Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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I think Oregon & Washington are going to end up in the B1G. If I was the Big 12 I'd go for the 2 Arizona schools, Utah & Colorado. Good 16 team conference.
Cal, Stanford, Oregon State & Washington State...you are on your own.
Cal, Stanford, Oregon State & Washington State...you are on your own.
That's the right path but I think the most likely impact to ISU will be the battle as who is the 3rd super conference, ACC or Big 12. Much less heartburn for ISU obviously if its the Big 12.
Realistically we should drop Cincy, WVU, and UCF at a minimum. In a perfect world we drop WSU and OSU as well.
There is opportunity to claim the premier conference west of the Mississippi here.
Any Big 12 team leaving for the current Pac-12 would be a stupid move.
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Just catching up…
1 - Those that are gleefully laughing that this isn’t the Big 12 don’t realize this is just one more domino in a long chain. While I don’t see most, if any, of the Big 12 being a poaching target for any potential super leagues, we also aren’t going to be able to remain stationary and may already be a little flat footed. ACC and Pac 12 won’t die quietly without every effort.
2 - To those that think we never should have added the 4 we just did – remember that we didn’t know the future, and it was incredibly vital for any stability. Not sure the remaining 8 could have stayed together without immediate stability.
3 - Personally, and I said it with the last round when many thought it was a possibility and our goal – I have never liked the idea of us joining the Big 10 now or ever. This will only make that clearer.
We compete much better with mid-tier programs and are better off trying to fight each year in that realm than keeping pace with Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, etc. In order to stay relevant, we need to stay competitive with strong peers, and a/the new-look Big 12 was always the best case for that. Let the Big 10 and SEC live in their ivory tower and the rest of us can keep enjoying a competitive playing field.
4 - And to those that think Land Grant means anything in athletic affiliation… it means as much as AAU status – absolutely nothing.
1 - Those that are gleefully laughing that this isn’t the Big 12 don’t realize this is just one more domino in a long chain. While I don’t see most, if any, of the Big 12 being a poaching target for any potential super leagues, we also aren’t going to be able to remain stationary and may already be a little flat footed. ACC and Pac 12 won’t die quietly without every effort.
2 - To those that think we never should have added the 4 we just did – remember that we didn’t know the future, and it was incredibly vital for any stability. Not sure the remaining 8 could have stayed together without immediate stability.
3 - Personally, and I said it with the last round when many thought it was a possibility and our goal – I have never liked the idea of us joining the Big 10 now or ever. This will only make that clearer.
We compete much better with mid-tier programs and are better off trying to fight each year in that realm than keeping pace with Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, etc. In order to stay relevant, we need to stay competitive with strong peers, and a/the new-look Big 12 was always the best case for that. Let the Big 10 and SEC live in their ivory tower and the rest of us can keep enjoying a competitive playing field.
4 - And to those that think Land Grant means anything in athletic affiliation… it means as much as AAU status – absolutely nothing.
I’m curious why everyone is automatically ok with CU - they left the big xii.
My vote is ASU, UofA, Stanford and Cal. (Assuming UW and Oregon go BIG).
Hopefully the B12 office and the AD's are calling the other 10 ADs in the Pac12 asking what are they thinking. Get them in case the ACC talks to the more eastern B12 schools.
From a media dollars standpoint I don’t know if they have much value but they are premier academic institutions. Stanford is a much bigger brand in my opinion the cal
Yeah Nov is nice, dec is even manageable.
If they played college fb from Jan through march I’d just watch on tv even when I had cheap student tickets…unless ISU had a dome.
Honestly I think so. Those two would command everything from the eyeballs to the dollars. So you band together with the rest to try and give the networks/streamers that need content a ton of inventory and basically monopolize everything worth anything that's left.
Haha. Mr. Bowlsby Head?
Crazy times are ahead. I don't think anything is going to happen in a flash, like a month or so. Even if it did, I'll bet Yormark would be on it.
The way this seems to be shaking out, I don't think there will be a third superconference.
ISU but more geographically isolated from historic top division football programs.
If the Big 10 and SEC go 20+ teams we wouldn't have to worry about it. We wouldn't be competing with the mid-tier. We'd be competing at a completely different level down. Honestly would probably kill any remaining affinity I have for college sports but whatever.
