ACC, B1G, and Pac-12 alliance announcement- I fixed it

00Burdell said:
Its more than that. This is a shot across the bow of the SEC. In my opinion, this may spell the end of the CFP. If the new B3G conducts its own Championship playoff and shuts out the SEC then the SEC will be left with asserting that their conference champ is the National Champ (a dubious position) while the B3G can conduct an actual playoff among its member conferences which, I think, would carry more weight.

This could potentially be the beginning of the end of the SEC - they would be reduced to an NFL feeder system. If all B3G teams refuse to play any SEC teams, they will have no point of reference to claim superiority. It would mean the end of the dwag game but with each passing year, my enthusiasm for that game wanes a small amount.

The SEC thinks its bigger then college football and it may have overplayed its hand.
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I have nothing to say except that I ööööing hate the abomination that you created in coining B3G
 
OptionJacket said:
This alliance is a joke. All talk and no substance. All this talk of the alliance having the numbers to out vote the SEC is just pathetic and wreaks of everyone should get a trophy. No wonder the PAC 12 is leading the way. They sure can’t win anything on the field.

And all of this appears to simply be a reaction to the SEC being good at football. Yeah, let’s black ball a group because they are good. This is what the world has come to.
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This is a reaction to the money buying football teams via bypassing the rules and outright cheating.
 
clapper said:
It would make sense for the P3 to add those teams and a few more just to bank more anti-SEC AD votes. What's left of the BIG 12 have to be very anti-SEC now anyway, but that would seal it.
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I would definitely expect the Alliance conferences to to go ahead and pick the bones of the big 12. Otherwise, they would have included them.
 
Gonna be nerdy and get a name out of Path of Exile...

Triumvirate Authority
 
Please, not "The Trinity".

Tell ND they have to join in with the Three of play nothing but SEC teams.
 
77GTFan said:
I think this is 100% about messaging. The message sent to the SEC is this - you have screwed up what was working great for the Power 5 by taking Texas and Oklahoma. So, be clear, the other three conferences are going to stay together, stay strong, and work collaboratively. You can add all the rest of the Big 12 you want and any other non P5 schools and we may do the same. But, you have angered us enough that we are committed to working together, just the three of us, with you on the outside.

One scenario that could emerge is a college football system with two major groups - the SEC and the Power Three. The SEC might end up not getting any games with the P3. SEC would cut its TV deals, the P3 would cut their deals. The P3 would encourage interleague play. The college Super Bowl might be between the champions of the SEC versus the champions of the P3. Each group could work out its own playoff system to determine a champion.

I could actually get excited about this playing out.
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I really think there is a deep rooted feeling, and the feeling has been around for years, from non-SEC school presidents and many ADs that the SEC has gone too far in professionalizing football. For example, Adams while at UGA had a huge party bus with big donors as he arrived at dawg games while the Tech President could be seen walking the sidewalk with his wife to the game. This is just an example and I guess ok but schools are for education. I think the SEC justifies it by believing football is great marketing and helps their school brand name and ultimately improves their student body. What's wrong with a little fun - right. For god sakes, Bama would be less of a choice for Georgia high school students without football. So I hear them but it can go too far. 17 game seasons are tough on athletes, no academic requirements such that most of the athletes end up without jobs nor an education is not the right mission, money fraud and just a simple unbalanced situation where football team is more important than the school itself has to be questioned.

The Texas/Oklahoma thing was over the top. The Big12 felt it was negotiating in good faith on CFP while at the same time the SEC guy sitting next to you was working on a plan of gutting your conference without telling you. I think the SEC could have been upfront and still got Texas and Oklahoma. Unwanted takeovers happen every day in business but these are educational institutions not business institutions. The SEC sees football as a business not as part of education. The other conferences see sports as part education and part business. And that is the crux of the matter.
 
vapspwi said:
I’m generally an old-fashioned traditionalist, but I’m tired of playing U[sic]GA. I wouldn’t want us to initiate the end of the series, but if they wanted to end it, I’d be happy to never have to think about them again.

That rivalry stopped being fun a long time ago. As much fun as beating them should be, it brings more of a sense of relief than any real joy, and it looks like it’s going to be a good long while before we beat them again.

JRjr
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I think we are closer than you think.
 
So basically, Ohio State, Clemson, and the PAC stooges are upset that the SEC is getting richer. Sounds like a lot of big cries.
 
GTCrew said:
This is a reaction to the money buying football teams via bypassing the rules and outright cheating.
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That is comical because they all cheat and bypass rules. Roy Williams is a King at buying players - at Kansas and UNC. Neither are SEC. All these schools are cheaters. They all admit players who shouldn’t be on a college campus. The SEC is just better at it in football. And this reaction is a nothing burger. A firmly worded letter that is laughable.
 
Couple of points to be made that haven't gotten much attention. If money is about market share then look at the TV markets covered by the Alliance versus the markets covered by the SEC. Second a big part of the SEC's success is the preseason rankings, if the Alliance can control/manipulate the preseason journalism and have the SEC start the season working itself out of a hole it will have a big influence on national perception. Basically the Alliance needs to find a way to balance the SECSPN in reporting, polling (AP & UPI), bowl selection, and Heisman voting.
 
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