Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

[Cyclonepride]

I’m a hardcore football fan and will watch any game on any night of the week. It's all I watch when it's on and I watch on several TVs at the same time. I subscribe to all the various streaming services.

But I doubt even I would add-on just to watch the PAC12 unless it’s on when there are no other games. At this point without USC and UCLA, almost all casual fans are gone and even us die-hards are just going to watch a different game.

Yeah, all I really care is that there is a late game to watch via other options. I'm not going to subscribe to anything for it.

 

[HawaiiClone]

Unless you get VERY creative and have two Big12 teams play, but for one it's a conference game and the other it is non-con game (or 10th conference game).

Those are clever schemes that seem reasonable if there isn't a good option for a 14th team.

 

[wenkeej]

 

[ISUTex]

Geographically too. Now, that doesn’t matter so much. But in 2010, B10 was primarily large state schools centered in the Midwest. Rutgers is in Picataway, 30 minutes from Staten Island

How did Rutgers add money to the Big 10? Didn't people in NYC already get the Big 10 Network? Didn't they already watch Big 10 games on the east coast? Do people in NYC even give a flying **** about Rutgers? Isn't NYC more of a Notre Dame/Syracuse/Big 10 type of fan base?

 

[PickSix]

Unbelievable. The can gets kicked down the road again...

 

[werdnamanhill]

God damn it

 

[ISUTex]

Arizona just needs to leave and get this over with.

 

[wenkeej]

 

[cayin]

Arizona just needs to leave and get this over with.

it doesn't look like it is going to happen.

 

[Althetuna]

It doesn't sound good for the PAC. No agreement. Expected to get a deal "eventually".

No bueno.

 

[ISUCubswin]

Colorado left because they got tired of the conference kicking the can down the road.

 

[jdoggivjc]

How did Rutgers add money to the Big 10? Didn't people in NYC already get the Big 10 Network? Didn't they already watch Big 10 games on the east coast? Do people in NYC even give a flying **** about Rutgers? Isn't NYC more of a Notre Dame/Syracuse/Big 10 type of fan base?

Somehow the addition of Rutgers allowed Fox Sports to demand the BTN to be put on Tier 1 subscriptions in the NYC market - and because Fox Sports also owned YES, they could tie the two together in a package, where if New Yorkers wanted to watch Yankee games they would also have to pay for BTN. Why they needed Rutgers in the conference to force that demand I’ll never understand - especially when Rutgers doesn’t give them the NYC market like they think it does.

 

[werdnamanhill]

Feels like it might be slipping away. Maybe uconn after all? Who knows.

 

[Cyrealist]

Don't see any realistic way that ever happens. Create a superleague filled with 20-24 of only the most elite programs and before long, that superleague will have a top half and a bottom half. All of a sudden, half of those elite programs/brands are no longer viewed as "elite" because they're finishing at or below .500 every year. And then what's to stop the top half from thinking "why are we subsidizing these 10-12 programs that aren't on our level?" and deciding to cut the fat. Then you have a 10-12 team super-superleague filled with only the most elite of the elite brands. Before long, that super-superleague will have a top half and a bottom half. All of a sudden, half of those elite of the elite programs are no longer viewed as the elite of the elite because they're finishing at or below .500 every year. And then what's to stop the top half from thinking "why are we subsidizing these 5-6 programs that aren't on our level?" and deciding to cut the fat.... etc., etc., until you're left with Bama, tOSU, and Georgia dancing in a very small circle.

Don't see it happening.

I think the myth behind the Super League idea is the notion that college football fandom can be distilled down to 24 or 32 teams. I think it's a myth because ISU fans will continue to be ISU fand, Okie State fands will continue to be Okie State fans and so on. The further removed the Super League teams are from the other teams people support, the less the fans of those other teams will care about the Super League teams.

 

[RagingCloner]

Feels like it might be slipping away. Maybe uconn after all? Who knows.

Actually i think its the opposite...Willing to bet at the AZ/ASU meeting, theres a long discussion about this new "deal"

 

[Cloneon]

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me indefinitely, how bleeping stupid am I?

 

[CoachHines3]

 

[PickSix]

Feels like it might be slipping away. Maybe uconn after all? Who knows.

What has happened today that makes you feel that way?

Literally all we got was the PAC saying that they have no deal yet...

 

[WooBadger18]

But every conference realignment has one thing in common: money. If schools can double their money by forming a 24 team super conference, they’ll do it. They know they won’t have as many wins as they do now. They all can’t face big 10 west teams each week. And they don’t care about wins/losses, so long as the payout is high.

Edit: case in point, OUT. They know they will have a much more difficult time winning 10+ games each season, yet they changed conferences. So why would they jeopardize their chances of winning a national title by playing more difficult teams? Money.

Plus, if you start getting to 24/32 teams , they’ll just have the playoffs among their teams. It’ll be NFL lite.

Why have Ohio State play out of conferences games against Akron, USF, and Washington State when you can have them play Florida and Michigan and Penn State twice

 

[Cfinnerty16]

Yeah, this feels like a UCONN welcome to the big 12 unfortunately