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I have a little different perspective than some here as I have two degrees hanging on my wall (well, sitting on the floor waiting to be hung). One from SU and one from a B1G university in the state I grew up in and currently live. As I have gotten older, the amount of time I spend watching...

Now that pay-to-play, I mean NIL, is legal, I think you will start to see the SEC dominance start to diminish. The SEC has a head start as most of their schools already had a player funding system in place, but other schools will or have already caught up.

Wait, I thought we were New York City's college team?

According to U.S.N&W.R., Clemson has an undergraduate enrollment of 22,566 and Syracuse has an undergraduate enrollment of 15,421. It is not like Clemson has four times the student population like a B1G state school might have. Other than the administration and alumni having different...

Assuming Washington ends the season as an undefeated Pac Champion, they absolutely deserve to be in the playoffs over a one loss Michigan, OSU, or the loser of UGA and Alabama:

What is it with Michigan and cheating uncles? The Fab Five, other than Howard (allegedly), were being paid by Uncle Ed Martin.

Rankings are subjective, suffer from recency bias, and schedules can be rigged such that one league's teams can maintain higher rankings. Upsets do happen, which is why the NCAA basketball tournament is so great. Not sure why people are so against something similar happening in football. The...

The Al Davis school of roster management and the NFL draft . . . The first step is to recruit a strong offensive line, otherwise it does not matter how fast the skill players are when the QB is running for his life on every pass play where the receiver routes are more than five yards down field.

Not to defend Michigan, but I wonder how much $$$ Danny Kanell was paid to attend and play at FSU, which also was "CHEATING to gain an unfair advantage." I assume he would argue that everyone was doing it, but then it becomes a matter of degree, i.e. if Florida could only offer $50,000, but FSU...

SEC Shorts on the Michigan cheating scandal.

Nebraska

Even more of a reason why I would not want SMU to be in a pod with Syracuse. As to recruiting, I was referring to Syracuse recruiting Texas kids by playing in Texas every two years, not SMU's recruiting. I will admit that I do not watch a lot of games outside of Syracuse and Wisconsin...

The problem with being away from a thread for so long is there is much to comment on. As an upper midwesterner, I would say that the Midwest and the South both share a healthy dislike for New York City (which for our less cosmopolitan residents would be defined as all of New York state, New...

It would be interesting to see how non-football sports would be treated under such a model. I have to assume that both the Pac and MWC would both still be in existence for non-football sports. Would all sports be part of the relegation model or would there be a permanent basketball/non-revenue...

Friday night was Mexican Independence Day. Since the pandemic, it is celebrated in Chicago by slowly cruising through the Loop, Magnificent Mile, and Lakeshore Drive with Mexican flags draped across and flying from the cars while incessantly honking. As a result, the CPD was closing access...

I am not so sure, especially the new SEC schools, which still has some geographic regionality. Texas keeps Oklahoma and brings back historic rivalries with aTm and Arkansas. I do not think Texas will miss playing the other XII schools. Oklahoma may be a little different as the only old Big 8...

Money does not bring parity. If it did, we would see parity in both the SEC and B1G already as all teams receive the same conference payout. One of the biggest reasons for parity in the NFL is the draft, something that will never fly in the college ranks. Honestly, I think both NIL and the...

I get it. Rich alumni willing to pay for players. Maybe they catch lightening in a bottle and outbid Texas/Texas A&M for players and make the playoffs, ala TCU. TCU has been in the XII since 2012. Having them, Baylor, and Texas Tech did not bring the XII payouts closer to the B1G or SEC and...

Many of the arguments I have seen for the inclusion of SMU remind me of the B1G's justification for adding Rutgers. The only unique argument I have seen is that SMU's alumni are flush with cash. Other than this allowing SMU to forgo conference distributions and SU getting a larger share, I do...

I was a little surprised by your comment that the B1G lacks brands and, as a result, may want to FSU. How could a league that has Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, USC, and Oregon lack brands? But before I questioned you post with my subjective thoughts on brands, I decided to see what the...

Other than paying significantly more to lease office space, how would moving the ACC office to NYC change anything we are talking about here? If a NYC presence is so important, why didn't the AAC move there instead of Irving, Texas? If the location of a league's headquarters is important (which...

I understand why ND first joined the Big East and then the ACC for all sports other than football and why they joined Hockey East after the CCHA disbanded. In my (admittedly quick) google search, I have not seen any articles indicating that ND was forced by the NCAA or anyone else to join B1G...

I have never heard this and, if true, why didn't ND join the B1G when CCCH disbanded amid the B1G hockey conference starting? Also, I do not think the NCAA has the power to mandate a school join a conference or mandate a conference accept a school into the conference.

I assume this is true in whatever area has an NFL team. If you asked this same question in Wisconsin (outside of Madison), the answer would be the Packers. If you asked this question in Chicago, it would be the Bears. There are no NFL teams in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, or...

I could bring those things up as well in response to another poster indicating that PSU's revenue sports being sketchy. I also never said that no one should associate with them, just pointing out why the Baylor revenue sports may seem sketchy.

Why? Because in the past their basketball program was rocked by a murder scandal, where on player killed another, the HC tried covering up the tuition payments he personally made to the murdered player by claiming the player was a drug dealer? Perhaps because the football program protected...

Is SMU even that good academically? According to USNWR, SMU is ranked 72, tied with NC State and only ahead of Clemson and Louisville. The Forbes ranking has SMU at 83, putting it ahead of Syracuse, Clemson, Pitt, and Louisville.

If that vision was to add teams no one else wanted, just to add teams, I guess he had a vision. Do not get me wrong, it worked out for the XII when the Pac imploded, but I would say the XII was more lucky than smart.

I do not know if Hopkins was offered a spot, but it is not currently part of the BTAA.

I feel like this was a rumor floated by FSU to further its agenda of leaving the ACC and to entice the SEC into giving them an invite.

Don't tell FSU that.

The real questions are whether either the B1G or SEC (1) actually consider the ACC (or XII or Pac) competition and (2) whether killing the ACC or any other conference actually benefits them. As to question number 1, I do not know. I would hazard to guess that the value of the B1G's media...

There are two (maybe three) contracts that would be useful for all of the media and message board talking heads: the ACC Constitution and Bylaws (not sure if this is one or two contracts) and the contract between the ACC and ESPN. Without either of the contracts, we are all just flailing in the...

What I find most interesting is that Penn State, which has been playing in the B1G for 33 years, has no rivalry with any of the other conference teams important enough to protect. Other than the manufactured Rutgers/Maryland rivalry, the other protected games look accurate even if it ignores...

My suggestion was former SEC football champion Tulane. From an institutional standpoint, it fits much better than Memphis (a private school with very good academics). From an athletics standpoint, it would need to step up though and continue to compete for championships in the watered down AAC...

The ACC already has enough representation in Florida. There is no reason to add UCF and USF. I would not mind adding UConn. I also think that Tulane would be an interesting addition, if for no other reason, fun road trips. I would live to see a stronger Northeast presence, but there really...

UNMC is not a part of UNL even though it may offer courses at the Lincoln campus. It is not listed on the Colleges and Departments for UNL and the page even contains this disclaimer: "Programs are also offered at the university by the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) College of Public...

The reason it did not work well for UNL is that the medical school is not affiliated with UNL. It is a stand alone university, similar to how Upstate Medical is a standalone university within the SUNY system.

My understanding is that the location of the college within the university is irrelevant. It just matters whether the medical school (or any other college) is affiliated with a specific university such that the university can lay claim to the research dollars.

The AAC is no longer a P5 conference, so just because it was at one time with different membership does not mean Cincy or UCF can be considered P5 equivalents (prior to joining the XII).

How many big name defections can a P5 conference back fill with G5 schools before it becomes a G5 conference itself? The only reason the XII has more stability than the ACC is that there are no more teams in the conference that the B1G or SEC would want to poach.

The only reason I know this is because my niece's boyfriend was thinking about going to Baylor (which is in Houston, not Waco) for medical school and I asked my doctor (who went to Baylor Med) about it: "In 1969, by mutual agreement, the College separated from Baylor University to become an...

I am not convinced all the speculation about FSU getting a B1G invite wasn't started by the FSU and run with by the media. Based on previous rumors, the ACC candidates for B1G membership has always been UNC and UVA, with GT being discussed more recently. Clemson, yes, but maybe for FSU...

Nebraska was AAU at the time the invite was extended. As others have pointed out, they were voted out as the AAU changed its research funding metrics by devaluing agricultural research. There have been some rumors that UNL was pushing for the medical school to be placed under the UNL umbrella...

It is more than an internet rumor, but less than a requirement. IIRC, former Commissioner, Jim Delany, said as much at one point. Specifically, that AAU membership is preferred for potential B1G expansion candidates, but if a school brought other intangibles and benefits to the conference...

I do not think the B1G would even consider Baylor. A private, non-AAU Baptist school does not fit the profile. I also do not think Kansas makes the list. The real question is how long does the B1G wait on ND, UNC, UVA, and GT? My guess is that the dream scenario for the B1G leadership...

UCLA under Wooden had a booster that paid its players. It gets swept under the rug (similar to Coach K and Duke) because the NCAA does not want to tarnish one of its "greats".

Yes, but that was because of NIL as well, it was just even less transparent than now.

Why would the XII (or the ACC) want to become a hybrid conference?