Conference Alignments

[grizzh8r]

The ASUN-WAC is now the United Athletic Conference

Wow, that’s a catchy name. I’ll confuse it with Universal Athletics. But I guess no matter if the conference adds Maine and Hawaii, it still works. Clearly they aren’t through morphing. Quite honestly I’ve always liked Conference names that identify a region of the country — PAC-12, SEC, MVC, OVC, BSC, NSIC. I’ll never have any clue where the MAC (Mid-America is pretty non-specific, like between the great oceans) or Conference USA is located.

Oops. Hold on to that thought.
https://theathletic.com/4460388/2023/04 ... st-denied/

I hope they are allowed to proceed. There could be no higher fan honor than to be a United Athletic Supporter.

Well played!

[MSUBRONCO]

Seeing unofficially Dawgs and ducks leaveing pac 12 for big 10 starting 2024 or 2025

[MSUBRONCO]

Dawgs and ducks both have invites

[imacat]

Arizona is on the way out …

https://pistolsfiringblog.com/report-ar ... he-big-12/

[MSUBRONCO]

Arizona is on the way out …

https://pistolsfiringblog.com/report-ar ... he-big-12/

Yeo pac 12 is dead

[Cataholic]

Oregon and Washington make it official as well.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... ources-say

[allcat]

I wonder who gets to cash the buyout checks, or if with j ust 2 to 4 schools do they get anything? Right now Usc and UCLA and Colorado owe something. It appears Arizona, asu and Utah are going to the southern Big? With Washington and Oregon going to the northern Big? If the Pac were to merge with the Mountain, do they get the money from the eight that left. I predict employment for some graduates of the dance school to our west.

[oedipuss]

I wonder who gets to cash the buyout checks, or if with j ust 2 to 4 schools do they get anything? Right now Usc and UCLA and Colorado owe something. It appears Arizona, asu and Utah are going to the southern Big? With Washington and Oregon going to the northern Big? If the Pac were to merge with the Mountain, do they get the money from the eight that left. I predict employment for some graduates of the dance school to our west.

There is no buy out for any of the schools… The PAC 12 grant of rights ends at the end of this season - so everyone is free to leave. The PAC schools still owe Comcast $50 million dollars because they were over-payed for several years and the old commish didn’t tell anyone. It will be interesting to see how they solve that - and who gets the $35 million dollars annually that the PAC makes from owning 1/2 of the Rose Bowl game.

[allcat]

I wonder who gets to cash the buyout checks, or if with j ust 2 to 4 schools do they get anything? Right now Usc and UCLA and Colorado owe something. It appears Arizona, asu and Utah are going to the southern Big? With Washington and Oregon going to the northern Big? If the Pac were to merge with the Mountain, do they get the money from the eight that left. I predict employment for some graduates of the dance school to our west.

There is no buy out for any of the schools… The PAC 12 grant of rights ends at the end of this season - so everyone is free to leave. The PAC schools still owe Comcast $50 million dollars because they were over-payed for several years and the old commish didn’t tell anyone. It will be interesting to see how they solve that - and who gets the $35 million dollars annually that the PAC makes from owning 1/2 of the Rose Bowl game.

I've read that it ends in 2036.

[catgrad05]

Pretty sure the 2036 date is for the ACC, that is the only thing preventing Flordia State from moving to a different conference

[Montanabob]

WAC loses two non football schools.
back to being irrelevant.
so much for trying to convince GCU to play football.
https://wccsports.com/news/2024/5/10/ge ... mbers.aspx

[Montanabob]

spiders moving to patriot

https://www.si.com/college/fcs/patriot/ ... nce%202004.

[Danster21]

I would love if they specifically cited Flo as the reason. It’s just their football team moving which I feel like makes a ton of sense. The CAA is a basketball conference, and they ****** on their football conference these days. Delaware and JMU leaving should have been the writing on the wall but this should raise a huge red flag.

I hope W&M, Nova, and others (like Stony Brook) look at things and look to make similar moves to provide some necessary competition to the CAA

[John K]

All this movement is just insane. I may come off sounding like old "get off my lawn" guy, but I think it's ruining college sports for most people.

[CatBlitz]

All this movement is just insane. I may come off sounding like old "get off my lawn" guy, but I think it's ruining college sports for most people.

It's just not you.
Other than the Cats—and to a smaller extent Oregon (my "big" school)—I care very little about college football anymore. There's just nothing appealing to me about FBS football. It's a sham.

[Camo_Cat]

All this movement is just insane. I may come off sounding like old "get off my lawn" guy, but I think it's ruining college sports for most people.

It's just not you.
Other than the Cats—and to a smaller extent Oregon (my "big" school)—I care very little about college football anymore. There's just nothing appealing to me about FBS football. It's a sham.

And it's not just conference realignments...it's everything from that to NIL to the transfer portal. College football is becoming unrecognizable. And for those that think that all of this is favorable for the athletes, you may be right. But personally, I think it will become a HUGE burden to smaller schools like MSU and smaller conferences like the Big Sky. We aren't the big boys, as much as we all would like to think that we're relevant. Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, USC, etc. become even bigger than they are now and the rest of us will just subsidize their programs.

[Rich K]

https://www.codyenterprise.com/news/opi ... 91863.html

The author concludes this article with:

Having lived in Wyoming by choice for all these years, my sense is that participating in the Big Sky Conference (NCAA Division 1-AA) would be far more in keeping with our Wyoming values and way of life. To be sure, mere discussion of such a suggestion generates immediate and overwhelming opposition. Nonetheless, I would like to think that our university board of trustees has the courage to turn down millions of non-education dollars to protect the collegiate integrity of the athletic program and the teaching mission of the institution.

[coloradocat]

https://www.codyenterprise.com/news/opi ... 91863.html

The author concludes this article with:

Having lived in Wyoming by choice for all these years, my sense is that participating in the Big Sky Conference (NCAA Division 1-AA) would be far more in keeping with our Wyoming values and way of life. To be sure, mere discussion of such a suggestion generates immediate and overwhelming opposition. Nonetheless, I would like to think that our university board of trustees has the courage to turn down millions of non-education dollars to protect the collegiate integrity of the athletic program and the teaching mission of the institution.

at the last sentence!