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USC UCLA to the Big 10?

Lincoln Riley about to be like the kid who loses his nerve and wants to get off the rollercoaster as it starts up the first big hill.

"I WANNA GET OFF!! LET ME OFF, I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE!"
 
The SEC and Big 10 will soon have 24 teams each. They will die to snap up Washington, Stanford, Cal, Oregon, UNC, Clemson, NC State, GT, Pitt, FSU and the huge viewing areas or national followings these teams have. Sad day for college sports.
 
Omar10213245 said:
Lincoln Riley about to be like the kid who loses his nerve and wants to get off the rollercoaster as it starts up the first big hill.

"I WANNA GET OFF!! LET ME OFF, I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE!"
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Except for the fact it was USC that initiated the talks with the Big 10.
 
Figure Big 10 will also go after Oregon and Stanford. The addition of USC and Stanford could entice Notre Dame finally. If they added 1 more team, that would get them to 20.

SEC is at 16. Maybe they go to 20 as well, adding OK State, Miami, Florida State.

Then you'd have the Big and SEC at 19 and each looking for 1 more with the biggest names still out there being Clemson, BYU, Utah, Houston, Central Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Colorado.

Why list those schools and leave out schools like Pitt, WVU, Washington, and others? Money. Let's get real. Expansions are always about money. Adding to the footprint of the league (BYU), adding prestige (Stanford), adding big schools with huge alumni bases (UCF).

The Big Ten could be interested in Houston or Baylor if they want to get into Texas. The B1G does value academics and off hand I don't know where those schools rate. The B1G did drop that standard a bit to get Nebraska though so if they are also adding academics like Stanford and Notre Dame, then maybe they drop the academic bar a bit to add a team.

BYU could be an interesting bridge to the west for the BIG. BYU is competitive and has money and a following.

The question is, will the BIG or SEC actually kick out a team? SEC could kick Vandy to the curb. As money takes over in recruiting, maybe teams like Northwestern and Purdue decide to drop down a division. That really could start happening eventually. If recruiting gets more and more dominated by money, lots of schools will have to make the decision. Do they want to be cannon fodder to the top teams or drop down into a newly formed level and be competitive? A team like Pitt may have to make that decision.

We will likely end up with 3 big conferences. Big 10 and SEC and then a 3rd conference cobbled together from the best remaining. May end up with 50 or so teams want to compete in this new semi-pro environment and the rest play at a lower level.

If that were to happen then it's probably goodbye to conferences altogether and you just have 1 big league with conferences and divisions that meet in a college super bowl.
 
Makes perfect geographic sense. :rolleyes:
 
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Oregon and Washington will be the next to leave.
 
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Notre Dame is the only blue blood left out there. At some point Clemson, Florida State, and Miami will entice conferences along with UNC, which means Duke will have to tag along as well.
 
Are you stupid ? The reports all said USC was the initiator.
 
Wolf44 said:
Are you stupid ? The reports all said USC was the initiator.
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while they may have been the instigator

none of the stories I read stated anything about who initiated the contact
 
It was on the Doug Gottlieb show. USC will recruit like crazy now with Riley. They were losing all the recruiting wars the last 10 years and now immediately become relevant and joining the Big 10 will fire up there base. The PAC 12 is a weak football conference , they haven't won a NC since 2004. You really think they didn't know they would rule the weak PAC12 under Riley yet she the future of college sports is in the super conferences?

When it all shakes out the SEC and BIG 10 will have 24 members and 4 six team divisions.

Also members join conferences not the other way around. There may be underachieving schools thrown out of conferences, Purdue,Vanderbilt, etc. to allow better football schools in. The Big East kicked out Temple for underperforming in 2001 . It sucks but it is all about the money. SEC schools have a 74 million a year payout to each school. The ACC payout is 38 million per school and is .not up for renewal for years. Think the ACC schools arent thinking about paying the 50 million dollar penalty to leave the conference and join the two premier conferences? They are. A well connected Clemson source I know says Clemson is a done deal to the SEC. I am a lifelong ACC fan but realize the death knoll for the conference is a comin. Sad
 
so it goes from being in all reports to being on some show I have never heard of

got it
 
Whatever. You think USC didn't want to leave and get huge money and become relevant again ?
 
Wolf44 said:
Whatever. You think USC didn't want to leave and get huge money and become relevant again ?
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"whatever", the phrase muttered by the intellectually frustrated.

You can make the case for either side to initiate the conversations as it betters each side significantly. Oh well! We may never know for certain.
 
Gottlieb said ALL THE REPORTS are that USC initiated talks. Call him lazy you intellectual giant.
 
College football is steamrolling itself into oblivion…
The upcoming generation doesn’t give two ***** about sports… moves like this that alienate fans are going to severely hurt future viewership… sure the 48 schools that make the cut into the two super conferences and their alumni will still be happy, and older fans already conditioned to love the sport will hang on, but all the rest of the schools alumni simply will quit being as invested and that will start a death spiral..

Sports that don’t consider the long term viability of its popularity always die … horse racing and boxing used to be premier and extremely popular sports last century… where are they now?
 
Wolf44 said:
Gottlieb said ALL THE REPORTS are that USC initiated talks. Call him lazy you intellectual giant.
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so you parrot his comments here (without giving credit) and expect us to understand when none of the 6 or so reports I read on this subject said anything at all about who instigated the conversation.

I asked a simple question, after acknowledging that it may have been USC who started it all

This is why people ask for either links to a source or at a minimum if you are parroting a talking heads comments, give them credit for the report......especially if no written reports mention the "fact"
 
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so you parrot his comments here (without giving credit) and expect us to understand when none of the 6 or so reports I read on this subject said anything at all about who instigated the conversation.

I asked a simple question, after acknowledging that it may have been USC who started it all

This is why people ask for either links to a source or at a minimum if you are parroting a talking heads comments, give them credit for the report......especially if no written reports mention the "fact"
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Fair enough
 
I'm actually very interested in watching USC or UCLA playing in Columbus, Ann Arbor or State College in late November. I wouldn't mind seeing Stanford and BYU added to the mix either. I could give two ***** about Notre Dame...those pompous pricks think they are the be-all, end-all with football and I hope they decide to keep their ***** independent. Lock them out of playing any teams in the super conferences and have them play Army, Navy and Coastal Carolina every week.
 
I saw USC play at State College. PSU had Curtis Enis at RB. The signs said Trojans can’t contain our Enis.
 
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