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Post by Den60 on Jun 11, 2024 14:55:51 GMT -8
We were supposed to be in a best of the rest conference with those exact schools 12 years ago. They are now haves with 30 million dollar a year media deals. Makes me think San Diego State & Boise State should have made that jump to the Big East/American & Big West. It would have set the tone that we were the only Non-P5 schools worth a damn that were west of the rocky mountains... Instead Boise backed out to become Kings of the molehill and we had to follow back with our tail between our legs. During the whole PAC speculation, we were valued to be anywhere from 10 to 15 million per year for a power conference... We currently get 3 million per year thanks to all the dreck in the MWC. I'm ready to jump to anything with a new name and different set of schools. If we'd moved to the Big West for basketball we never would have made it to the NCAA Championship game. We wouldn't even have gotten close to the Final Four, IMO. Yep. I was against the move to the Big East at the time. I'm not sure I would be for being added to the ACC if there isn't an accounting for geography. ACC has to come out here and add 4 schools west of the Rockies. Not even really a fan of travel in the B12 to be honest. |
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Post by AzTex on Jun 11, 2024 15:15:20 GMT -8
If we'd moved to the Big West for basketball we never would have made it to the NCAA Championship game. We wouldn't even have gotten close to the Final Four, IMO. Yep. I was against the move to the Big East at the time. I'm not sure I would be for being added to the ACC if there isn't an accounting for geography. ACC has to come out here and add 4 schools west of the Rockies. Not even really a fan of travel in the B12 to be honest. Too far to travel for too many games as far as I'm concerned with the ACC. Travel to the old Big 12 would have been fine before they added Central Florida, Cincinnati and West Virginia. I do like their fan base in general. I've been to games at Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. Very fun trips, even is we didn't always come home with a win. |
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Post by aztecm on Jun 11, 2024 15:35:44 GMT -8
Pretty sure when we were riding the realignment rollercoaster JD the AD said the Big 12 travel was too much from a budget standpoint for us to entertain going there (this was before adding the 4 corners). That's why any sort of best-of-the-rest conference with half the teams on the east coast or ACC without a western pod sounds fun but isn't going to work. Math just doesn't check out.
Any new conference affiliation has to have a level of regionalism for a school that doesn't have a massive endowment.
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Post by bigdude619 on Jun 11, 2024 18:46:14 GMT -8
A best of the rest conference only works if you can get a decent tv deal. I wonder if Turner sports would be interested since they're gonna lose the NBA? They're already gonna show a couple of football playoff games. Maybe something like TNT gets a Thursday night game and weekend games split between TBS, TruTv, and Max.
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Post by chris92065 on Jun 11, 2024 20:08:08 GMT -8
A best of the rest conference only works if you can get a decent tv deal. I wonder if Turner sports would be interested since they're gonna lose the NBA? They're already gonna show a couple of football playoff games. Maybe something like TNT gets a Thursday night game and weekend games split between TBS, TruTv, and Max. I think once the 32-40 teams split from the ncaa they will be tier 1. The next 64 teams will split from the ncaa to form tier 2. Whoever is left will merge with division 2. The 64 schools will be regional base. North south east and west. It actually will be a good league with a lot of big name teams In it who get left out. We will be part of pac 2.0. No question. My guess: Oregon St Wash St Cal Stan Arizona BYU SDSU Either Utah or Colorado depending who the networks done want for tier 1. Houston TCU Iffy Boise St Unlv Corado St New Mexico Gonzaga Fresno state |
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Post by jdaztec on Jun 11, 2024 20:53:19 GMT -8
That would be a pretty good conference
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Post by jp92grad on Jun 11, 2024 21:09:08 GMT -8
A best of the rest conference only works if you can get a decent tv deal. I wonder if Turner sports would be interested since they're gonna lose the NBA? They're already gonna show a couple of football playoff games. Maybe something like TNT gets a Thursday night game and weekend games split between TBS, TruTv, and Max. I think once the 32-40 teams split from the ncaa they will be tier 1. The next 64 teams will split from the ncaa to form tier 2. Whoever is left will merge with division 2. The 64 schools will be regional base. North south east and west. It actually will be a good league with a lot of big name teams In it who get left out. We will be part of pac 2.0. No question. My guess: Oregon St Wash St Cal Stan Arizona BYU SDSU Either Utah or Colorado depending who the networks done want for tier 1. Houston TCU Iffy Boise St Unlv Corado St New Mexico Gonzaga Fresno state Curious about Arizona State, SMU and Texas Tech., they really do not seem to be Tier 1 material but are a nice fit for a tier2 conference Adding in those schools to the above list and you are talking about a SOLID conference. ASU-Size alone SMU-Seems to really be on the up with big $$$ boosters TT-Seems like a nice fit for tier 2, not really Tier1 |
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Post by chris92065 on Jun 11, 2024 21:45:01 GMT -8
I think once the 32-40 teams split from the ncaa they will be tier 1. The next 64 teams will split from the ncaa to form tier 2. Whoever is left will merge with division 2. The 64 schools will be regional base. North south east and west. It actually will be a good league with a lot of big name teams In it who get left out. We will be part of pac 2.0. No question. My guess: Oregon St Wash St Cal Stan Arizona BYU SDSU Either Utah or Colorado depending who the networks done want for tier 1. Houston TCU Iffy Boise St Unlv Corado St New Mexico Gonzaga Fresno state Curious about Arizona State, SMU and Texas Tech., they really do not seem to be Tier 1 material but are a nice fit for a tier2 conference Adding in those schools to the above list and you are talking about a SOLID conference. ASU-Size alone SMU-Seems to really be on the up with big $$$ boosters TT-Seems like a nice fit for tier 2, not really Tier1 I think Colorado and arizona state make the cut for market size being Phoenix and Denver. |
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Post by aztecfred on Jun 11, 2024 21:57:00 GMT -8
A best of the rest conference only works if you can get a decent tv deal. I wonder if Turner sports would be interested since they're gonna lose the NBA? They're already gonna show a couple of football playoff games. Maybe something like TNT gets a Thursday night game and weekend games split between TBS, TruTv, and Max. . Let's go streaming if the money is there. Prime, Netflix, Apple whomever! It's not about the fans, it's about the MONEY!! |
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Post by aztecfred on Jun 11, 2024 22:03:14 GMT -8
I think once the 32-40 teams split from the ncaa they will be tier 1. The next 64 teams will split from the ncaa to form tier 2. Whoever is left will merge with division 2. The 64 schools will be regional base. North south east and west. It actually will be a good league with a lot of big name teams In it who get left out. We will be part of pac 2.0. No question. My guess: Oregon St Wash St Cal Stan Arizona BYU SDSU Either Utah or Colorado depending who the networks done want for tier 1. Houston TCU Iffy Boise St Unlv Corado St New Mexico Gonzaga Fresno state Curious about Arizona State, SMU and Texas Tech., they really do not seem to be Tier 1 material but are a nice fit for a tier2 conference Adding in those schools to the above list and you are talking about a SOLID conference. ASU-Size alone SMU-Seems to really be on the up with big $$$ boosters TT-Seems like a nice fit for tier 2, not really Tier1 Why do I feel like we would be left out of Tier 2? Deja vu? |
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