Homies, might I have found a solution?
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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What I’ve been saying all along. Rotate out which pod you play each year (4 games) plus the 3 in your own, and 1 each from the others. 9 conf games. Easy peazy.Please
Commish needs to start playing 3D chess. Let’s take OSU and WSU. Get the B1G on the phone if they’re taking Oregon and WA. Make it so they get their rival games and we split the revenue. Good times had for all.
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This KU fan nailed it. Set it up like the B1G. Up to 3 protected rivalries. Play all other teams each two years.
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The map is not what the B1G does. There are no protected rival pods. For example using a B1G style approach, ISU might get KU, K-State, and Colorado as its protected games. But Colorado doesn’t have to have the same group - it could have ISU, Utah, and Arizona State for example.
I agree that we should copy the B1G’s approach and ISU should get KU and KSU as 2 of its 3 protected games. Don’t really care what the 3rd one is, if anything at all. I think 15 schools in the B1G have only 1 or 2 true “protected” rivals and only Iowa has 3. The others are temporarily protected to make the schedule work and then they reset on a 3-year basis.
No, this does reflect what the B1G did. These are not pods. They are just assuming what the 3 protected rivalries might be. No guarantee it happens. As noted, Iowa got 3 protected rivalries. No one else had 3, but I like what they have proposed here and would take this for ISU in a heartbeat.
ISU cannot have CU as a protected rivalry if they don’t select us also. So your scenario that ISU would have KU, KSU, and CU; but CU would have ISU, Utah and ASU is not what the B1G did. Has to be mutual.
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I can’t tell if this is satire or if you are just missing the point. Your last three sentences make no sense whatsoever: ISU and CU are mutual in that scenario, and also, that’s exactly the sort of thing that the B1G did as I said. You are wrong.
No. You just don’t understand. You interpret the map as forced rivalries. I believe their intent was to show how well the protected rivalries could work. The graphic clearly says their idea for “protected rivalries”. Your interpretation of pods was wrong.
“ISU cannot have CU as a protected rivalry if they don’t select us also. So your scenario that ISU would have KU, KSU, and CU; but CU would have ISU, Utah and ASU is not what the B1G did. Has to be mutual.”
Every part of this was wrong. 0 for 3.
Why do want a school that doesn't want us? Screw those guys. There got to be options out there for schools that want to be a part of the B12.
The same conference that got a bad media deal that is causing many schools to go into bad debt. The same conference that has to pay back over payments. The same conference whose members back stabbed it's own brothers to sneak out.
Im thinking Oklahoma State will demand Texas games every year.
colo. same.
ISU can get good recruits from Ohio and Florida.
WVU doesnt recruit Texas much at all.
I think who's in what pod will be a bit contentious as coaches at some schools want a heavy dose of Texas schools.
There will be protected rivals, maybe even 3 rivals, so schools like ISU can get a good dose of big 8 schools.
Big 12 officials green-light Arizona to join conference; Arizona board of regents vote still pending
Arizona’s departure from the Pac-12 would be the latest major shakeup in conference realignment i.
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We aren't doing divisions.
We aren't doing pods.
We will do protected rivalries, like B1G and ACC have laid out already. No reason to do otherwise. Way more flexible that way.
We aren't doing pods.
We will do protected rivalries, like B1G and ACC have laid out already. No reason to do otherwise. Way more flexible that way.
But, IF it's true, one can't ignore that expense. They're in one deep hole and will have to learn how to live on a tighter budget. I assume Oregon is no different. BUT, that said, IF the B1G gets them in at 35, they're still plus 10 (roughly assuming $5 mil travel budget in P12). Interestingly, my inside P12 guy said a long time ago, the travel budgets would, alone, be a real issue.
Arizona, Arizona State, Utah join Big 12: Programs follow Colorado departing Pac-12 before 2024 season
The Big 12 has swiped the entire group of 'Four Corners' schools from the Pac-12www.cbssports.com
If I were Washington, I would think twice about the whining of addition travel expenses to the Big 10. Beggers cant be choosers, and if the Big 10 doesn't pan out for them and they are pulling the same crap with the Big 12, screw that.
Can't underestimate how that played in to the Apple offer. Heck, take out the 70mil expense and things looked brighter. I regress. Hindsight is 20/20. Let's look forward now.
