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re: Unpopular opinion: All this realignment is good and way past due
Posted on 8/5/23 at 12:46 am to Buster83
Posted on 8/5/23 at 12:46 am to Buster83
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Not saying I disagree with you but your idea does not explain how TCU got into the title game last season.
Sure it does. TCU ponied up and built a serious contender of a football program. They've been the best and most consistent football program in Texas for well over a decade. They deserve the success they have earned.
Old guys who still see TCU as a snapshot of what they were 30 years ago are blind to present reality.
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Posted on 8/5/23 at 1:19 am to CaptainBrannigan
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College football is about tradition
And conferences dissolving, adding teams, teams leaving, conferences renaming themselves have been going for over 75 years
Posted on 8/5/23 at 7:15 am to WG_Dawg
The same way north Dakota state competes for one, in a division amongst thier peers. The sunbelt Mac mtn west etc. Have no business competing in football with any team that's won a title since the bcs. The same people that say this is a travesty are the same people who would lose thier shat if Tulane went undefeated this year and got awarded a playoff birth.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:39 am to Krampus
That is exactly what you proposed. Go back and read it.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 9:50 am to bamabaseballsec
CFB was stunted and corrupted by a non sensical Bowl industry. What we're seeing is a highly compressed market correction nearly a century in the making.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 10:30 am to Krampus
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Colleges are for educating first and foremost.
Most colleges are for that, but others pay coaches $10 million dollars a year and run professional football teams.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 11:07 am to Scoob
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To keep up with the Big 10, so they will have the same quality/quantity of product to offer when the next broadcast/streaming deals are negotiated.
You don't have to like it, I personally hate it. But pretending it can't happen won't stop it.
Keeping up has zero impact whatsoever.
What matters is the number of dollars each team gets from their broadcast/streaming deals.
If adding teams will add more money per team to the next contract, then the SEC will likely try to add teams. If it doesn't, they won't.
So far nobody (including you) can come up with anything beyond vague "negotiating power" or "keeping up with the big 10" as reasons why the SEC might expand. They can't actually explain why the various networks/streaming services would pay more money per team if the SEC adds various teams.
That COULD be explained with the past two expansions (wasn't paying attention when SC and Arkansas came in). We understood how adding the markets with A&M and Mizzou was going to impact the next contract. We understand how Texas and OU add big games and huge numbers of eyeballs that ESPN had no issues with increasing the payout so that teams got the same money from the new contract despite not needing to renegotiate.
Nobody can explain why any other team being talked about would mean more money or even the same money per team currently in the SEC. Without that it simply WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 11:39 am to Drydock
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CFB was stunted and corrupted by a non sensical Bowl industry. What we're seeing is a highly compressed market correction nearly a century in the making.
100% truth.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 1:08 pm to Krampus
quote:when’s the last time troy, rice or Buffalo competed for a basketball national championship either?
The idea that Alabama, Ohio State, and Georgia compete for the same title as Troy, Buffalo, and Rice is absurd.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 1:49 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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when’s the last time troy, rice or Buffalo competed for a basketball national championship either?
Butler in back to back years in 2010 and 2011 has a smaller enrollment than Troy and Buffalo. About the same as Rice, with around 4,500 undergrads. Gonzaga has been around a long time so they’re like an established power, but they only have about 7,500 students and they do okay.
With football, there might be about 5 teams any given year that have the chance to win the NC. Basketball is much more wide open than football.
Posted on 8/5/23 at 3:57 pm to Boomer Sooner 1890
Yeah no shite. Plenty of teams are relevant in basketball that aren’t relevant in football but the point I was making is there’s plenty of teams that suck at both. Then there’s those that are only good at college baseball. Competing for national titles isn’t the only reason teams want to be d1, which was what the guy I responded to alluded at.
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