Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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I think because everyone is assuming the will end up in the B1G. I think if they dont, then of course they will be a top target, with Washington, Utah, CO, and the AZ schools. Im just not sure what to think yet of Stanford and Cal, and Oregon St and Wsh St. Where do they fit in all of this. They dont seem to have a natural landing spot as the others. To me it is how many do each of these conferences take. On where they may end up.
Here is my picking order for schools by conferences as I see it, and some of these are very close to each other at basically ties:
B1G:
1. USC-already done
2. UCLA- already done
3. Oregon
4. Washington
5. Cal
6. Stan
7. Colo
8. Utah
9. Ariz
......
Big 12
1. Oregon
2. Washington
3. Utah
4. Colorado
5. Ariz
6. Ariz St
7. Stan
8. Cal
9. Or st.
10. Wash St.
Not sure he even knows where he is or what he’s doing.
Probably just muttering to himself over and over "Conference of Champions".
Wonder if we'll get Walton calling big 10 games now. That could be something.
The SEC/ESPN overplayed their hand taking OUT and thinking the rest of us would have been happy sinking off to the AAC. They could have gotten OUT in immediately if they worked with the other conferences to find a real home for a few more schools and get the killshot on the Big 12.
Pac was delusional all along that they weren't in IDENTICAL or WORSE situation than Big 12. ACC is potentially the worst of all of them because they overlap geographically. SEC and Big Ten can expand simultaneously raiding ACC and both get new markets and a handful of top brands.
If you go back in time those talks of Pac 12 stealing Big 12 teams become Pac/Big12 merger with gigantic grant of rights.
How mighty is the Big 12 and SEC if they couldn't poach half the Pac and Big 12? Probably still 1/2 but not by some huge margin. Not a margin worth blowing the whole thing up.
Seems completely rational. Hopefully we are in a conference, stay in a conference, which stays in the top 3 or 4, revenue-wise.
40 or a 100 million / per year, what's the difference? I'm being a little sarcastic here, but how many million can you spend or need per year, above let's say 40, anyway? It's like someone who makes 100 mil/year vs. someone making 1 bil/year.
This whole thing will likely shake itself out soon enough, stressful as it is. And the NIL thing will also start to look different and have some structure / rules, as well. I like your scenario though.
I feel bad for the have nots in that league...but karma is a ***** for how they tried to topple the Big 12 years ago and had no problem taking the one team they could get when the 4 they wanted said no.
Pay for play is here.
Right now you can't directly pay players, but lets be honest, that's probably coming. That's what'll really be hard for teams outside the new BIG\SEC.
Oregon State and Wazzu are feeling what we felt and Cal and Stanford probably aren't far behind.
I bet the Zona schools feel like they'll be OK.
In his mind the Big 10 joined UCLA and USC.
Yeah I was one of those telling you no immediate expansion and I was clearly beyond wrong and misinformed. I really wonder once the deal is done what we find the actual timeline to be because this seemed to catch a lot of people off guard.I need to start a fortune telling company....I could be rich. No No, maybe not..
That will be as interesting to me as the Iowa Energy...and whose players might be of comparable quality on average.
That "super" league better hope the NFL never allows 19 year olds to be drafted because it'd be COMPLETELY worthless on that day.
