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  1. My point is the Big Ten was doing well financially as a midwestern conference and they didn't have to become a national conference and add anyone. This is different from the Big 12 who had to add the best schools wherever they could to survive. USC's major problem has been USC and moving to conference on the other side of the country isn't going to fix that. I realize the SEC started this expansion stuff but we have at least stayed somewhat regional.

  2. If ever there was a large public university that should have dropped football, it's Cal. What little success they had was achieved with cutting corners and they have a faculty that is openly hostile to football and students are indifferent. The other UC schools have shown you don't need major sports to have a great university.

  3. I'm a UK fan and I knew we wouldn't be in top half of the conference but I'm a bit skeptical of some of the schools that are ahead of us here. We have had relatively good attendance for a bad program and the last several years have been better than average so I'm surprised someone like Indiana has double the viewership and I know there aren't any Indiana football fans. 

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  4. 7 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Are we talking only football? How would that work exactly? We’ve never done a football only league.

    Let’s say the SEC drops Kentucky, Vandy, South Carolina, and MSU from football but still want to play with them in basketball/baseball? Football drives the money here, so you’re going to cut $20 million from their budgets but have them compete against you in all sports?

    Say you’re the Big 12 or ACC and you take these schools for football, are you then going to allow Kentucky basketball to play SEC basketball and not Big 12/ACC basketball? So the Big12/ACC will be funding the majority of Kentucky’s athletic department but not get the benefit of their most valuable program?

    It sounds great in theory, but practically speaking it’s a logistical land mine. Does the Big 12 let Utah and Arizona not play basketball and non revenue sports with them and rejoin UCLA/USC in a non fb PAC12 league? Not an easy web to unweave.

    Most UK fans would prefer an ACC basketball schedule over an SEC basketball schedule and if UK got booted for whatever reason there's no way UK would play any SEC schools in basketball again. All of UK's basketball rivals except Kansas are in the ACC.

  5. The vast majority of politicians on both sides are bought and paid for by AIPAC so they go crazy if anyone utters a word of criticism or protest about Israel.

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  6. 1. Switch Florida and Georgia Tech.

    2. Virgina and North Carolina have the South's oldest rivalry so they have to be in the same conference.

    3. The Big Ten snobs will have a fainting spell if they're in the same conference as Louisville.

  7. 23 minutes ago, usmc0331horn said:

    I honestly don't think he does. The game has changed and if he doesn't win he's cooked.

    UK basketball has always been over the top and he's been in it. I don't think he will win enough but the relationship with Cal was broken beyond repair and the top coaches didn't want to be part of this circus. 

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  8. The one drawback to letting Cal go was UK's awful athletics director would make the hire and he has done worse then I could have imagined by hiring someone who has never won a tourney game. Top ten salary too of course for someone that hasn't won anything. The football program has been going down and now the basketball program will really start heading down.

  9. 1 hour ago, Don Johnson said:

    He's made it to the Sweet 16 or further 15 times.

    The last time he made it past the first weekend was 2019. His best days are long gone but thanks to Arkansas for taking him off our hands and avoiding an ugly exit.

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  10. Having a completely different team every year doesn't work. Every class should have a few highly rated players and a few that will stick around and do the dirty work that's necessary to win.

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  11. At the institutional level the Big Ten and SEC have a cohesion that isn't going away and is largely responsible for the success of the conference. The athletics departments of Ohio State and Alabama don't need money and they haven't and won't try to squeeze a few extra dollars from Northwestern and Vanderbilt. The fans of Iowa may hate Ohio State but the fans aren't making the decisions.

  12. Stanford's admission standards makes it difficult for them to be consistently good at football. Cal is in a similar position since their standards were increased after they had a low graduation rate for a couple of years. 

  13. 13 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    This has got to be an awkward moment for some of them.  Actual, credentialed academic leaders from Wisconsin, Northwestern, Michigan, et. al. having to sit with dipshits from Tennessee, South Carolina, and Alabama.  Some of those SEC schools have leadership that can barely read.  Meantime, the leading research public Ivies have to make nice with them to achieve some monetary gains?  Whew...

    The SEC leaders shouldn't bring their wives and children to the meetings because the B10 schools have plenty of rapists and child molestors.

  14. 2 hours ago, baboso said:

    Mark Richt, Jim Donnan, and Ray Goff say Hi!

    Those coaches had a combined record of 231-104 at Georgia which is a 69% winning percentage which is a good program.

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  15. So Florida State lost by 60 points and think they should been in over an Alabama team that lost in overtime. As someone who has followed another ACC school Florida State's fanbase and administration has always been this stupid but they only recently started broadcasting their behavior to the entire country.

  16. If Florida State had a case they would have already taken action. Given their record the last two years they have no problem competing at a high level now that they have a good coach. It seems the B10 is looking to go to a national conference but they can wait and won't get near any legal action. 

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