Conference Realignment, Naming Rights, Financing

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Serious Late

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Shief said:
I am not surprised to hear Missouri State is moving up. That rumor has been going around for a few years.

I grew up near ISU and I also feel like they should be higher profile. When I was younger, I heard a rumor that an Illinois Assemblyman that graduated from Illinois but who represented the Bloomington-Normal area put forward a bill to have UI and ISU play annually in football, with the hope of building up ISU but that did not pan out. Then in the late-2000s/early-2010s the State of Illinois was trying to 'get a second state school in the Big 10' and many thought that ISU could built up to that, that obviously did not happen. All that to say, ISU was the first state school but Illinois grew and gained most of the attention.
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The Valley has been a breeding ground for programs moving up in basketball, but a football driven move is a first for the conference, isn't it?

I don't even know if I was a Missouri State fan that this would be all that exciting. The basketball side of C-USA is gross, and they are bottom of the pack in FBS Football...

Who am I kidding, I'm sure most MSU fans see this as just the start of their journey to the SEC. 😀
 
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SoCal Illini

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Saw something I really want to share, no one I know would appreciate this, hopefully you all do….

I saw a vanity license plate complete with frame. Presumably this person went to USC for undergrad and to Michigan for MBA, since the frame was the Michigan school of business.
The plate itself read “SC 2 UM”…. Scum lol

I think it’s funny at least. Person is either shameless, or not very bright. I’d like to think both of those institutions failed them, as I hate them both.
 
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Mr. Tibbs

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southeast DuPage
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The Former Conference of Champions

they won’t be the last conference to disband
 
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TentakilRex

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Fighter of the Nightman said:
So sad. Even if I’m glad we are part of the haves in this current environment, I still wish this werent all happening.
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We shouldn't get cocky, Washington State (and maybe Oregon State) has been more relevant than us in football in the past 30 years
 
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Fighter of the Nightman

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Chicago, IL
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TentakilRex said:
We shouldn't get cocky, Washington State (and maybe Oregon State) has been more relevant than us in football in the past 30 years
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1) I agree, and I’m definitely not! However … 2) there are still just a lot more people who’d consider themselves Illini fans between a much bigger alumni base and larger state population that isn’t dominated by another team like in Washington and Oregon. It’s #2 that helps us, regardless of how bad we’ve been.
 
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TentakilRex

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Fighter of the Nightman said:
1) I agree, and I’m definitely not! However … 2) there are still just a lot more people who’d consider themselves Illini fans between a much bigger alumni base and larger state population that isn’t dominated by another team like in Washington and Oregon. It’s #2 that helps us, regardless of how bad we’ve been.
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My fear:

1. The TV execs might view Notre Dame as the team that owns Chicago (the rest of the state doesn't matter)
2. Even at the best of times, TV execs having this much power over CFB is a bad thing.
3. This is not a good era for having intelligent savvy TV execs (ex David Zaslav) plus it is an era where media companies are having major financial issues (from Paramount to Disney to WarnerMedia). Being slaves to corporate greed is one thing, add shortsightedness, incompetence, and possibly desperation, this could ugly for us. Heck worst case scenario, there are going a couple of teams getting screwed over with us that will have more legit gripes.
 
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SoCal Illini

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I’m looking forward to the pac 2 this year. A unique situation with probably the easiest conference schedule planning ever, past and future (excluding the partnering with mountain west part) A conference title game mid season, and 2 programs that have had their share of pretty good success in the past.

A first look at what could become of some other football teams as a result of short-sighted $ chasing. They were already essentially what the fans here realistically want the illini to be, mid tier 6-6 or 7-5, with some 8,9 or 10 win seasons sprinkled in. They’re the first to be left out, possibly already destroyed, but probably won’t be the last.

Cal athletics has been a low priority for the school for a while, and Stanford has fallen pretty far. I don’t expect much from them but they’re still technically in a “major” conference for now at least. I wonder how long they will be in the acc. Over under anyone?
 
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redwingillini11

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White and Sixth
North Aurora
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Joel Goodson said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1800883454453915946

a lot will scoff at A&M leaving the SEC, but most don't understand the UT/A&M dynamic (I lived on the planet Houston for 6 years back in the day). I think there's a good chance they'll bolt, given the opportunity

and screw Miznoz
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What is bizarre is that Texas would have probably been a much better cultural fit for the B1G than Texas A&M. But A&M trying to get out from under UT and UT just joining the SEC probably means we are looking at a future with Illinois games in College Station. Not the biggest fan of that, but I think the B1G should definitely try to get into Texas at this point.

It probably just means that with hindsight, the B1G probably should have just bit the bullet and broken college sports by adding Texas and Oklahoma while they had a chance instead of scoffing at such a ridiculous notion. Imagine what a position the conference would be in if they had added Texas and Oklahoma instead of Maryland and Rutgers, and then added the west coast schools. That would be a Power 1-Little Brother 1-Group of Everyone Else hierarchy.
 
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mhuml32

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Cincinnati, OH
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If TAMU and Texas both have a $30 million buyout to leave SEC, why would you prefer to take TAMU over UT?
 
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Illini92and96

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Austin, TX
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robertgoulet said:
TAMU people are so weird.
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They are a passionate cult, unlike any alumni base I have seen. Kids usually go there when they don't get into UT, which was how it played out for my son (but going to school in California instead). Very solid academically, but the next tier down from UT, UofI, Wisconsin.
 
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