UCLA and USC joining Big 10
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Looks like Lincoln Riley will be looking to join the ACC soon--FSU will be open so he can flee and go there. LOL
That is going to be weird geographically at least, wonder if it will really go through.
I am so sick of conference realignment. Conferences don't mean anything anymore. Things were so much better when the had geographic meaning.
How they hell can you have a conference with one school within 20 miles of the Atlantic Ocean and two more within 20 miles of the Pacific?
Not too sure, that’s why I don’t think this is near a done deal or anything could just be UCLA and USC putting it out to gain leverage on the next TV negotiations and such with the P12
Oh they’ll come up with some stupid “sea to shining sea” garbage and and claim to be “Americas conference”.
Even more reason to hate the B1G.
Anyone know how Bill Walton is taking the news? Does this make the Big 10 the new Conference of Champ10ns?
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This move gets the Big 10 to 16 teams already. Notre Dame is going to go to the ACC because of recruiting for football IMO even though its football rivals and academics are a better fit for the Big 10.
Geography means absolutely nothing in today's world. It meant something when you had to take a bus to travel to games. Now these players and coaches are flying first class in private planes anywhere in the country in 4 or 5 hours or less. It's all about the money. Big 10 has to do this to compete with the SEC. More dominoes will fall and there will soon be 3 or 4 Super Conferences. Only a matter of time.
No it’s not. It’s horse crap. And knowing the mediocrity of the B1G they latch onto it like a leech to justify their existence.
The SEC will have to respond, believe it or not. If the Big Ten gobbles up the very best programs in the Pacific time zone, that’s going to generate a significant money advantage.
Sad really. For a time when the NCAA wants diversity they sure as heck don’t mind eliminating varied geographical rivalries and conference cultures.
If anything, maybe the SEC thinks of adding Notre Dame to get to 16 to match the BIG and then takes one team from the ACC? Interesting possibilities at play here....
If anything the SEC steals Clemson.
There will eventually be 20 teams in that conference and they will still call it the Big Ten.
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Yep. There are 2 components working here. Both are funded big with research money too. The B1G loves money from both research and sports marketing.
ACC SEC BIG 10 and either the PAC 12 or Big 12 will make up your 4 super conferences very soon.
With this news, I bet it saves the Big 12.
The Big12 will absorb whatever 4 or 8 members of the Pac12 that they want, and call it a day (Utah, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, Arizona, Arizona State, etc)
There isn’t going to be anything Super about the Big 12 and ACC unless one of them absorbs the best teams from the other. But the valuable programs left in the ACC, Big 12, and PAC are going to be looking for a way out. The money difference compared to the Big Ten and SEC is going to be mind blowing.
Seems like a dumb move by the LA schools. Enjoy those winter road games at scenic Rutgers and Minnesota.
That makes sense! Lol this is getting crazy. The super conference break off will happen soon.
If the conferences are going to realign hey need to atleast make them make a little sense geographically. USC and UCLA having to go play a game at Rutgers makes no sense
No way, SEC now has teams all the way to Texas, they will pull somebody else soon from the ACC and maybe try to get a West coast school at some point.
Nah. The other way around. The PAC-12 still dominates California and the entire Pacific seacoast even without UCLA and USC. Add San Diego State - they already play 3-4 PAC-12 games a year, maybe UNLV for the growing La Vegas market, then poach Oklahoma State and Texas Tech.
That's stronger than any combination the Empty Prairie Conference can put together. The Big 12 is always going to be the Ugly Step-Sister as this shakes out. There's just no center of gravity to what they are doing. Central Florida? West Virginia? Cincinnati?
Yeah can you see those Cali students?
“Dude….what’s all that white powder stuff?”
“Dude….could it be….?”
“Dude….DUUUUUDE.”
(Use your imagination).
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Looks like the rest of the Big and PAC 12 need to align quickly. They top teams will be poached, already have.
In January. They’ll freeze.Come to SC. Beautiful ladies, beautiful weather, and road games to Rutgers.
I don’t even think it’s worth considering the possibility that Oregon and Washington will be in the PAC when all is said and done. It’s hard to believe the LA schools would make this move alone.
This gets the Big 10 to 16 (why can't they just change the damn name...perhaps once they know they are done lol) like the SEC. I do not necessarily feel the SEC has to "respond" as this is just the Big 10 responding to the SEC's move of Texas & OU from a while back.
I think we will end up with 4 16 team super conferences and at least in football they will go to a semi-pro playoff of sorts and break away from the NCAA completely. I would like to see the same in basketball to be honest.
I think we will end up with 4 16 team super conferences and at least in football they will go to a semi-pro playoff of sorts and break away from the NCAA completely. I would like to see the same in basketball to be honest.
Wow. I guess the Big Ten got tired of waiting on Notre Dame.
The old big 5 conference model seems to be devolving into only a big 2. The SEC and Big Ten are leaving everyone else behind in their dust.
The old big 5 conference model seems to be devolving into only a big 2. The SEC and Big Ten are leaving everyone else behind in their dust.