Much like their other problems including rape and hiring good coaches, Baylor will pay its way out of this problem, too. I think Pokes/EMAW are most affected by this.
I used to care about this stuff so much back in the day when Chip Brown was doing his thing. I wanted all the schools to join the B1G and create some super-conference or whatever. Now, if I was given the option of the B1G adding OU/Texas or kicking out Maryland/Rutgers/Nebraska, I'd vote the latter. Massive conferences where you don't play everyone all the time are stupid.
Yeah, as a Michigan fan this really doesn’t affect me much at all. Hell, the dblplay1212 troll a couple pages ago would have gotten me good two years ago. But I didn’t even realize he left us out until other people mentioned it, and even then I was like “that works.”
Fans from the West and North aren’t going anywhere. The south already wins every single year as it is, and the sport is bigger than ever.
"There's this understanding among the membership -- at least it was 10 years ago -- that you don't admit a school from the same state as a member school unless that member school's OK with it," Loftin told ESPN.com on Thursday. "We talked about it from time to time among ourselves, that this was the way it was going to be, that if we had another school in Texas wanting to enter the SEC, Texas A&M would have veto power."
absolutely, the most likely thing is that the B12 adds some good G5 schools and just makes less money while sitting somewhere between a P5 and G5 school. an In Between 1, or IB1 if you will
the P12 is a hard no, if they would take religious schools they would've taken BYU instead of Utah. comes down to whether the B1G or ACC are confident Baylor is worth the money enough to offset the bad optics (no offense)
Blindsided That was the way one reporter I spoke with today described the school that he covers. One assistant AD for the school in question said that they knew nothing before yesterday. Even more, Bowlsby had no idea, either. I'll have more in the War Room tonight, but it appears that he was on the campus of another school when this broke yesterday and... totally blindsided.
I don’t think there’s any real reason the ACC would need to take Baylor tbh. And I hope it never even gets considered.
change the conference names to match their content provider imo will help alleviate confusion when trying to find games each weekend
would be an extremely fun TV conference and also very fun for tmb. a lot of overachieving small schools and a few big powers too
this would be so shitty as just a fan. there's no cultural identity shared between these teams. there's nothing exciting about sports here. god damn tv contracts... if we were to expand, i'd expect Kansas (AAU school + elite basketball) and Iowa St (AAU school) to be targeted over Oklahoma St at minimum. but wtf do i know...
if the pac 12 thought their tv dollars were shitty now, well it would get even worse with that expansion plan
people say that but timezones insulate the conference from a lot of this shit. it's not like TV networks don't need their afternoon/evening/nighttime air filled up with live sports, too.
Matt Brown and Bryan Fischer were talking about on their pod how this is gonna impact the governors race, haha
Republicans still being upset at Kevin Warren for treating Covid seriously and expecting him to change their geographic footprint will be quality content
I need this whole thing to get saucier if it's going down. Texas/OU to the SEC, ND/Clemson/UNC/Kansas to the B1G. Power 5 to Pompous 2.
It is my dream to one day hate something with 50% of the fury that some OSU fans on here hate Kevin Warren.
does the Big10's BTN Joint Venture with Fox complicate them getting other bids for their media rights? ideal world you'd try to get CBS + CBS Sports Network + Paramount Streaming involved, but perhaps you can get CBS or NBC to pay you for a Primetime Game that does not compete with Fox's B1G Noon.
I would never make you take Houston babe I’ll see you in the P12 championship game edit: we’re in the same division whoops