1. Your college team doesn't simply up and move for more money and a better stadium deal.
2. Your college team didn't have to deal with contract hold-outs.
3. Your college team (maybe only nominally but still...) is made up of students. If you were a student too you saw these guys on campus (I did back in the day.) And sometimes you saw them back on campus even after they had gone pro, completing their degrees.
Ah well, times are changing. Not necessarily fo the better, but changing....
The ACC, the Big 12, and the Pac-12 (soon to be Pac-10), should join into one coast-to-coast, South Florida to Washington state, conference.
Oh Boo freakin’ hoo! The West Coast is crying that THEY don’t get enough attention?......................
You’re going to see a lot of schools starting to drop football or go to a lower division because they simply cannot keep up.
I disagree. Division I college football was not only the only sport that did not have a playoff, it was the only division of college football that did not have a playoff. That was an utter travesty. The media often got to pick who would be crowned national champs and they picked several teams that most fans thought were unworthy.
Also, worthy contenders would not be matched against each other - sometimes one or both would deliberately duck one another - depriving fans of great matchups that absolutely should have happened. We not only should have had a playoff, we should have had one much sooner. And 4 teams is not enough. We need to expand the playoff to 8. Bear in mind that the other divisions of college football have 16 team playoffs. 8 is hardly too much considering there are about 130 Division I teams....so its not like teams that barely have a winning record are going to be able to sneak in.
As for the conferences, we will see. The PAC could have positioned itself very nicely had they done what I was telling everybody they needed to do over a decade ago which was invite Texas and Oklahoma and allow them to bring Oklahoma State and Texas Tech along as travel partners. The PAC would have had several name brand programs, as well as the two anchors of the Texas and California markets for viewers and recruits. They could have then stood up to the Big 10 and SEC and been quite competitive. Instead they sat on their hands and did nothing. Now look at them. Its their own fault.
The SEC and Big 10 are a lot richer and stronger than anybody else. The ACC could still be viable if they could secure Notre Dame but the PAC and Big 12 are no longer major conferences. Even combined they would not be a major conference.
We stopped watching sports, pro and college, a few years ago.
This won’t get us back.
The BEST college football is played in Division III.
Go Scots!
The problem with PAC football is the lack of fans. A couple of years ago, UCLA hosted the University of Oklahoma for a game at the Rose Bowl. Even with UCLA giving away free tickets, the stands were half empty. When UCLA visited OU the next year, it was a sell out. Do you see a trend?
Maybe all of the teams can eventually be in one giant super-conference. That would make things totally different.
The beginning of the end was Oklahoma suing the NCAA in the 80s to gain access to their own TV rights.
From that time on it slowly became all about the money.
Traditional rivalries have already gone away. Oklahoma/Nebraska, Pitt/Penn State etc. That ship sailed long ago.
Now ESPN, who own the rights to the SEC do 100% hype and happily celebrate and downgrade any successes outside of the Big 10 and SEC.
Today could likely be the end of the PAC
It’s network greed and the Haves putting it to the have-nots
I went from supporting the NFL until they purposely went woke, to the NCAA. It is not that big a move to no football, of the CFL. The players make too much, it has ruined the games both pro and College. It is all about point spreads, FF and gambling now.
I am sad, us older fellas have been screwed once more.