Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

Pac-ACC merger rumor heating up.
With so many one & done players drafted in the NBA 1st round, I gotta believe once the NBA allows HS hoops players to be drafted , we will see 20-30 elite HS/Prep School kids make that jump each year.

Money won't be an issue between NBA/G League salary and product money- because elite HS players want to live the NBA dream. And the NBA development path will be as good or better than college.

But that's OK because college sports is more about the name on the front of the jersey. We may no longer see kids like Omaha or Tyrese Hunter play college hoops, but that's OK. We'll still get to watch kids like Georges, Monte, Naz and Tyrese Halliburton.
Hope the NBA doesn't allow drafting kids right out of high school to the NBA team. It was a disaster before. Teams would almost always draft a high school guy on potential and many didn't pan out. Or if they did, it took a few years. You still had success with Kobe and Lebron but a bunch of misses. The college game wasn't as good in my opinion also.
 
Pac-ACC merger rumor heating up.

Hope the NBA doesn't allow drafting kids right out of high school to the NBA team. It was a disaster before. Teams would almost always draft a high school guy on potential and many didn't pan out. Or if they did, it took a few years. You still had success with Kobe and Lebron but a bunch of misses. The college game wasn't as good in my opinion also.
I don’t think the college game was noticeably different either way. People don’t watch the college game for the level of play. G league has far better talent but it is **** worthless as a media product.

If 20 guys that would’ve been one and dones skip, who cares? It concentrates multi-year guys, which are what the college game is really about anyway.

Sure, there are the Zion type guys that are great to watch for a year in school, but plenty of them are Cheik Diallos. It’s the most annoying thing ever to me when people say something like “college basketball is down”. First, anyone claiming they can see a noticeable aggregate difference in level of play across college basketball is 100% full of ****. Second, who cares? Watching guys like Jaquez, Sasser, Timme, Jackson-Davis etc was super entertaining to me. There wasn’t a moment during the NCAA tournament where I could notice the level of play was down because Scoot Henderson wasn’t on the court.
 

From a few years ago, but I doubt they are over 20,000 season tickets.

Capacity of their stadium is 32,952.
I mean it's all relative. Not many people live in eastern rural Washington. But those who do, are hardcore fans. I'd rather have a 33k stadium that's usually full and loud vs whatever the hell is going on at Stanford, Cal, UCLA home games.
 
With so many one & done players drafted in the NBA 1st round, I gotta believe once the NBA allows HS hoops players to be drafted , we will see 20-30 elite HS/Prep School kids make that jump each year.

Money won't be an issue between NBA/G League salary and product money- because elite HS players want to live the NBA dream. And the NBA development path will be as good or better than college.

But that's OK because college sports is more about the name on the front of the jersey. We may no longer see kids like Omaha or Tyrese Hunter play college hoops, but that's OK. We'll still get to watch kids like Georges, Monte, Naz and Tyrese Halliburton.
Yeah, maybe basketball development before and after high school graduation will become more like soccer. NBA teams may take more and more advantage of the opportunity to develop the best of the best at an earlier age like pro soccer does. And maybe a 2nd division pro league like USL Championship will emerge for smaller metro areas. But college games can still get decent attendances and tv viewerships since there are people who will still cheer for college teams for various reasons.
 
Pac-ACC merger rumor heating up.

Hope the NBA doesn't allow drafting kids right out of high school to the NBA team. It was a disaster before. Teams would almost always draft a high school guy on potential and many didn't pan out. Or if they did, it took a few years. You still had success with Kobe and Lebron but a bunch of misses. The college game wasn't as good in my opinion also.
I mean with the UNCs of the college world taking a Cardale Jones approach ("We didn't come here to play school") - What's the harm to the players? Especially in the one and done world.

HS kids with potential can capitalize, make some life-changing money and see what happens - all without risking injury or worse exposed lesser-talent.

You named two pretty impactful HS -> NBA hoopers (as in first ballet HOF type players), but there was also KG, Jermaine O'Neal, TMac, Dwight Howard, Amar'e Stoudemire, etc. If you pull up a list of names there seem to be more who had long (if not highly impactful) NBA careers than didn't and I'm a casual NBA follower.
 
If Colorado wants to be a member of the Big 12 for the 2024 season, then I would think they'd need to make their decision very soon given all of the logistical issues involved in changing conferences such as scheduling.

I wonder if Yormarck has quietly given a deadline to Colorado and Arizona and they're waiting until the last possible moment to make their decision.
 
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If Colorado wants to be a member of the Big 12 for the 2024 season, then I would think they'd need to make their decision very soon given all of the logistical issues involved in changing conferences such as scheduling.

I wonder if Yormarck has quietly given a deadline to Colorado and Arizona and they're waiting until the last possible moment to make their decision.
I think he did, and I think they are, and I also think the PAC 12 is slow playing the final deal confirmation to try to trap them with the delay.
 
I mean with the UNCs of the college world taking a Cardale Jones approach ("We didn't come here to play school") - What's the harm to the players? Especially in the one and done world.

HS kids with potential can capitalize, make some life-changing money and see what happens - all without risking injury or worse exposed lesser-talent.

You named two pretty impactful HS -> NBA hoopers (as in first ballet HOF type players), but there was also KG, Jermaine O'Neal, TMac, Dwight Howard, Amar'e Stoudemire, etc. If you pull up a list of names there seem to be more who had long (if not highly impactful) NBA careers than didn't and I'm a casual NBA follower.
With Prep schools and summer ball guys like Omaha are so much more ready today.

A solution to the NBA bust argument is let those kids play college hoops. If a HS kids gets drafted, plays in the G-League 2-3 years and realizes they will never be a pro- let them play in college on a scholarship.

After all, college players today can make $ with NIL. And I feel these busts would value the college education more. Just have an age limit of 23 or 24.
 
It's about Colorado possibly moving soon.
Lots of “Colorado isn’t leaving” tweets being deleted. We will see if someone can swoop in and save the PAC 12 but it’s ugly right now for them.
 
If Colorado wants to be a member of the Big 12 for the 2024 season, then I would think they'd need to make their decision very soon given all of the logistical issues involved in changing conferences such as scheduling.

I wonder if Yormarck has quietly given a deadline to Colorado and Arizona and they're waiting until the last possible moment to make their decision.
I think this continues to drag on because the Big 12 can’t put urgency into their decision. It is not like we can take other worthy schools if they put off their decision. So they just say they will make a decision when they are ready.
 
I think this continues to drag on because the Big 12 can’t put urgency into their decision. It is not like we can take other worthy schools if they put off their decision. So they just say they will make a decision when they are ready.
I think we can apply some urgency. As I said earlier, if CO/AZ want to be Big 12 members for the 2024 season, they have to commit very soon because of all the logistical issues of changing conferences such as scheduling.
 
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Think scheduling is down the list in CUs decision making. The money and viewership are still too close, otherwise the deal would be done. Maybe that will change soon.
 
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I think we can apply some urgency. As I said earlier, if CO/AZ want to be Big 12 members for the 2024 season, they have to commit very soon because of all the logistical issues of changing conferences such as scheduling.
That really shouldn’t be a concern as the commish and staff should be drafting up multiple schedules depending on how this plays out. Really don’t need to be farther out then 6-7 months from the start of the season.
 

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