Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[Bull Matrix]

Just now, SilverBull said:

 

It seems like many folks on here are working from the following perceived formula:

ACC + PAC 12 divided by SEC + BG = ???? > AAC

Personally, I think we should play the hand we are currently dealt and win a few pots before betting the farm on future moves.

Exactly! I’m already thinking playoffs in 2024. 2023 is just a practice season to get ready for the ……,

[Rocky Style]

We're going to the playoffs as soon as we can beat the Catamounts.

[79 Bull]

5 hours ago, Peatearpan said:

How did you pick that year out? What’s the significance?

No significance.  I just think it's a resonable option for the future of college sports.

[Bull Matrix]

Summer is coming up closer! Let the rumors continue…

[Peatearpan]

18 hours ago, Bull Matrix said:

Summer is coming up closer! Let the rumors continue…

I honestly feel like Miami would be picked up by the B1G. Clemson and FSU to SEC. UNC to either of those two (highest bidder I guess?) I feel like Duke would be snagged by either as well. Stanford and maybe Oregon to the B1G?

I am surprised the SEC has not tried to expand further west. I think after all those dominoes fall and the dust settles, 2 elite leagues in the SEC/B1G, two middling leagues with B12 and PAC/ACC Frankenstein, and then some kind G3 with the AAC/MWC merger, CUSA finally dies, and MAC and Sun Belt divvy up the corpse.

[UCF_rustbucket]

58 minutes ago, Peatearpan said:

I honestly feel like Miami would be picked up by the B1G. Clemson and FSU to SEC. UNC to either of those two (highest bidder I guess?) I feel like Duke would be snagged by either as well. Stanford and maybe Oregon to the B1G?

I am surprised the SEC has not tried to expand further west. I think after all those dominoes fall and the dust settles, 2 elite leagues in the SEC/B1G, two middling leagues with B12 and PAC/ACC Frankenstein, and then some kind G3 with the AAC/MWC merger, CUSA finally dies, and MAC and Sun Belt divvy up the corpse.

The SEC could get pretty much whoever they want but at 16, the league is already a little clunky for scheduling. Go beyond that and it's worse or you're really just 2 different conferences duct taped as 1.

 

It also has to benefit the SEC and make them more money. With so many mouths to feed, new adds only make sense if you add to the top of your league like with Texas and Oklahoma. Adding someone like WVU or Oklahoma State doesn't do that even though they'd be solid in the middle portion of the conference. Mizzou lucked out joining when they did because they're not the kind of top end program that would be attractive to add now.

[SilverBull]

2 hours ago, UCF_rustbucket said:

The SEC could get pretty much whoever they want but at 16, the league is already a little clunky for scheduling. Go beyond that and it's worse or you're really just 2 different conferences duct taped as 1.

It also has to benefit the SEC and make them more money. With so many mouths to feed, new adds only make sense if you add to the top of your league like with Texas and Oklahoma. Adding someone like WVU or Oklahoma State doesn't do that even though they'd be solid in the middle portion of the conference. Mizzou lucked out joining when they did because they're not the kind of top end program that would be attractive to add now.

I always wonder if/when they will start eating and spitting out their own weaker siblings.

[Rocky Style]

2 hours ago, UCF_rustbucket said:

Mizzou lucked out

Very lucky. They still don't make sense to me.  Anyway they did have some success there.

[USF_Bullsharks]

I think the state/regional rivalries are underrated in TV packages/conference realignment. I think USF/c, FSU/UF, Clemson/USC, Oklahoma/OSU, etc. all have more value than, say, having Oklahoma play another large "brand" in a bigger conference, like Tennessee or Auburn. Those rivalries (that frequently get torn apart, see: UT/TAMU, UK/Mizzou, USC-UCLA/Cal-Stanford) are the most anticipated college football games of the year when both teams are playing well.  I'd love to see Kansas v Missouri again; think OkSt belongs in the SEC with Oklahoma, and that Pitt/WVU/Cinci should playing each other every season. 

I think the SEC goes this route, the football crazy and hardcore rivalry expansion policy, in direct contrast to the B1G with the large market, coast to coast policy. Hopefully the pickup OkSt and GaTech to go with FSU/Clem. 

Edited May 10, 2023 by USF_Bullsharks

[Rocky Style]

1 minute ago, USF_Bullsharks said:

I think USF/c, FSU/UF, Clemson/USC, Oklahoma/OSU, etc. all have more value than, say, having Oklahoma play another large "brand" in a bigger conference, like Tennessee or Auburn.

That's because you are a CFB fan but the people that are running this into the ground aren't.