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Media: "Boston College, Syracuse, Va Tech and West Virginia are leaving the Big East."

UConn fans: "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA LEAVE THIS RAGING DUMPSTER FIRE OF A CONFERENCE!!!!!"

Media: "UConn is now in the AAC!!"

UConn fans: "YAY!!!"

Media: "Rutgers and Louisville have left the AAC."

UConn fans: "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA LEAVE THIS RAGING DUMPSTER FIRE OF A CONFERENCE!!!!!"

Media: "UConn is joining the New Big East."

UConn fans: "Yay!!"

Media: "Texas and Oklahoma are thinking about joining the SEC."

UConn fans: "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA LEAVE THIS RAGING DUMPSTER FIRE OF A CONFERENCE!!!!!"
 
Dove said:
Media: "Boston College, Syracuse, Va Tech and West Virginia are leaving the Big East."

UConn fans: "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA LEAVE THIS RAGING DUMPSTER FIRE OF A CONFERENCE!!!!!"

Media: "UConn is now in the AAC!!"

UConn fans: "YAY!!!"

Media: "Rutgers and Louisville have left the AAC."

UConn fans: "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA LEAVE THIS RAGING DUMPSTER FIRE OF A CONFERENCE!!!!!"

Media: "UConn is joining the New Big East."

UConn fans: "Yay!!"

Media: "Texas and Oklahoma are thinking about joining the SEC."

UConn fans: "OH MY GOD WE GOTTA LEAVE THIS RAGING DUMPSTER FIRE OF A CONFERENCE!!!!!"
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Wow, you’ve managed to be both factually inaccurate and stunningly unfunny in a single post. Congrats.
 
CL82 said:
Wow, you’ve managed to be both factually inaccurate and stunningly unfunny in a single post. Congrats.
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CL82 said:
Texas will quickly learn that it doesn't have the same leverage anymore.
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And they will resent it so much. I think SEC has a $0 exit fee; won’t take long for UT to posture and exit.
 
superjohn said:
I don't have access to the article but I don't see this stopping with 4 16 school conferences, not by a longshot. In this wild west atmosphere where all that matters is money what's to stop the behemoths from just teaming up and getting rid of all the scraps?
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this is my view

It is the Game of Thrones match in the Octagon. For the lucky 8 to 12. Why do 64? When you can reap greater self dealing by eliminating whomever.
 
Pudge said:
this is my view

It is the Game of Thrones match in the Octagon. For the lucky 8 to 12. Why do 64? When you can reap greater self dealing by eliminating whomever.
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Because you need people to play against to generate wins so that you can have a battle of undefeateds.

Think of them as the extras in Game of Thrones.
 
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Scoe said:
I have always had a feeling that Clemson would join the SEC.
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No more slots unless 20 teams is the end game.
 
Pudge said:
this is my view

It is the Game of Thrones match in the Octagon. For the lucky 8 to 12. Why do 64? When you can reap greater self dealing by eliminating whomever.
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Yep, greed rules everything. The Bama's and OSU's aren't going to want to share the pie with the Vandy's and Rutger's anymore. Supreme Court ruling changed college sports and IMO effectively destroyed college sports. I hope it's just for the time being but they will have more antitrust cases in the future when the biggest schools try and ditch the rest of the schools and they try and ditch all the non-revenue sports and women's sports.
 
CL82 said:
No more slots unless 20 teams is the end game.
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4 pods of 5 teams. That‘s 9 games with rotating pods. They have to keep the rivalry games so that makes 10. Once they break from the NCAA, they can expand the schedule. Heck, these kids need to earn their NIL.
 
MJ1 said:
Their will be no new Big12 as the Pac 12 will go to 16 and the Big 10 will go to 16 to follow suit and we will have 4 -16 team conference’s for football. Some Big 12 teams will go to PAC 12 or ACC. Others will be out in the cold . Notre Dame will be interesting as a go to ACC full time or stay independent. Should be interesting. The end game is a Power 4- 16 teams for football with Big 12 out. Without Texas and Oklahoma the networks will not pay that conference to add weaker teams.
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Actually, the other rumor is the B1G poaching USC and UCLA from the Pac. Could lead the rest of the Big XII to merge with the Pac.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
Having Kansas join the Big East for basketball would be a pipe dream, but I have trouble seeing them going to a basketball-only conference and then joining a different conference (or going independent) for football.

But back to the pipe dream:

Big East West: Kansas, Creighton, Marquette, DePaul, Butler, Xavier (630 miles from Kansas to Xavier)

Big East...East?: Georgetown, Villanova, Seton Hall, St. John's, UConn, Providence (420 miles from Georgetown to Providence).

I mean, those divisions look bellisimo!
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KU will never go to the Big East or the ACC. They would have the same problems UConn had in the AAC. The fans aren't interested in playing any of those teams other than maybe Nova and UConn. Plus, football does matter. KU won the Orange Bowl and finished top 5 in 2008. Bad now, but haven't always been bad.
 
This move makes sense. Now that the façade called amateurism is over college sports is basically over. This will start to look a bit like formula 1 without the cost cap but much worse because you add an additional layer known as recruiting. I think Texas sees the writing on the wall that Big12 will suffer in a recruiting world that is NLI driven...
 
HuskyHawk said:
Actually, the other rumor is the B1G poaching USC and UCLA from the Pac. Could lead the rest of the Big XII to merge with the Pac.
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They will probably come up with some sort of scheduling alliance for football. I believe that was in the works in 2010 when Texas was threatening to leave
 
HuskyHawk said:
KU will never go to the Big East or the ACC. They would have the same problems UConn had in the AAC. The fans aren't interested in playing any of those teams other than maybe Nova and UConn. Plus, football does matter. KU won the Orange Bowl and finished top 5 in 2008. Bad now, but haven't always been bad.
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I mean, they've been to 12 bowl games in their history. Total. That's pretty embarrassing and by far the least of any of the old Big 8 schools.

For comparison, UConn has been to 6 despite being FBS for like 100 years less then them.
 
HuskyHawk said:
KU will never go to the Big East or the ACC. They would have the same problems UConn had in the AAC. The fans aren't interested in playing any of those teams other than maybe Nova and UConn. Plus, football does matter. KU won the Orange Bowl and finished top 5 in 2008. Bad now, but haven't always been bad.
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Don’t disagree with most of this, but Kansas football is nearly the definition of always bad. I think they have won 21 games the last 10 years.
 
HuskyHawk said:
KU will never go to the Big East or the ACC. They would have the same problems UConn had in the AAC. The fans aren't interested in playing any of those teams other than maybe Nova and UConn. Plus, football does matter. KU won the Orange Bowl and finished top 5 in 2008. Bad now, but haven't always been bad.
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Oh come on, Kansas football is horrendous. They've had two good seasons in over 50 years. They're 21-108 the last 11 seasons.
 
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WestHartHusk said:
Don’t disagree with most of this, but Kansas football is nearly the definition of always bad. I think they have won 21 games the last 10 years.
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They were actually good when I was there. The Glen Mason era. But yes, they have mostly been bad. I'm simply saying, they aren't going to go independent in football and would have no interest in playing in an east coast based league, whether Big East or ACC. The few middling midwestern terms in the Big East aren't of interest to those fans. Creighton is close and they've played only 16 times, before last year the last time was 1974, also in the tournament. Kansas fans view them the way we view Memphis. Not interesting.
 
I wonder how long until the conferences realize that they don’t need to be splitting their revenue with the wake forrrests, vanderbilts and northwesterns of the world. Media markets mean nothing anymore, it’s all about fan bases.

FWIW, Nashville is one of the largest media markets in the SEC footprint (only Atlanta and Gainesville/Orlando are bigger). But No one here in Nashville watches Vanderbilt football, this city only cares about University of Tennessee. The Vandy stadium is filled with 80% of visiting fans every game. Not going to be long until Bama and LSU realize that they shouldn’t be getting the same revenue split as them and cut the cord on them.
 
Louisville fans must be very happy that the Big 12 took WVU over them. Couldn’t imagine being a WVU fan right now left holding that bag of . You thought you were going to be playing Oklahoma and Texas every year and now you’re hoping Memphis and Cincy can save the conference (while they desperately beg the big 10 or acc to take them) lmao.

edit: I do think that WVU is probably the most well suited among any remaining Big 12 team - fan base, football strength and geographiclly - to be the top choice for any future expansion by the big 10 or acc. The question is do those conferences extend them the olive branch or let them rot while they try to poach each other’s conferences first. WVU is now in the same position of “you will always be there when we want to add you” that we were / are in when it comes to P5 expansion.
 
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McLovin said:
I wonder how long until the conferences realize that they don’t need to be splitting their revenue with the wake forrrests, vanderbilts and northwesterns of the world. Media markets mean nothing anymore, it’s all about fan bases.

FWIW, Nashville is one of the largest media markets in the SEC footprint (only Atlanta and Gainesville/Orlando are bigger). But No one here in Nashville watches Vanderbilt football, this city only cares about University of Tennessee. The Vandy stadium is filled with 80% of visiting fans every game. Not going to be long until Bama and LSU realize that they shouldn’t be getting the same revenue split as them and cut the cord on them.
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Yes, that will be the next step along with cutting every sport besides football and basketball, and cutting all women's sports. Supreme Court will be hearing a lot of cases.
 
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