Thought everyone was on here just talking about how just having a school in the area doesn’t “bring the market”. If TCU joins the big ten I’ll donate to the ISU NIL fund.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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The population doesn't help us. We are just looked at as fly over country so no one cares about us.
now that we have TCU to the Big takes this thread has ‘jumped the shark’ so to speak
Yep some of those schools wouldn’t be getting fan invite if they weren’t already in
I actually used the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact in a post about the Alliance last August
When you think of football crazy states, where does Illinois fall in that list?
It wasn't me, those people were and are very wrong. The Big Ten/SEC are linear TV leagues. They don't give a **** about future streaming.
People keep talking about “dropping” this team or that. How is that even possible, especially teams that are just joining next year? Is there something in the contract that says any team can just be voted out for any reason. “Hey, we changed our minds and don’t want you in our conference anymore, so long. “
In pre-NIL/superconference world, I would mostly agree with this. Time will tell if that will still be true.
So it’s number what when you think of football. I’d put Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and several others in from of IL for football states.
I love the dude and agree we can compete with any team on any day. I'm not sure I think we can compete program to program at a sustained level with the top 8 or so of either proposed super league though. Besides, I also think he’s a generational coach at ISU that isn’t going to be around forever.
I would rather be fighting for the top of the second tier than fighting against irrelevancy in the first tier. Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Maryland, etc are good examples of having good coaches in the past without the ability to remain above-average over time.
Don’t read my comments as saying I want anything less than the best for ISU. I just think that having a fighting chance at conference titles more than once every 25 years is going to be critical for a school like ISU to maintain success. Even with our success of the past 5 years, we aren’t bringing in 5 star players – it takes a lot of continued relevancy that we still don’t yet have.
TCU would lessen any feelings of ISU
the decade plus run as the easily #1 basketball conference gets completely ignored compared to when ACC and Big East had similar runs. No mention of it at all. You’d think we were the #6 conf instead of easily #1 if you only looked at national headlines.
Throw Iowa in there unless KF’s replacement is a one in a million hire who stays.
This helps their facilities yet makes them 10x less likely to win conf in every sport but wrestling.
To outsiders, we've been in a lower league for 50 years. Right or wrong, that has been the perception of the Big 8 and Big 12 outside of basketball.