Well played!Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:06 pmI hope they are allowed to proceed. There could be no higher fan honor than to be a United Athletic Supporter.Montanabob wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 1:15 amOops. Hold on to that thought.Bobcat4Ever wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 5:09 pmWow, that’s a catchy name. I’ll confuse it with Universal Athletics. But I guess no matter if the conference adds Maine and Hawaii, it still works. Clearly they aren’t through morphing. Quite honestly I’ve always liked Conference names that identify a region of the country — PAC-12, SEC, MVC, OVC, BSC, NSIC. I’ll never have any clue where the MAC (Mid-America is pretty non-specific, like between the great oceans) or Conference USA is located.
https://theathletic.com/4460388/2023/04 ... st-denied/
Conference Alignments
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Re: Conference Alignments
Eric Curry STILL makes me sad.
94VegasCat wrote:Are you for real? That is just a plain ol dumb paragraph! You just nailed every note in the Full Reetard sing-a-long choir!!!
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Seeing unofficially Dawgs and ducks leaveing pac 12 for big 10 starting 2024 or 2025
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Yeo pac 12 is deadimacat wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:23 pmArizona is on the way out …
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Oregon and Washington make it official as well.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... ources-say
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I wonder who gets to cash the buyout checks, or if with j ust 2 to 4 schools do they get anything? Right now Usc and UCLA and Colorado owe something. It appears Arizona, asu and Utah are going to the southern Big? With Washington and Oregon going to the northern Big? If the Pac were to merge with the Mountain, do they get the money from the eight that left. I predict employment for some graduates of the dance school to our west.
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There is no buy out for any of the schools… The PAC 12 grant of rights ends at the end of this season - so everyone is free to leave. The PAC schools still owe Comcast $50 million dollars because they were over-payed for several years and the old commish didn’t tell anyone. It will be interesting to see how they solve that - and who gets the $35 million dollars annually that the PAC makes from owning 1/2 of the Rose Bowl game.allcat wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 2:10 pmI wonder who gets to cash the buyout checks, or if with j ust 2 to 4 schools do they get anything? Right now Usc and UCLA and Colorado owe something. It appears Arizona, asu and Utah are going to the southern Big? With Washington and Oregon going to the northern Big? If the Pac were to merge with the Mountain, do they get the money from the eight that left. I predict employment for some graduates of the dance school to our west.
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I've read that it ends in 2036.oedipuss wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 7:04 pmThere is no buy out for any of the schools… The PAC 12 grant of rights ends at the end of this season - so everyone is free to leave. The PAC schools still owe Comcast $50 million dollars because they were over-payed for several years and the old commish didn’t tell anyone. It will be interesting to see how they solve that - and who gets the $35 million dollars annually that the PAC makes from owning 1/2 of the Rose Bowl game.allcat wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 2:10 pmI wonder who gets to cash the buyout checks, or if with j ust 2 to 4 schools do they get anything? Right now Usc and UCLA and Colorado owe something. It appears Arizona, asu and Utah are going to the southern Big? With Washington and Oregon going to the northern Big? If the Pac were to merge with the Mountain, do they get the money from the eight that left. I predict employment for some graduates of the dance school to our west.
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Pretty sure the 2036 date is for the ACC, that is the only thing preventing Flordia State from moving to a different conference
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WAC loses two non football schools.
back to being irrelevant.
so much for trying to convince GCU to play football.
https://wccsports.com/news/2024/5/10/ge ... mbers.aspx
back to being irrelevant.
so much for trying to convince GCU to play football.
https://wccsports.com/news/2024/5/10/ge ... mbers.aspx
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I would love if they specifically cited Flo as the reason. It’s just their football team moving which I feel like makes a ton of sense. The CAA is a basketball conference, and they ****** on their football conference these days. Delaware and JMU leaving should have been the writing on the wall but this should raise a huge red flag.
I hope W&M, Nova, and others (like Stony Brook) look at things and look to make similar moves to provide some necessary competition to the CAA
I hope W&M, Nova, and others (like Stony Brook) look at things and look to make similar moves to provide some necessary competition to the CAA
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All this movement is just insane. I may come off sounding like old "get off my lawn" guy, but I think it's ruining college sports for most people.
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It's just not you.
Other than the Cats—and to a smaller extent Oregon (my "big" school)—I care very little about college football anymore. There's just nothing appealing to me about FBS football. It's a sham.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that the griz blew a 22-0 lead.
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And it's not just conference realignments...it's everything from that to NIL to the transfer portal. College football is becoming unrecognizable. And for those that think that all of this is favorable for the athletes, you may be right. But personally, I think it will become a HUGE burden to smaller schools like MSU and smaller conferences like the Big Sky. We aren't the big boys, as much as we all would like to think that we're relevant. Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, USC, etc. become even bigger than they are now and the rest of us will just subsidize their programs.
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