Conference realignment
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Agreed. Greg Sankey (SEC Commish) isn't stupid. If he doesn't have the votes, there will be no official vote. Whether that has been determined already, who knows...
Seems to me that conference affiliations will become less and less relevant for downstream sports like wrestling. National qualifiers (may not even be NCAA qualifiers anymore) will become more regionally based. No requirements for conference duals either. May take awhile but I would believe this will occur.
Maybe TanTom will move the OSU wrestling room to a beach. I do see the new conference shuffle not being favorable to wrestling also.
AAU member schools:
By conference:
ACC: Duke, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Pitt, Virginia
B10: everybody except Nebraska
SEC: Florida, Missouri, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
B12: Iowa State, Kansas, Texas
P12: Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Spoiled Children, Utah, Washington
Rice, Tulane, and Buffalo all belong -- guessing B10 isn't interested in them.
Notre Dame doesn't belong, but B10 wouldn't care ... except for ACC having their rights for 15 more years.
Eierman will bring mizzou an NC
What clown wrote that nonsense ?
Holy Schnikies, was that horrible “journalism” / blogging/ hot garbage.
Interesting AAU article from the Yucks. I've never seen the year accepted into the AAU before:
Linky
I have to ask why aren't ND and BC members? Both are elite research universities
Here is the AAU Membership document:
Membership Policy | Association of American Universities (AAU)
AAU is an association of leading comprehensive research universities. Membership in AAU is by invitation only.
www.aau.edu
Hard to tell without seeing data. Maybe they're not soaking Washington enough?
The Big Ten and PAC 12 should announce a formal affiliation for football and basketball only- with an appropriate number of cross conference games ( no schools getting added or dropped).
Olympic sports would stay as they are today. As such, wrestling would stay just like it is today. The Big Ten is so dominant in wrestling that adding minor overall franchises like Okl. State and Iowa State- that have very good wrestling teams- would only add to the existing overwhelming dominance.
The two networks would continue to exist.
And I would like to see a relationship with the Rose Bowl that previously existed (e.g. big ten champ playing the Pac12 champ).
Olympic sports would stay as they are today. As such, wrestling would stay just like it is today. The Big Ten is so dominant in wrestling that adding minor overall franchises like Okl. State and Iowa State- that have very good wrestling teams- would only add to the existing overwhelming dominance.
The two networks would continue to exist.
And I would like to see a relationship with the Rose Bowl that previously existed (e.g. big ten champ playing the Pac12 champ).
Would need the Pac-12 to add 2 schools. The afflitiation would not need to include basketball. Create an alliance for football which results in each school playing 2 OOC games a year against the other conference. The goal would be to get the games in the 10 PM EST time slot to get more exposure for the Pac-12 schools in that time slot which should help increase TV revenue for both conferences.
Problem right now is nobody watches the Pac12 games that start at 10 PM EST. People would tune in to watch PSU, Ohio St, Michigan, MSU, etc in that time slot, even if they are playing Washington St.
Or just leave the 2 bottom feeders out of the football affiliation each year.
Or, Michigan and Ohio State can play each other a few more times each year.
Oh no that means BTN replays of Ohio State and Michigan everyday.🙄
That's different from today how?
Oklahoma State offers 2.1 million viewers for Football, and if you take out the OU, and Texas games it’s 1.6 million viewers. They also offer lots of the Dallas/FTW market.
They send lots of fans for travel for wrestling as well.
Dallas market is a mixture of
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
That's not how it works.
If Texas plays West Virginia and OKST plays Kansas at the same time, which game gets shown in Dallas? Hint: not OKST.
If you are giving those games then we’ll its not going to be either it’s going to be the A&M vs Arky game.
Which is why everything is moving to stream which OSU numbers wise is better than everyone besides UT, and UT-Norman.
If I read the AAU description correctly, it is focused on research and graduate education.
ND, with its terrific undergrad school, is primarily just that, an undergraduate university.
It is comparable to NW is certain aspects.
Much to do about nothing other than arranging a cease fire amongst the three. There is more and bigger coming as the B1G and SEC are the alpha dogs. The B1G eventually will be at least a conference of two divisions. Stay tuned. So much $$$ is involved. So much.
Maybe two "balanced" football divisions?
