Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

Die4Cy

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He’s going through the stages of grief. He’s in the angry stage right now

I'm just reading this stuff remembering his breathless reporting about how the Big 12 leftovers were going to be absorbed by the AAC and realizing I could not care less about his emotional journey from here!
 

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I'm just reading this stuff remembering his breathless reporting about how the Big 12 leftovers were going to be absorbed by the AAC and realizing I could not care less about his emotional journey from here!
He's an insufferable, miserable ass. He deserves all of the ridicule he receives.
 
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jdoggivjc

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Funny he didn’t bring up that Houston and Cincy had been relegated in the past and fought their way back.

And if he had done so if/when ISU, K-State, and others ended up relegated had the Pac 12 been smart he would have openly cheered it as "survival of the fittest".

But butthurt gonna butthurt.
 
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The Big 12's danger isn't being raided. We just don't have a lot that other conferences will poach. Our danger comes when the Big 10 and SEC push for more and more money and time slots, add more desirable teams from the ACC, and we're pushed out of a game with limited resources.

But we won't be raided again. There isn't really anybody left.
If BBall becomes a revenue driving thing, we could get raided more as people would leave for the combined revenue of both sports for the Big 10 and SEC instead of staying in the B12 with mediocre FB money and maybe good BBall money.
 
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I'd put the Big 10 as a loser. In no way did they want to add Washington and Oregon. At least not right now. Big 10 fans have hung their hat on history and elitism even when the football was bad. That stubborn elitism is gone. It's now a corporate entity with the Big 10 brand on it. I don't think anyone in that conference, administration or fans, wanted those teams, but their hand was forced. Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska, USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon. That doesn't scream Big 10 to anybody.
Agree that they didn’t really want to expand, but it’s more than money talking. They are afraid that the 12 team playoff could expose them. SEC teams could sweep the Big Ten—and even worse for their psyche—they risk humiliation against the TCU’s of the world. The exclusivity of the BCS and four-team playoff formats protected them from too much embarrassment, but in the new format where the Big Ten will have the second most teams in the playoff, their brand is on the line. They were and are desperate to add actual football power and recruiting territory to their footprint so that the country doesn’t realize we have a Power 1.
 

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