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I have always been a propopent of regionally affiliated conferences...

Some conference additions make little sense for fans or athletes.

examples....Boston College ro Tallahassee is further than from Hartford to Des Moines.

So Cal to Ann Arbor is over 2000 miles...Stanford and Cal to the East Coast is likewise a cross continent trip.

The SEC made more sense when they had an SEC West and East...last season, with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas, was played without a West/East format.

As college football at some levels becomes more of a TV experience and less of a fan in the stands experience, and less of a scholar athlete endeavor than a semi pro squad...maybe it isn't as important...

I still maintain that conferences have gone wonky.
 
It does not make any sense for non revenue sports to travel great distances just for conference affiliation.
 
billybud said:
I have always been a propopent of regionally affiliated conferences...

Some conference additions make little sense for fans or athletes.

examples....Boston College ro Tallahassee is further than from Hartford to Des Moines.

So Cal to Ann Arbor is over 2000 miles...Stanford and Cal to the East Coast is likewise a cross continent trip.

The SEC made more sense when they had an SEC West and East...last season, with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas, was played without a West/East format.

As college football at some levels becomes more of a TV experience and less of a fan in the stands experience, and less of a scholar athlete endeavor than a semi pro squad...maybe it isn't as important...

I still maintain that conferences have gone wonky.
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I agree. Conferences as all sports entities have become too unwieldy. I think that we will soon get to a point where football is spun off into 2-3 super leagues and all other sports including basketball will be reorganized by common sense geography.

Women’s Soccer shouldn’t be traveling from Oregon to Maryland to play conference games. Every once and awhile OOC is fine, but otherwise competition should be against schools within a reasonable radius.
 
Ldandy said:
I agree. Conferences as all sports entities have become too unwieldy. I think that we will soon get to a point where football is spun off into 2-3 super leagues and all other sports including basketball will be reorganized by common sense geography.

Women’s Soccer shouldn’t be traveling from Oregon to Maryland to play conference games. Every once and awhile OOC is fine, but otherwise competition should be against schools within a reasonable radius.
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Reasonable, but I think it's unlikely to happen unless there is a way to monetize the non-football sports by splitting them into separate conferences.
 
Any conference with a conference network will never participate in regional Olympic sports. Maybe it happens with G6 conferences, but the conference networks need that inventory of live sports during the rest of the year.
 
Rufus said:
Any conference with a conference network will never participate in regional Olympic sports. Maybe it happens with G6 conferences, but the conference networks need that inventory of live sports during the rest of the year.
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They'd still have inventory, it would just be different slices of different pies. So UCLA plays Arizona instead of Rutgers. Everyone wins.
 
Kolumbo said:
They'd still have inventory, it would just be different slices of different pies. So UCLA plays Arizona instead of Rutgers. Everyone wins.
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What about the UCLA @ Arizona game? I don’t think Arizona wants a home game on a channel they receive no funding from.
 
Rufus said:
What about the UCLA @ Arizona game? I don’t think Arizona wants a home game on a channel they receive no funding from.
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A hypothetical regional conference would have a hypothetical revenue deal whereby all members share in said revenue.
 
Kolumbo said:
They'd still have inventory, it would just be different slices of different pies. So UCLA plays Arizona instead of Rutgers. Everyone wins.
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I doubt Rutgers wins. They aren't very good at it.
 
Kolumbo said:
A hypothetical regional conference would have a hypothetical revenue deal whereby all members share in said revenue.
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I don’t think the top revenue producing conference in the nation would be in favor of that.
 
This article talks about making the USC - Notre Dame rivalry an annual Week 0 game to kickoff the football season and how it would be a ratings hit during that week.

www.si.com

Why USC Trojans, Notre Dame Rivalry Ending Would Be 'Huge Loss'

The USC Trojans and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have one of the most historic rivalries in college football. Among the many changes in college sports, the riv
www.si.com www.si.com
 
www.elevenwarriors.com

Ohio State’s Revenue Sharing Will Start with Four Sports: Football, Men’s and Women’s Basketball and Women’s Volleyball

Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork says OSU will begin revenue sharing with athletes from four sports: Football, men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball.
www.elevenwarriors.com www.elevenwarriors.com

Ohio State announced it will spend $18 million to pay student athletes in four sports: football, men's basketball, women's basketball and women's volleyball. The final $2.5 million will be used to pay for 91 additional athletic scholarships covering all 36 sports teams.

The newly formed Buckeye Sports Group will work to obtain NIL deals for all Ohio State student athletes.
 
uconnbill said:
I wish UConn was in the Big 10 as they should have been instead of crappy Rutgers which rates at the bottom yearly
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While still not winning championships in much of anything, Rutgers has improved with time. In most sports, they finished at the bottom of the conference standings in the early years. That isn't the case anymore. They have won a couple championships (not many) and played in a few more championship games, only to finish second. They have had a run of good football the past few years bringing their old coach back. Definitely not doing as well as UConn would have done top to bottom, but it's also not the Rutgers of yesteryear either. It will be interesting to see how Rutgers utilizes a full conference share payout going forward.
 
uconnbill said:
I wish UConn was in the Big 10 as they should have been instead of crappy Rutgers which rates at the bottom yearly
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The RU addition to the Big Ten was never about performance in the conference. It was always about cable boxes. Thus, the fact that Rutgers is, just barely, within the NYCDMA, NJ is also partially within the Philadelphia DMA, and that NJ has the population density of New Delhi in places with a total population of 9 million people made it a lucrative edition to the Big Ten in terms of allowing it to have first year, premium pricing for the Big Ten network.

RU may not have been a huge success on the field and on the basketball court, but it's addition brought a huge chunk of revenue to the Big Ten. Which is exactly what it was intended to do.
 
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CL82 said:
The RU addition to the Big Ten was never about performance in the conference. It was always about cable boxes. Thus, the fact that Rutgers is, just barely, within the NYCDMA, NJ is also partially within the Philadelphia DMA, and that NJ has the population density of New Delhi in places with a total population of 9 million people made it a lucrative edition to the Big Ten in terms of allowing it to have first year, premium pricing for the Big Ten network.

RU may not have been a huge success on the field and on the basketball court, but it's addition brought a huge chunk of revenue to the Big Ten. Which is exactly what it was intended to do.
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Truth. Another benefit was the large number of B1G alumni in the NYC metro area. Purdue @ Rutgers might not sound like a fun football game, but I guarantee you that Purdue fundraising loves it when the Boilermakers are at Rutgers.
 

24.25DivIStandingsFinal (PDF) - National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics

24.25DivIStandingsFinal (PDF)
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Final Director's Cup Standings 2024-2025:

B1G

2. USC - 1
5. UCLA - 2
8. Ohio State - 3
13. Michigan - 4
16. Penn State - 5
18. Oregon - 6
21. Nebraska - 7
26. Wisconsin - 8
31. Illinois - 9
33. Washington - 10
39. Minnesota - 11
48. Michigan State - 12
51. Indiana - 13
53. Purdue - 14
54. Northwestern - 15
57. Maryland - 16
59. Iowa - 17
80. Rutgers - 18

SEC

1. Texas - 1
6. Tennessee - 2
7. Florida - 3
9. Oklahoma - 4
11. Arkansas - 5
14. Georgia - 6
15. Texas A&M - 7
17. LSU - 8
19. Auburn - 9
22. Alabama - 10
23. South Carolina - 11
27. Ole Miss - 12
30. Kentucky - 13
46. Mississippi State - 14
50. Missouri - 15
58. Vanderbilt - 16

ACC

3. Stanford - 1
4. North Carolina - 2
10. Duke - 3
12. Virginia - 4
20. North Carolina State - 5
24. California - 6
28. Florida State - 7
36. Notre Dame - 8
37. Louisville - 9
41. Wake Forest - 10
45. Virginia Tech - 11
47. Clemson - 12
55. Miami - 13
61. Syracuse - 14
66. Boston College - 15
70. SMU - 16
71. Georgia Tech - 17

Big 12

25. BYU - 1
29. Oklahoma State - 2
34. Arizona State - 3
38. TCU - 4
40. Texas Tech - 5
42. West Virginia - 6
43. Arizona - 7
52. Baylor - 8
56. Iowa State - 9
60. Utah - 10
65. Kansas - 11
69. Colorado - 12
72. Houston - 13
79. Kansas State - 14
83. UCF - 15
125. Cincinnati - 16





*UConn finished at 63. This would have been good enough to finish ahead of 6 Big 12 Schools, 3 ACC Schools, 1 B1G School, and 0 SEC Schools. It would have also been good enough to finish ahead of the 2 PAC-12 Orphans.

75. Oregon State
139. Washington State
 
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