2021-2022 NCAA Football Season Thread • Page 6

but also fuck notre dame cause they are cowards who decided to pretend Indiana is an atlantic coastal state so they can be in a conference with only one real challenger

 

"Reaching out to the Pac-12 about a potential 20-school merger was discussed during Thursday’s Big 12 leadership call. Such a move seems to be a more favorable alternative for the Big 12 than bringing in new members.”

From The Athletic... lol. Big 12 definitely is going to implode.

 

Alabama Players Force Nick Saban To Run Wind Sprints After Surpassing His Salary In NIL Endorsements

 

The problem with some of these scraps from the big 12 is I can't see the big 10 really going wild for any of them.

Sure a Kansas and Iowa state makes sense but idk if those markets are necessarily wetting their whistle.

West Virginia to the acc makes a ton of sense and I hope it happens


Pac should add tech, tcu and Oklahoma state (leaves room for 1)

Ten SHOULD add Iowa state and Kansas (for bball).

That leaves Baylor and Kansas state or byu or Boise for the last pac spot.

I think Kansas state is the school most screwed here. They add nothing

 

I am 100% on board with SupErConference, hope Texas/OU happens, and then hope some of these more out there rumors like Clemson, FSU, Ohio St, and Michigan following suit and joining happen too

 

idk, competition between conferences seems like a good thing?

 

I wish there was a way to jettison Missouri and bring in Clemson. That would be legit. Missouri fits better in the big 12 now anyway

 

I don’t love the idea of giving one conference all the power, but I also would like to see resolution to the biggest problems in college football that it desperately needs to move out of an amateur model (and I don’t think the NCAA organization would support that until their hand is way past forced) and that you have a handful of teams that can support that model which is definitely lower than the 130 or so teams in FBS and probably also lower than the 60 or so Power 5 teams. SupErConference feels like the most realistic way to get there

 

as long as they're still playing games against the rest of the (current) P5 teams and G5 teams, I'm good. If the SupErConference only plays itself, I won't be tuning in.

 

If it leads to less cupcake games and more conference games I’m down. I’d like to see the Pac 12 pickup Boise, BYU, and any combination of TCU, Baylor, OK State, and Texas Tech. I see the ACC crashing or consolidating eventually too or having to take teams from the AAC/Sunbelt to replace its top tier programs.

 

No way Pac 12 picks up BYU lol

 

I think and hope there’s a happy medium between better tiering the programs so that you get more regular season games like Oklahoma/USC and Alabama/Ohio St that are artificially suppressed by the current conference structure and creating something that is off putting and including just 20 teams and shutting everyone else out entirely

 

But it seems like a generally good thing for college football that consistently elite program Oklahoma will play more than 2 pre-season top 25 teams in a typical 12-game schedule moving forward and points heavily to the idea that 5 12 team conferences (or 4 16 team conferences that are all billed to be equally Power 4) is still too bloated to be putting the best output on the field and SupErConference would help balance that better

 

Clemson similarly plays 1(!) preseason top 25 team, and it’s Georgia, who they had to schedule on their own, because there’s so much bloat in the ACC. Clemson is in a league of their own compared to the other teams in the conference in terms of recent football success, but it’d be a much better product on the field if you had a Best of… ACC + Big 10 league with Clemson, Ohio St, Michigan, Penn St, Miami, Wisconsin, FSU, Notre Dame, etc and a second one that had the Syracuse, BC, Rutgers, Wake Forest, Illinois, Purdue, etc of the league

and something like that is a reasonable counter to SupErConference

 

Eh i think its reinventing the wheel too much, especially with the new playoff system in place.

Mostly cause "big matchups" are just a small portion of why I like college football in the first place. Upsets, small schools, unique matchups are what I get into.

 

Can schools, or at least certain sports, be kicked out of conferences? Wouldn’t do the bottom feeders any good, but if the SEC adds two more teams there’s no way you play everyone every year so it’d be every two years you’d see schools outside of the “division” within the conference right? So if SEC adds Texas and Oklahoma I wonder if they’d try to drop Missouri or Kentucky or Vanderbilt (at least for football), but not sure if that’s even allowed (like if the other schools all vote to get rid of the).

 

Teams already don't play all the teams every year. Adding new teams isn't going to set everything in disarray. Keep your rivalries in place and rotate the others throughout the years.

What I hope happens is that they drop out of conference games completely. Last year's all SEC schedule and no cupcakes was a blast.

 

i think it’s technically possible, but it’d be more likely that the teams get pared by being the odd man out in re-alignment (ie. Kansas State isn’t enough of a draw for any of the other 4 conferences if the Big 12 dissolved so it goes independent or joins the AAC)

 

I've been saying. Kansas state is the one school 100% sweating it out.

 

Vandy still played tho

 

Looking at Texas and Oklahoma's records against SEC teams. Texas only has a losing record against Vanderbilt and South Carolina. Oklahoma only has a losing record against LSU, Ole Miss, and Georgia.

 

thought about this randomly the last few days:

it would likely never cause much of a ripple, but i wonder how many players will stay in college for 4 years (if they football) or 2-4 years for basketball players since they can now get paid. top prospects and such will remain one and done (basketball) and most football players will play their 3 years and then go to the draft as usual, but for the fringe players that maybe can make money in college and may make more than being a 4-7 round pick and getting paid the minimum.

granted, idk how many players who end up 4-7 round picks would make enough money with endorsements to cover what the NFL minimum contract would be since endorsements want stars but if it does start to happen i wonder how that would impact NFL draft sizes in 5-10-15 years.

tl;dr - for the kids that make more money on endorsements in college vs a rookie salary for a year or two before being cut, i wonder how many just stay in college for 4 years, make endorsement money and then go to "regular life" vs jumping to the NFL and trying to hang on with a practice squad or something.