Feels like all this conference bullstuff is really bad for hoops
Bad for everyone.
I think Jokic, even though heâs gotten in better shape, is still above 280.
#BodyByVlade
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Iâm probably wrong, but Iâm not sure I get the motivation to re-class to a school starting KJ Adams and Kevin McCullar at your potential spots.
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He was originally 2023, I believe. Sort of a re-class up because no one wanted him, re-class back because they do.
As far as why Kansas⌠I feel like thatâs pretty clear at this point.
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The conference realignment makes zero sense period. People will say FOOTBALL but it doesnât even make sense for that. All the TV money has to go somewhere, but I do wonder what the future holds as the streaming chaos evolves, ESPN lays off everyone youâve ever heard of, and Fox wakes up to realize theyâre paying Rutgers $60M a year and no one is watching them play except against Michigan, OSU, and USC. I donât even see how this makes sense for football scheduling, playoffs, logistics, competitive balance, etc. But short-sighted thinking when faced with someone throwing money at you is hard to ignore. I just canât see the value of teams like Oregon, Washington, etc. Notre Dame, ClemsonâŚokay. Thatâs it.
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CFB is the one sport that pro/rel makes a ton of sense. but would never happen
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Kansas does a great job of getting highly touted guys to sit behind other talented guys and still maintain great team chemistry.
Eg.
Jalen Wilson
Big Doke
David McCormack
Svi
Nadir Tharpe
Travis Releford
Kevin Young
Feels like Kansas is going to be what Alabama was for football for a long time before Georgia took over. In a tier by themselves.
Kansas roster is flawed imo that Hunter and Adams front court seems perfect for Hunter to whine and moan about floor spacing
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In this day and age, live sports programming is super valuable. Itâs one of the only remaining things where you still have a large captive audience for commercials, since most people want to watch the game as it happens. Networks might be losing money on other things but CFB most likely is not one of them.
I donât really know why itâs necessary for schools to be Big Ten members in every sport though. Why do we need USC and UCLA to be conference members for things like golf, cross country and whatnot? Membership for football only would work out pretty well for them. For the other sports itâs going to be a mess.
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I think it would be good for the NBA
Promotion/relegation canât happen for a million reason in any American sport many of which are cynically tied to finances and franchise value
But one people also miss is that, like, England and Spain have dozens and dozens of professional clubs that have existed for well over 100 years, ie, the volume of teams necessary for such a thing was in place
G League teams are owned by their parents, and minor league hockey and baseball teams may be âindependentâ but also donât individually contract any players
College football seems pretty obvious because there are 120+ teams and only like 40 are actually capable of competing (arguably only like 5 are at a time)
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Yeah, it would never happen but the one sport that might be possible is college football. It is also an interesting way to manage rampant conference expansion - which is currently happening unchecked without any sort of strategy in place. Imagine a 20 team B10 with two tiers also merged with the MAC to create three full tiers of teams that can promote/relegate. But it will never happen
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Yeah thatâs all why I think CFB is at least could theoretically happen cause it has the raw numbers of teams with built in fanbases that donât exist in other sports. The only way to do Pro/rel in a pro league in the US would be to add 10 teams, to have 20 teams up and 20 down. but for all the reasons stated, thatâs not gonna happen.
This doesnât make any sense to me. College football is exactly the sport it would never make any sense. The entire sport is being managed by the financials. Thatâs the opposite of pro/rel.
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Well itâs relative to pro sports where it has less than 0% chance. All US sports are managed by financials. I mean English football probably is too, but itâs an older country playing an older sport. had pro/rel not existed 100 years ago they wouldnât be implementing it now
CFB isnât dependent on franchise value for owners so it has a path that the others donât. and it has a number of tag along programs that are just kind of enjoying the ride (NW, Purdue, Vandy, Miss State) that the big schools may want to find a palatable way to be rid of them.
AC ended his post saying âit would never happenâ so I think anyone acknowledging it as something that could work is also acknowledging it would never happen
It just feels backward from the very real forces that we are seeing re-shape the sport.
No one is risking their financial standing or helping lesser schools out of the goodness of their hearts.
Much more likely that we end up with the âSuper Leagueâ in CFB, which was all about tearing down pro/rel in soccer.
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What is the point of all of this money anyway? So Michigan can have even bigger video boards? So Sparty can have a Tom Izzo strip club locker room? College boards and presidents should have gotten control of this long ago, but Iâm afraid the barn door has opened.
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cause the Super League and pro/rel could exist together theoretically. They could make the Super League but make it a 2 tiered system. If they had any kind of forward thinking they would be looking at that as something that can make them money
Not saying Coastal Carolina would be involved or anything.