Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[Friscobull]

6 minutes ago, USFRaider said:

Well guys, I am out.  This will be my last post.  I have always said that should ucf get to the P5 and we are left behind, I would stop following college football altogether and after this season, I am going to live up to that.  I won't be renewing my season tickets next year, as I will spend the money on more trips out to Las Vegas to see the Raiders.  It was fun while it lasted, but it is time to move on.  Best of luck to everyone on here.

Yep, hopefully it is nothing like the Jonesy fare well thread that went on for weeks.  Good luck bro, many will not announce but simply fade away.  May the gambling gods smile down upon you in sin city.

 

[Brad]

4 minutes ago, USFBULL_08 said:

Leavitt curse is real and alive.

Until we make up with him we are doomed.

Maybe that would be a proper way to end it, or turn it around.

People talk about the fan base and its struggles.  It was forever fractured when they fired Leavitt.  Many have never and swear they will never come back.  And it's not big enough to afford fracturing, hence all the "Bulls United",  "US2F", etc. They know it.   Kelly had his chance when replacing Strong.  He kicked that can to eternity.

[Peatearpan]

50 minutes ago, MSBulls said:

We need to start looking into AAC replacements now. My opinion? UAB, FAU, Marshall. Thoughts?

Bottom line - expansion is not done at the highest level yet. SEC will have 16 teams, Big 10 and ACC with 14, and PAC 12 and Big 12 at 12. Inevitably there will be more movement to even out the conferences, and teams being stolen from the Big 12 is still highly likely (Kansas, OKSt, ect)

I look at this upcoming period of time as the third strike and final opportunity for the program. We're one of the biggest G5s left, and are finally getting facilities that look to be amazing which would dwarf many teams on our level. The only expectation moving forward is for the program to turn around into a consistent G5 heavyweight with our resources and location. With CFP expansion, we could be one of those top G5 teams competing with the likes of Boise and Memphis for that G5 spot as well. Anything short of fighting with the teams at the top of the G5 is a failure, and without question we should be competing for the conference. This is our last opportunity to align ourselves with a chance to get back to a high level.

It sucks and pisses me off like many others who know where we were, but we just screwed ourselves 12 years ago not building on our successes, and collapsing when missing out on expansion years ago. If we're now committing to athletics and facilities, it may take a couple years but let's see what the hell we can do with it

EDIT- I want App State instead of Marshall

I say keep Marshall, and swap Ga State in for FAU.

[BulledOver]

You see ucf come back on boise that is a sign of a really good team. You see App State beat up on ECU who was picked as better than USF it shows there is a trend in parity among G5. I can be bummed that USF isn't getting invited to the party but, it was always based on our past achievements, our geographical location, our academic strength and........Our potential to build a Winner...ucf? They did it. Say what you might but them but..maybe their plan should be looked at by the USF power brokers. They are getting their reward $$ if all this goes down for a plan and many years of hard work, promotion and success on the field.  

[Peatearpan]

29 minutes ago, puc86 said:

I don’t question using your money to go to vegas but to go to vegas to watch the raiders seems like the worst use of your time in vegas that I can come up with. Good luck and Godspeed it was fun while it lasted.

And well earned 

How do we get rid of said curse?

[puc86]

2 minutes ago, Peatearpan said:

How do we get rid of said curse?

Don’t do bad things that destroy your program for no explicable reason 

[mj796]

16 hours ago, puc86 said:

 I am politely indifferent to the nickname I just don't know that we are close enough to have pet names for one another as for the values of the programs unless you think things have drastically changes in two years the WSJ sees the valuations much the same way that I do. Facts unfortunately do not care about the feelings that drive most people's perceptions on what is or what will be. 

 

 

RANK	SCHOOL	REVENUES ($)	2018 VALUE ($)	2017 VALUE ($)
1	Texas	163,928,296	1,105,493,378	1,243,124,000
2	Ohio State	136,574,384	1,048,166,317	1,510,482,000
3	Alabama	140,831,439	1,009,903,620	930,001,000
4	Michigan	133,665,548	924,625,003	892,951,000
5	Notre Dame	118,740,294	913,401,562	856,938,000
6	Georgia	138,088,467	891,099,506	822,310,000
7	Oklahoma	126,416,865	885,558,053	1,001,967,000
8	Auburn	128,960,499	871,907,615	724,191,000
9	LSU	122,703,938	852,445,897	910,927,000
10	Tennessee	113,766,836	727,849,384	745,640,000
11	Florida	117,963,328	634,885,946	682,031,000
12	Texas A & M	101,114,415	540,883,003	522,863,000
13	Penn State	103,736,242	518,754,453	549,497,000
14	Wisconsin	88,713,614	474,552,451	439,379,000
15	Nebraska	93,990,274	471,585,561	507,679,000
16	Arkansas	99,599,352	462,727,317	456,153,000
17	South Carolina	101,297,652	460,753,199	484,757,000
18	Iowa	100,040,046	458,973,690	483,564,000
19	Washington	102,248,826	440,821,919	434,313,000
20	Michigan State	75,674,898	354,160,110	336,794,000
21	Oregon	81,953,780	348,920,032	368,529,000
22	Mississippi	78,736,032	341,560,846	330,503,000
23	Southern California	74,174,551	326,021,581	324,195,000
24	UCLA	64,845,985	302,006,607	314,436,000
25	Arizona State	70,375,000	300,826,000	315,412,000
26	Clemson	72,218,581	298,051,865	328,411,000
27	Florida State	94,597,591	289,776,745	385,339,000
28	Virginia Tech	65,851,157	278,315,358	269,883,000
29	Kansas State	68,787,446	277,146,330	277,203,000
30	Oklahoma State	63,909,363	270,953,731	285,293,000
31	Kentucky	66,574,141	270,898,513	287,589,000
32	Minnesota	73,576,081	269,798,883	260,264,000
33	Texas Tech	61,914,432	244,097,131	246,871,000
34	Stanford	68,340,862	232,872,852	225,479,000
35	Miss State	50,754,094	223,175,464	230,655,000
36	Georgia Tech	59,422,543	215,013,855	212,068,000
37	Utah	61,344,782	213,586,437	206,365,000
38	Colorado	72,425,832	208,242,792	203,533,000
39	Kansas	64,704,137	208,020,519	183,031,000
40	California Berkeley	61,566,987	198,881,848	220,017,000
41	Miami of Florida	47,820,654	193,474,341	254,502,000
42	Texas Christian	66,084,236	191,286,297	153,631,000
43	Iowa State	47,732,812	187,819,863	196,973,000
44	Indiana	61,193,975	181,988,355	178,168,000
45	Northwestern	58,545,202	179,637,659	163,315,000
46	North Carolina State	51,911,816	179,255,274	191,813,000
47	Louisville	58,011,677	175,765,264	160,899,000
48	Arizona	51,865,116	166,020,258	146,153,000
49	Illinois	52,784,303	156,797,041	143,318,000
50	North Carolina	50,024,180	155,246,919	147,179,000
51	Maryland	49,907,652	149,751,824	147,608,000
52	Wash State	51,125,157	142,466,371	142,052,000
53	Virginia	31,675,701	134,926,313	168,534,000
54	Purdue	55,132,293	134,004,805	135,021,000
55	Oregon State	48,212,470	127,555,982	144,713,000
56	Missouri	42,568,466	122,333,162	126,219,000
57	Syracuse	44,613,716	121,057,725	120,903,000
58	Pittsburgh	48,091,636	112,942,437	114,468,000
59	Baylor	50,465,954	105,708,897	103,591,000
60	BYU	32,704,695	93,302,419	98,924,000
61	Vanderbilt	36,915,107	81,494,539	73,991,000
62	Boston College	37,155,617	81,051,159	82,241,000
63	Boise State	27,172,138	78,823,574	77,981,000
64	Wake Forest	32,604,709	76,590,240	52,940,000
65	Central Florida	29,550,300	68,117,425	82,302,000
66	Duke	35,987,926	67,502,331	64,195,000
67	Rutgers	35,376,322	67,018,106	72,441,000
68	West Virginia	34,050,353	61,134,888	72,049,000
69	South Florida	24,026,107	58,188,736	70,189,000
70	Connecticut	32,695,983	56,065,312	59,776,000
71	UAB	28,840,003	49,527,523	N/A
72	Houston	22,613,559	41,385,725	41,386,000
73	Temple	25,992,000	40,668,751	40,669,000
74	Southern Methodist	21,848,464	36,047,017	36,047,000
75	Memphis	19,849,064	32,289,623	32,290,000
76	Wyoming	20,381,998	31,958,278	34,554,000
77	Cincinnati	21,140,792	30,230,291	30,230,000
78	Colorado State	20,588,154	29,387,009	30,221,000
79	East Carolina	18,270,690	28,407,940	28,408,000
80	San Diego State	19,148,065	27,715,793	27,716,000
81	Fresno State	18,658,904	26,465,123	29,325,000
82	North Texas	15,870,821	26,435,533	29,266,000
83	Hawaii	16,823,588	26,284,393	26,284,000
84	Florida International	16,435,347	23,269,107	24,145,000
85	UNLV	14,741,875	22,116,472	21,772,000
86	Ohio	14,749,167	22,081,346	22,302,000
87	Rice	15,429,983	21,452,498	21,453,000
88	Marshall	13,067,058	20,707,560	21,483,000
89	Akron	12,354,872	20,494,710	20,235,000
90	Middle Tennessee	13,572,649	19,288,110	19,322,000
91	Toledo	13,339,849	18,735,651	18,736,000
92	UTEP	12,808,393	18,701,471	19,344,000
93	Utah State	13,904,944	18,304,858	18,305,000
94	Nevada	14,023,542	17,477,801	17,478,000
95	Western Michigan	12,863,908	17,133,922	17,134,000
96	Western Kentucky	13,764,592	16,531,955	16,532,000
97	Buffalo	12,283,034	15,885,812	16,090,000
98	Northern Illinois	10,300,855	15,728,575	16,141,000
99	New Mexico	16,789,019	15,380,142	15,380,000
100	Troy	13,247,801	15,220,137	14,879,000

I honestly thought we were close enough...really sad day for me today

[NewEnglandBull]

6 minutes ago, puc86 said:

Don’t do bad things that destroy your program for no explicable reason 

That ship sailed 

[NewEnglandBull]

11 minutes ago, Peatearpan said:

I say keep Marshall, and swap Ga State in for FAU.

Coastal and App State for best quality 

[puc86]

3 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

That ship sailed 

I’m not sure what could be done at this point we seem pretty pot committed to a failing course, in for a penny in for a pound