OT: Realignment?

[How Sway?!]

Sorry, The B12 will be a better football conference than the PAC12 so it will still be P5. P5 status is more about access than TV money. The B12 will maintain it's access (unless there is another raid)

We'll see if they are still able to compete at the same level when they are making 25MM less per season.

 

[Fishy]

We'll see if they are still able to compete at the same level when they are making 25MM less per season.

And that is the issue.

Can they keep it up now that they are making 1/3rd of what they were making and being seen as being outside the “P4.”

Biggest issue for AAC schools is that if they had a good year, they lost their coach to a program that made more but wasn’t better. Hard to keep going like that.

 

[metsfan2323]

Most of the B12 schools have deep pockets even without the TV money, (Wealthy boosters and ticket sales)

 

[shizzle787]

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-s...432110.php

Behind a paywall, but apparently there will be a formal vote next week for the Big 12 to add 4 schools.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[JeepCSC]

Sorry, The B12 will be a better football conference than the PAC12 so it will still be P5. P5 status is more about access than TV money. The B12 will maintain it's access (unless there is another raid)

7 of the Big XII’s 12 appearances in NY6 bowl games are tied to Oklahoma/Texas. So the rest have 5 appearances, the same as the AAC.

 

[phillionaire]

I think UConn has been a left over since Louisville took the spot in the ACC.

that's true but we'd be like a triple leftover if we got stuck in an AAC with no Houston, Cincy, or UCF. USF (blech) would be the team we have the most history with.

 

[Exit 4]

McMurphy is usually rather credible… but while they might invite- whose bidding the new media deal and what is it???????

 

[ZooCougar]

Aresco hahahaha

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Vowelguy]

Georgia St , lol

 

[huskymedic]

 

[ASweet3781]

Georgia St , lol

Yeah. Lol. Georgia st. A school actually upgrading. Good for them. Must be nice to actually upgrade in conference realignment. As opposed to light yourself on fire like UConn did.

 

[Vowelguy]

If Mtn West and Sun Belt are smart, they are meeting right now to make offers to the best of the remaining AAC teams.
MW: SMU, Memphis, Wichita
SB: Memphis & USF

 

[huskymedic]

Colorado State Rams still seeking Power Five opportunity after Big 12 snub, AD Joe Parker says

FORT COLLINS — Colorado State athletic director Joe Parker planned a six-day August vacation to visit family when the college football world turned upside down.

www.denverpost.com

 

[Kolumbo]

If Mtn West and Sun Belt are smart, they are meeting right now to make offers to the best of the remaining AAC teams.
MW: SMU, Memphis, Wichita
SB: Memphis & USF

Will this finally be the nail in the coffin for the Big East/AAC Football Conference? Temple, ECU and Navy can join our new Independent/Northeast Conference with UCONN, UMass, Army, Liberty . . .

Congrats to Cincy and Houston for their move to Still G5.

 

[Eavesdrop]

McMurphy is usually rather credible… but while they might invite- whose bidding the new media deal and what is it???????

The Big 12's current deal with Fox and ESPN runs another four years. I believe most media deals include composition clauses that allow each party (the conference and its media partners) to negotiate contract changes based on the expected changes.

That process probably cannot begin until its certain when teams are to be added and lost.

 

[CL82]

When you look at this the three American additions makes sense. Cincinnati gives WV a long needed drivable game, UH maintains the TX presence and UCF gives the B12 a Florida presence.

 

[tzznandrew]

Most of the additions make sense. The infatuation these conferences have with UCF or USF, though, is baffling. Trash schools that are on the absolute bottom wrung in the state for both sports and academics.

 

[CL82]

Most of the additions make sense. The infatuation these conferences have with UCF or USF, though, is baffling. Trash schools that are on the absolute bottom wrung in the state for both sports and academics.

Better access to Florida recruiting is apparently worth admitting them.

 

[Kolumbo]

BYU always seemed a much better fit for the PAC12 than big12. Zags and Shockers can't be too happy.

 

[Vowelguy]

BYU always seemed a much better fit for the PAC12 than big12. Zags and Shockers can't be too happy.

Pac was never ever never taking BYU.

 

[tzznandrew]

Better access to Florida recruiting is apparently worth admitting them.

I mean, I'm not sure it has really helped any of the conferences. Their benefit is chimerical. Good recruits in Florida are going to go to Florida, FSU, or Miami before UCF (or USF), and then you add in the SEC schools. I just do not believe one Florida recruit played football at an American Conference school because of playing UCF and USF once a year.

I mean, every conference that has taken them has done so reactively, and they're usually conferences that we don't particularly respect with regards to leadership.

 

[Padutch5]

Sorry, but all of this looks like the proverbial re arranging of chairs on the Titanic as the “abandon ship bell’ is sounding. The whole collapse of the NCAA, unlimited transfers , the overhang of the whole brain damage situation resulting in declining participation through the high school level ,and the increasing potential of government intervention all signal that we dont really know the future of college football. I think there are still more changes to come that will reshape college football.