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The Hot Dog Buffet

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  1. The member schools would need to agree to the extra game. I just don't see them wanting a 17 game season.
  2. I'm not sure if the expanded playoff really allows for this. That's a lot of potential games you are asking your champion to play, especially if you are unlikely to get a playoff bye.
  3. Well, we don't want to assume. Maybe they feel like they'd just spend all of their Big 10 money like lottery winners do.
  4. Really, every addition beyond 10 makes the conference feel like less of a conference.
  5. Their decline had everything to do with their recruiting scandal, along with the female kicker telling the story about how she was raped by her teammates and Gary Barnett chiming in that she was an awful player. At that point, the school cared enough to not drop football, but they stopped caring enough to be competitive.
  6. It has more to do with the university presidents than anything else. They couldn't be bothered to associate with schools in Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma that admit anyone who can score a 24 on the ACT, and now they only have themselves to associate with.
  7. I don't really see the Big 10 ever wanting Oregon. The ACC isn't in very good shape, and I think they value North Carolina and Virginia over Oregon and Washington.
  8. They've already played in the title game twice. And their historic ceiling in the Big 8 and Big 12 was about 8 wins. This is a program that hasn't won a conference championship since the 60s. Pinkel had them playing above their ceiling, but since he left, they have been back to normal.
  9. Their awful teams weren't selling out games in the Big 12, either.
  10. If CU can somehow return to their 90s form, I could see them getting a Big 10 invite.
  11. I feel like people are forgetting just how terrible A&M was during their last 15 years or so in the Big 12. The Fran and Sherman years were not good for them. They have had a couple of very good (for them) years in the SEC. Missouri has won the SEC East twice. That's no less successful than they were in the Big 12 and they have predictably reverted to their norm post-Pinkel. The only school that has been a hilarious failure is Nebraska.
  12. I honestly don't see how aggy can be viewed as any less competitive in the SEC than they were in the Big 12.
  13. Yeah. The PAC schools don't have a buyout and they can join the MWC if they want to play SDSU.
  14. The road to the Rose Bowl runs through Laramie.
  15. Why trade up once when you can trade up twice? Seems like great news for the Pac. Gonzaga, come on down.
  16. It makes sense to the schools in the SEC/B1G, but not the networks. Shrinking the pie also shrinks overall viewership.
  17. The only thing better would be Stanford applying to get into the Big 12 and being told no.
  18. It's almost like some things might have changed over the past 32 years. Makes no sense.
  19. This deal is probably going to be awful enough that the door will be open for the Mountain West to take a streaming deal with Apple/Amazon and poach someone from the Pac 4 in a few years.
  20. Cal, Stanford, Oregon State, and Washington State will, anyway.
  21. The meme is true, but I'd say it's less of a left/right thing and more that you can only effectively boycott a product that you are currently a consumer of.
  22. I'm not saying you're wrong, but that chart is meaningless if it's not adjusted for age. Rural towns are filled with old people.
  23. Just about every rural community has a serious brain drain problem created by a complete lack of opportunity for any young person with a college education. Kids who get a degree never come back, and the kids who stay decide they like meth. Some small communities are able to bring in ag industry and keep property values afloat, which is actually great for the population that isn't cut out for college and also attracts immigrants. It's still an uphill battle for them, though.
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