Stanford, Cal, UCLA, Washington, and USC are a relatively easy way to get B1G presidents on board with radical change. Much easier than Clemson, Florida State, and Miami.
Bring back the original conferences from early 2000s. Nothing was better than starting the week off the top teams in the old Big East playing a Thurs night game
Because the West Coast is about half made up of second gen privilege boyz whose parents went to Wisconsin or Michigan then left the shorty Midwest and they’ve always fetishized some sort of alliance. That’s why the rose bowl exists in the first place.
I thought going to the Big12 would be fun. Sure, the league is better than we were in but 1. No rivalries. Yea VT, Pitt, and UL aren't any better than the middle of the Big12 but it's more fun to play your rivals 2. Travel is awful. No team is within driving distance. ISU is the closest at like 900 miles. Huggs bitches about it all the time. Bball will play at 9pm est game at say TCU. By the time the game ends, media availability, airport and flight, team doesn't get back til 3 or 4 am. Also limits the amount of away fans we have at games
A 32 team conference with all the major teams would be amazing. No more Bama vs Mercer. Every game would be vs top 32 teams. No more -58 spreads. 16 solid to amazing games every week. Rotate schedules like NFL but play teams in your division once instead of twice.
Forces more conference games and new matchups every year. I just dont buy that regional games like michigan-indiana, usc-arizona ohio state-illinois are that important to cfb. Most schools only have 1-2 games on their schedule they really want to/need to play a year and those games still get maintained for the most part(at least for the top tier schools).
sec and big ten absorb anyone and everyone who have anything at all to offer. then the pac panic and add anyone they can. SEC Spoiler Alabama Arkansas Auburn Baylor Clemson Duke Florida Florida St Georgia Georgia Tech Houston Kentucky Louisville LSU Memphis Miami Miss Miss St Missouri MTSU NC St North Carolina Oklahoma Oklahoma St South Carolina SMU TCU Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech UCF Vanderbilt Big "Ten" Spoiler Army Ball St Boston College Cincinnati Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kansas St Maryland Michigan Michigan St Minnesota Navy Nebraska Northwestern Notre Dame Ohio State Penn St Pittsburgh Purdue Rutgers Syracuse Temple Virginia Virginia Tech West Virginia Wisconsin Pac 26 Spoiler Air Force Arizona Arizona St Boise St BYU Cal Colorado Colorado St Fresno St Hawaii NDSU Nevada New Mexico New Mexico St Oregon Oregon St San Diego St Stanford Washington Washington St Wyoming UCLA UNLV USC Utah Utah St
Bama Lsu Auburn Uga Uf Tennessee Ole Miss Miss st south carolina A&m Ou Okie st Texas Nd Fsu Clemson Miami VT unc Osu Michigan Psu Wisconsin Msu Iowa Nebraska Oregon Usc Ucla Washington 8 team tournament for the last 2 spots
Also wonder if it’s culturally a fit. The P12 schools measure up academically no doubt, but I don’t get the sense that football is as important to their universities (sans USC and maybe Oregon). Basing this off living in Berkeley since October and visiting Palo Alto a couple times. RE hen again, a lot of that time was during the pandemic restrictions. Looking forward to seeing what game day atmosphere in the P12 is like come fall, but have my doubts it will measure up.
Every Bama fan would be fine with no more Mercer. Almost every team has games like that bc of money. Shit sucks.
Sec sec sec Who else is left? Colorado, Arizona, Minnesota? TT? I'd put Ole Miss above them. Miss st is iffy but sec.
I didn’t see Ark and Mizzou so I figured you were being objective enough to at least leave out the bad football SecSecSec schools.
I’m So in this realignment scenario are conferences only playing conference games? I ask because if Alabama is playing a 9-10 game schedule in this new SEC their other games will absolutely be games like Mercer. The reason I say this is because we constantly hear that they schedule these games because the SEC is too tough to play hard teams week to week already.
Time zones are a bonus for tv coverage. Instead of eyeballs for 3 game windows you have eyeballs for 4-5.
At this point, I wish they would go ahead and speed up to a 24-32 super league so I can quit pretending to care about the sport.
In my fantasy world, all 32 teams have close to the same SOS. It's the NFL. 13 game schedule with all conference games. Team A doesn't need a cupcake to able up for Team B having 12 mediocre at best games. No games vs Toledo.
If you’re really talking about a breakaway group of schools to abandon the ncaa and self govern/monetize, you can’t keep the slavish devotion to region. You need to be national and capture the markets where the people actually are.
lol at people getting whiny about a list I took 90 seconds to make to give an idea of what an nfl type setup would look like. Calm down, boys. If you want to take 2 teams out for 2 others, have at it. I didn't even fill out all 32 lol.
No, no it does not. There's not 64 good programs out there. It would just water it down. And you'd play some teams once every 20 years. Do 32 football only breakaway conference and leave bball under the NCAA.
That isn’t how a breakaway happens. It’s going to be for all sports. The broadcasting partnerships are already built that way. Once you’ve committed to being a money making enterprise, you aren’t going to want to keep letting Big West schools get basketball tournament dollars. Especially once the athletes are determined to be employees by the courts.
The ACC dying and Syracuse being left out would probably be best for me. I won't have to spend the early part of my Saturday watching shit football.
Bro, I'm talking about my fantasy world. Stop applying your rules to it. You're taking this way to seriously for a Sunday morning.
seems the Pac12/B1G partial merger is driven by Fox and there is some doubt if it can be pulled off but the interest is there on both sides I imagine the remaining Pac and Big12 schools get together in such a scenario if not, it does sound like the Pac has interest in adding central time teams for better TV money who the fuck knows
Well you can't do this bc bylaw 3.8017372 says you can't do that until 2037 and you can't break that bc TV network XYZ won't allow it so here's the only way we can really do this. I hope the commissioners are reading this!
You don’t have to now but people are going to use it as a conversation topic and expect you to be knowledgeable on the topic. I get it. I’m ready for the end of it all too. Just start some minor leagues. Tying them to schools is dumb.
I just hope the final move to super conferences comes sooner rather than later with this growing financial gap
total viewers in 2020 for remaining big 12 schools in millions (with OU and TX games removed) OSU 10.88 WVU 8.64 ISU 8.47 KSU 8.27 TTU 5.89 TCU 5.85 BU 5.04 KU 3.42 turns out just playing good football games gets people to turn on their tv imo if I’m a commissioner in a post cable tv world I’m trying to add quality content and that means taking solid programs regardless of where they’re located. go cat