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Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

isucy86 said:
It will be interesting if it's just Gonzaga MBB or all their sports join the Big12. And by adding Gonzaga, do we see other non-football school(s) added to expose the Big12 to new markets. There could be a number of schools from the Big East that would make sense.

It's not the norm for a school to bounce between conferences like UConn, but there could be contractual language spelling out conditions for Gonzaga's continued Big12 membership.

But at this time UCLA, Arizona and Gonzaga are the 3 biggest college basketball brands on the west coast. So adding Gonzaga seems like a win/win as I would expect ESPN & FOX are on board.
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You guys sure you want Arizona lol
 
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LavaCy said:
The only downside I can think of is the program falling out of relevance after Few is no longer the coach. As long as that program continues as a top basketball brand, I don't really see a downside.
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Correct. I think at best a scheduling alliance without conference membership might accomplish what they are looking for. Taking on " members" for a revenue sport weakens the conference. Wonder what kind of membership the b10 has for hockey outsiders.
Also size gets out of hand which we are already seeing. It's working to a super conference outside the worthless NCAA.
 
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GoldCy said:
Correct. I think at best a scheduling alliance without conference membership might accomplish what they are looking for. Taking on " members" for a revenue sport weakens the conference. Wonder what kind of membership the b10 has for hockey outsiders.
Also size gets out of hand which we are already seeing. It's working to a super conference outside the worthless NCAA.
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If we move to a super conference, it might make more sense to add non-football members. So we have a 16 member conference for FB and a 20 member conference for hoops (or something like that). It would allow for playing every team 1x in hoops vs playing 5x twice and 10 teams once. It keeps the SOS the same for every school.

Also adding Gonzaga and other non-football schools supports Yormark's comments about separating Basketball out from Football in media rights negotiations. Adding the likes of Gonzaga, Creighton, Villanova, Xavier could have tremendous value to a TV partner.
 
LavaCy said:
The "Monty Show" is saying Utah has told the Big 12 "Thanks, but we aren't an academic fit."

LOL

So that means the Pac-12 is going to expand with Rice correct? After all, its academics not athletics that matter in that TV contract for the athletic product.
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I still think, when this finally all shakes out, we find out Utah was never invited. It’s been pretty easy for me, over the last 20 years to let my friends know I wouldn’t sleep with Jennifer Aniston.
 
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I wonder if the BiG completely thought threw USC representing them in the Rose Bowl. Not sure the networks would be happy having only left coast participants.
 
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Cyforce said:
I wonder if the BiG completely thought threw USC representing them in the Rose Bowl. Not sure the networks would be happy having only left coast participants.
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I think the Rose Bowl will ditch the Pac alliance once USC and UCLA move to the B1G. They care more about the B1G end anyway (TVs and Tourism), AND they have the L.A. schools. I bet the Rose ties the other end with the SEC (which has a nice Rose Bowl history before the B1G tien-in), and / or keeps it open.
 
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