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dahliaclone

dahliaclone

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Take all current and past and possible future conferences out of your mind. Take eyeballs and money off the table. Take hatred off the table if you can. What is your dream conference for Iowa State to be a part of? Is it based on rivalries? Nostalgia? Proximity?

Just bored and curious. For the sake of argument, the dream league has EXACTLY ten members.

Here's mine:

Iowa State
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma

Mine is based on nostalgia of the Big 8 but also just the fact all the schools are pretty close to each other for fans.
 
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dahliaclone said:
Take all current and past and possible future conferences out of your mind. Take eyeballs and money off the table. Take hatred off the table if you can. What is your dream conference for Iowa State to be a part of? Is it based on rivalries? Nostalgia? Proximity?

Just bored and curious. For the sake of argument, the dream league has EXACTLY ten members.

Here's mine:

Iowa State
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma

Mine is based on nostalgia of the Big 8 but also just the fact all the schools are pretty close to each other for fans.
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That's pretty close to mine... but I'd throw out Okie St and Oklahoma... and add Colorado and Illinois.

*changed Northwestern to Colorado after seeing CyCrazy's post.
 
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dahliaclone said:
Take all current and past and possible future conferences out of your mind. Take eyeballs and money off the table. Take hatred off the table if you can. What is your dream conference for Iowa State to be a part of? Is it based on rivalries? Nostalgia? Proximity?

Just bored and curious. For the sake of argument, the dream league has EXACTLY ten members.

Here's mine:

Iowa State
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma

Mine is based on nostalgia of the Big 8 but also just the fact all the schools are pretty close to each other for fans.
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I like OK St, take out OU and replace with Arkansas. If we can't get OK St without OU, they are replaced by Northwestern or Purdue.
 
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isucy86

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clonedude said:
I was trying to keep it to 10 teams... I like that size conference.
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Agree 10 teams is the ideal size based on a 9 game "conference" season. Going forward, I could see TV Networks wanting better games to justify their investment and we could see 10 conference game and 2 non-conference games.

Having a 10 game "conference" schedule would only result if conferences go away and there are 4 or 5 eleven team conferences with the top 3 teams or (2 teams+2 highest rated) in each conference earn bids to a 12 team playoff. But that's even sketchy because IMO we'll have a 16 team playoff by 2030.
 
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dahliaclone said:
Take all current and past and possible future conferences out of your mind. Take eyeballs and money off the table. Take hatred off the table if you can. What is your dream conference for Iowa State to be a part of? Is it based on rivalries? Nostalgia? Proximity?

Just bored and curious. For the sake of argument, the dream league has EXACTLY ten members.

Here's mine:

Iowa State
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma

Mine is based on nostalgia of the Big 8 but also just the fact all the schools are pretty close to each other for fans.
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Great for road trips, killing our recruiting, and eliminating any semblance of national interest.
 
bsaltyman

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I would go with:

Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Colorado
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Missouri
Wisconsin
Minnesota

The old Big 8 plus a couple of nearby Big 10 schools… without the headache of the Hawkeyes.
 
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jctisu

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I’ll go a little different.

Iowa State
Iowa
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma State
Nebraska
Colorado (road trip is too good to pass up)
Louisville (still regional but a historically a solid all-around athletic department)
Tennessee (Iowa State at Neyland Stadium? Yes please, and is still tied close enough to Louisville)
Illinois

Edit: max I would want is 12 teams in the league, so if we get that I would add Arizona and Arizona State to the above list. I’ve always wanted them in the conference and they are my favorite adds to the new Big 12.
 
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College football should be 8 regional 9 or 10 team conferences and one of those would be very much like what is laid out by most here.

Then the top teams each year play themselves into something like a "champions league", "europa league" and "uefa conference" for those who know that sport. It could be at the end of conference season in Nov/Dec or you play into it for the next year. You could make it so most teams at least make that third inter regional league and the few who don't just miss out instead of getting totally relegated and they only have a 9 or 10 game season instead of 13 or 14 game season. (think like top 16, next 16, next 16, then like 24 who don't qualify but can qualify again the next year)

The regional leagues could negotiate their own contracts so football hotbeds would still make more $, and the teams that make the champions league every single year would automatically make more too.

It's so dumb the way we are going instead of that. They could have achieved what they did in a more fair way and in a way that actually INCREASES interest for every single fan base.

The euro soccer team I follow is one where 1/3 of the time we make the Champions league and almost 2/3 of the time make whatever is just below that has gone by several names, once in a while neither. I still get really excited for the mid tier competition. It's not at all like the NIT, it's still a really cool thing that is very fun part of a majority of seasons. There could be a way for some of the lower tier teams to play into these three competitions too the same way really minor european pro teams can win their way in.

It doesn't even have to be a pure relegation system, it could just be a better conference season and a better inter regional "national championship" playoff league and one or two sub leagues that have 100x more intrigue than a "Cheezit Bowl" exhibition.
 
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The 10-team limit is very important for the round-robin in basketball every year and football every two years. You could probably go to 11 and still have it with a 20-game conference season but then football scheduling is messy.
 
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