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Post by panthergrad2011 on Aug 2, 2024 19:36:42 GMT -6
Guess we can now consider the 4 new schools in the B1G official:
The song they have always played in this commercial comes a bit of an ear worm after you hear it enough times.
Also, amazing how much they had to speed up the video to get it to fit in within a 30 second spot (though I thought the one that played in the older commercials was 40 seconds).
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Post by squirrel on Aug 16, 2024 23:04:52 GMT -6
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Post by squirrel on Aug 17, 2024 17:45:24 GMT -6
Illinois, Purdue, Northwestern, Maryland, Rutgers from Big Ten and Vanderbilt from SEC would be current members not included in 32 -team "super league"
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Aug 20, 2024 20:07:40 GMT -6
Quite the non-answer answer here from the Oregon State president:
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Post by squirrel on Aug 23, 2024 15:17:41 GMT -6
UConn and Big 12 in serious discussions regarding the Huskies joining the Big 12 in 2026 for all sports except football, with an option for UConn to improve their football program to a level where the league can exercise an option to add them for football in 2031, when the league's subsequent TV deal will be set to be inked.
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Post by squirrel on Aug 29, 2024 10:59:33 GMT -6
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Sept 2, 2024 21:55:55 GMT -6
Mountain West and Pac-12 did not come to a football scheduling agreement by Sunday's deadline, which means that Oregon State and Wazzu will more than likely be looking at building fully independent schedules for next season.
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Post by Butler Blue on Sept 3, 2024 8:36:48 GMT -6
Mountain West and Pac-12 did not come to a football scheduling agreement by Sunday's deadline, which means that Oregon State and Wazzu will more than likely be looking at building fully independent schedules for next season. I suspect that those will be wildly uninspiring schedules. |
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Sept 11, 2024 23:15:56 GMT -6
It looks like the Pac-12 have poached their first 4 schools from the Mountain West:
They would begin conference play in the 2026-27 school year. The Pac-12 would still need to add 2 more conferences to reach the NCAA minimum requirement.
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Post by squirrel on Sept 13, 2024 10:58:44 GMT -6
I wonder if Pacific is second-guessing dropping football these days.
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Post by Butler Blue on Sept 14, 2024 7:53:23 GMT -6
So the Pac 12 will become the west coast version of the American Athletic Conference. Good for them. Really, what's the difference between what the Mountain West and what this will be?
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Post by squirrel on Sept 14, 2024 21:41:23 GMT -6
The Mountain West is the reason the "play-in" game was created for the Big Dance.
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Sept 16, 2024 19:17:03 GMT -6
Air Force emerging as serious target to be added to AAC.
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Post by ph on Sept 18, 2024 9:06:27 GMT -6
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Post by Butler Blue on Sept 18, 2024 9:29:51 GMT -6
Either he really wanted out of the grind, or he was making a lot less than I would have guessed at ESPN. I would be surprised if the new gig paid much more than $150K. |
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Post by squirrel on Sept 18, 2024 9:36:50 GMT -6
He purportedly made $35M/$7M per year since 2022 - it was a 5 year deal and only about 65% through - so, it is probably foretells he was going to get axed at ESPN to cut fat.
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Post by squirrel on Sept 19, 2024 18:53:25 GMT -6
New Mexico State and Sacramento State are kicking the tires with the MWC
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Post by squirrel on Sept 23, 2024 14:08:36 GMT -6
Gonzaga to Pac-12
Memphis, UTSA, Tulane and USF will stay in the AAC.
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Post by squirrel on Sept 23, 2024 20:06:44 GMT -6
Utah State to Pac-12 - looks like Gonzaga are still in just "talks" stage
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Post by panthergrad2011 on Sept 23, 2024 20:13:45 GMT -6
UNLV now exploring their options and reportedly expected to reengage in conversations with the Pac-12. They had initially agreed to a memorandum of understanding to return to the Mountain West, but that was predicated on all eight remaining schools agreeing to stay. They were set to take a deal from the Mountain West that included it and Air Force receiving a significant lump payment to stay in the league and be one of its linchpins.
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