Conference Re-Alignment Thread Part Who Knows

[rspencer86]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/sp....html?_r=2&hpw


No. No. No. No.

This is exactly what we need: 1.3 billion more people to be pissed at the BCS.

Don't want to change to a playoff? Eh, maybe we'll demand the trillions of dollars you owe us to be repaid right now.

[Maxattax3]

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fertile recruiting grounds imo

[DonkeyJote]

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Wow. This just proves its all about the money. No one gives a **** about fans or players.


Do you really care where I sent this from?

I'm not sure I get why this would be such a bad thing? Read past the headline, they aren't adding the University of Shanghei as a 14th member. They're talking about sending players on offseason tours over there, maybe playing some basketball games, and one football game being played over (which seems unlikely to happen in 2013 to me). You're right, they don't care at all about the players. Who would ever want a free trip to China?

I really don't see what the big deal of them trying to expand their presence. Teams from other sports try an do this all the time.

[lonewolf371]

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fertile recruiting grounds imo

Yeah, but obviously more so for students than for athletes.

[DonkeyJote]

Yeah, but obviously more so for students than for athletes.

Yeah, making your school more recognized in Asia could do a lot for international enrollment.

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[auburntigersfan]

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Yeah, making your school more recognized in Asia could do a lot for international enrollment.

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Like Pac-12 schools struggle with this anyway.

[TDenverFan]

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I don't see what's so bad about that....

[ftball11]

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Instead of realignment, they need to call these moves what they really are, greed-alignments. The days of conferences being geographically based are gone, along with decade old rivalries. It's all about which conference can provide the most cash. Whats next, schools hustle themselves out every few years to the highest bidder, almost like a free agency market? Money is quickly ruining this sport.

[Tovarich]

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I don't see what's so bad about that....

Me neither, there used to be a football game in Japan every regular season and Notre Dame and Navy are playing in Ireland next year, but it's already made out to sound like it's some greedy move that means there's no concern for the players. I think a handful of sports teams once in their career can handle one flight to China and back without being scarred for life especially when lots of college basketball teams take overseas trips as it is during the offseason.

[TripleCrown9]

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Me neither, there used to be a football game in Japan every regular season and Notre Dame and Navy are playing in Ireland next year, but it's already made out to sound like it's some greedy move that means there's no concern for the players. I think a handful of sports teams once in their career can handle one flight to China and back without being scarred for life especially when lots of college basketball teams take overseas trips as it is during the offseason.

Please tell me this is scheduled to be televised.

[superjames1992]

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Notre Dame and Navy also played in Ireland in 1996.

[TripleCrown9]

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Notre Dame and Navy also played in Ireland in 1996.

Yeah I just saw that. That's awesome. Didn't Notre Dame play games in Ireland when Knute was there?

[Amoo316]

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I'm not sure why everybody gets all up in arms about rivalries being killed. If the schools involved in the rivalry cared that much about it, they could always schedule the game ala UF/FSU, UGA/GT, USC/Clem...etc. Aggie/Tx, Pitt/WVU...etc have no excuse to lose the yearly rivalry games other then hurt feelings and the only people they have to blame is themselves if the games are not scheduled.

There are a lot of good arguments against not realigning conferences, but I don't think this one holds much water.

[simgamer0005]

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Instead of realignment, they need to call these moves what they really are, greed-alignments. The days of conferences being geographically based are gone, along with decade old rivalries. It's all about which conference can provide the most cash. Whats next, schools hustle themselves out every few years to the highest bidder, almost like a free agency market? Money is quickly ruining this sport.

That's exactly it. It's not that all conferences were perfectly geographical before all the re-alignment, but before this recent wave of re-alignment, most conferences, generally speaking made geographic and practical sense. This year has been a circus for the most part, with many teams switching conferences during the season itself. It's changed so much in such a short time that it has become puzzling. I think it's so puzzling for the fan because here you have so many problems with college football already, and then you add all this conference movement, it's like they are spending so much time trying to move schools into new conferences that you don't have time to actually fix the problems that continue to remain and actually improve the overall product.

I think it's that a lot of fans were very fond of college football. not just the game and the brutality, but the pageantry, the tailgates, the fun of it, the polish of it. through all of this re-alignment and just the way the sport has changed in recent years, somehow college football lost its identity and just the general anticipation fans used to get on a college football saturday. it's still there in spots, but it used to be all the time, and that's what made the season great overall for america. i think the sport has become a constantly changing situation. Really you lose rivalries and you lose the conference structure, a landscape that wasn't perfect, but worked and felt pretty good. now it's become such a circus with conferences adding and losing schools that it's kind of changed the definition of what we thought conferences were. I think you really have to have followed college football over the years closely to notice this.

[lonewolf371]

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I'm not sure why everybody gets all up in arms about rivalries being killed. If the schools involved in the rivalry cared that much about it, they could always schedule the game ala UF/FSU, UGA/GT, USC/Clem...etc. Aggie/Tx, Pitt/WVU...etc have no excuse to lose the yearly rivalry games other then hurt feelings and the only people they have to blame is themselves if the games are not scheduled.

There are a lot of good arguments against not realigning conferences, but I don't think this one holds much water.

People get angry because the fans almost always want these rivalries to continue, but often-times they're ruined by money-grabbing administrations and egotistical coaches and athletic directors.