Conference Re-Alignment Thread Part Who Knows

[bwburke94]

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NMSU, Idaho, and Georgia Southern are in play for the Sun-Belt.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...y-for-sun-belt

With all the craziness going around, I wouldn't be surprised if UMass decides to go independent and play 7 FCSes per season. At least they would win three games a year that way.

[TracerBullet]

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Yeah, New Mexico State may be football only too since they are outside the "footprint" of the Sun Belt. Then you'd have 11 football teams and 10 basketball teams. The only thing is that Idaho and New Mexico State were thorns in Karl Benson's side while in the WAC and were the ones that pushed his removal as commish before the league fell apart last summer. There may be too much bad blood, especially with Idaho who really were the ringleaders of the WAC.

On the other hand, does the Sun Belt want a bunch of transition programs along with Georgia Southern making the move up along with Georgia State and South Alabama just making the move up.

Forgot about Texas State there too.

[superjames1992]

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Hell has frozen over.

Temple gets kicked out of the Big East, but is now back in.

Idaho leaves the Sun Belt for the WAC, but is now back in.

[ehh]

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Georgia Tech to the B1G?

[caasoccer]

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Georgia Tech to the B1G?

they fit, so wouldn't surprise me.

[cdawg44]

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Georgia Tech to the B1G?

They and UVA would go before UNC did. Makes sense. Atlanta is the 5th largest media market in the US.

[Shibito]

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Would be funny if GT upset Florida St and then announced they're moving to the Big Ten.

[Cusefan]

Word is the GT to the B1G is a done deal, also heard Kansas to follow. I would say that GT is easily replaceable as they are a middle of the road team but those teams that are available for poaching are being gobbled up.

So if its true then I would imagine that the ACC grabs a BE team(UCONN or Cinci) or they try and poach a Big XII team(assuming KU leaves).

Here is my solution, have all conferences break away from the NCAA and form a new league. Dissolve all the conferences and form new regional conferences. This new league then creates multiple TV channels for each region. Teams like Texas and ND can still keep their channels and teams that preform better in TV ratings get bonuses based on how well they do. It's not perfect but at least or would make sense geographically

[gerg1234]

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hmmm. With all of the conferences going to 16, is it inevitable that Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma & Ok St will be joining the Pac? Still a major long shot...but I'm hopeful.

[lonewolf371]

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Word is the GT to the B1G is a done deal, also heard Kansas to follow. I would say that GT is easily replaceable as they are a middle of the road team but those teams that are available for poaching are being gobbled up.

So if its true then I would imagine that the ACC grabs a BE team(UCONN or Cinci) or they try and poach a Big XII team(assuming KU leaves).

Here is my solution, have all conferences break away from the NCAA and form a new league. Dissolve all the conferences and form new regional conferences. This new league then creates multiple TV channels for each region. Teams like Texas and ND can still keep their channels and teams that preform better in TV ratings get bonuses based on how well they do. It's not perfect but at least or would make sense geographically

Who is saying this?

[Cusefan]

Who is saying this?

I saw a tweet from some dude at 24/7 sports, who really knows if any of the BS is true

[cdawg44]

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Word is the GT to the B1G is a done deal, also heard Kansas to follow. I would say that GT is easily replaceable as they are a middle of the road team but those teams that are available for poaching are being gobbled up.

So if its true then I would imagine that the ACC grabs a BE team(UCONN or Cinci) or they try and poach a Big XII team(assuming KU leaves).

Here is my solution, have all conferences break away from the NCAA and form a new league. Dissolve all the conferences and form new regional conferences. This new league then creates multiple TV channels for each region. Teams like Texas and ND can still keep their channels and teams that preform better in TV ratings get bonuses based on how well they do. It's not perfect but at least or would make sense geographically

GT I believe Cusefan, Kansas I don't believe. The schools in the Big XII granted their tv rights to the conference for the next 12 years. So even if Kansas left, the Big 12 owns the rights to show Kansas games, basically making Kansas worthless to the Big Ten unless that contract is up after the first 12 years of the playoff. Any rumors about Big XII schools leaving ain't true in the near future.

[OSUFan_88]

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Kansas would be...interesting.

Georgia Tech is a decent school which could easily become much better in time. They provide a lot of high quality football and basketball opportunities.

Kansas would be football suicide and I would absolutely hate to see them in the Big Ten. Their basketball, though, would be awesome and fit right in with the other schools like Indiana and the others.

Would much rather the Big Ten go after Texas again.

[TDenverFan]

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I'm sure Kansas can get out of that deal. If Kansas and GTech leave, I imagine the ACC would go for a Big 12 member.

Maybe Baylor or Iowa State? I don't think thu could get the big guys, and many of the Big 12 schools aren't the best academically.

[ehh]

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"@darrenrovell: With BCS bid on the line, only 2.6% of NYC was watching #Rutgers game on ESPN last night

About 234,000 people.

The NYC "media market" pipe dream in action...

We...do...not...care.......