New alliance any effect on wrestling
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Short answer: it will remain unchanged.
Until finalized, it seems the alliance is more so to help football then anything and adding in games against those conferences in men’s and women’s basketball. If anything it would seem to be irrelevant to a sport like wrestling where the number of pac 12 and acc schools total the BIG. It will not do anything in wrestling unless they held an exclusive tournament only open to those conferences. And even then you still won’t get that because the pac 12 in wrestling have 3 schools that are partners and would most likely not be included in that alliance agreement.
Until finalized, it seems the alliance is more so to help football then anything and adding in games against those conferences in men’s and women’s basketball. If anything it would seem to be irrelevant to a sport like wrestling where the number of pac 12 and acc schools total the BIG. It will not do anything in wrestling unless they held an exclusive tournament only open to those conferences. And even then you still won’t get that because the pac 12 in wrestling have 3 schools that are partners and would most likely not be included in that alliance agreement.
From the press conference yesterday the "Alliance" seems like nothing more than three undersized conference commissioners (who may be out of jobs in a year) creating a gentleman's agreement to "brainstorm" ideas on a regular basis. Really was nothing there at all and seems a bit of joke actually.
Yes. Since it was televised, I figured that some hard agreements had been put in place to offset the SEC's momentum. I realized, quickly, that this was nothing more than maybe, possibly, the three conferences can get together when they can and have competitions against each other in Football, Men's BB, and Women's BB.
An agreement to agree isn't actually an agreement in any meaningful sense (certainly not in a legal sense), so yeah, this just seemed silly, especially the sound bites about how these administrators feel they "owe it to the students." It reminded me a bit of the ill-considered/ill-fated "European Super League," which was a transparent short-term money grab that was being sold as something for the fans, who almost to a person passionately hated it.
Agreeing to talk is a step in the right direction, but PSU needs to look out for their own. Our top athletes need to be making bank with NIL. FAST. This becomes the number one recruiting tool, not facilities, not academics, not wins and loses.
I don't like it but the train is leaving the station
I don't like it but the train is leaving the station
Not only the top athletes, have you seen the BYU approach?
https://apnews.com/article/sports-c...ars-football-4ac6e186e0aa10b221af59a299f40077
Bureaucracy at it's finest. They held a press conference to announce that they had agreed to talk about agreeing to something.
The new Alliance is so strong that the USC & LSU football game is announced the very next day.
Unrelated to the announced alliance, but DEFINITELY related to wrestling…
In a lot of bowling leagues and pool leagues I have participated in the last week of the schedule is a "position round". 1st place team takes on the 2nd place team, 3rd place team takes on the 4th place team, etc. Maybe the B1G can adopt that in its scheduling, which will eliminate two undefeated teams tying for first place in the regular season.
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