Realignment: The ACC enters the Suck Zone

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  1. Taques

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    i dont know/understand tarletons value because of their sudden rise but I feel like NMSU or even Abilene Christian make a lot more sense
     
  2. TC

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  3. Odin

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    do the pac add st marys too? i don't know if that's realistic. all i know is i fall asleep during their basketball games.
     
  4. Beagle

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    Not enough of a brand to move the needle as a non-football school. It sucks.

    Maybe the WCC schools that try to win like them, San Fran, and Santa Clara can beg the MWC to get in.
     
  5. Dan Kendra

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    Feels like we are close to hearing Tijuana State and the University of American Samoa are close to getting bids.
     
  6. RoderickJaynes

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    This makes me so sad. I love MWC basketball so much and the league has been bastardized
     
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  7. fsugrad99

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    I've yet to see a reason why WSU/OSU and the MWC shouldn't have just merged.
     
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  8. bwi2

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    That would involve one set of administrators being made redundant.
     
  9. Jimmy the Saint

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    They thought there was more value without the schools at the bottom of the MWC.
     
  10. Beagle

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    McMurphy getting salty on Twitter.
     
  11. dump

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  12. GoodForAnother

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    smug McMurphy is good content
     
  13. GoodForAnother

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  14. Odin

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  15. HotMic

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    They both suck so bad, but Nicole looks worse. She’s throwing a tantrum because the child molester-looking fella scooped her.
     
  16. Taques

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    whatever it takes for regionalism to return to college sports
     
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  17. Jimmy the Saint

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    That's a really dumb name.
     
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  18. GoodForAnother

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    I would have gone with Combined Collegiate Championship Pool (CCCP)
     
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  19. GoodForAnother

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    it’s the best possible solution but would also probably put a lot of administrators out of work so it’s a give and take
     
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  20. Dan Kendra

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    That sounds like it would be the best case scenario, but we all know the big 2 aren’t giving up their favored nations status. They want everyone else to die.
     
  21. El_Pato

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    Foh, we have had great basketball rivalries with almost all those teams
     
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  22. GoodForAnother

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    They might but the networks do not. With that said it would have to be unequal revenue distribution with more given to large brands (do it with a TV appearance and on-field success formula or something) in order to work
     
  23. GoodForAnother

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    with that said it’s a proposal from an independent group and not going anywhere anytime soon but it’s good that it’s being put out into the ether
     
  24. B-Boy $P1

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    Yeah I thought it was interesting that Auerbach put it out there.
     
  25. Odin

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    the proposal is a little gross as is, pushing some false narratives and whatnot. the assertion that in 2024 fewer teams have a chance at winning a championship than in the past is just bad. the only team knocked out of contention by october is fsu.
     
  26. Dan Kendra

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    It seems like a good first step and has legit people involved. It’s the first real solutions I have heard anyone bring up outside of message board/X shitposting.
     
  27. GoodForAnother

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    lol good lord they really hate each other
     
  28. RoderickJaynes

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    That was commentary at the teams that have been poached by the league, not UTEP getting added
     
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  29. HotMic

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    Nothing beats the ol’ “I’m talking about them but I don’t really care and I’m going back to ignoring them” takes.
     
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  30. theseasonisover

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    McMurphy holding a grudge on being sneered at for claiming Mel Tucker had been fired six weeks before Mel Tucker was fired, when everyone knew he would be fired but hadn’t yet been fired because of billable hours, kind of lame.

    Tip ‘o the cap on the Zags scoop though.
     
  31. dump

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  32. Taques

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  33. Beagle

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    RIP LaTech and WKU.

     
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  34. Jimmy the Saint

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    LA Tech should’ve been less snobby towards UL and Monroe. Both of those schools should be in the Fun Belt. Or WKU in the MAC.
     
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  35. Beagle

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    It's one of those funny college football things. The average CFB fan couldn't tell you one difference between those 3 Louisiana schools but they've always felt like they've had a statewide mission while ULL and ULM are little pissant regional schools (despite ULL being R1 now with LaTech as R2). I would like to see them get in one day.
     
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  36. steamengine

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    Nicole Auerbach is the Stewart Mandel of Heather Dinich’s
     
  37. steamengine

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    This is clearly starting to look like a LIV golf/pga situation. So messy. These people are so incompetent.
     
  38. 42yard

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    Mountain West probably didn’t bribe us enough and/or their future projected revenue is woof city
     
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  39. GoodForAnother

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    almost the Big 8, would take
     
  40. JPWahoo

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    1. EAST

    (school from...Indiana)
     
  41. bwi2

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    While geographic proximity is #1, historic rivalries like Notre Dame-BC is the number two consideration.

    (Don’t pay attention to Michigan/Ohio State and Texas/Oklahoma being split up)
     
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  42. The Banks

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    Shorter distance from South Bend to the Atlantic than Provo to the Pacific
     
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  43. Jimmy the Saint

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    How did Navy end up in this with no other service academies and Boise State, a very strong program for 25 years now, get left out?
     
  44. 20/20/20/20

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    Ohio State seems like a very random addition to the ‘Midwest’ division. Only Eastern time zone school and there’s multiple states between Ohio and any other states in that otherwise contiguous division.

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  45. GoodForAnother

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    this was likely done to protect the big time matchups in the old big8
     
  46. Goose

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    Probably one of the worst fan fiction conference realignments I’ve seen put together
     
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  47. GoodForAnother

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    it’s not fan fiction really, it’s a group with some relatively big names

    also with 8 out of division games I am guessing there would be protected yearly rivalries for everyone
     
  48. GoodForAnother

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    also didn’t realize the lower tier was a separate image so here’s that

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  49. Saul Shabazz

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  50. Odin

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    i like 12 divisions for the sake of more interesting schedules. i hate 12 divisions because it would almost certainly lead to 12 playoff autobids.
     
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