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Posted on 07/31/2023 8:29:27 AM PDT by FLNittany
College expansion has been a wild ride over the past year or so, and it doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon.
The Big Ten has spearheaded the movement. The storied conference adds USC and UCLA in 2024. It may not be done, either.
Barstool Sports' Jack McGuire is hearing a rumor that the Big Ten is adding four schools this week: Clemson, Florida State, Oregon and Washington.
That would poach two universities from the ACC - arguably its top-two athletics programs - and two from the Pac-12 - arguably its best as well, even with USC and UCLA in the mix.
Oregon and Washington have been rumored to the Big Ten for a while now, but the rumors died down recently. But Colorado's abrupt exit to the Big 12 has pretty much re-opened the door.
The expectation is that the Pac-12 is done for. Eventually, schools like Arizona, Arizona State and Utah will likely head to the Big 12. Oregon and Washington need a new home, and each belongs in the Big Ten.
Clemson and Florida State, meanwhile, probably make more sense for the SEC. But the Big Ten might want to enter the Florida recruiting market and tap into the Clemson roots.
Buckle up. It could be a busy week in college athletics.
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You’re onto something.
Bark Obama types hate men and sports. The Left has openly been feminizing every institution since the 80’s, and thinking about how to spread it since at least the 60’s.
They used to hate war until it became profitable as a money laundering operation.
Let the SEC take both Clemson and FSU. I don’t want them in these parts.
“Eventually there will only be two conferences?”
Taco Bell East and Taco Bell West
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that’s him
Add this to the pay to play for college athletes and small or less financialy attractive schools essentially become intermural sports programs.
De facto, this would make it so. You might have a bunch of other conferences, but they would all be 2nd tier.
I also remember a time of watching sports without legal gambling advertising.
Yup. It’s all just a dirty game now.
You can be gymnast/whore now too.
1. Meaningless pre-season games
2, Ohio State vs. Michigan
3. Post-season exhibition games.
I’m not fond of Earth currently. I like nature, humanity less so.
Should make for some great TV where I live
No. There will be one conference with two divisions. They will argue over whether to call it The BIG or the SEC. Unable to agree, they will compromise on The TBL, for The TVBucks League.
Yes but at one time it had the University of Chicago and the first Heisman Trophy Winner-Jay Berwanger, 1935.
The way I see it, if everyone is gonna be Big 10, no one is gonna be Big 10. “Big 10” will become a euphemism. How often will they ever play each other in conference? Every 3-5 years?
Do the Hokey-Pokey; that’s what it’s all about.
Yep.
Could careless.....
If they add Clempson and FSwho to the conference, that’ll make the conference even more ridiculous than this already is.
The Game!
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