Where is they guy who used to push the University of Toronto as an option? Does he still post here?
USC & UCLA to B1G by 2024; conferences react; TV contracts thread
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Heard on radio this morning as well. I think these four join the big 12, then Stanford, Oregon, and Washington join the big ten. The only question is whether ND makes a move now, or later.
The largest complaining alumni association in the world.
A scull session would needed to decide that issue.
The guy that was the first to tweet about the USC/UCLA news had also tweeted a few days ago that he expects an ND decision in hours or days, not weeks or months. I believe this guy is more plugged into the PAC-12 than any other conference though. Take that FWIW.
Big 12 in deep discussions to add up to six Pac-12 teams after USC, UCLA defections to Big Ten
The Big 12 is aiming to maintain its positioning as a power conference while expanding its footprint to a key market
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Oh, the places you’ll go in the ever-expanding Big Ten
With additions of USC and UCLA in 2024, conference will go from coast to coast — all in the name of money.
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UCLA and USC Have Moved On. What Happens to Everyone Else?
Notre Dame, the ACC and the remaining members of the Pac-12 must figure out how to play their hands amid the college football consolidation.
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Besides the other PAC 12 teams mentioned, I think Big XII ends up with Oregon State and Washington State and B1G with Oregon and Washington.Big 12 in deep discussions to add up to six Pac-12 teams after USC, UCLA defections to Big Ten
The Big 12 is aiming to maintain its positioning as a power conference while expanding its footprint to a key market
Ryan Snyder has some interesting comments in his and Pickel's daily podcast, discussing how the B10 expansion is about adding a bigger footprint across the country in order to maximize TV contract money, rather than just adding best available teams within the current footprint. And that looking at what the SEC would gain with Clemson FSU and other ACC schools does not really add to the SEC footprint. Interesting take.
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Who's next? Commitment dates for top Penn State targets: BWI Daily
Penn State has a busy month ahead in recruiting but the ball is officially in the court of the recruits. Who is the next to commit?
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ACC, Pac-12 discuss 'loose partnership' that could include 'championship game' in Las Vegas
Both conferences, along with the Big 12, are aiming to fortify their membership and increase their media rights revenue
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ACC, Pac-12 discuss 'loose partnership' that could include 'championship game' in Las Vegas
Both conferences, along with the Big 12, are aiming to fortify their membership and increase their media rights revenue
ALLIANCE.
If George were kicking *** he wouldn't have lost USC to the Big 10.
UCLA and USC lag behind Ohio State football and other Big Ten contenders today, but what about in 2024?
UCLA and USC both bring big-name head coaches and a southern California recruiting base. Can either be a threat to Ohio State in the Big Ten by 2024?
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George Kliavkoff and Jim Phillips may be the only two humans on the planet who believed Kevin Warren.
They made a deal with the Devil. This is the price to be paid.
“Even though I’m a lawyer, one of my favorite law professors at Notre Dame said, ‘If you have to go back and look at a contract you signed, you probably entered into a deal with the wrong parties,” Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren said. Speaking of the ACC/P12/BigTen "alliance" in August 2021.
"We have many many issues we need to deal with. We just felt like we could look each other in the eye, shake each other’s hand and say we have a fiduciary responsibility to the past student-athletes, present student-athletes and future student-athletes to be able to do something that is right for once.”
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What remains after super-conferences pluck what they want? Hunger game between Pac-12 and Big 12 | Jones
Without USC and UCLA, the Pac-12 has few prospects. And the Big 12 has more serious football schools and fans with the will to survive a death match.
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Ouch on that list of ACC third and bottom tier programs. That's the old Big East block.
I’m not sure Syracuse is as big of a deal in NYC as some people think it is. PSU, Rutgers, and Maryland are all large universities which are a closer drive to NYC than is Syracuse. OTOH, Syracuse is an average sized private school way upstate.
I agree. It's just sobering for those schools to be discussed in those terms. They really don't have good options going forward. None bring much to the table and kind of epitomize the "has beens" of the new era of college football. Average regional programs with history won't cut it.
A little trip down memory lane.
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What if Paterno’s Eastern Conference had been a go?
Thirty years are but a blink to the landmass we live on, but in the timeline of college football they encompass ages and epochs. Consider this: In 1981, Penn State coach Joe Paterno very nearly bro…
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The Big East Is Still Paying for a Fumble (Published 2012)
The Big East Conference remains strong in basketball, but the conference is paying the price for ignoring the implications of not having big-time football in its portfolio.
Northwestern just spent a crapload upgrading their football facilities.
Ah, but Northwestern, and Vanderbilt in the SEC, are, like Flounder, "legacies" and therefore for all practical purposes don't need to worry.
OTOH, if I'm Syracuse, and let's face it, Pitt, I've gotta be wondering where this is going and will there be a "landing spot" that keeps me relevant?
There's probably a good third of current Power 5 teams that are very scared about their prospects - pretty much every team in the Big 12, most of the Pac-12 about half of the ACC.
One interesting thing is that once everything is settled, we might see WVU back with their natural rivals in the east.
You could make an argument that, at least in football, Northwestern > Indiana.
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