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Fascinating article on a long ago "What if" scenario ....

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Ran across this looking for something else and found it hugely intriguing on what the trickle down effects would have been 30-40 years later ...

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Imagine the College Football Playoff beginning next season not with five, but six major conferences. The Big East is still at the table, but not splintered into a basketball...

 

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What a great article! Really drives home how a decision at x-time can come back to bite twenty or thirty years down the road! It seems reasonable to me that PSU would have anchored the media in the NE. And let's not forget, had this come to fruition, I can think of one particular school who would NOT have had a BE footprint. 🤔

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12 minutes ago, WoolyBully said:

What a great article! Really drives home how a decision at x-time can come back to bite twenty or thirty years down the road! It seems reasonable to me that PSU would have anchored the media in the NE. And let's not forget, had this come to fruition, I can think of one particular school who would NOT have had a BE footprint. 🤔

And that opens a whole nother line of discussion that I'll not be touching at this time ...

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1 minute ago, Triple B said:

whole nother line of discussion that I'll not be touching at this time

C'mon! Why do you insist on wearing a helmet every time you ride?! Roll that throttle, man! You know you want to! Give in! :FIREdevil:

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2 things here - the article discusses Cincinnati, but ignores USF

The article also ignores the A10, where Penn State wound up for basketball 

The A10 could have easily sponsored football in the 80s and been respectable, with PSU, Va Tech, WVU, Rutgers and maybe even Pitt (who left the A10 in ‘82)

Maybe even my alma matter (GWU) would have brought back football to compete in that league 

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23 minutes ago, WoolyBully said:

C'mon! Why do you insist on wearing a helmet every time you ride?! Roll that throttle, man! You know you want to! Give in! :FIREdevil:

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Great stuff!

Soon as I read "Fascinating article", I knew it wouldn't be behind the Tampa Bay Times paywall...

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1 hour ago, Brad said:

Great stuff!

Soon as I read "Fascinating article", I knew it wouldn't be behind the Tampa Bay Times paywall...

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Do you have licensing for that?  Seems Mr. Downey, Jr. should be making big bucks on you. :roflmao:

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Do you have licensing for that?  Seems Mr. Downey, Jr. should be making big bucks on you. :roflmao:

Honestly, I know I over use it but ****, it's so ******* perfectly portrays my reaction when reading some of these.

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