Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

yea the issue with this is you aren't taking a "road trip" from AZ to WV. come on get serious.

will be very few road trips any fans can take to away games. that's the worst part of all this. lose a ton of rivalries and tradition. don't know anyone in your life a fan of 3/4 of teams in your conference.

good job TV way to ruin college football.

200 PAC away game travelers wept.
 
I just feel like this is what BY is wanting to do. The $$ ceiling potential for UCONN is higher and there's BB. Get UCONN in a bigger league and I think you'd be surprised at what their football could become. If not, then ISU will have someone to curb stomp once in a while.
UConn will come later when the ACC implodes. The BigEast basketball partnership league thing will happen around that time as well.

Big12 basketball SUPERLEAGUE
 
I just feel like this is what BY is wanting to do. The $$ ceiling potential for UCONN is higher and there's BB. Get UCONN in a bigger league and I think you'd be surprised at what their football could become. If not, then ISU will have someone to curb stomp once in a while.
They just don't care about college football in that portion of the country any more. Once you get north of Penn State, its a lot of average or bad college programs at the FBS level.
 
Ah yes. Whenever I think of elite academics I think of Stanford, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Harvard, and.......................Utah

LA man vs Utah man. No difference in my eyes.

Seattle man vs Utah man. Impossible to tell.

Bay Area man vs Utah man. Same guy.
 
Not sure why the media needs to try and spin there is a decisision yet to be made.





I see now the Big 10 has full PR engaged to not look like the bad guy. Most likely all posturing for the schools to take a reduced share to come.

 
I just feel like this is what BY is wanting to do. The $$ ceiling potential for UCONN is higher and there's BB. Get UCONN in a bigger league and I think you'd be surprised at what their football could become. If not, then ISU will have someone to curb stomp once in a while.
I get that football drives the bus on this stuff, but the hoops, damn! B12 is clearly the premier conference and once the ACC breaks up, nothing else will be close. I still wonder whether/why there isn't room for the "provisional member" idea like what they use with the wrestling, a way that you could get Gonzaga and UConn into our basketball mix without needing them to participate in other sports.
 
I just feel like this is what BY is wanting to do. The $$ ceiling potential for UCONN is higher and there's BB. Get UCONN in a bigger league and I think you'd be surprised at what their football could become. If not, then ISU will have someone to curb stomp once in a while.
I don’t think I can agree with this. Schools in the P5 (hopefully P4 soon) can’t be pushing non-P5’s. Not now, anyway.

If, and to me this is a HUGE “if”, separate contracts can be fleshed out that are basketball centric that add to the current contracts, then UCONN makes sense. Until some kind of hybrid contract exists tho, they don’t (IMO).
 
First, so many pages to read so I skipped a bunch. If covered already please direct me according.

What if the B10 add Oregon and Washington. That's 16 (damn I am good at math!), then maybe Stanford and Cal. Ok, now 18. Now if the ACC crumbles they will push for UNC and UVA. Twenty.

What does the SEC do?

Will the BixXII stop at 16? Will they go after Beavers and Cougars? Should they? Culturally those schools would be a good fit. Would they want to stop at 18 teams? We would want to have the same number of teams as SEC and Big10, right?
What a great addition to the conference that would be...
 
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wonder if years down the line it actually ends up being 2 mega conferences "North" and "South"

Pac 12 gets split up - just stuck in no man's land out West so half go to North half to South.

might argue South would be so much better than North - but i don't think so if put USC Oregon Wash Utah all in North. along with Michigan, OSU, Notre Dame, Penn St....(Wisc Iowa KSt Cincy....)

6 teams from North and 6 teams from South go to a playoff. could always weight it with rankings somehow like BCS so maybe some years it's 8 teams from South and 4 from North. who knows who cares.

anyway back to regular scheduled programming.

did we add the cactus states yet?
Honestly I’m predicting the opposite. I think the future will end up like the WAC in the 90s. They got up to 16 teams with 4 quadrates.

However the size started to cause friction with the teams. Travel got too unbearable for many programs and some schools felt no connection with each other. Which lead to the conference splitting into the mountain west and wac.

I think something similar could happen if conference like the big ten get to 20 teams. The media deal bubble might burst in 10 or so years. It might be more attractive to seek out more regional conferences in the future.

My dream is regional conferences with 9 team caps. This allows for a 8 game conference schedule and double round robin basketball. This opens up conferences to set up inter-conference challenges similar to the big 12-SEC basketball series with one of their OOC games. Letting the other 3 games be their decision.
 
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Jesus it would be so easy to have 4 conferences, call them divisions and the champs top 4 of each conference battle it out to make a final 4. Just finish it by killing the PAC, force ND to do something or get left out and call it good. It would be that easy.
 

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