College Bball Thread

[Scotty R]

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-expansion-rumors-clemson-florida-state-oregon-washington 

Not sure how reliable this is but if true the Pac 12 is finished 

[Josh]

13 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-expansion-rumors-clemson-florida-state-oregon-washington 

Not sure how reliable this is but if true the Pac 12 is finished 

Yes please!  IU games in Florida is just what I need

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

On 7/26/2023 at 3:21 PM, Josh said:

Oh it certainly can become worse.  Get politicians involved!

Especially Tuberville.  Like, dude showed he wasn't the brighest bulb as head coach, then he went to Congress.

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

On 7/27/2023 at 7:53 AM, Rico said:

The person familiar with the Big 12’s discussions said the conference would ideally like to expand to 16 schools with Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado all coming over from the Pac-12 to create a Western wing of the league.

https://apnews.com/article/colorado-pac12-big-12-conference-realignment-yormark-kliavkoff-09b3d9604505b23e311564fac677971d

Big XII is all "we only need one school", but they really want to grab the rest of the Four Corners schools to make travel affordable out there and create a BYU/Utah rivalry for media deals.

They still won't be as lucrative as the Big Ten or the SEC, but they want to secure themselves as the #3 conference.

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

Sources: Big Ten has begun preliminary talks to potentially add Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford (yahoo.com)

These talks are very preliminary and probably vapor, but if Colorado is gone and the Big XII wants to carve up more of the Pac-12, what's not to stop the Big Ten?

 

[cbp4iu]

 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

This what NIL was intended to be, not what it has evolved into

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[OGIUAndy]

2 hours ago, IUFootballEndlessMisery said:

Sources: Big Ten has begun preliminary talks to potentially add Oregon, Washington, Cal and Stanford (yahoo.com)

These talks are very preliminary and probably vapor, but if Colorado is gone and the Big XII wants to carve up more of the Pac-12, what's not to stop the Big Ten?

 

I don't think the talks are very preliminary at all and definitely not vapor. If I was to bet, I would say at least two (UW and Oregon) will be leaving for the BIG very, very soon. Pac 12 is toast. 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38123037/big-ten-explores-possible-expansion-amid-pac-12-instability

[Stuhoo]

Ahron Ulis, recently starting at Iowa and portaled to Nebraska, criminally charged for gambling.
 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38123033/seven-athletes-charged-gambling-sting-iowa-iowa-state

[WayneFleekHoosier]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Ahron Uhlis, recently starting at Iowa and portaled to Nebraska, criminally charged for gambling.
 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38123033/seven-athletes-charged-gambling-sting-iowa-iowa-state

This is a big one. Seems like the type of thing you lose your eligibility for. 

[Hovadipo]

Iowa (the state of) is cracking down on student athlete gambling right now and they’re having seemingly no trouble finding kids to bust. If other states do the same it’s going to get ugly. 

[HoosierHoopster]

8 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Iowa (the state of) is cracking down on student athlete gambling right now and they’re having seemingly no trouble finding kids to bust. If other states do the same it’s going to get ugly. 

It needs to get ugly

[str8baller]

2 hours ago, cbp4iu said:

 

I like the B1G getting some west coast schools but given the growth in the south they’d be crazy to add schools like FSU or even Clemson. 

[WayneFleekHoosier]

10 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I like the B1G getting some west coast schools but given the growth in the south they’d be crazy to add schools like FSU or even Clemson. 

FSU makes some sense. I guess Clemson to a degree too.  Grab UNC and Miami if you are getting a south division.  
 

idk, but it appears this is the plans to have a division on each every coast. 

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

52 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I like the B1G getting some west coast schools but given the growth in the south they’d be crazy to add schools like FSU or even Clemson. 

I think the Big Ten is aiming for Duke and North Carolina, while the SEC wants Clemson, Florida State, and Miami.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

Conference realignment will ruin college sports. Period. Moves made by greed. It's not about trying to make a better product. Only greed. Greed will kill it.

[RaceToTheTop]

If the Big Ten doesn't get Washington and Oregon, it will be because of USC.  USC is very against western expansion as they feel that bringing in other west coast teams hurts their LA recruiting market.

[Hardwood83]

1 hour ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Conference realignment will ruin college sports. Period. Moves made by greed. It's not about trying to make a better product. Only greed. Greed will kill it.

Already well on the way to being ruined. Many seem to think that it's inevitable, but why? It makes more money in the short term with no regard for the sustainability of the sports. If the schools on the West coast couldn't make a viable conference, how are USC and Rutgers in the same league gonna survive? Spoiler alert, they aren't. 'Super conferences' are stupid and will fail. 

[Dave from Dayton]

7 hours ago, Hardwood83 said:

Already well on the way to being ruined. Many seem to think that it's inevitable, but why? It makes more money in the short term with no regard for the sustainability of the sports. If the schools on the West coast couldn't make a viable conference, how are USC and Rutgers in the same league gonna survive? Spoiler alert, they aren't. 'Super conferences' are stupid and will fail. 

That very well may be what happens.  Change is inevitable.  Not always for the better.

These changes are reactions to the failed NCAA, the rise of student-athletes not being taken to the cleaners, sports marketing, and television/cable/streaming, and cheating for $$$$.   Just looking at the stupidity of the seeding for the football bowl championship playoffs year after year gives me heartburn. Only the Alabamas and OSUs like that crap.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Good luck to the confederation of universities (at the top and those that don't have $$$$ that are being left behind) that are trying something...anything to fix what is broken.  It is and will be a mess.

[Demo]

The Race Thompson move. Absolutely  love it. More kids should do it.