The End Of The ACC As We Know It Is In Sight (And I Feel Fine)

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Agree completely, and I actually think that's what is likely to happen about 15 to 20 years down the road. I don't think the current Wild West college sports model is going to work long-term, and I think having 2 or 3 maybe three megaconferences for all college sports will ultimately fail and implode due to travel expenses, decline of regional rivalries, etc. I think we'll likely end up with something along the lines of what you suggested - college football separating itself into its own league and other college sports like basketball settling back into more regional, smaller conferences to save travel expenses.
God, I really hope this happens.
 
To the SEC:
Florida State
Miami
Clempson
Virginia Tech
SMU
Louisville

To the B1G Ten (AAU schools):
UNC
Duke
UVa
Georgia Tech
Stanford
California

Notre Dame: Independent

To a Reconfigured Big East:
NC State
Boston College
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Wake Forest
there's very little indication that academics (AAU status) is playing a significant role in this stuff.

thus, i really doubt that the B1G is interested in picking up GT, stanford or cal at this time. duke and uva, maybe. duke has an elite basketball program for sure, but football is the driver here.

and i don't believe that the SEC is remotely interested in any of SMU, louisville or VT.

will any of those schools eventually make it into the top @ 50 schools mega conference fold? probably. but there is no incentive for the B1G or SEC to add a bunch of schools with middling football programs / athletic departments at this time.
 
My hope is that the sec and big 10 get big
enough to then have to divide back into regional conferences. Like tech bros always reinventing the original idea, college does best as regional rivalries and they will get back to that i think
Yes, like divisions in the NFL. I can see these Super Conferences going to a pod syst
there's very little indication that academics (AAU status) is playing a significant role in this stuff.

thus, i really doubt that the B1G is interested in picking up GT, stanford or cal at this time. duke and uva, maybe. duke has an elite basketball program for sure, but football is the driver here.

and i don't believe that the SEC is remotely interested in any of SMU, louisville or VT.

will any of those schools eventually make it into the top @ 50 schools mega conference fold? probably. but there is no incentive for the B1G or SEC to add a bunch of schools with middling football programs / athletic departments at this time.
I tend to agree with your analysis except the BIG might (eventually) be interested in GT if it wants any type of foothold in the SE. Given Tech's location and academics it might be a good fit.

But I agree that in the short run both P2s are going to be very choosy in further expansions.
 
If you take the " Athletics is the Front porch approach"
I dont want Scarolina, LSU, Ole miss , Alabamer on my damn porch
 
Until I see otherwise I think it matters to the BIG.Its part of their "thing"
well, that's odd because oregon's academics suck and the B1G just added them. nebraska and iowa are also pretty poor academically and indiana, michigan state, penn state and minnesota are pretty middling.

11 of their 18 schools are in the top 50 which is good but the B1G is absolutely not making expansion decisions based on academics. they will take poor or middling schools with good athletics (football) and they will take also take good schools with good athletics.
 
well, that's odd because oregon's academics suck and the B1G just added them. nebraska and iowa are also pretty poor academically and indiana, michigan state, penn state and minnesota are pretty middling.

11 of their 18 schools are in the top 50 which is good but the B1G is absolutely not making expansion decisions based on academics. they will take poor or middling schools with good athletics (football) and they will take also take good schools with good athletics.
Oregon is AAU
 
there's very little indication that academics (AAU status) is playing a significant role in this stuff.
Things change and it may be different now, but the B1G has always been quite proud of the fact that all the member institutions are a part of AAU. The current exception is Nebraska which lost membership 10-15 years ago. If the conference decides to expand by inviting some ACC programs, I would shocked if more than one are not AAU members.
 
Oregon is AAU
so? their academics are still quite poor and their athletics are quite good - that's why they're in the B1G.

if the B1G was truly prioritizing academics, they would've invited cal and stanford. but they didn't because outside of olympic sports, their athletics are not good.
 
Things change and it may be different now, but the B1G has always been quite proud of the fact that all the member institutions are a part of AAU. The current exception is Nebraska which lost membership 10-15 years ago. If the conference decides to expand by inviting some ACC programs, I would shocked if more than one are not AAU members.
i wouldn't be shocked if any B1G additions were AAU members, either.

but they won't be added because they're AAU, they'll be added due to their athletic department popularity and marketability and if they're AAU that's just another bonus.
 
so? their academics are still quite poor and their athletics are quite good - that's why they're in the B1G.

if the B1G was truly prioritizing academics, they would've invited cal and stanford. but they didn't because outside of olympic sports, their athletics are not good.
Stanford has the top athletic program in the country -- by a long shot. Even its football and basketball are usually pretty good (better than Washington over the past 30 years). But, it is a small private school and does not really fit the Big10 model very well.
 
so? their academics are still quite poor and their athletics are quite good - that's why they're in the B1G.

if the B1G was truly prioritizing academics, they would've invited cal and stanford. but they didn't because outside of olympic sports, their athletics are not good.
AAU and their academics are poor
You are really a contrarian neerdowell
 
Stanford has the top athletic program in the country -- by a long shot. Even its football and basketball are usually pretty good (better than Washington over the past 30 years). But, it is a small private school and does not really fit the Big10 model very well.
stanford has excellent olympic sports - i acknowledged that.

their basketball program is in no way better than washington's. both are pretty middling but washington has been better recently for sure. and not seeing it with stanford being superior in football, either. see for yourself.

 
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