Conference Re-Alignment Thread Part Who Knows

[Polo Bandit]

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So that's relying on Houston and SMU to rescind their Big East invitations, and the Mountain West telling SJSU to gtfo. Don't see that happening.

Houston may be able to leave the Big East without paying a penalty depending on what kind of TV contract the conference ends up with.

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/20/houston-can-reportedly-get-out-of-big-east-deal-without-penalty-depending-on-new-tv-contract/

[wrigleyville33]

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This is about as geographic as it gets. Sign VT and NC State up.

[simgamer0005]

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one of the things about re-alignment that is strange to me is checking future schedules. i remember in the old days, you'd be able to look at future schedules and kinda know who would rotate on or rotate off the conference schedule years in advance.

all the schedules next year are like "tentative". and there's always the chance that your conference will expand and you'll have to re-schedule non conference games. (like what happened with the SEC and having to have OOC games at the end of the year)

this takes a lot of the art out of scheduling non conference games if you ask me. you used to have the ability to look at future football schedules and know who you are playing.

[lonewolf371]

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This is about as geographic as it gets. Sign VT and NC State up.

I think this is the most likely thing if the SEC raids the ACC.

[Tovarich]

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Chicago State also going to the WAC. They basically annexed the dying remains of the Great West, plus Bakersfield and Grand Canyon.

[Jr.]

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one of the things about re-alignment that is strange to me is checking future schedules. i remember in the old days, you'd be able to look at future schedules and kinda know who would rotate on or rotate off the conference schedule years in advance.

all the schedules next year are like "tentative". and there's always the chance that your conference will expand and you'll have to re-schedule non conference games. (like what happened with the SEC and having to have OOC games at the end of the year)

this takes a lot of the art out of scheduling non conference games if you ask me. you used to have the ability to look at future football schedules and know who you are playing.

The SEC has been doing this since the schedule expanded to 12 games. Re-alignment didn't cause it.

[simgamer0005]

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did you guys hear Coach Krzyzewski's comments on re-alignment? he said that he "hates" the fact that schools are pursuing more revenue with conference realignment at the expense of decades of traditions in college sports. i think he summed it up quite well succinctly in the video.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57557366/mike-krzyzewski-conference-realignment-is-undercutting-college-tradition/

[SC3BBall]

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did you guys hear Coach Krzyzewski's comments on re-alignment? he said that he "hates" the fact that schools are pursuing more revenue with conference realignment at the expense of decades of traditions in college sports. i think he summed it up quite well succinctly in the video.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-...ege-tradition/

The ACC is the one who raided the Big East and started a lot of this, and now the ACC has to lay in the bed it made.

[thedudedominick]

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did you guys hear Coach Krzyzewski's comments on re-alignment? he said that he "hates" the fact that schools are pursuing more revenue with conference realignment at the expense of decades of traditions in college sports. i think he summed it up quite well succinctly in the video.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-...ege-tradition/

I find it pretty funny that almost every basketball coach I've heard talk is completely against this realignment garbage. They don't want extra travel for conference games.

[Suntan Superman]

The ACC is the one who raided the Big East and started a lot of this, and now the ACC has to lay in the bed it made.

I think it goes back farther than that.

[cdawg44]

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The ACC is the one who raided the Big East and started a lot of this, and now the ACC has to lay in the bed it made.

I beg to differ. All this started when conferences got the ability to control tv contracts and distrubution in the 1980s. Plus the dissolving of the Southwest Conference with the creation of the Big XII and the formation and sucess of the SEC Championship game all led to this.

[T-Moar]

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I beg to differ. All this started when conferences got the ability to control tv contracts and distrubution in the 1980s. Plus the dissolving of the Southwest Conference with the creation of the Big XII and the formation and sucess of the SEC Championship game all led to this.

If you want to play a fun game of "what if" sometime, I recommend you try to imagine what the college football landscape would have looked like had Florida beaten Bama in '92.

[Jr.]

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If you want to play a fun game of "what if" sometime, I recommend you try to imagine what the college football landscape would have looked like had Florida beaten Bama in '92.

There is a documentary about that very situation.

[superjames1992]

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This is an interesting blast from the past.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1136685/1/index.htm

[Jr.]

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This is an interesting blast from the past.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...85/1/index.htm

Cool read. Kinda shows how long some of these moves have either been in the works or in the back of the minds of the conferences.