Recent content by billybud

Some ACC teams are puzzling re the future...especially when combining football and basketball. Say......Duke...with an undergraduate enrollment of 6,500...not going to be a football power nor have major football fandom but may in basketball. Do you pick them up ? Wake with its 5,500...

While most have been focusing on the increased revenue draw aspect of realignment decisions, I have been blaring my iconoclast horn about fandom. For some programs, going for the most remunerative option is what it is about...but... If cash is king, you circle the number in the Big Ten...

True...but as long as FSU and Clemson are members of the conference, no team will be added without their approval...they have absolute veto rights.

A crazy idea... A new bid offer from certain ACC schools....Put up the cost for us to leave the ACC and take our place.... $147 million no longer sounds ludicrous. Clemson : "Hey USF... For our Exit Fee of $147 million in 2027, us and our partner, FSU, will call the vote...and veto any other...

My region biased view of the ACC....(I always hated the non regional expansion). The 9 member ACC 1982-2003 was a pretty good conference....If the ACC had only stopped in 2004 with the additions of Miami and VT... The adding of BC, Syracuse,, Pitt, and Louisville, added post 2004, diluted the...

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I am not a fan of the new Frankenstein conferences...the SEC has a particular strength...on any given Saturday, you can see multitudes of cars flying school colors caravanning to a conference game. Contiguity is a good thing for fandom. The fan experience for UCF must be quite...

Something I think the B1G is considering with their CFP proposal is that bowl games have become inconsequential and may actually become even more so with the expanded playoffs. Already, players opting out is hurting the bowls. Conference championship games will become all but meaningless if the...

I think many are discounting the changes that we may see because of recent happenings re football, payment for athletes court case, etc. Institutional/state support costs will rise...and this will variably impact schools based on their resources and availability of state tax payer support of...

UConn does have a club team that plays NIRSA...I could see a dropback from varsity as teams struggle with financing sports. 2021 and 2022 regional champions.

I could see some non revenue sports going the way of men's soccer at Bama, Arkansas, Auburn, A&M, Georgia, Fla...and UConn and FSU...if TRitle IX allows. Club sports are playing for club national championships (Florida was 2019 NIRSA (soccer) Champion)...volleyball has NCVF, etc. I supported...

not a lot of Olympic sports left out... The SEC has men's cross country, volleyball, soccer, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, swimming and diving, goll, rowing, gymnastics, tennis Women...cross country, gymnastics, rowing, swimming and diving, indoor track and field, golf...

I see things happen9ng in 2030... Media contract for the B1G Ten comes due in 2030...SEC in 2034... But the evolving into a Super conference could happen in the 30"s.