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  1. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    Before TCU joined the B12, their university endowments were roughly equal at $1B. Now, TCU’s is $2.4B 

    Suggesting this is correlated to the Big XII is stupid. Any decently run university will see their endowment grow at a good clip. In the same timeframe, Baylor's grew from 870 million to a little over 2 billion. Hell the AVERAGE growth among R1 schools just in fiscal 2021 was over 30%. 

  2. 22 minutes ago, John80 said:

    I don't know if Cal has an offer from the big12 but that seems to be where Cal could make the most money and their governing board should step in and make them take it like Arizona did with Crow.  

    As a Cal fan, I doubt Cal has (or would ever get) a Big XII offer.

  3. 14 minutes ago, Zhorn96 said:

    Rugby is self funded and actually makes a small profit.  But its a big Title IX issue.  Would think track, baseball, gymnastics (M&W), lacrosse and field hockey are the most likely candidates 

    Cal rugby is a powerhouse

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  4. 8 minutes ago, FartingDreamer said:

    Stanford can't help but turn up their bigoted noses at any university associated with religion. Then there is their elitism that makes swallowing their pride to affiliate with "truck stop" destination schools too much for them.  

    While I have no doubt this is true for some people I also think it's one of those things that gets overblown on the interwebs. In my 7 years at Stanford and Cal I never met anyone who didn't have great things to say about my undergrad (Baylor). 

  5. 1 hour ago, HookEm said:

    Who cares.  Harvard has a better academic reputation than Stanford. Nobody is trying to add them to the ACC.  The academics don't matter at all.

    Stanford and Cal should form a league with Rice, SMU, Tulane, etc.  Pull in Duke and Georgia Tech eventually when the ACC crumbles.  Be the "smart conference that also cares a little about sports".  Own it.  Stop partnering with the Oregon States of the world.

    I'd honestly be cool with this 

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  6. 10 minutes ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    The ACC has three national championships in football over the last decade and the Big 12 has none.  If you remove Clemson and FSU, that obviously changes, but while they're in the league, you cannot say the football has been better over the last decade.

    Just depends on how you're defining "better." The average Big XII team has been better, but the ACC has much greater variance, including better performance at the top end. 

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  7. 19 minutes ago, Zhorn96 said:

    if a vote happens tomorrow, and there is a 12pm meeting scheduled, Cal/Furd are going to the ACC.  Cal peeps, without saying "its happening", seem optimistic.  Put in a Roach 4 CB for Cal/Furd to the ACC!

     

    Ok, maybe a Roach 3 CB

    Cal peeps I know waver from optimistic to existential dread on a minute by minute basis. 

  8. 36 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Two west coast schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference would be peak realignment. Rename it the Whatever Coast Conference or Coasty McCoastface.

    From where I sat on the east side of Cal Memorial Stadium you could see where the Bay opened into the Pacific Ocean. This is all crazy town. 

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  9. 5 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Watched part of the recent tech AD interview on a 365Sports podcast out of Waco.

    I think the B12 without Texas/blOU has really invigorated the "Left Behind Eight" -- several seem to be vying to become the "New Big Dawgs of the B12".

    Texas and blOU fans are so tired of all the negativity from their B12 brethren, and the  "Left Behind Eight" fans seem to feel the same towards Texas/blOU.

    It was time for this divorce...

    Texas/blOU fans are excited to play in the SEC.

    The "Left Behind Eight" are excited to add 8 new teams and play in the B12.

    Win... Win

    I think most see it this way. I'm very much looking forward to the new Big XII. 

    2 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

    I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think you should be in the P5 (or whatever club we want to call it) if you don't have a baseball team.  Heck, you could even talk me into the idea that a school shouldn't be D1 without a baseball team.

    I'm ready for your slings and arrows now.

    Damn, Colorado is out. 

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  10. 16 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Which is fucking stupid. There is no "P5" anymore. 

    Dude this is a really long post to get hung up on terminology. TCU doesn't want to help elevate SMU in any way, competitively or financially. But yes, they're pussies for taking that approach. 

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  11. 23 minutes ago, USC Traveler said:

     

     @Al_4_ISU, @'stache, @oSuJeff97 @LTbear- would you guys watch the top 16 league in the first scenario ?  Or only watch the 17-70 league ?

    The 16/20/24 league would play an NFL type of schedule and playoff.  The 17-80 league would look like CFB used to, with regional divisions, but with a playoff featuring the top two teams from each division.  

     

     

    I left in the relevant part of your post. Personally, no, I wouldn't watch a top 16 league. My college football fandom is tied to regionality, rivalries, and the craziness and pageantry that is unique to the college game. 

    There's no way to get 16 teams that feels at all regional, and you'd have also necessarily cut off most rivalries (a few big ones would remain, for sure - OU/ UT, UM/ OSU, etc.). But you've also completely neutered the potential for the holy-shit upset wildness that makes college football so, so much more damn fun than the NFL (think Purdue beating the shit out of Ohio State in the Tyler Trent game), not to mention the fun-as-hell pageantry of the smaller schools (the absolute mayhem of College Gameday opening at WSU with several hundred crimson flags flying). I love that shit. 

    I completely understand if people would watch the 16 team league, it's just not for me. It would be nothing but a watered-down NFL, and I already watch Dallas play on Sundays. 

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  12. 28 minutes ago, USC_TMB said:

    All with the air of “we’re Cal, we’re so much more superior to you a the other UC schools”. If they actually won something, then I could deal with the arrogance. 

    Set up a competitive spelling bee big guy, we'll wipe the floor with you fuckers 

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  13. 1 minute ago, Zhorn96 said:

    Canzano hasnt been right about much but in his column today he stated that there will be $420M up for grabs in a Pac-12 "war chest" coming from media rights distributions, postseason distributions, other payments etc that the remaining 4 schools are entitled to use to cover costs and damages because they got ditched.  Sounds... questionable... but if true this whole deal gets even more comedic.

    I think Wilner said the same and I have no idea what they're talking about. Every PAC school should still be receiving their distributions for this year. I feel like one of them (probably Canzano) just randomly thought to himself "hey they're all leaving that means the ones who are left get to keep all the conference payouts for the year" while drunk. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. 

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  14. 3 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

    As a Big 12 fan, my priority is NC State, Duke, Louisville, and then either VA Tech or Pitt. 

    I feel like Louisville and Pitt are very realistic/ neither is valuable enough to the B1G or SEC. Getting NC State or Va Tech would be awesome. If Duke, good lord what a basketball league. 

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