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Small sports starting to react
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:21 pm
noticed some Oregon and Washington softball players are not happy about realignment. Having to fly 3,000 miles for a weekend series against Rutgers doesn't seem to appeal to them. I don't blame them. Realignment only helps football, so I can see this settling out into a football only thing with the other sports reverting back to regional conferences in the long run. Chip Kelly has already stated this.
I also see the problem of parents and grandparents wanting to see their kids play.
Considering that many of these kids need their academics to mean something (no pro sports), I can see some kids giving it up to focus on education.
I also see the problem of parents and grandparents wanting to see their kids play.
Considering that many of these kids need their academics to mean something (no pro sports), I can see some kids giving it up to focus on education.
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Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:23 pm to Auburn80
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I can see this settling out into a football only thing with the other sports reverting back to regional conferences in the long run
Would definitely make sense
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:25 pm to Auburn80
I wonder if at some point conferences trade off programs to help with geography related issues
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:25 pm to Auburn80
Go to a more regionally aligned conference to play then.
If you want to be a big girl or boy you might have to fly around some.
If you want to be a big girl or boy you might have to fly around some.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:28 pm to timdonaghyswhistle
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Go to a more regionally aligned conference to play then. If you want to be a big girl or boy you might have to fly around some.
We just need to go ahead and get to a 40 or 60 team breakaway league so the schools that don’t want to participate in all the travel can restructure conferences more regionally.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:29 pm to Auburn80
I can see schools canceling small sports series simply due to the travel costs.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:30 pm to HottyToddy7
Even better, realize that the niche sports that suck money and don't produce it don't need to follow the the same trajectory as the money making sports. Does anyone really care who Oregon State softball plays?
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:32 pm to HottyToddy7
Sec gonna own west coast recruiting for minor sports
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:33 pm to Hardluck Harry
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I can see schools canceling small sports series simply due to the travel costs.
Title IX will be the fly in the ointment there.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:38 pm to timdonaghyswhistle
A lot of the times those smaller sports won’t get many flights during the year as well. So it is mostly long bus rides. Not really possible to be a true student doing that for games 2-3 times a week.
This post was edited on 8/12/23 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:38 pm to Auburn80
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Auburn80
I would suggest they utilize the transfer portal and find a more accommodating school or conference.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:40 pm to timdonaghyswhistle
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Go to a more regionally aligned conference to play then.
The Pac12 and the Big12 should have merged (more or less) Maybe not every single program but a 20 team conference would have been nice. I'd like to see BYU in this super conference.
Cincinnati should have went to the Big10. West Virginia needs to be in the Big10. Some of the ACC should go to the Big10
Though I'm against the SEC expanding its inevitable. With that said, merging with the ACC geography makes sense.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:43 pm to Auburn80
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Realignment only helps football, so I can see this settling out into a football only thing with the other sports reverting back to regional conferences in the long run
This is where they screwed the pooch with all of this. All of these supposed educated administrators and big time coaches should have seen this long ago. Me and my friends have discussed this for years. We all knew eventually this would happen with teams joining mega conferences. We had always said if it did it needed to be just football. Football should by itself not lumped in with all other sports.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:47 pm to Ponchy Tiger
It is going to be bad (and expensive) for the Big12 as well. Its a long flight from Salt Lake (Utah and BYU) or Phoenix/Tucson (AZ and AZ State) to Orlando or Morgantown or Cincinnati. And Big12 schools will have millions less media money to pay for those baseball, softball, tennis, golf trips.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:56 pm to Ponchy Tiger
Agreed. However, football funds all those other sports, (minus mbball), so that would require schools to use some common sense. I'm not sure most university hierarchy has this.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 2:58 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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his is where they screwed the pooch with all of this. All of these supposed educated administrators and big time coaches should have seen this long ago
Money has the last word in everything these days. Americans worship money, not God.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 3:04 pm to Auburn80
When has any of this ever been about the kids?
This is all so much hypocrisy. It's about money. It's always been about money and, to a lesser extent, pride.
ETA: cancel all of the minor sports. Keep football, men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball, men's and women's soccer. Can all the rest, be done with it all and all the Title IX bullshite. The trannie swimmers, etc. frick'em all.
This is all so much hypocrisy. It's about money. It's always been about money and, to a lesser extent, pride.
ETA: cancel all of the minor sports. Keep football, men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball, men's and women's soccer. Can all the rest, be done with it all and all the Title IX bullshite. The trannie swimmers, etc. frick'em all.
This post was edited on 8/12/23 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 8/12/23 at 3:10 pm to Auburn80
This is why you don’t reach out of the southeast. Anyone clamoring for the Virginia TV market doesn’t get it.
It’s also a strong idea to only add southeastern football programs.
We learned our lesson with MizzyBilt. Don’t add subpar football programs. That’s the reason OU was allowed in….culture and football.
It’s also a strong idea to only add southeastern football programs.
We learned our lesson with MizzyBilt. Don’t add subpar football programs. That’s the reason OU was allowed in….culture and football.
This post was edited on 8/12/23 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 8/12/23 at 3:37 pm to Auburn80
True, this will hurt softball and baseball and other sports that play several games a week.
This is what happens when people in charge only care about money rather than what’s best for fans and student athletes.
Most of these schools are publicly funded universities so why are we treating them like giant corporations that need to make millions of dollars off sports. I mean I get the need for money to fund travel and upkeep of facilities and such but we have done that just fine for decades without this crap.
This is what happens when people in charge only care about money rather than what’s best for fans and student athletes.
Most of these schools are publicly funded universities so why are we treating them like giant corporations that need to make millions of dollars off sports. I mean I get the need for money to fund travel and upkeep of facilities and such but we have done that just fine for decades without this crap.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 3:40 pm to nicholastiger
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Sec gonna own west coast recruiting for minor sports
Western flank teams like Texas, OU, LSU, A&M will be appealing destinations for west coast kids who want to compete against the best and not fly coast-to-coast on a Wednesday for a volleyball match vs. Rutgers.
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