College Football 2024: Hail to THE Buckeyes

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Need Nebraska for the west division with Oregon and ucla and usc

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It’s all so dumb.

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they’ll keep adding teams Oregon will be next, then Washington

then probably like Colorado or Utah or TCU for the TV market stuff as that deal is up soon.

if they feel like it a Stanford/Cal/Arizona (seriously I was surprised they were AAU),

outside shot at like Kansas, Tulane etc.

if they kicked anyone out it would be Nebraska I’d say.

a real shame the school that probably ends up losing the most in the end is a decent one that didn’t deserve this like Iowa State.

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So the pac will surely get off it’s ass and bring in Gonzaga finally, right?

…right?

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no football won’t help

San Diego State makes sense, maybe Boise.

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That’s what should have made it all the more obvious a move a decade and a half ago…

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They won’t kick out Northwestern b/c chicago. Also gonna be needed for the nerd we’re just gonna put these guys here division with Rutgers/Stanford/Cal/Duke/Maryland/Purdue in 2030.

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Does Phil Knight want to live his last year’s with Oregon playing in a G5 quality conference?

Oregon, Washington, Stanford find a home, everyone else to the SuperMWC.

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They are far more UM/MSU/OSU/whatever fans in Chicago than NW. I don’t think it’s that strong of a reason. Maybe they’ll keep them, but I’d be very concerned if I was NW, Vandy, USCe, or even the MS schools if we’re truly going superconference.

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I grew up before Oregon was big-time. I’d 100% prefer to stay with the other NW schools + whoever’s left in a combined MWC/PAC conference but there’ll be more money in whatever big conference comes calling and it’ll suck.

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The real shoe to drop will be when the Power 2 capitalize on the fact that they’re each alone more lucrative and important than the rest of the NCAA combined, and therefore participating in the CFP is a huge leak compared to just playing as a 32-team league with two conferences–coincidentally making it almost an exact mirror of the MLB, NBA, NFL, MLS, and NHL.

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100%, with a slight difference. They won’t go away from the CFP, they’ll go away from the NCAA. I don’t know what the number of teams is going to be, but there’s going to be a breakaway attempt in the next 5 years.

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There are a lot of things being debated at the d1 level right now that are an obvious attempt to keep the power schools from bolting the NCAA. Not sure if it’s been talked about here yet, but we’re likely going to see the end of scholarship limits soon. Every school will be able to self determine how many scholarships they want to give out for a sport.

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Coaching cap limits too right?

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Correct

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Shit I forgot that the pac and big are both primary fox properties, setting up an ESPN/Disney vs Fox rivalry as well

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So I follow split zone duo, run by Alex Kirshner, Richard Godfrey and Richard Johnson. Can’t recommend them enough. 5/mo is worth it, and they do a free show once per week.

Anyways, their emergency pod so far:

  1. None of the pac knew this was coming
  2. Fox v Disney showdown
  3. Big 10 and SEC War
  4. Warren continues B1G commissioner tradition of being a mob boss
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Stanford is a classic B1G type school. Think they’re next, don’t know who else would be next. Oregon maybe. Add UNC and ND, and that’s a legit 20 team super conference.

ACC has to be shitting their pants.

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https://twitter.com/thevolumesports/status/1542600337843970048?s=21&t=R479noYcy8bosIL8M_Ff3w

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UCLA athletic department “lost” $62.5 Million last year. The move to the Big Ten would turn this loss into a profit based on the difference in TV money alone if all else held the same. Obviously things aren’t that simple, but it’s an easy demonstration of why the BIG can basically choose whoever they want to add with few exceptions.

Stanford might actually be one of the few schools who would say no. Some rumors seem to indicate they might have already.

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