Way easier to schedule a strong out of conference schedule in basketball to build the resume as opposed to football. As a Husky fan I was concerned when we joined the American after the original BE fell apart. Turns out we didn’t have to worry about it too much after hiring KO, luck-boxing a title, then falling off a cliff ourselves.
Wichita St’s HC seems really legit. As long as you have someone that can recruit and coach getting to the tournament shouldn’t be an issue, no matter the conference.
Edit add: ah, I think I misinterpreted your concerns. Yeah, if the NCAA is essentially ended and it’s just like 2 mega-conferences there likely is cause for some concern.
I think the NCAA is done for football, but you still need it for basketball. March Madness is such a money maker and doesn’t work without small conferences participating.
I have always thought that college football should do relegation like European football leagues do. Every year the last place conference team should lose their accreditation.
Went back home and my brother was saying that after Texas and OU leave that the Big 12 will be raiding the Pac and ACC. I was like wat, you’ve got that backwards. He claims the Pac and ACC contracts are so bad that it would play out as he says.
Admittedly I no longer follow it closely, but there’s no way the Big 12 minus their 2 big schools could even remotely compare, right?
The most interesting part isn’t going to be who gets picked up by other conferences but who gets left out in the cold.
If the Big 12 falls apart, where does a school like Oklahoma State go? I don’t see the PAC wanting them but could be wrong, and they have no other options to stay in a power conference.
I get the money appeal of joining a super conference, but if they are only picking up the elite teams, isn’t that going to be a problem. Right now Clemenson can make playoffs pretty much every year, but if you join super-SEC and have to play 3-4 other top programs every year, don’t you risk losing 2-3 of those games and missing out? I guess expanded playoffs makes this a bit safer, but still think it’s a risky move.
Or look at say Michigan/FSU - based on recent performances, we could see them go like 2-6 in a super SEC and pretty quickly become a new Tennessee that only has it’s name and former glory to look at.