Posted on 07/22/2021 8:52:42 AM PDT by C19fan
During a conversation in May, one of the people I respect and trust most in college athletics dropped this on me, unsolicited: “Keep an eye on Texas and Oklahoma.” The person suspected that the two traditional power programs in the Big 12 were again getting the wandering eye, a decade after nearly leaving that league in ruins and radically changing the national landscape.
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Add in Ohio State and Clemson, kick out Vanderbilt and Tennessee, and you could shut down the rest of college football.
It’s time to put college football out of its misery. Just shut it down. Let the NFL run its own farm system. If some students want to play football as a club sport, fine. But no scholarships, no tv, and no highly paid coaches.
When will SEC stop meaning “Southeast”?
“Add in Ohio State and Clemson, kick out Vanderbilt and Tennessee, and you could shut down the rest of college football.”
*****
They should form a super conference and abandon the NCAA.
Woke
Paying college players, along with goofy expansions, will be the death of “ college “ sports.
Just create a minor league football for those athletes who don’t really care about education, and let “ universities “ field football teams with REAL students.
SECond to NONE!.....................
College Football is dead. I expect a lot of schools to drop football in the coming years.
You’d still have the Pac-10. Er, Pac-12 I mean. Maybe the Pac-15 someday.
UT and ou will get clobbered over there. At least for a while.
no wants the "competition" to mean the same 4-8 teams with their million dollar players.....
nearly done with it all...
May as well just make two divisions ... East and West.
Right after "Big Ten" stopped meaning ten schools.
They might as well go Pro/Reg like in soccer.
Have a “Premier League” of the best 15 programs, with each team playing each other, and the bottom three teams dropping to the next level the next season.
Arkansas, A&M, Nebraska and Missouri all wanted out of a conference (SWC & Big Twelve) which had UT as a member. Why would three of them allow UT to join now? A&M will fight this and I can’t imagine Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, LSU, Georgia or Auburn going along. How would it benefit them?
I also don’t believe the Oklahoma state legislature would allow OU to leave Oklahoma State behind.
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