I don’t understand what legal basis the UC regents have for trying to stop the move. Powerful people are just butt hurt that their flagship school didn’t get the invite.
This would be like UNC Chapel Hill blocking us from going to the SEC.
This is a big deal. This could set some kind of precedent.
If I was a fan of UC Davis I would be like ok then why don’t you make Cal and UCLA be in our conference.
Such BS
Well, not like we haven’t seen states get involved before in college sports, whether it’s legislating that UK plays UofL annually in hoops, Virginia Tech gets “invited” to the ACC, etc.
Anyway, agree that it’s BS.
Good for them!
Some updates:
https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1601223771683459074
https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1601223774866903040
Call me a hypocrite, but I don’t think FBS needs this.
Also, shit like this:
Or Stephen F Austin’s field:
Schools trying to get into FBS I feel know that there is going to be a split in FBS and they dont want to be relegated down another level so they are trying to move up now.
clt says it is P2 and everything else now anyway
I don’t believe that is true just yet. Not until the B1G kills the PAC, and both conferences expand to 16.
At that point, yeah. 
The tricky part is that the B1G won’t wanna add both Oregon and Washington once they get Notre Dame.
SEC expansion is easy: FSU + Clemson.
Careful. That’s exactly the same sentiment the P5(or future P4) uses against us.
Relegation is the way to go, but it’s not going to happen. Or at least there’s been zero discussion about it. Plus, if there was relegation, we would have been relegated.
If this new FBS conference materializes it should reshuffle regionally with CUSA. I don’t know what type of money they’ll get under the new college football playoff compared to the other existing FBS conferences.
No one forget. The biggest story in conference realignment is the UCLA situation.
The board of regents meeting is this Wednesday.
If UCLA gets blocked, all hell is going to break loose.
This is a test case for what happens when a non flagship school gets a better conference affiliation than the flagship.
This is essentially the same as Charlotte getting an SEC invite.
Is anyone aware of an instance where a flagship has been passed in conference affiliation by a non flagship school?
I’d say A&M but Texas stayed behind by choice.
Universities are not ships.
FWIW, the University of Texas (13 institutions) and Texas A&M (11 institutions) are separate systems. As such, UT Austin and TAMU in College Station are the respective flagships of those systems. And one school - UT Arlington - was originally part of the TAMU system.
Texas is a big ass state.
Yes it is. And the University of Houston (4 institutions) and Texas Tech (5 institutions) are separate entities as well.
And almost forgot to mention that our conference mate North Texas is in a separate system as well.
