Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[El_Toro_86]

4 minutes ago, puc86 said:

The articles only take on salvation via the aac is not a viable option because $7.4 million is garbage and no one is going to join it. A conference with the B12 and as many teams as it has remaining pulling from its best options and negotiating its own tv deal is the best option for anyone that can’t get into the P5, joining the AAC with all of its teams and it’s tv deal is a nonstarter for anyone that is in a real conference.

There will be no B12 left only a few teams looking for a home.  Kind of like USF Cinci and UConn after the Big East

[Gatorbull325]

CFB - 2021

1. Transfers (first time) can play immediately

2. Every player from 2020 gets an extra year

3. NIL

4. OU and Texas headed to SEC

5. Big 12 may add teams or disband 

6. USF stays in the AAC and life goes on. 

I'm just ready for the season to start 

[puc86]

Just now, El_Toro_86 said:

There will be no B12 left only a few teams looking for a home.  Kind of like USF Cinci and UConn after the Big East

Yes and that was still the better option than the three of us joining Cusa which is why no one even considered it, exactly like none of the teams even if they are left all alone will be joining the AAC. It would be them BYU, Boise, probably CSU or AF and then the best pickings of the AAC and that conference will be paid much less than the B12 but far more than the AAC and those left behind in the AAC they aren’t joining another conference either they will be joined by the best that remains and get paid less than the current AAC but more than joining another conference and the food chain will continue. Schools of minnows do not eat sharks no matter what internet memes would have us believe and schools do not go to lower conferences they either move up or bring in replacements and make due. 

[Cubanbull]

2 minutes ago, puc86 said:

Yes and that was still the better option than the three of us joining Cusa which is why no one even considered it, exactly like none of the teams even if they are left all alone will be joining the AAC. It would be them BYU, Boise, probably CSU or AF and then the best pickings of the AAC and that conference will be paid much less than the B12 but far more than the AAC and those left behind in the AAC they aren’t joining another conference either they will be joined by the best that remains and get paid less than the current AAC but more than joining another conference and the food chain will continue. Schools of minnows do not eat sharks no matter what internet memes would have us believe and schools do not go to lower conferences they either move up or bring in replacements and make due. 

The leftovers which we don’t know who or how many will be, will NOT get a tv contract dramatically more than what the AAC is getting.

Remember the AAC tv contract when it first started?

 

[Brad]

1 minute ago, Cubanbull said:

The leftovers which we don’t know who or how many will be, will NOT get a tv contract dramatically more than what the AAC is getting.

Remember the AAC tv contract when it first started?

 

 

[puc86]

2 minutes ago, Cubanbull said:

The leftovers which we don’t know who or how many will be, will NOT get a tv contract dramatically more than what the AAC is getting.

Remember the AAC tv contract when it first started?

 

Yes because no one knew what to do with the leftovers in life now there is a market and the teams being brought in as well as the leftovers are measurably more appealing. There is chance that a handful of teams from the B12 the best of the AAC, BYU and Boise get a better contract than the current AAC one, it’s not even debatable (not to mention that the way tv contracts have ballooned for the top of the food chain makes us no closer today than we were 8 years ago). A conference is definitely going to die from the fallout and the B12 will come out crippled, but it won’t be them.

[NewEnglandBull]

10 minutes ago, puc86 said:

Yes and that was still the better option than the three of us joining Cusa which is why no one even considered it, exactly like none of the teams even if they are left all alone will be joining the AAC. It would be them BYU, Boise, probably CSU or AF and then the best pickings of the AAC and that conference will be paid much less than the B12 but far more than the AAC and those left behind in the AAC they aren’t joining another conference either they will be joined by the best that remains and get paid less than the current AAC but more than joining another conference and the food chain will continue. Schools of minnows do not eat sharks no matter what internet memes would have us believe and schools do not go to lower conferences they either move up or bring in replacements and make due. 

If there are any teams left, and I not sure if that’s going to be the case, then you are correct Puc. 

6 minutes ago, Brad said:

 

I would still rather have the Big12 name but this guy makes a good point. 

[puc86]

6 minutes ago, Brad said:

 

That plan is great as long as it doesn’t fall apart with a single defection which would absolutely happen with 12 people. The game where two people split the money if they both agree, one person gets it if they say no and the other agrees and they both get nothing if neither agrees usually ends with one person getting everything. Try it 12 ways and it’s an absolute certainty.

[puc86]

19 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

If there are any teams left, and I not sure if that’s going to be the case, then you are correct Puc. 

I would still rather have the Big12 name but this guy makes a good point. 

Except that it doesn’t present the other data it claims is better, to your point ignores brand equity, isn’t just a matter of a merging the two entities and has other options, ignores that it’s not about just the highest vs the highest but removing the lowest and does not recognize that that fans from one entity can make gains with a perceived upgrade. This type of valuation is why @Triple B feels the way about Twitter that he does.

[Cubanbull]

What I’m saying is that whatever new thing pops up from the Big12 leftovers will make about as much as the AAC currently makes. You have 8 schools and none are a huge draw, you still don’t know how many will still be around. I’ll bet you right now that when all is set and done at least 2-4 more find other places to go.

What you will have is four left overs that no one wanted that will probably add or merge with AAC teams. That league Will probably keep the Big12 name but just as the old BigEast won’t be worth the same. I’ll say at most they will make 10 million max. Is that better than current AAC, sure but not by much and far from being a power conference. And playing Kansas State, Iowa State or Texas Tech won’t draw much more in Tampa.

I think USF will be fine and will end in some merge conference, that might be called Big12 but is basically the AAC with 3-4 leftovers no one wanted in the Power conferences