Conference Realignment

HeelingAg said:
The ACC simply can't keep up financially with the BIG and SEC. In an age of naked financial cynicism at the uppermost level of college sports, tradition and geography only mean something to the power brokers insofar as those factors contribute to the bottom line.

As a kid, a colony on Mars would've seemed more plausible than A&M, Texas, and Texas Tech not playing each other every year. Frankly, I don't long for those times, as the SEC is a grossly better viewing experience, but I do miss a more naive time in college sports when fans didn't include athletic department revenues and budgets in their shit-talking.
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I like you Ag so don't take this personally. I really loved it when TX announced they were joining the SEC. A&M pretended like they won a national title when they joined the SEC. The day A&M left I told Aggies that TX could and would join the SEC whenever they chose to do so. It is clear that the SEC settled just to get media markets when they took A&M and Missouri.

OU has a very tough schedule. I have no idea how it will go but one thing that is clear is that the move to the SEC has fixed our defensive recruiting issues that cropped up in the 2010's. (Venables has helped but those issues cropped up even while he was still at OU.)
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
I like you Ag so don't take this personally. I really loved it when TX announced they were joining the SEC. A&M pretended like they won a national title when they joined the SEC. The day A&M left I told Aggies that TX could and would join the SEC whenever they chose to do so. It is clear that the SEC settled just to get media markets when they took A&M and Missouri.

OU has a very tough schedule. I have no idea how it will go but one thing that is clear is that the move to the SEC has fixed our defensive recruiting issues that cropped up in the 2010's. (Venables has helped but those issues cropped up even while he was still at OU.)
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I don’t take A&M ridicule personal. It’s a very diverse institution and much more mainstream than most perceive; however, much of its forwarding facing image is rightfully mocked, IMO.
 
No way that clemson or Fla st goes to the sec. Florida and lil’ Carolina like their state dominance in that conference and would be opposed to adding the in-state competition. Todays environment is more about media eyeballs, which is why UNC and uva will end up in the sec.
 
aGDevil2k said:
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Surprised no mention of this yet. IMO this is where college sports are heading. News that Stanford volleyball has 30,000 miles of travel this season is asinine

I love this model so much.
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Really like this. I wish the original Power 5 had broken away from the NCAA years ago and formed their own league. They had 64 teams and 65 with Notre Dame. Could have had 8 different regions with 8 teams and one of them with 9 with Notre Dame.
 
aGDevil2k said:
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Surprised no mention of this yet. IMO this is where college sports are heading. News that Stanford volleyball has 30,000 miles of travel this season is asinine

I love this model so much.
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When the music stops, there is zero chance Wake Forest and Clemson will be playing in the same league and getting an even share of the money.

Far fewer than 72 schools will end up at the big boys table
 
I love the idea of a model that reverts back to smaller, more regionalized conferences, but I have a hard time believing anything like that graph will actually come to pass. The Big10 and SEC have it too good right now. They’re not going to willingly spread around the money to teams like Wake or BC.
 
aGDevil2k said:
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Surprised no mention of this yet. IMO this is where college sports are heading. News that Stanford volleyball has 30,000 miles of travel this season is asinine

I love this model so much.
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I hope they got their frequent flier accounts set up.
 
Peppers49 said:
I love the idea of a model that reverts back to smaller, more regionalized conferences, but I have a hard time believing anything like that graph will actually come to pass. The Big10 and SEC have it too good right now. They’re not going to willingly spread around the money to teams like Wake or BC.
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I think they have it good in theory. But the West Coast schools are going to have issues. Quickly
 
Really like the concept but agree it probably doesn’t happen because of SEC & Big 10. And those groupings would definitely need tweaking…no idea why Navy would get a seat at the big boy conference while UConn and their hoops programs get left out.
 
aGDevil2k said:
I think they have it good in theory. But the West Coast schools are going to have issues. Quickly
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Honestly I’m a little burned out on conference realignment talk to really flesh out my thoughts haha but just reading the tea leaves and going off of everything that’s already happened, I’m afraid the gap between the P2 leagues and the rest of the country is only going to get wider. Just can’t picture concerns about Stanford’s hectic volleyball travel schedule moving the needle at all.
 
aGDevil2k said:
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Surprised no mention of this yet. IMO this is where college sports are heading. News that Stanford volleyball has 30,000 miles of travel this season is asinine

I love this model so much.
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I understand why realignment happened, I still hate it, this would be a really nice way to fix it, but I don't see it happening.
 
RockyMtnHoo said:
Really like the concept but agree it probably doesn’t happen because of SEC & Big 10. And those groupings would definitely need tweaking…no idea why Navy would get a seat at the big boy conference while UConn and their hoops programs get left out.
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I think this is football, but Boise St got relegated, too.
 
HeelingAg said:
I don’t take A&M ridicule personal. It’s a very diverse institution and much more mainstream than most perceive; however, much of its forwarding facing image is rightfully mocked, IMO.
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My goodness. I just revisited this and I was an ahole. I am sorry.
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
When the music stops, there is zero chance Wake Forest and Clemson will be playing in the same league and getting an even share of the money.

Far fewer than 72 schools will end up at the big boys table
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Yep. My guess is more like 35-40.
 
aGDevil2k said:
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Surprised no mention of this yet. IMO this is where college sports are heading. News that Stanford volleyball has 30,000 miles of travel this season is asinine

I love this model so much.
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From an OU perspective, no thanks on being back in the Big 8 minus Nebraska.
 
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