Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[Rocky Style]

2 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

USF just ain't got oil money.

We should get into Lithium mines or selling user data to corrupt entities.  That's the new oil.

[GoBulls84]

2 hours ago, USF_Bullsharks said:

When it comes to realignment - the academic side actually does matter in most cases. USN&WR released rankings this morning - USF tied at 89 overall and 45 for publics. Here's how that compares to other conferences. We would be first in the B12 (lol, even with addition of AAU 4C schools), tied for second to last in the ACC (ahead of only Louisville and tied with SMU), and fourth to last in the B1G (ahead of Nebraska, Oregon and Iowa). SEC, we'd slot in at #6. Other notables are FSU (53 overall and 31 in publics) and UConn (58 overall). 

Seems we would be best suited to join our elite academic brethren in either the ACC or B1G. Big 12 and the Mountain 12 are below us for sure. Even most of the SEC is below us.

[hm101]

[Outlaw]

[Gismo]

9 hours ago, USF_Bullsharks said:

When it comes to realignment - the academic side actually does matter in most cases. USN&WR released rankings this morning - USF tied at 89 overall and 45 for publics. Here's how that compares to other conferences. We would be first in the B12 (lol, even with addition of AAU 4C schools), tied for second to last in the ACC (ahead of only Louisville and tied with SMU), and fourth to last in the B1G (ahead of Nebraska, Oregon and Iowa). SEC, we'd slot in at #6. Other notables are FSU (53 overall and 31 in publics) and UConn (58 overall). 

This tells me Academics aren’t that important. 
 

All of our former AAC conference mates who left were lower than us by USNWR ratings. The SEC took Missouri and Oklahoma. 

The Big 12 clearly only cares about football. 
 

Why is the American conference left off of this? 

[Gismo]

6 hours ago, GoBulls84 said:

Seems we would be best suited to join our elite academic brethren in either the ACC or B1G. Big 12 and the Mountain 12 are below us for sure. Even most of the SEC is below us.

I’d rather play in the SEC for the matchups, but probably the ACC would be a little easier to win the conference. 
the SEC is bringing in all of the best competition so there can only be one winner. 

[CousinRicky]

7 hours ago, Jim Johnson said:

And yet some people blame Michael Kelly for SMU getting into the ACC.   USF just ain't got oil money.

 

SMU Mustangs Raise $100M in 1 Week to Support Move to ACC amid Conference Realignment

BLEACHERREPORT.COM

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SMU is joining the Atlantic Coast Conference alongside Cal and Stanford in advance of the 2024-25 athletic sports season, and the university announced it has…

 

The answer to most questions is money

[Rex Havoc]

10 minutes ago, CousinRicky said:

The answer to most questions is money

With enough money you can get whatever you want and get away with whatever you want. We just need to find a billionaire who wants to buy us a national championship. 

[CousinRicky]

1 minute ago, Rex Havoc said:

With enough money you can get whatever you want and get away with whatever you want. We just need to find a billionaire who wants to buy us a national championship. 

If only Silver Bull hadn't gone through all those wives.

[WoolyBully]

13 minutes ago, Gismo said:

This tells me Academics aren’t that important. 

  - Conference realignment is - first and foremost - about the football bidness. Plain and simple. Touting academic excellence is a fig-leaf, so the process doesn't look so much like the bottom-line business it really is. Who-plays-who on Saturday is what pays the bills. I could trot out that tired old adage about filling the stadium to watch a kid do a chemistry experiment, but I won't. Any university has a lot of moving parts, and at times, those parts seem to be working against one another.  It's an interesting observation as to where schools fall academically within conferences, but I don't think athletic conferences really consider that when it comes to expansion. 

Lemme ask you: if another part of the equation was cutting schools that don't perform heavy lifting and contributing to the bottom line, you think their academic prowess (AAU inclusion) would be enough to save them? I'm dropping Best & Brightest University because of their perennial losing record and bringing in Middle o'the Road University because they have a better football program that does generate eyes on screen (which is what advertisers want)? Which is more important - not in the grand philosophical sense of what a university is - but in the bottom-line business?