESPN, one could think if the SEC worked it out to pull a few to improve their deal it might be a way to get ESPN to the table on the rest. Or if basically SEC, B1G and the Big 12 all took teams to dissolve that conference, I think would be the only way.
Those GORs be a major road block.
Washington and Oregon are bigger brands but I think people are assuming that they're gonna end up in the Big Ten.
Arizona and Colorado are both fast growing. Same with Utah.
It's nice to expand the league footprint outside of places like Iowa and Kansas and Oklahoma that are not growth markets.
Agree, the conference leadership panicked when they added UCF and UH. Should have added Cincinnati and BYU and waited for something like this to happen which wasn't unforseen.
