morrison2951
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How about the Wake Forest facilities, Herbie?
dook over Wake in football, herbie?! :fu:
How about the Wake Forest facilities, Herbie?
This would be epic, but will never happen.
College ADs and conference presidents may be in the process of killing the golden goose. With passive aid from the NCAA
https://www.si.com/college/2022/07/06/acc-pac-12-espn-tv-partnership-discussions
I think this is best case scenario for Wake.
IMO I think it is unlikely the 2 conferences will go over 40 schools combined. Could even be less. They will probably form their own championship in a few years after the CFP expires. I then expect the remaining members of the other P5 conferences to form their own championships. I think of it like HS athletics. There will probably be different classifications AAA, AA, A. AAA is the Big 2. AA is the P5 schools and maybe a handful of G5 schools. A is the rest of the FBS (mostly G5). All three tiers have their own structure, their own playoffs, their own contracts, their own rules.
The last thing the SEC and Big Ten want is to have to prove their “dominance” on the field instead of on the Walmart rack, AP ballots, or corporate boardrooms.
The SEC has won 12 of the last 16 college football championships.
An SEC team. Not the whole SEC. An Alabama championship doesn’t mean Miss State is a tier above the rest of college football.
The Big Ten doesn’t even have a team winning championships.
Rafi, it’s unclear if the SEC will keep their rivalry games with the ACC.
An SEC team. Not the whole SEC. An Alabama championship doesn’t mean Miss State is a tier above the rest of college football.
The Big Ten doesn’t even have a team winning championships.
Rafi, it’s unclear if the SEC will keep their rivalry games with the ACC.
But sending your best to compete in a championship is obviously on the field.
If the end result is a 2 conference division that only schedules amongst its members, this will get really screwy with the transfer portal. With few exceptions, why would any of those teams want to recruit high schoolers when they can just treat the rest of the college football landscape as developmental leagues and recruit the top rising juniors who want to showcase for the NFL? Under this scenario, talent development will be even more important for the teams on the outside. Instead of the pitch to the high schooler being we can get you to the NFL, it will be we can get you to the SEC in two years. What a farse.
If the end result is a 2 conference division that only schedules amongst its members, this will get really screwy with the transfer portal. With few exceptions, why would any of those teams want to recruit high schoolers when they can just treat the rest of the college football landscape as developmental leagues and recruit the top rising juniors who want to showcase for the NFL? Under this scenario, talent development will be even more important for the teams on the outside. Instead of the pitch to the high schooler being we can get you to the NFL, it will be we can get you to the SEC in two years. What a farse.
Interesting. So during the 2021 football season Wake averaged 526K viewers per game to rank 56 out of 110 schools.
Duke averaged 64K viewers per game and were ranked 97.
Are we really debating whether the SEC is, by a wide margin, the best football conference?