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John80

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  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. I don't see how Cal can take 0 dollars because they have large stadium payments to make.
  5. UCF has a lot of potential as a huge school in a large city in Florida that doesn't have a pro football team.
  6. 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.
  7. Why would anyone in the ACC care about playing Cal and Stanford in football? You are flying across the country to play a bad football team for a crowd of ten people.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Cal has large stadium payments to make so they are really in bad shape even with the help from UCLA.
  11. Call me old-fashioned but I like playing schools in neighboring states. I know this an outdated idea.
  12. I cant see how any Big Ten fan could be excited about adding schools that aren't Notre Dame and aren't in a good recruiting area.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. So the conference that is already making the most money will get involved in a massive ugly legal battle for Florida State? Only people from Florida State could believe this.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. The SEC area already has good recruiting and population growth and 16 schools is perfect for the 9 nine game schedule the SEC will eventually have. I'm confident that the SEC will never have more than 9 conference games.
  19. At one point the ACC presidents had a snobbish attitude but they got over and added some programs that would help football. The BIG presidents blabs about academics but the reality is they rejected Cal and accepted Nebraska who isn't close to Cal academically. The PAC presidents have held onto to their snobbish attitude to the point of no return This is an ATHLETICS conference.
  20. If Klavikoff is fired the PAC presidents would hire another incompetent buffoon that will make mistakes until the conference is dead. I browsed a Washington board and several of their fans realize the presidents are ultimately responsible for this.
  21. I know University presidents aren't hired for their athletics knowledge but how can you be this clueless and out of touch with reality? I can see why USC felt that they have to get away from these people.
  22. Colorado once had a nationally relevant program while Rutgers has always been bad.
  23. I wouldn't be surprised if it's Oregon. Any school that cares about their football program can't stick with the incompetent clown show out there.
  24. Oregon/Phil Knight have spent too much money on their football program to let it fall into oblivion with Cal and Stanford. They will do whatever is best for their football program, whatever that is.
  25. I agree with Huard about Cal but Stanford's administration tries at football within their academic limitations and they have had several good teams in the last 15 years. An elite private school with only 8,000 undergrads isn't going to have great attendance but I don't think their administration can do much about that.
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