Oh, if you’re talking about the model that Seth at MGoBlog is promoting - I’m all in. Partner with the Pac-12 on a TV contract and revenue sharing. Set up consistent cross-conference games every year and play a championship in the Rose Bowl. I’m sold - makes a ton of sense, aligns like-minded schools, gives you a cross-country presence for fan interest, TV times even line up nicely so you can watch games all day and night, gets you a strong presence in all sports without just focusing on football, etc.
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I haven’t heard Seth’s proposal but I have heard Sam talk about the Pac-12 and maybe he’s on that page too.
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Relegation among PAC, BIG, WAC, and MAC would be great. I think it would pay for itself too.
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What does this mean?
it means I think it’s a tight idea. I would totes be down
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I meant I don’t know what the idea is you referred to
Just responding to @AC1997’s idea of European soccer-style relegation for a college conference. I think that would be cool. But I know it’s not really possible. Just sounded neat.
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If regulation is such a popular idea then why don’t we try it here on the board? Say, just for example, if anyone happened to have a really ugly shirt, they would be relegated to only getting to post once a day or something until they sell it and buy a Big Dickinson Energy shirt.
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I’m not a big soccer guy but I believe that the worst teams in the Premiere League get booted down to a lower league for the following season and have to win their way out of it back up to the P.L.
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That’s correct. The Premier League just began their season, and one of the teams that got promoted to the league (from the lower league) was Brentford, a team that hadn’t played in the top tier for about 3/4 of a century.
They went on to beat Arsenal, a traditional power in their first game 2-0, delighting everyone in the world who wasn’t already an ardent Arsenal supporter.
Relegation is a fun idea for fans, but has about a 1 in a gazillion chance of happening in the Big Ten. What happens to the finances of the schools that get demoted? There’s just no way that any school that would ever be in danger of being demoted would vote for such a proposal. And probably 3/4 of the league has finished in last in their division in the not too distant past. Imagine trying to sell season tickets for a MAC schedule.
Now if Kansas wants to join the Big Ten and accept a permanent relegation to the MAC for football, that might work.
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I think it could work within an expanded Big Ten. Two divisions and the bottom team from the top league gets relegated to the second division and the next two worst teams have a one off game to determine the second team relegated. Same for the second division- top team gets promoted and teams 2 and 3 have a one off for promotion. Make it so teams in the top division split 60% of the revenue and teams in the bottom division split 40%…or make it 51/49 so there are some minor financial stakes.
Of course as I’m typing this I realize it would never happen but it would be pretty fun for the fans if it did.
It would be fun for half of the fans…
It would never happen with the MAC. That’s entirely too generous to the MAC. But if the B1G expanded and became a 24 team conference or something that’s the only way it’s gonna happen (but it’s not going to happen)
Pro/rel just doesn’t really make any sense for college sports IMO.
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the bar is high in South Bend
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Relegation is never coming to the US in any form. It represents an enormous loss of $$ for any incumbent and none of those not currently making huge $$ has any leverage to insist that it happen.
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Do you have a link to Seth’s idea? I’m struggling to see how the $$ works unless it’s a contract to play all out of conference games with the PAC and splitting those incremental dollars. Which sounds like a pretty decent plan?
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I’m not sure they have an NCAA Tournament worthy coach.
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The coach that went to 9 tournaments in 11 seasons, all as a 7 seed at worst, is not an NCAA tournament worthy coach? I get they’ve had a tough stretch these past 4 years but I’m inclined to think he hasn’t totally forgotten how to coach. If they don’t make the tournament this year then I’d definitely be concerned
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