How awesome would it be to see the SEC crumble though ?
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Official realignment thread - SEC formally invites OU and Texas to join the conference in 2025
Dear god, please no.
**** BAILER
I'd take Ok St, MAYBE tech. but hells to the no with TCU and Bailer.
If money is the sole determinant, then yes. I believe the CFB landscape is evolving in a way that will eventually put just about every current P5 school in essentially the same financial boat. With that in mind, it might be best to play the long game here and refrain from hiting the panic button right now.
Trying to figure out how the SEC crumbling would even happen. They'd have to kick out the lower tier schools and replace them with better alternatives. Not seeing it. UT has back stabbed their way to the top financial situation and can rest easy now.
I don't really see how doing nothing is an option.
Good news! CU doesn't even have a President!
It would take years. Decades even, but once the UT rot is in the foundation, the damage begins. It starts with them demanding a bigger slice of the financial pie. Then they conspire with their former confernce brethren (Arky, OU, A&M, maybe even MU- forget that three of those schools left their previous conference because of UT) and forge an alliance within the conference to sway decisions to their benefit. Divide and conquer, baby! (Oh, and eventually destroy).
I will say this, if there’s a conference in the country that can handle UT and it’s ego, it’s the SEC. The drama will be fun to witness from afar.
KU, OSU, Tech and Baylor.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
I didn't realize I was "going at" anyone. Honestly. I just feel like the future of all this is kids signing contracts and developing their skills in a kind of semi-pro league.
I didn’t say do nothing. I do think a reasoned approach might be warranted, though.
At least CU is in contact with the B1G right?
Hell if I know. I hope not. From a fans perspective, the B1G would suck. I understand the financial considerations, though. I would tend to think that CU would be pretty far down on the list of potential candidates for the B1G.
Would adding any of the big 12 leftovers add enough value to raise the per team payout for the pac 12? No, in my opinion. So we should refrain from expanding for the sake of expanding and let the big 12 leftovers sink into MWC level irrelevance.
The B1G would be an upgrade when it comes to the fanbase. We would have Nebraska as a rival again and any Buff fan that says no to that is probably lying.
If college sports wasn't run by television in general, I'd be worried but that is not the case. Denver will pretty much prop CU up for years to come in those type of discussions.
I think Okie State, TT, TCU, and Houston would be the best case when it comes to basketball. If the SEC is going to take the cake for football, we might as well focus on basketball.
doing nothing >>>>> UNLV >>>> big12 leftovers
Sources: Texas and Oklahoma to inform Big 12 of exit next week, with plans to bolt for SEC
Once UT and OU inform the Big 12 that they don't intend to extend their grant of rights, the SEC can officially begin engaging the schools.
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It does make you wonder about what the PAC would do. The rest of the conference has never had to deal with Bailer’s peculiar brand of self importance (and outright criminality). They just see a school that just won a basketball National Championship. You’d like to think that the leadership at the PAC would remember the last time we went through this and what a bunch of childish assholes bailer proved to be. But money talks, and if there’s a feeling that bringing them in will help financially, the PAC won’t hesitate. Kliavkoff was brought in to even the playing field, specifically on the financial side of things. There could be some highly unpopular choices made here pretty soon.
I'll bite.
In this case, OSU, TT, UNLV, and perhaps UNM. That is with basketball in mind. Four new states.
Buff fanatic
Well-Known Member
Why in the world would the BIG suck from a fans perspective?
Wouldn't you want to replace UNM with KU if that's your reasoning?
Sources: Texas and Oklahoma to inform Big 12 of exit next week, with plans to bolt for SEC
Once UT and OU inform the Big 12 that they don't intend to extend their grant of rights, the SEC can officially begin engaging the schools.
I think the remaining Big 12 schools are a bit delusional here. The AAC grabbing a handful of the remaining Big 12 teams and adding BYU is a realistic scenario here.
Iowa City, Lincoln, East Lansing, Ann Arbor, Columbus, West Lafayette, Bloomington, Champaign, State College. Not a lot of interesting road trip options in the B1G. And then there’s the issue of us getting the **** beaten out of us on a regular basis. Recruiting would be more difficult without a conference tie in to our historical recruiting areas. We would have more money, but that’s about the only advantage that I see. And also the red polyester factor has to be considered.
I would want to in this case. My thinking was more with the long term as CU would be in a very southwestern division and basketball would be probably a bigger priority in that division. But I think this round of realignment is going to effectively throw out long term planning anyway so we might as well do KU, TT, OSU, and UNLV.
I would trade ISU or KU or a team to be named later for UNM, but I like where you are at.
Buff fanatic
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Man, as a college football fan I'd love to watch CU play in Iowa City, , Ann Arbor, Columbus, etc. And have the natural and real rival back with Nebraska, disagree completely.