Texas & Oklahoma to the SEC(?) along with UCLA & USC go the B1G 16 will make me lose interest next year.
Greed
Between that and the CFP expansion this year is sort of the end of an era. The landscape is shifting big time in 2024.Texas & Oklahoma to the SEC(?) along with UCLA & USC go the B1G 16 will make me lose interest next year.
Greed
That’ll honestly be fascinating to watch. Could be some very frustrated fan bases out there. My guess is then it wouldn’t take long for people to start clamoring for more CFP expansion, lol. Especially if the SEC adds a ninth conference game at some point.
What Deion has done for that program in a mere 6 months is nothing short of incredible. Hopefully they can back it up on the field, and if they can the sky is the limit for them in the next couple years.
Out of the ACC schools that are exploring their options (which has been going on for months), I’d say the cultural or institutional fits are
I’m right there with you. I’m finding college football harder and harder to get into with each passing year.
Yeah, it’s not a good sign when camps are opening up and 95% of the sport’s coverage is fixated on Board meetings.
agreed but when ESPN and Fox are throwing money at these schools to move leagues and pretty much create a Super 2 this is whats going to happen. The SEC and Big 10 will be the last one standing, its going to be minor league NFL pretty much with SEC/Big 10 as the AFC/NFC. It sucks to see. I think the Big 12 is going to carve a niche for themselves, what that is I dont know at this point but they've really solidified themselves.
stinks. really takes away the optimism of a new season opening when the biggest story today is the Arizona BOR meeting happening in a few hours. Takes my enthusiasm away a bit from the start of this coming campaign.
It’s going to be basketball IMO. Brett Yorman breifly talked about it with Joel Klatt in an interview from a couple weeks ago. I’ll put the link to the except below, about a minute in.
I think they’ll wind up taking Arizona, Arizona State, Utah very shortly - even if the latter two will be coming along reluctantly. They’re already the best basketball league and with Houston and Arizona will only be even better. In football I don’t think they’ll ever really compete on the national stage, but it’ll be a fun league with a lot of parity and chaos. Last year it felt like the deepest league from top to bottom.
Just reading on socials, many folks can see once the TV money dries up 15-20 years from now, it may become regionalized again in the way of conferences. I dont buy it but interesting way to think about it. If you remember when A&M joined the SEC they didnt want Texas to follow them, USC is employing that same thinking with Washington. Just a clown show, the sports that are really going to suffer from this are the Soccer programs, Swimming teams, smaller baseball programs and sports of those ilk that have to travel 3 time zones for a conference game, its just silly and so superficial. Just admit you're taking the money grab and networks are running the show.
Other sports do sometimes travel a bit. Berkley UC Davis, and Stanford are all associate members of the America East Conference for Field Hockey...this is the rest of the conference.
Wonder if the Big 10 will take Stanford and Cal at this point too. They can almost make their own mini league at that point having the west coast teams in one division, midwest in one and eastern teams in one. They're doing away with divisions but if these conferences are going to have 20 teams in them, its almost best to have them separated somewhat with cross over games added in. Meanwhile the SEC waits for Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina and Virginia.
The B1G needed a late push to get Oregon and Washington over the finish line, and those are still only partial shares. The SEC couldn’t even get Disney to give them more money for a ninth conference game when they asked earlier this year. I’m not sure the infinite gravy train is really that infinite. FSU is trying to work with private equity to raise money to bail out of the ACC, which is a gross develop in itself.
those matchups were what the Bowls were for, call me old fashioned I guess. I hate everything about this realignment but its the world we live in. Hopefully once they have the 12 team playoff with games played on campus, that will make me probably forget about all this nonsense.
