Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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Nicole Auerbach tweeted that the alliance is some form of voting bloc to make sure the SEC can’t dominate the upcoming playoff expansion and governance talks. Doesn’t appear to be any movement of teams, per se. So I guess there’s hope?
It’s one guys opinion. Everyone in the world knows there’s like 10 more dominoes to drop that will impact everything. We have a fighting chance, and the perfect AD for the job that won’t give up until every last stone is turned, AND the best muthafuckin football coach in the whole country that doesn’t want to leave for even the NFL! We’ll be just fine. In fact, given these facts, we’ll be more than just fine. There’s a good a chance as any other team to come out of this mess with Playoff appearances and who knows what else (blue blood baby…). So f*ck ESPN, f*ck OuT, f*ck Iowa, f*ck EVERYONE!!! let’s all cheer up, get ready for the greatest season of Cyclone Football that we have ever seen!!! Who’s with me?!?!?!?
“They may take our conference, but they will never take…OUR FREEEEEDOOOOOMMMM!”
It’s one guys opinion. Everyone in the world knows there’s like 10 more dominoes to drop that will impact everything. We have a fighting chance, and the perfect AD for the job that won’t give up until every last stone is turned, AND the best muthafuckin football coach in the whole country that doesn’t want to leave for even the NFL! We’ll be just fine. In fact, given these facts, we’ll be more than just fine. There’s a good a chance as any other team to come out of this mess with Playoff appearances and who knows what else (blue blood baby…). So f*ck ESPN, f*ck OuT, f*ck Iowa, f*ck EVERYONE!!! let’s all cheer up, get ready for the greatest season of Cyclone Football that we have ever seen!!! Who’s with me?!?!?!?
So the ACC is going to bite the hand that feeds them through 2036? Not likely. They are the Trojan Horse to this whole deal. Sounds more like another shot across the bow at Fox.
This is exactly what I would have expected the primary objective of this alliance to be.
Who could’ve ever guessed the 2002 Humanitarian Bowl was a future conference matchup… **** everything
yeah, I don’t think this means anything really. So they vote the same way till they don’t.
This vague article from the Athletic with few named sources or real information most certainly spells doom for us. That is the one and only conclusion anyone can draw from it, right?
So pretty much don’t cut any sports? If you have those two means you’ll have a lot of women’s sports.
I think it is way too early to know the import of this, if anything ultimately, for ISU.
Here is another article
Some interesting comments
I recall Boren’s past comments. I don’t know how Bowlsby and others were supposed to know they were about to be stabbed in the back.
Here is another article
Some interesting comments
I recall Boren’s past comments. I don’t know how Bowlsby and others were supposed to know they were about to be stabbed in the back.
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This would be bad, but no reason to freak out. The other conferences need to be United to balance the SEC to make sure they don’t completely **** college football.
I've never been a negative nancy about this whole thing, but I'm pretty sure we're approaching this at warp speed regardless.
This is less about realignment and more about management of college football. When the SEC expanded the Pac 12 was the first to say, "we should pause this expansion of the playoff" and the Big Ten, through Ohio State, kept the conversation going. The money growth, going forward, is in the playoffs with one network claiming, "why bid on the regular season if it doesn't include any post season games?". The SEC's move to grab TX/OU was to try and grab as many spots in the 12 as possible, with ESPN controlling all the properties. Two things occur by waiting:
1) You force the SEC to have less teams in the playoffs, even if TX/OU move early and
2) By waiting 5 years you allow other entities (network or streaming) to bid on the post season instead of allowing ESPN to keep it longer.
This "alliance" if it comes out, would be about voting control to ensure the end game stays even, and devising a system to balance the scales further, like the auto champs, etc. Much of CFB is now looking at ESPN wearily.
I expected this from the Pac/Big Ten, but it was a bit surprising to see the ACC involved. They must be equally pissed with the SEC's moves. One of the best moves for the Pac/Big Ten right now is carve up the Big 12 until both are at 16, play 9 conference games, then play a home and home scheduling alliance to get to 11. This would allow both conferences to take more inventory, of higher quality games, to market to sell, increasing the value of the deal. Hell, some could be designed to be made for TV, launching the season with the top four from each conference playing each other in like DC, Chicago, Denver/Phoenix, LA like the SEC does with the CFA.
Having the Pac/Big Ten matched up with 32 teams controls half of the current P5, adding the ACC, with ND, controls 74% of the votes to counter the SEC/ESPN block.
If it actually is about it ISU and OSU will end up somewhere in a power conference once the OU, UT and ESPN mess gets settled. Teams that would both be 3rd in the PAC, and middle of the ACC and Big 10 in TV viewership aren’t getting left out, especially when they are likely to take a reduced share of media dollars for a period.
Either the blue bloods are going to make the fatal mistake and make an NFL lite with 30 or so teams, or ISU will end up somewhere. Absolute **** worthless football brands like Wake, BC, Vandy, Illinois, Rutgers, Duke, Pitt, Oregon St, Maryland, etc aren’t going to remain in the club while two schools- ISU and Okie State, that went head to head and outdrew Notre Dame-Pitt by 400,000 viewers, gets left out.
I hope your right. It’s all about branding. Our marketing dept needs to go balls to the walls the next 5 months, showing us off whenever and where ever we can. Thank god we have 1 and maybe 2 legit Heisman candidates and a team that is elite that should make it easier. There isn’t a lot in all this that is in our control but We have the opportunity to move the needle some in this way and I hope (and believe we will) capitalize on it.
