Auburn might get the nat'l title too, yes?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
If the Pac-10 goes to 16 teams, I'd like to listen in on the meetings when they tell Arizona they're being put in the Pac-16 East with Texas et al.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
If this plays out as predicted, it's conceivable that Oklahoma and Nebraska could meet in the Rose Bowl Game every other year or so. HA! That's bizarre.
yeah I mean this can be considered a step towards a playoff in the sense that it gets rid of the 'we must keep the rose bowl sacred' argument.
― iatee, Thursday, 10 June 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
so, chance that pc's career decision had nothing to do with sanctions has dropped to what... less than 0%?
― iatee, Thursday, 10 June 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
boise state to mountain west
― iatee, Friday, 11 June 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
So I guess the WAC can finally officially rename themselves THE WACK, right?
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 June 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
actually in a weird way I think it might be good for them in the long-term - or, I guess it's 'not entirely bad'
― iatee, Friday, 11 June 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean yeah it sucks to lose what has become a consistently good football team, but now other WAC-y teams get a chance in their own conference?
― iatee, Friday, 11 June 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, it definitely levels the field now in terms of competitiveness.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 June 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i LOVE Nebraska to the Big Ten, just love it!!! Gives Big Blue a chance to kick their ass continually over the bullshit "split" championship. And keep it right there, 12 teams is perfect, it solves the 11 imbalance since Penn State.
if they really REALLY wanna keep going, and make conferences or whatever, then it's Missouri and Syracuse to make 14 and nobody else
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 12 June 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Missouri is the stepchild with attitude problems that no one wants. I heard that even if the Big XII didn't crumble, they were going to kick out Missouri anyway.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 12 June 2010 07:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Missouri. feisty, always somewhat competitive school (when they are not freakingly right in there for the National Championship), I like their competitiveness in the last decade or so, they have been great. So, BRING THEM IN :)
it makes total sense ... MAP-WISE ... then the 'Big-Ten' really does OWN the Midwest/Great-Plains
But, with just Missouri, it is unbalanced again, with 13 teams. That's why I say --- go for SYRACUSE next!!! holy crap, that would be awesome, especially when you think about the Basketball implications over the Football implications
plus if they did that -- Nebraska, Syracuse, Missouri -- you would create this 14 team conference that would create a MASSIVE oil-spill like splotch across the entire Midwest and Great Lakes ... It looks like a BEAUTIFUL conference to me in theory.
The SEC would shudder in its boots :)
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 12 June 2010 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
[the whole preceding post was already pricing in Nebraska, just to make sure everyone is on the same page]
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 12 June 2010 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link
so can someone explain to the layman why all these conference switches are happening all of a sudden?
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 12 June 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
$ thing - bowls, tv rights (/possibility of own tv channel)
'all of a sudden' - a scramble started up for the choice schools...I know the pac10 has had its eye on colorado for a long time
― iatee, Saturday, 12 June 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
All of this conference shuffling has me actually excited for the college season for the first time in awhile.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Saturday, 12 June 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing really happens until 2012, though.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 12 June 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
this year and schedules and shit must already be set, yeah? or is shit changing season? thatd be really crazy xp
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 12 June 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh. :(
Well at least USC is fucked.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Saturday, 12 June 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah tbh even if cal doesn't win a single game this season, watching usc is gonna be so worth it
― iatee, Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
it looks like a *lot* is up in the air w/ the conference shuffle?
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
this supposed $17m a year payout to a ten team big 12 makes pretty much no sense, if you ask me
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
like, schools are supposedly fleeing the big 12 because more money could be made elsewhere, and now all of a sudden the big 12 minus nebraska would be as profitable as the sec? idk
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
desperation move for sure
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
however, I'm not gonna overrate the intelligence of people in charge of any of these schools
it just doesn't make any sense -- i'm sure abc & espn execs are sitting in their offices right now like "wtf"
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
kind of lol but mostly sad how nobody gives a shit about the other sports this is gonna affect
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
tru
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
well pretty much basketball cuz no one pays attention until the tourney -- no one pays attention to the other sports anyway
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
also kinda funny how texas is totally at the center of this - they could save the big 12 or make 1 of 3 other conferences very happy - but they are gonna be in a great position (money + the players) no matter *what* happens. if I were UT I'd prolly stay put and continue the "if we beat oklahoma and a bunch of so-so teams, we go to the national championship game" strategy. money isn't everything.
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
This frees them up to continue developing LONGHORN TV, as well.
But surely the Big Ten will finally have to change their name, right? Eleven teams sort of provided an excuse to keep the old name, but now they have twelve. And now the Big 12 will have ten. Name swap?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
well, the game's not over yet and the big 12 might be more like the big 6 or the big 3 or the big 0. though it would be hilariously confusing if the two switched names.
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't see their potential Pac-10 competition being any tougher than the Big 12.
Pure speculation on my part, but they'd likely be in the Pac 10 east with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Utah/Texas A&M, Colorado, Texas Tech, Arizona, and Arizona State.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
will be v. happy to see usc go through what my team went through.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 14 June 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
And my team.
(Daniel, I know you hate Bama for a variety of reasons, but solidarity in disgrace!!!)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
right, and in that scenario they'd be playing the schedule they already play + a harder championship game. pac 10 west is gonna field at least one legit challenger a year.
xp
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
and hell that's a harder schedule than they have right now
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
if the big 12 stays at 10 teams they'll obviously have to split up texas & oklahoma for there to be any sort of divisional balance, and that obv hurts both teams, as one can overcome a loss to the other when it happens early in the season (i.e. 2008) but def not when it happens in a potential conference title game
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
the big 10 will never change their name just cuz the big 10 is the big 10 is the big 10 -- bad "branding" or w/e
Jeremiah Masoli probably didn't singlehandedly sink Oregon's chances in 2010, but his fall from grace didn't help matters any. :(
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, he pretty much singlehandedly sunk their chances
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
they were a bit overrated anyhow -- last year they got trounced by boise & stanford, lost to ohio st (who wasn't that good to begin with) & "made" their season by beating a usc team that was barely one of the 25 best in the country
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, but if anything, their 2010 Pac-10 competition would've been more of a pushover than last year. Now I guess it's Washington? Cal?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
god masoli is such an idiot
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
cal should be decent
they'll still probably win the pac 10 -- maybe oregon st? altho they're replacing their qb
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 June 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it would be hilarious if oregon st won the pac 10, ohio st went to the nat'l title game, and the big 10 rep to the rose bowl was wisconsin
hilarious because the rose bowl people are massive dickbags
pac10 is gonna be really up in the air this year
― iatee, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh, I wouldn't hate to see Iowa in the Rose Bowl Game.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link