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CWSooner

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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #112 on: July 27, 2021, 05:20:19 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 27, 2021, 11:09:24 AM


I'm listening to James Laurenitis on the radio, and they were talking about a rumor that Texas and Oklahoma approached the Big Ten first and got rebuffed, and the SEC was their plan B.

:-[
As someone who has been hoping to see OU wind up in the Big Ten since the 2010 realignment process began, I hope that's not true.
But I suspect that the Big Ten could have had the OU-Texas combo at any point in the last 10 years.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #113 on: July 27, 2021, 06:22:01 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 27, 2021, 04:36:44 PM
It seems like the Oregon bandwagon has broken down.

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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #114 on: July 27, 2021, 06:28:39 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on July 27, 2021, 05:20:19 PM
As someone who has been hoping to see OU wind up in the Big Ten since the 2010 realignment process began, I hope that's not true.
But I suspect that the Big Ten could have had the OU-Texas combo at any point in the last 10 years.
If this is really true, Warren has to be gone.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #115 on: July 27, 2021, 06:56:29 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 27, 2021, 02:27:43 PM
I wonder how "we" would assemble football conferences if we scattered the pieces around the floor and started over.
We'd make 8 conferences of 10 teams each, strictly regionalized and fairly even, setting up a champs-only 8-team playoff.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #116 on: July 27, 2021, 07:00:43 PM »
How would you go about dividing the teams up into 8 even, geographically sound, 10-team Conferences if you were the one that was tasked with doing it? 
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #117 on: July 27, 2021, 07:18:46 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 27, 2021, 06:56:29 PM
We'd make 8 conferences of 10 teams each, strictly regionalized and fairly even, setting up a champs-only 8-team playoff.
Champs-only? Wait, then when do we fit in wild card weekend?
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #118 on: July 27, 2021, 09:27:04 PM »
How about three thirty team leagues, but have promotion/relegation. 
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #119 on: July 27, 2021, 10:41:15 PM »
I am starting to subscribe to the theory that the Big Ten is just going to build an AAU super conference. 

Covid really shone a spotlight on the way that each conference operates, and the SEC and Big Ten were at opposite ends of the spectrum. 

SEC is going to be football first and win at all costs. Meanwhile, the Big Ten is going to do the "right thing to do" from the vantage point of Academia, while patting their athletic directors on the head, and maybe placating them with a hefty bonus. 
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #120 on: July 27, 2021, 11:06:43 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on July 27, 2021, 07:00:43 PM
How would you go about dividing the teams up into 8 even, geographically sound, 10-team Conferences if you were the one that was tasked with doing it?
Old Big 10 (10)
Old Pac-10 (10)
Old Big 8 + Utah + BYU (10)
Old ACC + FSU + East Carolina (10)
Old SWC + New Mexico
Old Big East - Temple + ND + Penn St + Cincinnati (10)
Split the Old SEC into 2 conferences (5 West, 5 East)
5 West + Memphis, South Florida, LA Tech, Louisiana, Southern Miss (10)
5 East + USCe + Tulane + Louisville + Coastal Carolina + UCF (10)
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Each conference has it's big-boy teams (and this would probably allow some aging helmets to have a resurgence) and each former SEC half does, too.  
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #121 on: July 28, 2021, 12:06:55 AM »
The Ragin' Cajuns? 
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #122 on: July 28, 2021, 01:14:00 AM »
Big East



PSU
Pitt
WVU
Cuse
BC
Maryland
UVA
VT
Cincinnati
Louisville

ACC



Clemson
FSU
Miami
Florida
GT
Duke
Wake
UNC
NC St
South Carolina

SEC



Bama
Auburn
UGA
UT
Ole Miss
Miss St
Kentucky
Southern Miss
UCF
USF

SWC



Texas
TAMU
LSU
Arkansas
Houston
TCU
SMU
Baylor
Texas Tech
Memphis

Big Ten



Michigan
MSU
ND
Wisconsin
Ohio St
Purdue
NW
Indiana
Minnesota
Illinois

Great Midwest



Oklahoma
Ok St
Nebraska
Colorado
Iowa
Iowa St
KSU
Mizzou
Colorado St
Tulsa

PAC 10


USC
UCLA
Cal
Stanford
Arizona
ASU
San Diego St
Fresno St
San Jose St
New Mexico

Big West

Washington
Wazzu
Oregon
Oregon St
BYU
Utah
Boise St
Wyoming
Nevada
Rice

So, in order to make them as balanced and geographically sound as I could I threw some tradition out the window.  The current SEC was scattered all over.

The Big Ten lost Iowa and got Notre Dame. Current P5’s Rutgers, Vandy, and Kansas didn’t make my 80 team cut. Go ahead, pick it apart. I can take it.😁

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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #123 on: July 28, 2021, 01:15:28 AM »
Or whoever.
The point is, they'd serve as the cannon-fodder for the helmet teams.  Like Oregon State, Vanderbilt, and Rutgers are.  
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #124 on: July 28, 2021, 07:45:21 AM »
I was musing a bit more about an SEC-ACC quasi merger and think it's not totally beyond the realm, but is unlikely "soon".  Pull the more southern teams out of the ACC and collapse the conference, maybe th B1G would pick up BC and Pitt.  You could have a three division conference of about ten teams with some adjustments.

If the B1G followed by setting up with the Pac, you'd have two conferences, which really are five or six divisions.  G5 separation.
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Re: Likely expansion targets for the B1G
« Reply #125 on: July 28, 2021, 09:39:23 AM »
The South (plus Texas) is where the real population growth in this country is occuring. Lots of people and especially people with money right now are fleeing California, the tri-state area, and midwest for Florida, Georgia, Carolinas- better state governments, more freedoms, MUCH lower taxes, better quality of life and more affordable housing.

I'd try to go after the Carolina, Georgia, and Florida schools. This is where the growth is at hence where the future is at.

USC is the only team out west that makes even a little bit of sense at all. The rest of them are basically useless and worthless, in my opinion. I'd even think about kicking Rutgers out.

ND is a fading brand and they've had their chance multiple times to join the B1G and acted like they were too good to join. SO F them.
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