2021-2022 NCAA Football Season Thread • Page 161

I think UNC at least makes sense for basketball

 

breaking up the research triangle rivalries seems very anti-money making to me, haha. they gotta play duke/nc state

 

Didn’t even think of that haha. I take it back.

 

Idk if there’s any truth to this and it kind of veers into tinfoil hat territory but to hear a significant portion of the GT fan base tell it, uga would never allow them back into the conference and so many GA politicians are uga grads they’ve been actively trying to harm the GT athletic department since they left the SEC 60 years ago or whatever..lol.

 

Hell yeah college swimming website breaking news.

 

to be fair the SEC does have quite a few swimming powerhouses

 

Oh for sure. I was a college swimmer, but nowhere near SEC quality! I just haven’t thought about swimswam for YEARS so it caught me off guard

 

80% of the teams don’t have a chance at anything in the past system, current system or future system. The whole system in college football is built around like 15 programs (some of which aren’t even good aka Texas)

 

Texas is back

 

UVA is probably better at most other major mens sports. They’ve won national championships in baseball and basketball in the past decade.

 

That’s a good point

 

I was gonna ask - are these changes for all sports? I feel like there were changes years ago and it was a “yeah but only for football” or a few sports not all of them, but maybe I remember that wrong because that would seem confusing as fuck for scheduling and whatnot

 

Isn’t that what the big East did? Dissolved for football but still around for other sports?

Also Notre Dame is in the ACC for everything but football.

 

A lot of this also comes down to money for schools beyond what they get from their football TV deal. The pandemic made that very clear for a lot of schools, which is why USC and UCLA scrambled to the Big Ten and now others are trying to follow suit.

Say what you want about ND, but they don’t rely on football TV money the way other schools do. Their TV deal isn’t nearly as lucrative, but they are the focal point on NBC and have been able to make up the difference elsewhere (largely from alumni and other avenues). The calculus gets trickier when you start talking $50M-$70M. But ND has an attractive brand that will boost any conference when they want to join, but it probably will happen at some point.

Assuming Clemson, Miami, and Florida St go to the SEC, UNC is one of the better attractions outside of ND bc they are the main attraction in a pretty large state for good viewership. They also have a distinct brand. Washington is also attractive for Seattle. A conference takes Oregon largely for Phil Knight and Nike. Them and Stanford probably go to the Big Ten eventually.

Olympic sports, including basketball just don’t move the needle in these discussions in most cases. Added bonuses, but not what most schools are thinking about. Conferences meanwhile seem to be focused on market share, brands, and reach.

 

Conferences? who needs em

 

I want to hear the tinfoil hat theories — I don’t know what sway local politicians would have that wouldn’t be statewide things that affect UGA too (and presumably help both or hurt both)

That rivalry feels like a lot of

and I’ve never really gotten it because GT as an institution and its fans just have this universal hatred and obsession with UGA and I’d consider Florida, Auburn, and now Alabama to be UGA’s biggest rivals

 

Yeah absolutely no one at UGA gives a shit about GT

 

Gotta imagine it’s the way Florida felt about georgia in the 90s. And 00s.

 

Not really though because UGA fan culture isn’t built around hating Florida. We don’t piss on Gator heads in our urinals or type florida/U(sic)f any time we reference them. GT is alone in that regard of having their entire sports identity around hating Georgia

 

Lol.

I guess we don’t know the same georgia () fans then.

I have never seen this but I did see where someone wrote “U(sic)GA diplomas” on the toilet seat cover dispenser in one of the tech student center bathrooms years ago. My drunk self found it hilarious and posted a picture of it on fb which promptly got me in trouble with several of my uga grad friends..lol

 

I’m pretty the Georgia G on the urinal covers is a thing on campus. At least it was in the early 10s when I went to visit friends down there, and I thought it was when I went to a b-school info session a few years back

and lol, duly noted — there are plenty of self-proclaimed “drunk, obnoxious Georgia fans” that it wouldn’t be out of character at all to form an identity around hating Florida

 

Really wish Kirby wasn’t a Georgia guy. He’s about the only current coach I’d be comfortable with to be Saban’s successor. And I felt like that was a plan at one time until Mark Richt got canned and everything changed.

 

When I was at Florida, the hate around Georgia was nowhere near the FSU hate. Georgia fans made us roll our eyes whereas FSU fans made our faces red and ears steam.