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Welcome to the college sports news thread.
 
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phats22
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TentakilRex
STLini25 said:
I think FSU and GT. I’ve heard state of Virginia wants Virginia and VT to be a package deal. Neither SEC or BT has interest in VT at any level.
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Will say GT's stock is lot higher now than even a year ago and much higher than the start of this decade.
 
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Pikeillinifan
GT and FSU would be great markets for the B1G to get into. Don't love these giant conferences, but if we could get Florida and Georgia, I think it could be additive to the next TV deal. Again, this assumes ND will never join a conference, but I'm sure the B1G would make room if it were ever an opportunity.

UNC and Clemson to the ACC makes a ton of sense for them.
 
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STLini25
Pikeillinifan said:
GT and FSU would be great markets for the B1G to get into. Don't love these giant conferences, but if we could get Florida and Georgie, I think it could be additive to the next TV deal. Again, this assumes ND will never join a conference, but I'm sure the B1G would make room if it were ever an opportunity.

UNC and Clemson to the ACC makes a ton of sense for them.
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I agree completely. A FSU and GT deal makes sense for BT. I think Miami is very appealing too. We also need a west coast school (or two) to even out travel which will be Stanford.
 
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Mr. Tibbs
STLini25 said:
I think FSU and GT. I’ve heard state of Virginia wants Virginia and VT to be a package deal. Neither SEC or BT has interest in VT at any level.
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one could see why GT has some value to the B1G,
but one also wonders why Georgia and most of the SEC conference thinks adding GT helps them much (other than keeping it out of the B1G)
 
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STLini25
Mr. Tibbs said:
one could see why GT has some value to the B1G,
but one also wonders why Georgia and most of the SEC conference thinks adding GT helps them much (other than keeping it out of the B1G)
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I think that’s the only reason. If BT added GT, FSU and Miami that is a serious southeast footprint. BT would have more teams in Florida/Georgia than the SEC.
 
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illinoistradition
lstewart53x3 said:
I’m not that concerned with the MS name change, but I can understand why some were hesitant of it because it was “only” $100 million. $100 million isn’t going to be enough in the college football arms race.
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I would highly doubt it stops at his $100 million. He already gave over $150 million to the College of Business. If there is a return on that investment, he will likely continue to give and encourage others. We have a lot of wealthy alumni who have been successful and credit it to their education at Illinois.
 
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Calvin
Pikeillinifan said:
Wow. That is a major game-changer for MSU.
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No kidding. People are looking at these insane buy-outs and wondering when schools athletic depts will go belly up, but the money just seems to keep coming.

I'm sure there will be programs where the money dries up and they have to live with years of debt and austerity, but overall I don't see an end to the arms race.
 
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MustangWally
Can someone refresh my memory as to why divisions have gone away in college football? Right now only the Sun Belt Conference has divisions. With the size of conferences these days, it would seem to me that divisions would make scheduling easier and enhance natural rivalries.
 
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