Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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A group called College Sports Tomorrow (CST) wants to reform college football as we know it.
CST is a 20-person group that includes executives from universities like West Virginia and Syracuse, the NFL and Philadelphia 76ers owner David Blitzer.
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This is exactly why I don't think a 30-team superleague was ever going to be a thing. First, getting all of the most elite brands/programs in college football to agree on anything would be a serious challenge. Second, once you have that superleague limited to the bluest of bluebloods, eventually there's going to be a top half and a bottom half. No way to avoid it. So all of a sudden 15 of those elite programs are no longer elite, and the top half will wonder why they're giving them an equal revenue split. Then the top half cuts them out and you have a 15 program superduperleague. And eventually, there's a top half and a bottom half of that. Rinse, repeat.
WSU/Ore St really flubbed up just not joining MWC as it is or making it happen in a way they keep all the Pac and MWC assets collectively. Crazy they cannot seem to get an 8th team to sign up.
They could have still added Gonzaga for non-fb sports.
They could have even kicked the tires on Montana/Montana St or both to go to 15/16, maybe NDSU. Montana schools fit geographic footprint like a glove, bring a new state and could compete in football right away. Sagarin would have both of them as 5th out of 12 MWC teams this year, better than average already.
They could have still added Gonzaga for non-fb sports.
They could have even kicked the tires on Montana/Montana St or both to go to 15/16, maybe NDSU. Montana schools fit geographic footprint like a glove, bring a new state and could compete in football right away. Sagarin would have both of them as 5th out of 12 MWC teams this year, better than average already.
Most likely they are negotiating right now with Memphis to see if they can get them into the league. It will come down to how much money the PAC can afford to spend on the buyout.
Texas State has an offer from the MWC, but would prefer the PAC so they haven't accepted yet. They would be the most likely fallback if negotiations with Memphis fall through.
They've been very clear that they want to keep the conference smaller to leave off "deadweight", so adding teams to go up to 15/16 was never on the table.
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The top P2 matchups in the top windows by nature won’t involve teams with losing records. For example, see how Florida isn’t featured at the moment. That’s the benefit of the P2 being 16+ deep of big brands. There’s almost always a high potential ratings game
And the BIG already routinely pulled despite often not having great matchups.
Consolidation to P2 is undoubtedly better for ratings than the P5 was
When there is fear a peer can take that $15 million and funnel it to players, it already has merit. That prisoners dilemma is how we got here
And the extra money isn’t first offered to those at the top. They start with enough 2nd tier P2 $15 more than anyone else is how to unravel current setup
You are talking P2 when the conversation is about a super league. They lose eyeballs when they form their own league and alienate most of college football. They become the XFL, or NFL Europe. Sounds great at first. But then they found out it isn’t.
I really don’t see the leftover MWC as a drastic drop off in football. WSU and Ore St aren’t incredibly advantaged teams on their own long term in a g5 type conference. It would be like expecting ISU to have no drop off in the MAC and ISU has advantages on at least wsu.
It would be way bigger than the XFL and CFL and all the other leagues but yes it would lose some eyeballs.
They’re probably in a high enough tier of G5 that they can slow play and negotiate for better terms. Tulane and USF are in that same stratosphere.
It’s gonna be bizarre if the ACC implodes and Cal/Stanford end up back in the PAC 12. This whole thing is a circus.
Wasn't he one of the guy's who was completely wrong about realignment last year?
Geographic proximity is #1, but we just happened to jump over two entire states' worth of schools to make sure Ohio State and Michigan aren't in the same division.
Oh, and Notre Dame, you get the easiest imaginable path every single year because of course a team in Indiana gets to be the East.Geographic proximity is #1, but we just happened to jump over two entire states' worth of schools to make sure Ohio State and Michigan aren't in the same division.
Also, Navy gets to be in the top league and apparently Army and Air Force have completely dropped the sport.
Each division having a very obvious "Top Dog" the powers that be would love to win it annually is so blatant it's hilarious.
To the point where they forgot to fix the alphabetization in the south...
