Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
nope
never gonna happen
if the B1G didnt kick out PSU for cause for Sanduskygate nor MSU for Nassargate, divorce is not really an option .
USC, UCLA to join the Big Ten in 2024
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never gonna happen
if the B1G didnt kick out PSU for cause for Sanduskygate nor MSU for Nassargate, divorce is not really an option .
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
The PR on that would be God awful. If PSU survived Sandusky without being booted, I can't see anyone else going. That's about the only way to kick a school out gracefully
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
The B1G would never kick anyone out, but the cream of the crop nationally will eventually leave their conferences to form a college football super league, maybe within the ambit of the NCAA, maybe formally outside of it. I'd give it about ten years and I'll bet you that final blow comes more out of desperation and fear of revenue decline than seizing a new peak.
Conferences died as a concept yesterday, after a long illness. There are only schools and broadcast partners now, with a couple of zombie league offices as momentarily convenient middlemen.
Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
zero chance
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
dude
come in off that ledge. the sun will rise in the east tomorrow
Respectfully disagree that the 'cream of the crop' in each conference will depart for a 'super' league... Reason: If this were to occur, some of those 'super teams' are going to go 0'fer, and several will have 'losing records' yearly - which will result in the loss of that 'Cream of the Crop' mantra... They aren't going to sacrifice their 'elite and winning' status within their conferences to be second fiddles in a super league... To get 'winning records' and to be 'the cream of the crop' within a conference, they NEED us middling and those loser teams to beat up on...
Respectfully, there's dramatic exaggeration, then there's like 3 more levels of hyperbole, then there's this.
Change happens. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad. In 99% of cases we all adjust to the new status quo and everything is fine. On much much rarer occasions there are changes which are huge upheavals that irrevocably alter society at large in a fundamentally negative or positive way. This ain't that. The organizational structure of collegiate athletics isn't exactly the invention of the computer or global warming.
Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
You've been railing about a dystopian future for practically a decade. Mebbe you should grab a Snickers.
sacraig
- The desert
You know what they say: the sun always shines on the new B1G.
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
This sounds god awful.
DaChief4ever
- Urbana
Time for ND to make a choice......stop playing the spoiled little girl role. Besides.....ND is just another big school now, I remember the days when the golden helmet crew was sort of a elite, best of the best.....today...eh, just another program, nothing special......recruits see this too.
illini92024
- Orange County, CA
Agreed, I remember when Virginia fought for Virginia tech. I also remember when Texas legislature claimed that Texas tech Texas A&m Texas and Baylor all had to be a package deal, and that meant nothing. Also Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were rumored to be a package deal. No real point here except that these rules obviously have no impact. Thanks for the input totally agree.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
And here we are.
Only in your mind. Along with other traditionalists that are stuck in a collegiate world that does not exist anymore.
The operative word being “collegiate”. College sports are on the fast road to being gone , . . .
Funniest line I've read so far about this comes from ESPN senior writer Ryan McGee: 'The Trojans and the Bruins are the biggest brands in the Pac-12. Check that, they were. Now they are taking those brands and going east, to Madison and Champaign and West Lafayette, marching Ray Bans-first into an acute case of frostbite.' LMAO....
It was long before yesterday. And the world is still spinning.
sacraig
- The desert
Hey, I own Ray Bans...
sacraig
- The desert
As much as I wish that was true their current class is ranked #1 n they were top 10 last two years.
Ok fine, I'll play. When you say college sports will be gone, do you really mean gone? Or do you just mean different?
If you actually mean gone:
If you just mean different:
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