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Despite cuervo's post above, I wasnt trying to start a "X state HS Football is better than Y state HS football." debate. It was a genuine unknown. I've lived in the South East the vast, vast majority of my life. With the lone exception being about 4 months in Jersey in '00. Being new to the area and not knowing anyone or much of what to do, and being that we rented a place literally a block from the local High School the wife and I went to a few high school games (precisely 3) during that time. It wasn't a huge school, to be sure, but we were shocked at how little the attendance was. I'm talking less than 100 fans in the stands. We would sit against the "press box" and could hear the phone ringing and assistant coaches all night "Just the start of the 3rd quarter. Probably another hour til the game is over" as parents apparently called in to know when to pick up their kids. And this was a good team according to the local papers. So that has long been my vision of Jersey and NE football. I can readily accept that it is wrong. It was a genuine curiosity. The number correlation, to me, was a threshold necessary to impact NCAA attendance. Nothing more or less. |
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11-03-2016, 09:25 AM | #8552 |
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NE football isn't midwest football.
From NE Ohio through western PA football is huge.
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11-03-2016, 09:44 AM | #8553 |
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Guessing Rutgers-Washington will be Friday of Labor Day weekend next season.
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11-03-2016, 10:27 AM | #8554 |
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A lot of schools in Wisconsin are struggling to put together 11 man teams these days. OH and PA obviously have big football followings but I'm not sure about the rest of the Big Ten geographic footprint.
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12-12-2016, 01:55 PM | #8555 | |
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Take this with a truckload of salt, but someone posted this on the OU board:
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12-12-2016, 01:56 PM | #8556 | |
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You'd have to dump six teams to do that. Who would be the six (five if you assume the WVU reference is true)? |
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12-12-2016, 01:58 PM | #8557 | |
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People are guessing Baylor and TCU with their religious ties. Probably Iowa State. Beats me on the rest. |
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12-12-2016, 02:05 PM | #8558 |
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LOL. In the Twitter era, if some dude at the bar at some club knows...the internet would know already.
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12-12-2016, 02:57 PM | #8559 |
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Iowa State, TCU, Texas Tech, Kansas State, Kansas.
Re KU: Lot's of great basketball programs aren't in major football conferences. Last edited by panerd : 12-12-2016 at 02:57 PM. |
12-12-2016, 03:29 PM | #8560 |
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12-12-2016, 03:48 PM | #8561 | |
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I will say that the success of the Big East definitely has opened up that option for schools. They're doing well as a basketball-first conference. |
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12-12-2016, 04:26 PM | #8562 | |
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Ummmm teams without FBS football programs are in a different spot than teams with current Power 5 football programs, especially when some of those schools view themselves as football schools. |
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12-13-2016, 08:40 PM | #8563 |
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I highly doubt it's true (both in general and in my idea), but perhaps the idea is a 20 team super conference, which effectively acts as two conferences selling their media rights as a conglomorate. The two ten team divisions could play round robin and the winners play a championship game against each other (and no other games between the two).
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12-13-2016, 09:03 PM | #8564 | |
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04-07-2017, 11:19 AM | #8565 |
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I guess this has become the catch-all thread for conference movement.
Wichita State to the AAC. American Athletic Conference votes to add Wichita State Shockers
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04-07-2017, 12:16 PM | #8566 |
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As expected re: Wichita State, should be a marginal win for both. I mean, there wasn't really a more logical place for them tbh, but they had to get out of the MVC.
MVC looking at Nebraska-Omaha or possibly all three Dakota schools to replace them (SDSU, NDSU, UND) or some random school like Oakland (MI). Will be interesting to see what direction they head.
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04-12-2017, 02:29 PM | #8567 |
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Bill would make UNC, NC State leave ACC if boycotted again
It won't happen, but who moves to the ACC if the state actually follows through on this nuclear option? |
04-12-2017, 02:34 PM | #8568 |
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I think the knowledge that the Governor is sure to veto the bill is why they put it up in the first place. They wouldn't do it if it was to pass (same as the Republicans with the ACA in Congress).
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04-12-2017, 02:55 PM | #8569 | |
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The bill says it would require the schools to announce their intention to leave when the current media rights expire, which is in 2027. |
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04-12-2017, 03:13 PM | #8570 |
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sure beats writing actual useful legislation, that's for sure.
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04-17-2017, 05:43 PM | #8571 |
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07-25-2017, 02:38 PM | #8572 |
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Big Ten formally announces six-year media rights deal with ESPN, FOX and CBS - The Washington Post
Not really related to conference alignments, but this seems like a good spot for this article. |
06-02-2018, 07:48 PM | #8573 |
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Thought this might be a good place for the following article.
Conference re-alignment will come - shaped by tech, not TV Last edited by CrescentMoonie : 06-02-2018 at 07:48 PM. |
06-27-2019, 01:13 PM | #8574 |
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UConn headed to the Big East officially. Date a year TBD, they're still figuring out what to do with football. (Probably independent.)
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06-27-2019, 05:25 PM | #8575 |
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UConn, in the Big East? What a concept!
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09-23-2024, 07:21 PM | #8576 |
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Thread resurrection.
PAC has been backfilling with all state schools: Boise St, San Diego St, Fresno St, and Colorado St officially and reportedly Utah St is up next. Also reports that Gonzaga will join all sports without football. I guess they need two more football schools now. Maybe Stanford and Cal return. |
09-23-2024, 09:14 PM | #8577 | |
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Breaks my heart... That being said, UW is playing Rutgers Friday night in my backyard and I will be there yelling loudly in purple and gold. |
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09-23-2024, 10:53 PM | #8578 |
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I read that UNLV is probably next in line and that would give them 8, which is enough to be eligible for the playoffs. They apparently sniffed around USF, Memphis, and Tulane, but the TV money wasn’t enough to justify the increase in travel costs.
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