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Title: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on June 08, 2020, 08:22:01 PM
Which (if any) of these programs will be a big-boy team in 2040?  Think the Florida schools, circa 1991 or Clemson lately.  
Not programs who've tasted recent success like MSU or VA Tech, nor traditional blue-bloods who aren't down.  
Maybe I should remove UNL, but I just don't see an inherent path for them to get back up like most helmets have.  At least Tennessee borders talent-rich states, NE borders....more cornfields.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Mdot21 on June 08, 2020, 08:46:58 PM
I think the only ones with a shot on that list are North Carolina and A&M.

I'll take the field. Wouldn't surprise me to see a Florida school pop up and become dominant. UCF to me could be a darkhorse. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on June 08, 2020, 08:52:13 PM
I look at UNC replacing Illinois as the program that "should" be better, long-term.  Population is growing fast there, not a lot of obstacles, etc.

Perhaps I'm underrating being a "basketball school", idk.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: ELA on June 08, 2020, 09:21:45 PM
Yeah, should be North Carolina, but it should have been North Carolina for a long time.  Texas A&M keeps throwing money at the problem, but for some reason it's not working.  If Illinois gets a hire right, at the same time Wisconsin gets one wrong, I could see them being a Wisconsin.  A program that is consistently top 15 for a couple decades, particularly in that division, but their ceiling is way lower than those other two.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on June 08, 2020, 09:37:23 PM
Northern Virginia is one of the fastest growing areas of the country. Lots of jobs. Lots of young professionals who might procreate.

Demographics suggest they could climb. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: 847badgerfan on June 08, 2020, 09:40:54 PM
I went UVA. Illinois will cease to exist when I leave and turn the lights off on my way out.

UNC will eventually get the death penalty.

Minnesota will not be able to hang on to its carnival barker coach, and will remain in its place as a non factor.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Cincydawg on June 08, 2020, 09:58:19 PM
It really depends on who gets THAT coach.  And can keep him a while.

Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Mdot21 on June 08, 2020, 10:01:05 PM
It really depends on who gets THAT coach.  And can keep him a while.
This is the correct answer. 

Mack Brown is killing on the ‘crootin trail at unc but dude is like 100 years old. He’s not going to be around in 20 years.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: bayareabadger on June 08, 2020, 10:05:55 PM
A&M. 

Money+crazy+available talent. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Kris60 on June 08, 2020, 10:48:02 PM
I went with Colorado. Bill McCartney had them there once upon a time when he started tapping into the talent in SoCal. He said he knew if he could just get  kids to Boulder he could convince them to stay. Beautiful campus, no other in state P5 school to compete with, only one blue blood in its conference.

The right coach can win there.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on June 08, 2020, 10:51:07 PM
I dont know why, but I liked when Colorado was good.  Maybe it was the 88-90 option era.  I LOVED when they'd play Nebraska around Thanksgiving.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on June 08, 2020, 10:52:28 PM
It isn't going to be the Wolverines. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: ELA on June 08, 2020, 11:02:11 PM
A&M.

Money+crazy+available talent.
That was the obvious one, but they've always had that.  What has changed?
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on June 08, 2020, 11:09:01 PM
That was the obvious one, but they've always had that.  What has changed?
SEC! SEC! SEC!
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Mdot21 on June 08, 2020, 11:11:06 PM
That was the obvious one, but they've always had that.  What has changed?
I’d argue it’s harder for them now bc they joined the SEC. All they’ve done is joined a much tougher conference and opened up Texas recruiting more to the other SEC teams. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on June 08, 2020, 11:24:08 PM
True, but it gets them out from under the longhorn shadow. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: bayareabadger on June 08, 2020, 11:26:07 PM
That was the obvious one, but they've always had that.  What has changed?
Weirdly, I think not being second fiddle to Texas and being in a conference where second-tier teams get more big-boy status. In the SWC, you're second fiddle. In the Big 12, you're second fiddle to a team that is battling to not be second fiddle with first Nebraska, then Oklahoma. 

In the SEC, A&M sheds that a little. It probably can't be in the realm of current Bama, but it could push Auburn/Non-Burrow LSU if it gets things together. And third fiddle in the SEC gets you a NY6 Bowl pretty often. Cleanest path to mattering. 

Plus the rest of the options
Illinois - Non-football school in non-football state surrounded by a lot of schools who care more.
North Carolina - Basketball school. Both strikes me as a place that would be OK with being OK forever, plus I just don't trust them to make back-to-back good hires. 
Minnesota - Location hurts. Division hurts. Fleck seems like the kind of coach who either leaves or stays because he doesn't have the exact right place to go. 
Colorado - Don't trust the geography and kind of a smoldering mess at the moment
Nebraska - Just don't like the geography, and in the midst of almost a Michigan-like run of coaching dissatisfaction. Also suffering the "ain't never gonna be what it was" curse.
Virginia - Depends how one defines mattering. I think Bronco has long-term skill. It kind of depends if the uncertainty in the middle of the ACC pulls them back into the spin cycle with Pitt and UNC and everyone else. Maybe he makes them the king of the mediocre middle, but you're basically talking engineering a Va. Tech-like rise, and I just think that's much harder to do these day. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: CWSooner on June 09, 2020, 12:57:26 AM
I took the field, but if I had to pick a team, it would be A&M.  They've got to be able to buy success eventually.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: bayareabadger on June 09, 2020, 01:01:40 AM
I took the field, but if I had to pick a team, it would be A&M.  They've got to be able to buy success eventually.
Their coach-picking ability post Slocum was dreadful. Plus they had the oddity of Sumlin, who gave the program a rocket of at jump start and saw his team grow seemingly worse and worse each season. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on June 09, 2020, 01:23:08 AM
UNLV

That new stadium that they will be sharing with the Raiders is something else. 

(https://media.lasvegassun.com/media/img/photos/2020/01/16/20200110_sun_ALLEGIANT_STADIUM_wv_selects_04_t653.jpg?214bc4f9d9bd7c08c7d0f6599bb3328710e01e7b)
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Cincydawg on June 09, 2020, 07:24:22 AM
Teams like UNLV might be the next Boise State, or move up a notch, which would be a development.

I don't think Appy State has that potential.  Cincinnati does.  Georgia State?  They have a ways to go.  UCF?  Yup.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: rolltidefan on June 09, 2020, 10:42:57 AM
i'm gonna throw @Drew4UTk (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1) a bone and say tenn has a chance to become a respectable program sometime in the next 20 years. yes, this is both a dig and genuine prediction.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Drew4UTk on June 09, 2020, 11:25:46 AM
i'm gonna throw @Drew4UTk (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1) a bone and say tenn has a chance to become a respectable program sometime in the next 20 years. yes, this is both a dig and genuine prediction.
Tennessee is within three years of their next national championship.  < true story. 

so long as we're talking projections based on perspectives, i'm pretty safe saying that.  I'll say it next year too... and the year after... always with the three year caveat. 
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: fezzador on June 09, 2020, 11:41:27 AM
I think NC State has a better shot than UNC.  It's generally slightly better at football, and isn't quite as hoops-obsessed.  Plus no sanctions will be coming that I can see.

Kentucky might be a dark horse.  Mark Stoops is doing an unbelievable job in Lexington and while they benefit from playing in the weaker East, they have recently shown that they can play with - and occasionally beat - the big boys.
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: Cincydawg on June 09, 2020, 11:59:23 AM
NC State is more of a football school than is UNC.  Of course, a good coach would step up either program (and one has already).

That state of course has four P5 programs, even though two are generally not very competitive, so the talent gets split, and a lot of it leaves the state.

Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: FearlessF on June 09, 2020, 02:11:37 PM
I'm taking the Huskers

because I've been brainwashed
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on June 09, 2020, 03:58:30 PM
I'm taking the Huskers

because I've been brainwashed
No, that's indoctrination.  There's a difference.  :88:
Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: medinabuckeye1 on June 09, 2020, 04:54:24 PM
I went with the field because I just don't trust any one of the schools on this list enough to get it done.  

Votes right now/my thoughts on each:



Title: Re: In 20 years, which program will have risen up to become a big-boy?
Post by: betarhoalphadelta on June 09, 2020, 05:05:44 PM
  • 3 votes, UVA:  Bwar made a good point about demographics but who is to say that UVA will be the primary beneficiary as opposed to VaTech, UMD, PSU, or some other school? 
There's also a question of demographics. The ones flooding the northern VA area are the ones working in government or government-adjacent industries. You know, nerds.

Are their kids going to be top football talents? :57: