Midnight Toker
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It feels like 6 might be asking too much of that roster
Conference Realignment - What's next?
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I just want them in for the road trips and to help with the hopeful, eventual collapse of the PAC. Someone has leave to start that and it might as well be Colorado.
Colorado is a great place for road trips; One of my best friends lived in Fort Collins and I loved visiting;
I’d still rather add a school that makes us more money, increases our television ratings and improves the resume of the league.
If we can’t get Utah, Washington, Oregon or Stanford or one of the ACC teams like Clemson, Miami, Florida State or Notre Dame;
Schools like Cal, Duke, Georgia Tech and UNC would also improve the academic reputation of the Big 12. I believe Iowa St and Kansas are now the only AAU schools in the conference
I’ll settle for Colorado/Arizona/Arizona State if we can’t get some of the more aspirational options. I have faith in Brett Yormark trying to do the right thing.
ACC schools are not coming to the Big 12 this round. They are going to have a long legal battle before one of them breaks that GOR and when they do most will be heading to the B1G or the SEC.
So really we are only talking about the PAC teams. I think we are going to actually end up with Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Arizona. Yes I know that is a bit of a hot take but I have my reasons for saying it. In other words this is not just a guess.
So really we are only talking about the PAC teams. I think we are going to actually end up with Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Arizona. Yes I know that is a bit of a hot take but I have my reasons for saying it. In other words this is not just a guess.
If the Pac Crumbles soon and the Big and SEC wait out the ACC fallout, I can see it. We better sign them up for a while if it comes to pass.
NTXcowboy78
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Always enjoy inside info, so thanks for putting that out there.
I am curious if you know anything about ASU? I read an interview with the Arizona president (?) on cbssports.com where he said ASU and Arizona would stick together. Maybe that’s just something that he put out there but just wondering your thoughts on that aspect.
I am not exactly sure why but it looks like ASU is just getting left out. The media partners seem to only have the appetite to add 4 teams to the Big 12 and Arizona, Washington and Oregon are all above ASU. Not sure why Colorado is above other than they seem to be the first one that try to make the jump, at least behind the scenes. Could also be the Denver TV market since Arizona should in theory cover the same markets that ASU would. Arizona is the bigger add of the AZ schools thanks to its basketball.
I hope the inside info is right. I’m skeptical that UO and UW would join but the PAC is clearly in trouble and I don’t think the BIG is making any moves until the ACC is available to raid or ND finally agrees to join. I’d like to think that Phil Knight could see the skill Yormark has shown this far and be impressed, especially in comparison to Klavikof who appears dumber than Bowlsby (if that’s even possible). I wonder if Gonzaga would still be on the radar for basketball only? Would make sense with geographic partners. I’d add Creighton too for basketball.
The rumor is that the basketball adds (could be as many as 4) are basically lined up, but they are waiting to see what happens with the PAC before they do that. Supposedly its Gonzaga, UConn, St. Johns and Villanova as the possibles.
jobob85
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Not doubting anything and those are great adds, but that is a weird grouping and where would Uconn football end up? In the big12 since we are already adding 3 of their conference members?
No those are basketball only adds. I mean maybe some other smaller sports but probably not. These schools other sports would likely just stay in whatever conference they are in now. Similar to what our wrestling only conference members do right now in the Big 12.
When UConn left the AAC to join the Big East their football team started competing as an independent. If those rumors are true I expect that to stay the same
PennilessSitarPlayer
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Iowa State left the AAU in 2022. KU is the only remaining XII school in AAU.
This both excites me and scares the hell out of me.
I grew up in Connecticut and just recently moved back. All of my friends are UConn fans - the same way most people you meet in Oklahoma who have never stepped foot on a college campus are OU fans. I am as annoyed at UConn fans as you all are at OU fans.
I brought up this possibility to both my father and best friend this morning (both of whom are UConn fans) and they both ran away in fear. They cited how the Big East is the best basketball conference (and refused to listen to any of the facts/statistics I presented them showing them how it is, indeed, the Big 12). They also discussed how moving to the AAC hurt the program and set it back several years.
I tried to explain that the Big 12 is not the AAC - how the money, the media deals, the exposure, and competition, etc. can only benefit UConn and make them even more nationally prevalent than they already are. I tried to explain how the move to the AAC was done with football in mind, and it took that lesson for UConn to realize it is not at all a football program.
After about an hour of realizing this debate could never be won - I gave up.
I would love to have UConn (and the other two northeast schools) in our conference. It would actually make a lot of sense considering the deal we just did with Ruckers Park, which confused me at first.
But boy would it be annoying to have to put up with UConn fans every year!
OSUinTX
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You're not supposed to like your conference mates. That's why the SEC is bs. I hope they join. My wife has family nearby so it would make for a nice excuse to visit.
Here is a 247 article
Sounds made up. I could see SDSU potentially for the SoCal region, especially with their Final Four run, but they are pretty low in the list, and I doubt we go west unless UO and UW are in, or until we know they are joining the Big 10.