USC and UCLA to Big Ten

JJacket said:
Miami has a very rich booster who has stated he will build a stadium his damn self, if that is what it takes. He has already made proposals to do that. Join the SEC and Miami will definitely be building a stadium.
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Who’s the donor? I remember something about their (UM) medical system funding the football program. Yep, here’s article.
ftw.usatoday.com

Miami is reportedly using medical profits to hire a new football coach, which made the internet properly irate

Just when you think college sports can’t get any worse.
ftw.usatoday.com ftw.usatoday.com
 
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OptionJacket said:
Maybe any forward thinking person. Some folks ability to dress up poor business decisions is outstanding. The minute the BCS was created any person who has followed this sport knew that playoffs were coming and conference realignment. All you guys who are shocked and thought the AP poll would last forever are simply past your time. The days of traditions have been over for a few decades. Money took precedent during the 1990’s. I sure as heck saw it just like I see expanded playoffs above 20 and a couple super leagues ala, AFC/NFC, Eastern Conference/Western Conference, American League/National League. Y’all act like this is just unbelievable. Its the natural progression and GT will be left out because we always make the wrong decision.
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Sorry. :dunno:Can you help me out with my portfolio since you’re so learned?
 
Killick said:
The portal and NIL are going to turn some schools (hopefully not Tech) into feeder schools where a Bama or an Ohio State parks talent for a year or two to mature before moving up to the Bigs. In return, Bama donates to the Athletic Association there and keeps up the facilities at the feeder school.
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Tech is already a feeder school for Bama and a great place for other schools to send their four star recruits that didn't pan out.
 
jdubjacket said:
Sorry. :dunno:Can you help me out with my portfolio since you’re so learned?
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Has nothing to do with being smart. Has to do with knowing history. It’s like today when I tell folks we’ll have a 20 plus team playoff soon and a lot of posters jump on me and tell me it’s 8 or nothing and more than 8 will never happen. How do I respond to that? Anyone who knows the history of sports knows the college football playoffs will keep growing because of money. If the snooty folks at Wimbledon and the Masters let their little prestige tournaments grow to massive TV productions then everything will. And those things grew decades ago.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
Should the ACC proactively go to 18? Maybe add Oklahoma State, Baylor, Oregon, and Washington… That’s a decent national conference there. Try to be the 3rd super conference.
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I actually think adding some teams might be a good idea - maybe not these but some teams - the problem is the ACC does not want to put at risk their "rights" requirement for leaving and I wonder if adding teams would put that at risk or act as a deterrrent to a potential addition?

I don't mean to be Debbie downer but I have watched Tech slowly IMO have less and less ability to compete with the large schools. I don't blame it on anybody - it's just the result of money taking over college football and Tech can't compete in that league. To have money you have to have a big fan base, a large passionate alumni group, and a variety of degrees to offer to let's face it non-academic students. In the 90's you could work through the differences but it has become more and more difficult and I really think Tech has had good coaches in OLeary, Gailey and Johnson to be as competitive as they have been. The differences between haves and have nots really began to grow expotentially about 2010 but it's been a steady rise since the 90's. Now with NIL, portals and TV money that is out the roof for top conferences it's virtually impossible. I'm not for doing away with football but I think Tech competing in a second tier division would be fun. Us beating our head against the wall against THE, Bama, UGA LSU and others is just not realistic or fun.
 
79tech said:
I actually think adding some teams might be a good idea - maybe not these but some teams - the problem is the ACC does not want to put at risk their "rights" requirement for leaving and I wonder if adding teams would put that at risk or act as a deterrrent to a potential addition?
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I imagine there are several ACC schools who would like to put the rights requirement at risk.
 
79tech said:
I actually think adding some teams might be a good idea - maybe not these but some teams - the problem is the ACC does not want to put at risk their "rights" requirement for leaving and I wonder if adding teams would put that at risk or act as a deterrrent to a potential addition?

I don't mean to be Debbie downer but I have watched Tech slowly IMO have less and less ability to compete with the large schools. I don't blame it on anybody - it's just the result of money taking over college football and Tech can't compete in that league. To have money you have to have a big fan base, a large passionate alumni group, and a variety of degrees to offer to let's face it non-academic students. In the 90's you could work through the differences but it has become more and more difficult and I really think Tech has had good coaches in OLeary, Gailey and Johnson to be as competitive as they have been. The differences between haves and have nots really began to grow expotentially about 2010 but it's been a steady rise since the 90's. Now with NIL, portals and TV money that is out the roof for top conferences it's virtually impossible. I'm not for doing away with football but I think Tech competing in a second tier division would be fun. Us beating our head against the wall against THE, Bama, UGA LSU and others is just not realistic or fun.
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We just need someone that knows how to win. We can get enough talent to compete, occasionally having that one special year. NIL? Yeah it matters, but with the portals and being a landing school, we've got the resources to land some guys that will make good money once they get on the field and we see what they can do.
 
If Vandy, Arkansas, Mizzou, Rutgers, Mississippi State, etc. have a seat at the table...
I promise Georgia Tech will too. No reason to panic about re-alignment. I'm more worried about our O-line and Secondary.
 
So AFC and NFC with regional divisions when all the dust settles. All the allure of NFL football but no caps on anything money wise. College football sounds terrible.

It sucks I've become more of an NFL fan over the past several years, Tech sucking has helped in that regard, but at least there is more of an even playing field in that league.
 
boozinbuzz said:
I don't think the future of "college" football will be most influenced by conference realignment but by the schools that pay the most NIL money to recruit players. These biggest factory schools will eventually find themselves in their own pro league and then the vast majority of everyone else which was left out of this group will have to figure out what to do from there.

I do think it is crazy for the non-revenue sports to have to make a football mandated conference switch. Are all of the USC volleyball players going to have to deal with a 3 hour cross country flight for every away game?
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Schools don’t pay NIL
 
Our best shot at relevance is the ACC picking up the best of what remains in the Pac12 and Big12 for form a distant third super conference behind ACC and Big10. If Clemson, FSU and other ACC schools bail, we are ööööed. Unless those two conferences expand to 24 teams, we in trouble.
 
It's almost as if one's little sister ate a box of scrabble tiles and now we're left trying to make words out what she pooped back out.
 
ibeeballin said:
Schools don’t pay NIL
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No, but what Saban and the big boys want is to pool the money for the school to distribute uniformly. I understand his reasoning. If five different alums have a million each invested in a 4 or 5 star QB in the Alabama or Georgia program, the ones whose player never sees the field are not going to be happy. He loses some control over the locker room when his players are answering to their sponsors.

But, pro sports deals with the issue of players having sponsorship deals. College sports can learn to do the same. But, my guess is the super conferences will try and force NIL money into a pool the schools control.

The sad thing is that the greedy AD’s and coaches could have avoided this. Agree with O’Bannon in the EA sports case and put money from video games using the athletes’ NIL into a pool distributed by the school to the athletes. Do the same with jersey and sweatshirt sales and yes, even some of the TV and media revenue and compensate the athletes. If they had done the right thing fifteen to twenty years ago this all could have been avoided. The NCAA and athletic departments preferred to let the income from these revenue streams support their bloated bureaucracies, and, admittedly,fund other non-revenue sports. Look at any big time school’s picture gallery of their athletic departments in a football program and you can see the tip of the iceberg of where the money the athletes earned on the playing field and courts was going.
 
It would be more enjoyable to end this big east disaster by removing BC,Syr,Pitt,Louisville and then adding
UCF,USF,Tulane,Liberty,Ga Southern and Coastal Carolina to get to 16. Warm weather road trips to Bourbon Street,Myrtle Beach, sunny Fla beaches while we wait for the CFP to expand when the conference would have an automatic berth.
 
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