OT: Realignment?

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I don't think it's going that way and that would be horrendous for the tournament.
It would lose the casual fan and the entire appeal of the tournament.

I would honestly not be shocked. And you shouldn’t be either

 

[superjohn]

I would honestly not be shocked. And you shouldn’t be either

Leaders make bad decisions all the time but that would be monumentally stupid, like braindead stupid. They would be cutting out the entire basketball crazed northeast and all mid-majors, Cinderellas, and a bunch of established historically good/great programs and fanbases.

 

[HooperScooper]

Latest conference realignment rumor states SEC in 'serious contact' with UM, OSU

Latest conference realignment rumor states SEC in 'serious contact' with UM, OSU

Could you picture a Big Ten that doesn't include Michigan and Ohio State? That is apparently a possibility if you believe this latest rumor on conference realignment. Jack McGuire -- who writes for Barstool Sports and is a producer on the popular "

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I can't see Michigan ever doing that. If they and OSU moved to the SEC the conference should just break off from the NCAA and start their own professional league.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I don't think it's going that way and that would be horrendous for the tournament.
It would lose the casual fan and the entire appeal of the tournament.

I tend to agree with you on this. I also think that if the SEC forms a super conference, someone is going to have to lose all those marquee matchups. How long before Texas is no longer at the top of the pecking order because they string together three 4-8 seasons?

I do think that an SEC SuperConference for football would be great for Big East basketball.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I tend to agree with you on this. I also think that if the SEC forms a super conference, someone is going to have to lose all those marquee matchups. How long before Texas is no longer at the top of the pecking order because they string together three 4-8 seasons?

I do think that an SEC SuperConference for football would be great for Big East basketball.

There will still be “the other” tournament but this will be the national title

 

[bendm]

Latest conference realignment rumor states SEC in 'serious contact' with UM, OSU

Latest conference realignment rumor states SEC in 'serious contact' with UM, OSU

Could you picture a Big Ten that doesn't include Michigan and Ohio State? That is apparently a possibility if you believe this latest rumor on conference realignment. Jack McGuire -- who writes for Barstool Sports and is a producer on the popular "

spartanswire.usatoday.com

Clemson and FSU also named as part of a 20 team mega conference

 

[mussels]

Think about it, if UNC and UVA go to the Big 10 and Clemson/FSU go to the SEC, what does the ACC have left? It would basically be the old big east + Duke lol

As long as we're going karma, go full karma. Then Duke and Notre Dame join the Big East, and Cuse and the other traitors are left in Siberia.

 

[bendm]

 

[uconnfan68]

Latest conference realignment rumor states SEC in 'serious contact' with UM, OSU

Latest conference realignment rumor states SEC in 'serious contact' with UM, OSU

Could you picture a Big Ten that doesn't include Michigan and Ohio State? That is apparently a possibility if you believe this latest rumor on conference realignment. Jack McGuire -- who writes for Barstool Sports and is a producer on the popular "

spartanswire.usatoday.com

That might get us into the B1G

 

[nelsonmuntz]

There will still be “the other” tournament but this will be the national title

In basketball? Hardly.

 

[JMick]

In basketball? Hardly.

I could see the Big East being included just to get more teams involved for tournaments.

 

[bendm]

assuming clemson, fsu, osu and michigan also join the SEC then the 32 refugees from the acc, big10, and big12 need to consolidate into 2 new conferences of 16 teams that finally make some geographic sense:

new ACC: (south division) miami, gtech, unc, nc st, duke, wake, uva, vtech; (north division) maryland, lville, wvu, pitt, penn st, rutgers, cuse, bcu

new Midwest: (south) texas tech, tcu, baylor, ok st, ku, k state, nebraska, isu; (north) iowa, minnesota, wisconsin, illinois, nw, indy, purdue, msu

both pretty blah but more or less on par w/ the PAC and AAC

 

[aburks41]

assuming clemson, fsu, osu and michigan also join the SEC then the 32 refugee schools from the acc, big10, and big12 need to consolidate into 2 new conferences of 16 teams each that finally make geographic sense:

new ACC: miami, gtech, unc, nc st, duke, wake, uva, vtech, maryland, lville, wvu, pitt, penn st, rutgers, cuse, bcu

new Midwest: texas tech, tcu, baylor, ok st, ku, k state, nebraska, iowa, isu, minnesota, wisconsin, illinois, nw, indy, purdue, msu

both pretty blah but more or less on par w/ the PAC and AAC

If Rutgers once again weasels their way into a safe conference and we don't, then that would be very very embarrassing.

 

[CL82]

UConn would have made the cut and possibly retained Temple

If you can would have “made the cut” in the American, why wouldn’t it now?

 

[CL82]

That might get us into the B1G

Or the ACC

 

[huskymedic]

 

[CL82]

That looks a little different if you read it without football classifications doesn’t it?

ACC - 8
Big East - 5
SEC - 3
Big 12 - 2

 

[MJ1]

Big 10 - 0

 

[huskymedic]

 

[bendm]

Report: Two Big 12 schools are in talks about joining the Big Ten

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Don’t see how either KU or ISU move the needle either on the football field or in terms of new market share, or both with respect to KU. Let em rot, why prop up your b-ball competition ?

If osu, Michigan, Clemson and FSU also join the SEC then the refugees from the ACC and Big10 and Big12 can form a poor man’s 20 team super conference

 

[huskymedic]

 

[bendm]

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[TXHuskyFan]

I can't see Michigan ever doing that. If they and OSU moved to the SEC the conference should just break off from the NCAA and start their own professional league.

I think this is where it is heading

 

[Jbirdp5]

I still think people are glossing over the GOR in the ACC. If any team were to leave the acc whatever money they made is supposed to still belong to the league until it expires. Don’t see how a simple 50 million dollar check can make that contract disappear.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Baylor’s statement - “For our state, it is critical to our economy and Texas’ overall reputation to maintain five “Power Five” institutions, reinforcing the Lone Star State’s athletic preeminence.”

Like rats clinging to driftwood after a shipwreck yet they don’t miss an opportunity to try and exclude houston and smu from a future power conference they might not even be a part of. I love the nerve on display.

For our state? Lol. Texans always overvalue how important Texas is. Imagine how obnoxious we would think Californians would be if they acted like Texans?