Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

But rationally, would they really add that much to the B1G? They would be mid-level teams most years and bringing them in may make it more difficult to add other schools down the road. Can all the top teams be managed in two gigantic conferences? Could it be better to have the ACC and Big XII as viable conferences to grow the pool of college football fans?
I think the Wisconsin’s, Iowas, and Nebraska’s of the big ten may object to OrWa. These are teams that could knock them down a peg in the conference and make them also rans.
 
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All this big 10 not wanting to strike a final blow talking point crap is in example of how media today manipulates the masses.

Usually the person who writes it is in bed with an important figure or institution that doesn’t wan’t to look bad (in this case the big 10) and in turn, this distracts or try’s to make someone else look bad ( in this case the big 12).

You start flooding the airways with this **** and people start to forget how we got here in the first place.

For every person that is able to decipher this and read between the lines…. there’s usually a larger percentage of people that can’t and then you get people charged up and distracted arguing amongst themselves. Rinse repeat it’s a tale as old as time, and I hate it.
Thing is the B1G announcing this is the death blow to the PACX. There is no way Ore/Wash sign George K's Apple+ deal now and in turn AZ, ASU, Utah won't either. Plus there is a clause in the Apple+ deal that if two schools leave (assumed UWOU) leave it voids.
 
This is going to get wild, the only thing that is becoming clear is that the PAC is dead. GK did a great job stalling but once the numbers got out, the feeding frenzy would be on.
 
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Yeah, if they came in for full shares that's an additional 240 mil BIG and media partners per year, if its half shares, then they're close to Big12 money. Which is they easier league to get to the playoff? Probably other factors to consider for all entities. Ought to be an interesting month!
Big 10 would be easier for the fact that they will probably get multiple teams each year because, the media loves the big ten.
 
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He is wrong about that. Fake NIL deals that buy players (esp transfers) will demolish competitive balance (such as it is already in college sports) and there won't be any competition at all... That's the biggest threat.
 
He is wrong about that. Fake NIL deals that buy players (esp transfers) will demolish competitive balance (such as it is already in college sports) and there won't be any competition at all... That's the biggest threat.
False. Stew the Great makes no mistakes.
 
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I've been saying this for a long time.

The best thing college football had going for it was every major metro, most small metros and something like 45 states had a team in the SEC/B10/B12/Big East/ACC/Pac/MWC when all 7 of those conferences were doing well in late 90s/early 00s. Places that have/had no pro sports have or had a team that was in a conference that was reasonably comparable to the best.

Nobody outside of the southeast is going to give a flying **** about minor league football in the south if the SEC finds ways to radically outpace the rest of the sport. I mean I'd rather watch countless other sports than minor league southern football as someone who has barely stepped foot in the south. Absolutely no connection or rational for me to ever care...unless they are an opponent (in a system where they are realistically on a similar level, not multiple levels above) of my team from Iowa that I do have a lifelong connection to.

We're seeing the first steps where it's really becoming less of a local thing, the strength of the sport. It's hitting the west coast the hardest because that's where the fandom is the most "meh", but the northeast could likely be next pretty easily for similar reasons. If interest fades in the programs that are now in B12 or gravitating toward B12, college football will have lost the key strength that it uniquely had over pro sports.
 

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