Losing their top members makes it a distant second tier. I do think the Big XII and ACC merge sooner than later.It’ll become a shell of its former self, but it won’t be killed off completely. Unlike the Pac-12 when they collapsed, we already have a TV deal in place. As long as we maintain 15 members (meaning we can backfill), the deal remains intact.
Of course, this doesn’t concern me if we get the Big 12 invite…
We already have pro football. Why would I watch a watered-down version of the NFL with the same amount of interest? These kids aren't even part of the student body at this point.
If, say, Clemson, FSU, and North Carolina all leave for the Big Ten or SEC, I think an ACC/Big 12 merger would be ideal. It could look something like this:
It's not a watered down NFL. They should have been paid for decades. Accept it. It won't change back.
I think it would go to 3 divisions of 10-12 and we'd basically be back to the ACC/Big XII/Pac XII. It would be great football. Stanford definitely sticks but it should be interesting.
How is it not watered down?? The athletes in the NFL are clearly superior.
Well, for one, there are currently 100 FBS football teams. Are you proposing two ginormous conferences? Three? The heads of the SEC and Big 10 don't want that. No one else does, either. I get that you perceive these issues through a Penn State (and therefore a Big 10) lens, but bigger is not necessarily better. The whole NIL thing is threatening to blow up college football in any event. What is the attraction of college football if its teams are completely professional and team rosters are completely reshuffled every year? Call me old school, but I'll start watching the NFL exclusively if that happens. If my only choice for football is professional football, I'm gonna watch it at the highest level, and under conditions where some measure of competitive balance exists.
Thats where we disagree. The Big Ten and SEC absolutely want a 2 conference league.
We'll have to agree to disagree. BTW, what the heck to you mean by a "2 conference league?" A conference IS a league.
A reminder that what we need is for football to be split off into its own entity while the rest of the collegiate athletic department returns to regional-centric conferences.
FBS would be a 2 conference league
Im all for separation of football and other sports but I don't want in league with Pitt or Nova or Syracuse. I truly don't get the obsession with regional rivals.
It’s not “regional rivals,” it’s simply regional schools. You’d return to a conference with them because they’re the closest schools to you. Throw in Maryland, Rutgers, Boston College, UConn, etc. as well. As another example, Georgia would be in a league with Georgia Tech, Florida, FSU, Miami, and so on.
Why do we care about closest? It doesn't make sense to me. A 2 hour or 3 hour flight is fine. I think conferences should exist based on common things such as elite hockey schools should create conferences. The best should play the best. Not the closest.
So essentially you’d like to split up every sport by itself? At that point, every sport would have a super league. I guess that’s a fair argument as long as there’s enough team in each sport to split up into geographic divisions.
Not forgetting that at all. Just considering the importance of it when discussing travel. They can get a lot of studying done on a 2 hour flight.
No, there used to be at least some connection when these student-athletes were, well, student-athletes. The bowl games, marching bands, and pageantry of college athletics were worth the price of watching these, for the most part, lesser skilled athletes.
All those things are still part of college football. Every player is enrolled. If you're pretending they used to all care about school you're wrong. Bowl games have thankfully been replaced by a real playoff. Those game were meaningless and fans started to realize and accept that. Do bands no longer performer?
There are roughly 100 different universities in the FBS, and their respective commitment to playing competitive football varies considerably. So, also, does their respective commitment to academics.
I have said all along that I think the players should be paid, so you are just making stuff up when you say I don't like them being paid.
This actually makes sense and maybe include basketball. Having the track team flying to the West Coast for meets makes no sense as with many of the other collegiate sports - NIL should force schools into rethinking how sprots are organized at the college level.
