Another reason why NWA has a point is because the player numbers donât work. The NFL constantly finds players outside of the top 30 that are very high quality talent. You canât pool all of the best players on those 30 teams as well because the good players want to play. The goal of college is to get exposure for the next level. This is why the transfer portal keeps growing year after year. I donât see a model being successful where the top 30 teams rule all of college football and the rest shut it down or tear stadiums down. The donors and students will always put their funds/fees in the school they love versus a commercial brand.
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Nobody is saying there wonât be football outside a super league.
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Like Run said, nobody is saying the other schools have to shut it down. Itâll just be different division, different playoffs, etc. Itâs already happening. The SEC, FSU and Clemson have been the NC for 16 out the last 17 seasons. The P5 are allotted more spots to the playoffs. This isnât anything new.
https://twitter.com/ByPatForde/status/1697349499742462339
https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/08/31/acc-should-expand-stanford-cal-smu
No, I donât. Like I said, many schools have not won their respective conferences in decades, and not a single one of them has tried to move âdownâ a conference. In fact, if anything, all of have tried to move âupâ. Most fans want their team to be the best in the country. If youâre not in that conference/division, you canât do that.
I think parity will level out some and if it doesnât, they very well might try to institute it in some fashion.
FYI from 2022:
And this from 2021 [NOTE: the 767 number omits JUCO schools]:
yeah I dont see that happening. in fact for the most part I think its healthier for a conference to just have a max of just two teams per state. for the most part to prevent road blocks from forming that are against the interest of other state schools that are participants in the conference. I mean for the most part most of the acc schools blame the tobacco mafia for ruining the conference because it always seemed they just considered what was best for the nc schools instead of what was best for the whole conference.
https://twitter.com/LukeDeCock/status/1697419040208175151
https://twitter.com/TrayABC11/status/1697419321037771230
also not sure if how legit this is but it could get interesting tomorrow if chapel hill is throwing a fit right now
FWIW, the now defunct Southwest had 8 Texas schools. Current Big XII has 4 from the Lone Star State, as does the AAC. And the âon life supportâ Pac-12 with 4 California schools. Not even going to look at the one time 16 team WAC before the schism with the Mountain West schools.
clt says that decock guy seems quite arrogant and should use the proper name of that school
This makes me want to welcome Stanford to the ACC. I will always side against a strong majority of any freaking group of tarholes
Right but many of those schools are still having winning seasons and bowl games over that time frame because G5 programs and the very bottom dwellers. Take them out and suddenly programs a custom to winning wonât be.
I just donât see it as sustainable unless they institute something to give all the fanbases hope and I donât see the top brands doing anything about that. And as Iâve said I think the media are over playing their hand if they think they can manage this all like they do the NFL. College fandom and emotion is very different.
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Chapel Hill has historically ran the ACC (just like Alabama has historically ran the SEC) so it will be interesting to see how this vote plays out.
Well there goes any chance of pac picking off aac schools. Now itâs come join us or merger with us or Mwc for OSU and WSU.
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None of this is going to stop FSU, Clemson and CHeat from leaving, first chance they get.
And when they do, youâre left with this:
(Side note, I really wish I could do conference maps - I donât know how people spit them out so easily):
Boston College
Cal Berkeley
Duke
Georgia Tech
Louisville
Miami
North Carolina State
Pittsburgh
Southern Methodist
Stanford
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
What an absolute hodge podge of schools with no clear flagship programs in football.
Looks a whole lot like some iteration of the Big East football league with a handful of southern and western schools thrown in.
Also, the PAC is officially dead.