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  1. It's ridiculous to give so much money and power to a coach that no other P5 school is interested in. I can't imagine an athletics director trying to sell that 1950 offense to a fanbase. If Iowa had some bad years there would still be good attendance because there's nothing to do in Iowa. I would tell Kirk that you can't hire your son and if that bothers you feel free to explore other options which I know you don't have.

  2. If the ACC cared about Stanford and Cal they would be in the conference now with full shares. There aren't any major conferences that cares about Stanford and Cal and I don't know if their egos allows them to realize and accept this reality.

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  3. The Ivy League schools chose to leave big time athletics a long time ago and this decision hasn't hurt them at all. Same with The University of Chicago. They aren't going to compromise their admission standards and add easy classes to keep people eligible. Some years ago a journalism group called California Watch found a list of easy classes that Stanford athletes are given so everyone at this level compromises. The University of Michigan has a "General Studies" major that is a joke to keep people eligible. 

  4. Cal and the other UC's don't need athletics to get a huge number of applications from great students and that's one of the reasons the administration has never made much of an effort in athletics. Cal will always be known for Nobel prizes instead of athletics.

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  5. It's my understanding that Washington and Oregon will eventually get a full share and they aren't worth a full share so how is that a good decision? The Big Ten and SEC has prospered because they are in areas with strong fan interest and the Big Ten is adding schools in areas that have little to no interest in college sports and I don't know how that will work out in the long term.

  6. The premier academic conference is the Ivy League. If anyone wants to play Harvard and Yale, you can apply. We have two of the world's best universities looking for someone to take them and some still think academics matters in this.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

    Fan?  If I'm an Iowa fan I'm thrilled to have roadtrips Seattle and the PNW vs. recognizable brands in UW and UO.

    The Iowa Athletic Dept?  I guess it depend on how this changes their cut.

    Call me old-fashioned but I like playing schools in neighboring states. I know this an outdated idea.

  8. Florida State has always acted this way and the only difference is they are broadcasting their behavior to the rest of the country because in their warped mind, this helps them.

    I'm sure Washington and Oregon really wants to move to the B10 but do you see their administrators acting this way? No because it's childish and embarrassing.

     

     

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  9. There's a couple of long running realignment threads on the Georgia Tech Scout board and Florida State has been complaining and making threats for years and years. If they ever end up in the Big Ten or SEC they will start immediately complaining that Ohio State or Georgia is making more and threaten to move to another conference. It's who they are and what they do. They have been wronged and they will hold their breath until they get what they want.

  10. 27 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    Being in the same athletic conference as Stanford (or whoever) does not bring grant funding/ research upgrades/ etc. Any ASU researchers working on projects that overlap with Stanford researchers are building those collaborations regardless of athletics, and vice versa. Hell most researchers don't even know what athletic conference their school is in. This internet myth of "being in the same conference impacts academics" sounds right to people who aren't in academia, and as such it just refuses to die. It's like the old line of Ann Richards getting Baylor into the Big XII (it was Bullock).  

    Th Big Ten fans and schools really keeps this myth going. I point to a school like UC-San Francisco (great research funding, no sports) and I just get blank stares from them. If academics actually mattered the Big Ten wouldn't have rejected Cal and added Nebraska.

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  11. Florida State doesn't have any leverage unless someone is going to write a huge check and if they had a lot of big money donors they wouldn't be constantly complaining about money. They can spend the next decade stomping their feet and it won't change anything.

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