Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[Cat941]

1 hour ago, WoolyBully said:

  - 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?

If you can do both (perform well in academics and win football games)...that's the ideal.  

[WoolyBully]

7 hours ago, Cat941 said:

If you can do both (perform well in academics and win football games)...that's the ideal.  

Ab-so-lutely. That's the objective. 

[Bear]

USF can do both...

 

We need to win on the field (in football first, and in basketball)... Academically, we are a great program. 

 

Everything about USF right now is P5 potential (facilities, academics, media market, etc...). We just need to win, and we shouldn't have to take a 7-year pay cut to get back into the P5.

[Sk00b]

51 minutes ago, Bear said:

We just need to win, and we shouldn't have to take a 7-year pay cut to get back into the P5.

Isn't that the precedent now though? Why would conferences take G5 teams that aren't willing to take a pay cut now?

[Grateful Dad]

1 hour ago, Sk00b said:

Isn't that the precedent now though? Why would conferences take G5 teams that aren't willing to take a pay cut now?

It's sad that dignity is placed so far down on the list of priorities.  It is what it is.

[Jim Johnson]

 

Promotion/relegation in college football? Game-changing idea could help save Pac-12

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What if the Pac-12 and Mountain West changed the way college conferences operate by borrowing an idea from European soccer leagues?

 

[Peatearpan]

1 hour ago, Jim Johnson said:

 

Promotion/relegation in college football? Game-changing idea could help save Pac-12

SPORTS.YAHOO.COM

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What if the Pac-12 and Mountain West changed the way college conferences operate by borrowing an idea from European soccer leagues?

 

I was just coming here to post this. I like the idea of pro-rel in college football. I got to the “scheduling” part of the article and the guy lost me. He got way to convoluted with that aspect.

[Cat941]

 

[Rocky Style]

On 9/19/2023 at 6:10 PM, Sk00b said:

Isn't that the precedent now though? Why would conferences take G5 teams that aren't willing to take a pay cut now?

Because they offer more upside and don't have oil money to gouge anyway. 

If someone is desperate and trying to hand you large sums of money I guess you take it.

1 hour ago, Cat941 said:

 

Why take these guys?

[USFBULL_08]

2 hours ago, Cat941 said:

 

If you are considering football these schools are an anchor. They will be a mid-lower tier team.

Losing programs with 3 conference titles in ~60 years that had a glut of conference money.