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Should college football “do its own thing” while other sports stay more regional?
Posted on 8/27/23 at 7:23 am
Posted on 8/27/23 at 7:23 am
It seems to increasingly make sense from an academic, logistics and economics perspective.
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The biggest strategic decisions made by some of the largest, most respected institutions this country has to offer have essentially been handed over to random television executives.
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what may make sense for college football television contracts—the reason all this realignment is happening in the first place—is generally a disaster for every other collegiate non-revenue sport.
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Is there a solution here? One may have come, from all places, controversial basketball coaching legend Rick Pitino, who posted on X (formerly Twitter): “Doesn’t it make more sense for football to break away to separate leagues and allow the rest of the sports to compete regionally?”
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Posted on 8/27/23 at 7:36 am to TejasHorn
CFB should also be regional. Since the money makers have chosen to turn CFB into the minor leagues of NFL and ruin their own product, yes, the rest of college sports would benefit from a regional set up
Posted on 8/27/23 at 7:37 am to TejasHorn
I have a feeling that will be the next issue now that coast to coast conferences are happening. Travel costs for the other sports are going to skyrocket - shipping the UCLA women's basketball team to Rutgers for a Tuesday night game in front of 100 people isn't feasible.
National conferences for football/mens basketball and regional conferences for everything else is likely going to happen.
National conferences for football/mens basketball and regional conferences for everything else is likely going to happen.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 8:36 am to TejasHorn
I know a few SEC schools play in the sunbelt for men’s soccer, so it’s definitely feasible. Maybe it’s what the pac 12 turns into, a conference that sponsor's all sports but football. Keep all the original teams for all sports and they are free to join whoever for football.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 8:45 am to LolStarFishlol
quote:Isn't that what the Big East became?
Maybe it’s what the pac 12 turns into, a conference that sponsor's all sports but football.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:14 am to TejasHorn
Football needs to be separate for conferences and divisions.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:18 am to TejasHorn
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Should college football “do its own thing” while other sports stay more regional?
yes.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:28 am to Horsemeat
quote:Men’s basketball needs to be regional conferences too. The big money in MBB media rights comes from the NCAA tournament anyway, not the conference’s regular season games. Ridiculous to have teams traveling cross country for midweek games.
National conferences for football/mens basketball and regional conferences for everything else is likely going to happen.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:39 am to Horsemeat
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shipping the UCLA women's basketball team to Rutgers for a Tuesday night game
It’s always Rutgers/Piscataway
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:43 am to TejasHorn
Absolutely, this is where it should have went from the start. Having softball, volleyball and non revenue sports that play multiple games a week is in no way sustainable.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:47 am to TejasHorn
College football should be set up into 4-6 leagues like English soccer. Where relegation and promotion happens and the tv deals are with the leagues. The higher tier league you are in, the more your league payout is.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 10:03 am to TejasHorn
Major college football should and will at some point. Possible for basketball as well but they don't seem to have the same NCAA issues that football does(cheating has been a long honored tradition dating back to Sonny Vaccaro, Adidas and the shoe wars).
There's still room for regional college football. All the non majors still play the sport. Don't like the big boy league there you go. Freedom of choice still exists on a day to day level for individuals. No need punishing the rest of us because local football U didn't get invited.
There's still room for regional college football. All the non majors still play the sport. Don't like the big boy league there you go. Freedom of choice still exists on a day to day level for individuals. No need punishing the rest of us because local football U didn't get invited.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 10:34 am to TejasHorn
Yes. Which means it will never happen. It absolutely makes no sense for a Volleyball team to travel across the country in the middle of the week for a conference game.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 11:04 am to Horsemeat
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Travel costs for the other sports are going to skyrocket - shipping the UCLA women's basketball team to Rutgers for a Tuesday night game in front of 100 people isn't feasible.
They’re going to claim it’s a Title IX issue if they don’t though
It’s the reason women’s hoops doesn’t play in hand me down uniforms
Posted on 8/27/23 at 11:24 am to TejasHorn
"College" football. Why keep the attachment to the colleges, anyway? Cut out the colleges, keep more profit for the teams and whatever the new league will ultimately become.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 1:27 pm to TejasHorn
Once NIL fully takes over there will be 20-25 teams that have a chance to compete at the highest level. Those teams should form a super conference and leave everything else alone.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 1:40 pm to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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Once NIL fully takes over there will be 20-25 teams that have a chance to compete at the highest level. Those teams should form a super conference and leave everything else alone.
Exactly
The 25 or so power schools will become semi pro athletic programs. The remaining 85 D1 football athletic programs will reform regionally.
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