Expansion Thread 2023

[GoBearcats31]

Thamel — Sources: The Big 12's presidents and chancellors voted unanimously Friday night to admit Arizona State and Utah. They did the same last night for Arizona. All three at on the way, pending a Board of Trustees vote in Utah to formalize their move.

Big 12 official https://twitter.com/big12conference/...429-7Zsp1zj4Tg

[Illuminerdski]

An idea I like for scheduling would be 4 "pods" playing a 9 game season. A teams pod would play yearly as rivals. The team would then play 4 teams from another pod for a 2 year home-away series. After that 2 year cycle, change the pod which guarantees a team plays every team twice every 6 years. The two remaining games would be against a team in each of the remaining pods. This allows a team to play a team from each pod yearly. That is assuming the NCAA does not force the conference into divisions. If so, ignore me. You never saw this.

[Lobot]

I regret to inform you that the endgame for all this is a single 130 team mega conference……..and Notre Dame. 🤣

[JohnFrancis]

Arizona football is slowly but surely on an upward trajectory under HC Jedd Fisch (worked for Rams and Patriots)...recruiting massively improving under Fisch.

[swilsonsp4]

This is pretty funny:

Pac-4: Conference of Champions

[Lobot]

This is pretty funny:

Pac-4: Conference of Champions

That is great. Somebody is either a really fast web designer or had some time on their hands ahead of time.

[bearcatbret]

This is pretty funny:

Pac-4: Conference of Champions

This is actually very sad (yes it is funny). I just keep thinking how college sports is being destroyed.

[bearcatbret]

Here is a summary of the winners and losers. Conference realignment winners, losers: Oregon comes up short in Big Ten move, Arizona fits in Big 12 (msn.com)

[bearcatbret]

What might happen with the PAC 4. Could Mountain West and Pac-12 merge into a single, 16-team conference? (msn.com)

[Lobot]

If you’re able to, read this entire thread from Jordan Acker on expansion and the NCAA. Acker is a UMich regent and nails this one.

https://twitter.com/jordanackermi/status/1688240170682769409?s=46

[bearcatbret]

If you’re able to, read this entire thread from Jordan Acker on expansion and the NCAA. Acker is a UMich regent and nails this one.

https://twitter.com/jordanackermi/st...682769409?s=46

Cannot read past the first paragraph.

[bearcatbret]

Finally, someone wrote it. It is consolidation not realignment. When will the TV money people no longer want to pay for the likes of Indiana, etc. Column: It's not conference realignment. It's consolidation and no one is safe in the dash for cash (yahoo.com)

[Lobot]

This is also a decent writeup on what just happened. Possibly paywalled ($)

https://www.extrapointsmb.com/p/didnt-way

[D.A.H.]

Cannot read past the first paragraph.

if you use twitter, this is broken down into roughly a dozen tweets - you can find it all there.

[Chewbacca2099]

Some new updates are starting to flow in... Cal/Stanford are most likely to end up in the ACC... the travel is going to be a nightmare but it gets the late night spots ESPN craves. WSU/OSU are screwed and likely end up in the MWC unless ESPN tells the Big12 to take them too. PAC4 met with MWC this morning but Stanford/Cal not onboard with that merger and most likely headed to ACC which is craziness.

SEC is also telling ESPN they would go-to a 9game conference schedule if they add 2more teams (to keep up with the B1G) and most likely FSU/Clemson.