Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

[GTO]

Have Stanford come to the B12 and then lure Notre Dame to the B12. JK! Maybe.

 

[StLouisClone]

Will this force B10 to make an offer?

 

[FerShizzle]

Not sure if this was posted already

This was 100% Arizona looking to ease their departure right?

 

[hoosman]

College football has become a multi-billion dollar industry and has been ruined by NIL, realignment, big media, and transfer portals. SEC has won CFP 13 out of the last 17 years. Big12 was beaten 65-7 by SEC last year in CFP final - largest bowl game margin ever. The odds are 500,000 to one that ISU will ever win a CFB championship against this rigged system. A megaconference is exactly what is needed to collapse the CFB bubble and restructure the game back to its previous regions, rivalries, bowl games, and parity. What needs to happen is for the expansion of alternate media packages such as Apple, ATT, Bally, Comcast, etc. This counteracts the monopoly of Disney/Fox when they try to dictate what gets televised . People will prefer their own schools, their own regions, and will control their own entertainment expenditures. Hopefully, a completely separate association with separate bowl games, rules, contracts, polls, and non-conference games will be set up. In this group, ISU will be frequently ranked, and will have legitimate NC opportunities (similar to NCAA BB today: anyone can make a FF). Maybe these lower caste schools forgo NIL, or have coaching/player salary caps, or allow player trades, or have a better system of assigning new HS players. Eventually, viewers will get tired of the blueblood monotony and there be a day of reckoning.

 

[ISUCubswin]

Yormark has an A+ from me so far, but if he wants an A++, he will

1) Send Arizona State to Morgantown Week 1 next year
2) Add Stanford and UCONN at a reduced rate
3) Send Stanford to UCONN Week 1 next year

 

[CYDJ]

I think I am going to watch way more Big 12 football than any other conference. I didn’t used to be like this but I expect I will even watch some Arizona-Kansas ESPN+ game over an SEC game of the week, especially if UA or KU are on ISU’s schedule to come that season.

Welcome to where I have been since 1982.

 

[Gonzo]

Lol - a lot of bs said to admit the top schools in the big 10 could be poached, just like what has happened in several other conferences

Oh 100%. If I've ever feared for the future of the B1G, it's now. Lol.

 

[IASTATE07]

I've streamed on YTTV while in JT numerous times.

I’ve failed to get a signal on my phone to even check scores while in JT numerous times.

I can't get score updates of any kind. I need to know @06_CY secret.

 

[CYDJ]

Yes, actually. John McDaid, the SEC's coordinator of football officials, was asked this and responded with what is bolded:

Unsportsmanlike conduct needs to fit one of three categories:

1) Is it taunting an opponent?
2) Is it making a travesty of the game?
3) Is it otherwise compromising our ability to manage the game?

There's a difference between a player giving a signal directly in the face of an opponent, as opposed to doing it with teammates celebrating after a touchdown or on the sideline. To net all that out, every single occurrence is not an act of unsportsmanlike conduct.

Is a Texas player throwing a horns up taunting the players on the opposing team? What if it is AT the opposing player or what if it is close to or over them. Oh, no....? Then neither is a whornes down if not done directly in the face of another player. Goose and Gander and all that crap.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

College football has become a multi-billion dollar industry and has been ruined by NIL, realignment, big media, and transfer portals. SEC has won CFP 13 out of the last 17 years. Big12 was beaten 65-7 by SEC last year in CFP final - largest bowl game margin ever. The odds are 500,000 to one that ISU will ever win a CFB championship against this rigged system. A megaconference is exactly what is needed to collapse the CFB bubble and restructure the game back to its previous regions, rivalries, bowl games, and parity. What needs to happen is for the expansion of alternate media packages such as Apple, ATT, Bally, Comcast, etc. This counteracts the monopoly of Disney/Fox when they try to dictate what gets televised . People will prefer their own schools, their own regions, and will control their own entertainment expenditures. Hopefully, a completely separate association with separate bowl games, rules, contracts, polls, and non-conference games will be set up. In this group, ISU will be frequently ranked, and will have legitimate NC opportunities (similar to NCAA BB today: anyone can make a FF). Maybe these lower caste schools forgo NIL, or have coaching/player salary caps, or allow player trades, or have a better system of assigning new HS players. Eventually, viewers will get tired of the blueblood monotony and there be a day of reckoning.

So the current system now is the same as it’s been for decades?

 

[Acylum]

The argument that Stanford deserves a seat at the big boys’ table because of all the national titles they win in sports nobody cares about is just bizarre to me.

 

[RustShack]

"All over" has to be overstated. I can see us adding one more out west but the next 3 need to balance us out in the east. UConn doesn't move the needle for me. I'd wait for the ACC breakup for further expansion.

Stanford and ND to the Big12, confirmed.

 

[Gunnerclone]

If you think the B1G and SEC start shedding schools, I guess we'll see. I don't see it happening. I wouldn't be surprised to see top programs in the B1G get a bigger cut from CFP and bowl revenues, but I don't see them hacking the bottom programs. To sustain elite programs/brands, conferences need cannon fodder. Cram an entire slate of elite programs into a conference, and it won't be long before half of those programs are no longer elite. So then what happens? They get cut too? Don't see it happening.

The classic Big 10 schools will always be there. The Big 10 is different even than the SEC in that regard imo. The Big 10 is the storybook conference. They have a brand that is bigger than shedding an Iowa or Indiana for a few million extra.

 

[06_CY]

And? You think the entire stadium is doing that?

Even if they did, that’s 60,000 views. Hardly comparable to the millions of views from TV. Point being, attendance at games doesn’t matter. Viewership matters

You said "People at the game are not watching it on tv". Nowhere did I say 60k are streaming on their phone or that it matters if they did. I pointed out it does happen, simply by my sample size of one.

 

[madguy30]

UT's value didn't decrease because even as an average program based on W/L in the Big 12 they're still one of just 2 bluebloods and the biggest brand in the conference. In a superconference, their brand is nothing special. That's the difference.

Something to ponder: does Nebraska get the superconference invite?

Every year it seems sports media needs them back something fierce, so their brand may still be strong.

 

[Cyhig]

You said "People at the game are not watching it on tv". Nowhere did I say 60k are streaming on their phone or that it matters if they did. I pointed out it does happen, simply by my sample size of one.

Great. You are technically correct. Meanwhile is has absolutely zero merit on the discussion. I’m sure these media contracts examine the couple hundred people streaming inside a stadium

Thanks for contributing

 

[06_CY]

I can't get score updates of any kind. I need to know @06_CY secret.

The key is to go to the highest possible spot on the east side, hold the phone above your head, and don't move for the next 3 to 4 hours.

 

[theshadow]

What's baffling re: TV is that Fox basically refuses to use FS2 for CFB unless they get in a scheduling pinch. Only 4-6 games -- all MWC -- each of the last three years.

Depending on the source, FS2's availability matches or exceeds that of ESPNU. Might as well start using it.

 

[LLCoolCY]

Interesting read on some options for the forgotten 4 and the potential the PACX could be losing their auto bid BCS spot.

 

[jctisu]

Holy cat fight and triggered Big Ten fans in here. Still getting through the last five pages but it’s cute how triggered they get when anyone suggests the power brokers in the SEC and Big Ten may do their own thing down the road and remove the Vandys and NWs of the world.

Look the conferences are loyal right now, and that’s a fact. Let’s see what happens if and when the money starts to level off or go down per school. That’s when you find how “loyal” these school presidents and big wigs are.