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Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

PickSix said:
If you're looking for actual level headed info, it's hard to beat the 365 sports podcast.

If you're looking for entertaining Big 12 homerism, the Heartland Sports podcast is solid.

If you want to hear the PAC get constantly trashed for an hour straight with rants and questionable reporting, go with The Monty Show

Those are my go to podcasts depending on mood.
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Any of the CF or IA Everywhere with CW become mostly realignment when it happens. Not complaining, I’m a nut about it too.
 
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HFCS said:
Are they the only cold weather baseball team that is good? Do they play inside? I cannot imagine February baseball in Connecticut being enjoyable.
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They have a coach who is a hidden gem and they love that sport for some reason. They have made the Regionals many times and I think a Super Regional recently without looking. George Springer is a UConn grad as far as current MLB players. World Series hero for the Astros a few years ago.
 
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Drew0311 said:
Oregon State and Washington State should have made the jump before we added the 4 schools. We would have taken them at that point. Now we are in the power spot.
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Lol why would they have wanted to come? We just lost Texas and Oklahoma, they didn’t know they were losing USC/UCLA. The PAC denied the Big12’s request to merge. Dumb take.
 
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PickSix said:
If you're looking for actual level headed info, it's hard to beat the 365 sports podcast.

If you're looking for entertaining Big 12 homerism, the Heartland Sports podcast is solid.

If you want to hear the PAC get constantly trashed for an hour straight with rants and questionable reporting, go with The Monty Show

Those are my go to podcasts depending on mood.
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This 100 percent accurate
 
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clone37 said:
Just crazy how smug so many of these west coasters are. When I travel west typically the nicest people I meet are all Midwest transplants. Reminds me of the South Park episode where I think they were in San Fran?.....every time someone farted they bent down to sniff it. This realignment stuff has really started to confirm the smug stereotype.
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Have you been to games in Iowa City, Lincoln, and Columbia?
I have and smug doesn't even begin to describe them...
 
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ZRF said:
There is no such thing as "presence" and it's a myth that has (thankfully) started dying over the last few years. There are two to three things that matter: brands (teams that have a greater ability to draw in a casual fan), quality of teams (all fans are more likely to watch good matchups), and quality/size of a fan base. Who gives a flying **** if you have Cal or Stanford when people in the Bay Area don't watch or care about those teams?

The Big 10 got Rutgers to get "into the NYC market" but what has that got them? The (dying) cable companies don't care because they realize there were already more Michigan fans in NYC that gave a **** than Rutgers fans. Rutgers still stinks at the sports that care and any matchup with their teams does nothing to move the needle on TV. The Big 10 fans don't care about Rutgers and the casual fan certainly doesn't care. Quite frankly I don't understand why the Big 10 added UCLA over Oregon or Washington. The latter don't have the history but they are better brands and provide better matchups for TV.
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The Big10 in part added UCLA because it goosed the BTN carriage fee. By having 2 schools in LA MSA, they are able to charge higher carriage fees.

You might not value cable or multi channel streamers, but the carriage fees they pay for BTN is a substantial and predictable revenue source for the Big10.
 
Cardinal and Gold said:
If I were better at video editing, the Joker tryouts scene seems very applicable to this scenario. Joker with the Big 12 logo and the tryout contestants with UofA, Washington, and Oregon logos. There's room for aggressive expansion.
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Over on Cougarboard there is a pretty good hitler in the bunker gif being done. Mainly making fun of Utah. I think BYU hates Utah more than we hate Iowa.
 
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NWICY said:
Over on Cougarboard there is a pretty good hitler in the bunker gif being done. Mainly making fun of Utah. I think BYU hates Utah more than we hate Iowa.
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When done well, those are still funny. Post a link when they are finished.
 
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HFCS said:
Isn’t Memphis the Louisville comp in many ways?

I was surprised on business trip to Memphis how active their fans are in city.
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I spent 3 months in Memphis on their run with Derek Rose and losing the Ship to Kansas. They had many bball fans in that city. I can't speak for their football as I wasn't there at that time.

That said... while I get comparing two city universities from Conference USA, Louisville has historically been better in both basketball and football. Louisville make many top 10 all-time bball lists. I'm not sure if Memphis cracks the top 25. Louisville has a winning record in football and made BCS games. They had a Heisman winner recently. There is a reason the Big East invited them first and the ACC invited them. Superior to Memphis in almost every way.
 
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