Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
Nah man, we've got front row seats.It’s a B1G/SEC world and we’re just passing through.
Nah man, we've got front row seats.It’s a B1G/SEC world and we’re just passing through.
For the time being, yes. I still want to avoid the "Big Ten / Little Ten" scenario.Nah man, we've got front row seats.
For the time being, yes. I still want to avoid the "Big Ten / Little Ten" scenario.
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For the time being, yes. I still want to avoid the "Big Ten / Little Ten" scenario.
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Memories of the B1G 2 & Little 8 just can't be erased easily...
When the big ten and sec get to 24 each this won’t be necessary. They’ll run the show and the season will be as long as they want it to be. 48 team playoff, top 16 with a round 1 bye, traditional bracket from there.Please quit trying to make college football into European soccer.
In terms of the entertainment offered by the competition structure that is wildly, wildly preferable to turning college football into the NFL.Please quit trying to make college football into European soccer.
Gritty Tolerators will of course know that I hate this.MSN
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looks like Cal, Stanford and SMU may be joining the ACC after all
Have we finally hit Peak Stupid with this stuff? Let's hope so.MSN
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looks like Cal, Stanford and SMU may be joining the ACC after all
This feels like a best case scenario from a general fan perspective.Gritty Tolerators will of course know that I hate this.
But the true Gritty Heads will also know that part of me is thrilled to see another one of the schools that got relegated in the dissolution of the Southwest Conference find their way back to the table.
Rice to the Big 12, feel it in your hearts!
If we're talking multiple leagues with promotion/relegation, I can get on board. If it's just the top 28 teams that break off and go Super League, I'm not watching that in a million years.In terms of the entertainment offered by the competition structure that is wildly, wildly preferable to turning college football into the NFL.
Sadly "neither" is out of the barn at this point.
Have we finally hit Peak Stupid with this stuff? Let's hope so.
I bet you they try it.I wonder if there's a scenario in which the expanded conference plays the annual championship game in...Pasadena. The Rose Bowl could find a new life as the premier conference championship game for the premeir conference. The Rose Bowl would become as relevant and meaningful as it's been in years.
Facts and opinions:
1. The Big 10.
2. Meat and potatoes of the Pac 10.
3. Bowls have become consolation bracket exhibition games. The Grandaddy of Them All is an empty husk of what it once was.
4. The Rose Bowl would become meaningful the age of college football playoffs as the B1G Championship Game aka The Rose Bowl.
5. College football should be played in college football stadiums anyway.
6. The Rose Bowl as a tradition is an enormously valuable asset. It should be adapted and used in the new reality of the B1G.
Arguments and counter-arguments:
1. It's UCLA's home stadium. This has always been true and it's not much of a home field advantage.
2. It's a long way to travel for most teams. That was the entire point of bowls in the first place.
3. Indianapolis and Arlington Heights are more geographically centered. It's cold in the midwest in the winter. And see #5 above.
Has this been discussed elsewhere?
SMU simply wants a big time schedule and are rolling the dice that they can get legit and national respect going 8-4 or 9-3 in that league.Sources: ACC ramps up Cal, Stanford, SMU talks
The ACC will hold a series of meetings this week to discuss the potential additions of Stanford, California and SMU, including how additional money from the schools would be distributed among ACC members, sources told ESPN..www.espn.com
Cal Stanford lower payments to be non dilutive I get. SMU no payments for 7 years is crazy.
I've always just really struggled to understand the very widespread tendency to view the whole conference realignment saga through a lens of sort of academic elitism by proxy.Personal opinion, I would have felt gross seeing college athletics look at Stanford athletics and say "nope, that belongs in the AAC."
I've always just really struggled to understand the very widespread tendency to view the whole conference realignment saga through a lens of sort of academic elitism by proxy.
once upon a time there was a cultural & academic fit criteria for membershipI used to think academics had some serious weight in the conference equation. I'm a lot smarter now, lol.
This is definitely my biggest problem with the turn college football has taken, and really it has nothing to do with realignment but with college football playoff expansion. If the best 4 Big Ten teams are getting into the playoff every year automatically, I don't see why anyone would be motivated to take the conference championship game seriously. If playoff byes are the motivation, who gets one? Are we to believe that the SEC and B1G are willing to hand out first round byes to the Big 12 champion? I doubt it. It's looking more and more like it's just going to be a ranking of the best 12 teams in the country and that's how it all gets seeded.I bet you they try it.
Here's the problem though: The B1G Championship is ALSO an empty husk of what it once was starting next year.
A CFP bye is the most that will ever be at stake in a B1G or SEC Championship game again. It's going to become an exhibition where you're worried about starters getting hurt. They're going to have to figure something else out, it doesn't really seem viable.
What if I told you can want Stanford athletics to avoid being shunted off into obscurity for reasons other than academics? Stanford has inarguably one of the best athletic programs in the country. Simply look to their domination of the Director's Cup and second most Olympic medals by a college. I mean, come on, we all know this. As a former Olympic sport college athlete, I care a whole hell of a lot about non-revenue sports. Unfortunately, I'm pretty massively in the minority. Look, I absolutely understand why all this has happened and I'm not here to argue about it one way or the other. It's happened. Like @Serious Late, I'm just glad Stanford got some sort of lifeline. And I don't know. I find it profoundly weird that someone who feels like they know all the angles when it comes to conference realignment can't see the most obvious reason why people would want Stanford to avoid being left out. It's flat out one of the most important athletic departments in the country.I've always just really struggled to understand the very widespread tendency to view the whole conference realignment saga through a lens of sort of academic elitism by proxy.