I have always felt only 50 schools can remain playing D-1 football. What they don’t address is football drives the bus for all the other sports so eventually the result is termination of athletic programs at all Group of 5 schools..
Collegiate athletics at our financial level must do everything in their power to get to a geographic model. So, yes. Add them. It's a step in that direction.
I wouldn't call it dead, its not what it was. However they are building a solid G6 level conference, and if they are able to lure a school like Memphis then I think UNT would have to go too. Then Texas State could take our place.
Not at all shocked.
They want to be able to push in, for example, a 14-16 Vanderbilt or Northwestern without backlash or cause. Then turn around and tell us how good those two schools really are, and that they just played better competition while losing to almost all of that better competition. While 27-5 schools sit there begging for a bone (14 seed).
That's why I wouldn't get too comfortable in the ACC....not even in the Big 12
the real world ranking is:
SEC / Big 10
Big 12
ACC
G5
If Clemson and Florida St get what they want and get to the SEC the ACC will go the way of the Pac 12.
Even within the P4, it's really the P2. Ohio State and Georgia don't care about Boston College and Cincy, etc. (or SMU and UH...sorry but it's true)
There's a top 60 or so now. They want it to be the top 30 or so.
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