Conference Realignment - What's next?
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I thought the B1G already told ND to shit or get off the pot during the last round. My guess if the ACC falls apart is your first three and bringing in Pitt for the WVU rivalry game. In the end I think you end up with two 32 team football conferences with NFL like scheduling. All the other sports fall back to regional conferences.
The whole article is pretty interesting. The Presidents totally screwed it up. If Kliavkoff had gotten what he wanted we would be playing in the PAC 20.
Inside the Pac-12 collapse: Four surprising moments that crushed the conference
How did the Pac-12 die? These surprising decisions by USC, Oregon, Washington and others thwarted efforts to save the conference.
www.latimes.com
UrbanCowboy
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We just like them as friends
rattlesnake
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Proverbs 16:18The whole article is pretty interesting. The Presidents totally screwed it up. If Kliavkoff had gotten what he wanted we would be playing in the PAC 20.
Inside the Pac-12 collapse: Four surprising moments that crushed the conference
How did the Pac-12 die? These surprising decisions by USC, Oregon, Washington and others thwarted efforts to save the conference.
UrbanCowboy
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Gotta love professors who think they know how the real world works.
That's a crazy development. I'd love to know what changed to get them all back in the room to talk again. Has to be something with ND is my thought.
OSUinTX
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I said several times on the prior site that I felt the deep pockets of SMU alums and boosters would eventually make them a player in the NIL game. Has not transpired yet but give it time IMO
It’s like a shark lurking
PorcupinePoke
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Nothing significant has changed on Stanford and Cal to the ACC. What changed was a bunch of power people pushing for it. All I think that has really served to do is cause them to waste more time on it. Here we are Monday and still no votes have changed since they are not in yet. I wish they would just call it already. I'm ready to move on.
CaptainEric37
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If you believe the one tweet, the number of no votes has increased, so they're further away from having a deal done than when they started.
The ACC might need to look at their hole card. If Apple buys ESPN and they haven’t already let them in ACC might get PAC-12’ed
Yeah but that’s what the “No” votes want right? Meaning what they want is the easiest “out” of the ACC they can get and the ACC dissolving gives them that.
I agree with you, but is Apple really going to want to increase their inputs for a bunch of football programming they can manipulate the price of? They can just make FSU and Clemson schedule out of conference games and leave them in the conference on the cheap or put the whole conference on streaming
Long term I feel like getting all of the high value properties in one or two conferences is probably going to get you a better return on your investment. Yeah you have to let the string run out on the ACC but TV/Streaming is such a competitive landscape that moving the valuable pieces of the ACC to the SEC and jettisoning the rest is the better business move IMO.
There are 133 Division 1/FBS programs out there. How does "all of the high value properties in one or two conferences" work?
I don't think it works. The golden goose is being killed by the greed of the SEC and Big10.
IF fan bases are alienated, then viewership will go down. College fan bases are loyal and fans won't cross-over to another school when their team is relegated to a path that makes it impossible to play on the biggest stage.