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The Future of Conferences
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:43 am
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:43 am
In the past five years we’ve seen:
- Conferences expand beyond regional ties
- Elimination of Conference Championship games
- Traditional matchups like LSU/Bama, UT/UGA, OU/Ok State, UF/LSU, come to an end. (At least annually)
So what’s the point of a conference now? TV contracts? Are schools like Texas, Ohio State, Bama, LSU, etc. gonna wake up one day and ask themselves why they’re splitting revenue with smaller brands in their own conference? That seems like the logical endgame to this.
- Conferences expand beyond regional ties
- Elimination of Conference Championship games
- Traditional matchups like LSU/Bama, UT/UGA, OU/Ok State, UF/LSU, come to an end. (At least annually)
So what’s the point of a conference now? TV contracts? Are schools like Texas, Ohio State, Bama, LSU, etc. gonna wake up one day and ask themselves why they’re splitting revenue with smaller brands in their own conference? That seems like the logical endgame to this.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:47 am to FairhopeTider
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Are schools like Texas, Ohio State, Bama, LSU, etc. gonna wake up one day and ask themselves why they’re splitting revenue with smaller brands in their own conference?
Probably. Hopefully that's the point when college football fans finally have their voices heard. That's what happened in Europe when there were rumblings of a super league recently. The fans all said frick that.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:47 am to FairhopeTider
All that made college football great was sacrificed for dollars by TV executives who openly disdain their customers. It was egged on by university administrations who, at best, tolerate athletics on their campus solely due to the influx of money they can line their own pockets with.
And you'll have the talking heads on ESPN lamenting all that's been lost without a single inkling of acknowledgement that they're the ones razing the land and salting the earth behind them.
And you'll have the talking heads on ESPN lamenting all that's been lost without a single inkling of acknowledgement that they're the ones razing the land and salting the earth behind them.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:56 am to FairhopeTider
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Are schools like Texas, Ohio State, Bama, LSU, etc. gonna wake up one day and ask themselves why they’re splitting revenue with smaller brands in their own conference? That seems like the logical endgame to this.
That's exactly whats going to happen.
Eventually the top programs will breakaway from their existing conferences and form a super league that negotiates media rights and does revenue sharing as one giant entity like the NFL does. Probably 40 or so teams split into geographical based divisions that might somewhat resemble the old conference makeup.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:06 am to ProjectP2294
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And you'll have the talking heads on ESPN lamenting all that's been lost without a single inkling of acknowledgement that they're the ones razing the land and salting the earth behind them.
This is my favorite part. frick them all.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:29 am to FairhopeTider
Real college football exists in the Fun Belt
Posted on 11/10/26 at 11:59 am to FairhopeTider
Once the conference gets big enough where teams dont play relatively the same schedule then there’s no reason other than financial. So it will only last until the money is there for 1 big super conference.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:06 pm to FairhopeTider
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Are schools like Texas, Ohio State, Bama, LSU, etc. gonna wake up one day and ask themselves why they’re splitting revenue with smaller brands in their own conference?
I don’t think we’re all that far away from this. Nobody wants to be the first to make the move, but all it’s going to take is one of the bigger brands to jump and the house of cards falls.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:09 pm to ProjectP2294
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All that made college football great was sacrificed for dollars by TV executives who openly disdain their customers. It was egged on by university administrations who, at best, tolerate athletics on their campus solely due to the influx of money they can line their own pockets with.
I was in the minority when I didn’t care about split titles and remember when going to the Cap One Bowl or something wasn’t so bad.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:12 pm to TexasTiger08
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and remember when going to the Cap One Bowl or something wasn’t so bad.
I remember when going to a NYD bowl was a big deal
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:19 pm to lsufball19
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I remember when going to a NYD bowl was a big deal
Imo it made it a lot easier to judge success, other than the national champs themselves.
Good year? Capital One Bowl for you
Great year? You go to the Sugar Bowl, beat your rivals etc. and talk about that team for years to come.
Bad year? Shreveport it is loool
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:22 pm to Bigdawgb
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Bad year? Shreveport it is loool
Hell going there wasn't even always bad. We went there and played Notre Dame in 97, went 9-3 and finished #13 in the AP Poll. But there also weren't a million bowl games, and you had seasons where 3 loss teams weren't always getting invites to play in any bowl.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:30 pm to Swagga
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one of the bigger brands to jump
Isn't that what Notre Dame does?
Isn't that what Texas tried to do with its own network? Does any Texas fan able to explain why the Texas broadcasts didn't have their market with millions of fans and fan dollars? Or did their time of leaving happen too soon?
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:30 pm to FairhopeTider
Conferences are completely pointless now
They aren't geographic
You don't even play half the conference
The "championship" will be bullshite like a 4 way tiebreaker
Winning a conference will be as meaningful to fans as winning an NFL division. Beyond being a vehicle to the playoffs, nobody cares.
They aren't geographic
You don't even play half the conference
The "championship" will be bullshite like a 4 way tiebreaker
Winning a conference will be as meaningful to fans as winning an NFL division. Beyond being a vehicle to the playoffs, nobody cares.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:37 pm to FairhopeTider
The point of conferences is for bottom feeder programs to milk the teat of the top programs and cash in while going 4-8. Not sure why major programs have gone on with this charade, and not grown balls and gone independent.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:40 pm to FairhopeTider
Super league will happen unless the government stops it
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:46 pm to Bigdawgb
Teams like Bama and Texas brands are not gonna continue to pull up teams like Vandy and Missouri when they can do their own thing and enrich themselves
at the end of the day though, you still need teams to play
just look at the basketball scores on both the men and women side, some of these non conf games are blood baths
it's not gonna continue that way
at the end of the day though, you still need teams to play
just look at the basketball scores on both the men and women side, some of these non conf games are blood baths
it's not gonna continue that way
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:49 pm to nicholastiger
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Teams like Bama and Texas brands are not gonna continue to pull up teams like Vandy and Missouri when they can do their own thing and enrich themselves
You have to play somebody, and if you just resort to marquee names, then you risk losing more games. Not sure Texas wants to play TAMU, LSU, OU, Georgia, Alabama, B1G power, Tennessee, and some schools like Texas Tech or Miami every year.
You need those schools like Vandy and Northwestern to fill out a P4 schedule and maintain your brand. Just look at Notre Dame.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 12:51 pm to ProjectP2294
I wonder if someone would point that out on College Gameday.......the see guys like Herbstreit, McAfee and Howard contort themselves into saying how this improves things, is good for the game and how they are saving the game.....you'll see.
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