Big 12 in deep discussions to add up to six Pac-12 teams after USC, UCLA defections to Big Ten

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On 7/7/2022 at 12:21 AM, ChristopherRyanWilkes said:

I re-read this a few times but still don’t get it. You are proving my point I think. CUSA is the league that emphasized geography and the Belt had better programs, but small town locations. The Belt came out on top. Why is geography really valuable if what you said after proves the opposite? If by identity you mean winning football programs, then yes that’s important. 

There is no way I would think C-USA emphasized geography at al. I guess we have a different understanding of what kind of geography is valuable. To me what I meant is a fairly tight footprint with similar places. You seem to mean programs placed in big tv markets no matter how far appart. The belt had the worse programs, but created a tighter footprint and its programs ended up thriving while those from C-USA failed because of lack of identity. By that I do not mean football programs only, but also shared values and ideas of what the institutions are. C-USA had a horrifically large footprint simply based on markets with programs that had little in common. The belt won.