Superconferences & Realignment

[Irish#1]

So these students would be expected to travel, compete and do coursework while online?

Did you read the beginning of my reply? lol

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Did you read the beginning of my reply? lol

Where you used then instead of than? Yeah.

And if my pool of candidates is limited to just this message board, we're back to where we started from. ME asking YOU.

I don't think you can have these athletes roaming around the other side of the country doing remote work while also competing during the week. Whoever is doing the scheduling is going to be earning their paycheck, that much is for sure.

 

[NDohio]

I will eat my shoe if Stanford joins the MWC. Those ass-sniffers wouldn't be caught dead in the same conference as Colorado State and Boise.

Agree.

 

[Irish#1]

Where you used then instead of than? Yeah.

And if my pool of candidates is limited to just this message board, we're back to where we started from. ME asking YOU.

I don't think you can have these athletes roaming around the other side of the country doing remote work while also competing during the week. Whoever is doing the scheduling is going to be earning their paycheck, that much is for sure.

Touche!

Realistically you don't want them to as their academics would more than likely suffer. Yet so much education is online today, that could be the easy out for these schools. Schools should take some of that money and invest it in developing a scheduling application where all they have to do is enter dates, locations, students, classes, game dates and let it spit something out.

 

[stlnd01]

It would be a poor move for Notre Dame. I'm just saying that Notre Dame has the clout to single-handedly calm the ACC's turbulent waters and essentially save the conference.

A football conference comprised of Notre Dame, Clemson, Florida State, Miami and Virginia Tech (even though the latter two have fallen on hard times) is "good enough" to survive on its own.

Sorry, I thought in this world Florida State and Clemson had bolted to the SEC. With those two, the ACC might be a conference worth joining for us. And us doing so probably would save the ACC.

But honestly I don’t really care about the ACC as an institution - I’m not sure many people do, at least in football - and while I do think the ACC’s middleweight programs (BC/Pitt/NC State/Va Tech) are worth saving, I’m not sure it’s Notre Dame’s responsibility to do so. When if we are to join conference, the far better one for us would be the B1G.

 

[yankeehater]

I mean, for whatever it's worth, none of this is really impressive to me.

This is part of my point. Other than a few schools, most of the P5 schools have been garbage over the decades sans a season or two here or there. It is funny the conferences do not like to add the better G5 schools yet never kick out their bottom feeders. You can even say TCU and Utah were every bit as good when playing in the Mtn West, they just get more respect now being in a P5 conference. The SEC is arguably the best conference in all sports yet still get it handed to them on occasion from non P5 programs.

These hoops games took place over the last two seasons. I didn't even pull SDSU to make this point.

Colorado State Athletics

Colorado State Athletics

csurams.com

Colorado State 85-53 South Carolina (Nov 17, 2022) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Colorado State Rams vs. South Carolina Gamecocks NCAAM game, final score 85-53, from November 17, 2022 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[Irish#1]

The Athletic just released an article that Cal and Stanford are having discussions with the ACC.

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

The Athletic just released an article that Cal and Stanford are having discussions with the ACC.

Lame

 

[ndfanatic78]

Big Game Boomer got something right for once.

Hell no. That would stick ND into a regional group. They have been trying to avoid that. They would lose their national footprint which is what makes them special. Regional alignment is not needed and is boring. It’s why I detest the SEC all they do is play southern schools.

 

[ndfanatic78]

The Athletic just released an article that Cal and Stanford are having discussions with the ACC.

That could be interesting.

 

[calvegas04]

The Athletic just released an article that Cal and Stanford are having discussions with the ACC.

Dumb, they should just merge the remaining Pac teams with the MWC. It would be a respectable conference in FB and BB

 

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

That could be interesting.

Whenever the ACC time bomb goes off, they will probably band together with what's left of the PAC and try to raid the Big 12(?) to fill in the middle parts and form a national conference.

 

[irishfan]

The Athletic just released an article that Cal and Stanford are having discussions with the ACC.

Could see ACC positioning itself as the “academic” conference when the next round of realignment occurs (top of ACC leaving). Duke, BC, UVA, Wake, GT, Syracuse are all very likely to have no suitors. Duke may have some interest from the Big-12, but I think they’d rather stay in a watered-down ACC if the money is somewhat similar. The below wouldn’t be a great conference by any means but would at least allow these schools to remain somewhat relevant. In theory this conference could also expand and take the best of the American or other G5s as well.

Stanford
Cal
Boston College
Syracuse
UVA
Duke
Wake Forest
Georgia Tech

 

[NDRock]

Hell no. That would stick ND into a regional group. They have been trying to avoid that. They would lose their national footprint which is what makes them special. Regional alignment is not needed and is boring. It’s why I detest the SEC all they do is play southern schools.

This is why NCAA football is going nuts. Everyone is only thinking of themselves and not the collective (I'd also prefer ND remain more "national"). It's where leagues like the NFL have an advantage. Sport needs some sort of Commissioner with power. Doubt it would ever happen.

 

[BobbyMac]

Could see ACC positioning itself as the “academic” conference when the next round of realignment occurs (top of ACC leaving). Duke, BC, UVA, Wake, GT, Syracuse are all very likely to have no suitors. Duke may have some interest from the Big-12, but I think they’d rather stay in a watered-down ACC if the money is somewhat similar. The below wouldn’t be a great conference by any means but would at least allow these schools to remain somewhat relevant. In theory this conference could also expand and take the best of the American or other G5s as well.

Stanford
Cal
Boston College
Syracuse
UVA
Duke
Wake Forest
Georgia Tech

Uh-ooooooooh.

Add Pitt, Tulane, Rice, USF, SMU, UConn, Army & Navy and ND makes #17

I don't see GT passing on the B1G or Big 12. Someone's coming for ATL and the SEC already has it with UGa so now you're back to 16.

 

[NorthDakota]

Uh-ooooooooh.

Add Pitt, Tulane, Rice, USF, SMU, UConn, Army & Navy and ND makes #17

I don't see GT passing on the B1G or Big 12. Someone's coming for ATL and the SEC already has it with UGa so now you're back to 16.

Would army and navy leave air force alone? Seems people forget there are three major service academies...

 

[BobbyMac]

Would army and navy leave air force alone? Seems people forget there are three major service academies...

Thought about them but they're a million miles from everyone with no travel partner.

Then again... if AF sent C-5's to pick up opposing teams maybe then they'd be an option.

 

[drayer54]

Would army and navy leave air force alone? Seems people forget there are three major service academies...

I'll be damned if I'm going to recognize the chair force.

 

[Blazers46]

This has me thinking… there are 4 teams without a legit conference. Could see some mass defections if things don’t get sorted out for them.

 

[Irish#1]

Uh-ooooooooh.

Add Pitt, Tulane, Rice, USF, SMU, UConn, Army & Navy and ND makes #17

I don't see GT passing on the B1G or Big 12. Someone's coming for ATL and the SEC already has it with UGa so now you're back to 16.

Your late. Sherman came for ATL about 160 years ago.

 

[NDWarrior]

Kelly talks ND (not that Kelly) Kelly points to Notre Dame football as an example for realignment

 

[ulukinatme]

Kelly talks ND (not that Kelly) Kelly points to Notre Dame football as an example for realignment

Chip Kelly making a lot of sense.

 

[SouthSideChiDomer]

Pony Excess to the ACC!

Sources: ACC considering SMU in addition to Cal and Stanford in expansion talks

At a meeting of league presidents on Tuesday, executives explored the possibility of adding Cal, Stanford and SMU, or only inviting the two Pac-12 members.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[NDWarrior]

Pony Excess to the ACC!

Sources: ACC considering SMU in addition to Cal and Stanford in expansion talks

At a meeting of league presidents on Tuesday, executives explored the possibility of adding Cal, Stanford and SMU, or only inviting the two Pac-12 members.

sports.yahoo.com

SMU is a pretty solid program these days and oh the history...

 

[Irish#1]

Sankey is calling for a change in the playoff format with the latest realignment. He worried the SEC might not get as many teams in?

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Oh my...

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

Man, the ACC is hail Mary mode

 

[AvesEvo]

Wouldn't allowing another team in enable current ACC teams to leave?

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

Wouldn't allowing another team in enable current ACC teams to leave?

No, it doesn't open the contract, the newbs have to sign the gor.

 

[NorthDakota]

Cal and Stanford going ACC? Those kids gonna have a bajillion frequent flyer miles