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Any one else think about how having only 15/18 make the tourney probably kills attendance There are 8 teams within one game and 9 teams within 2 games of being out Half the conference might not make the tourney 9 days before the tourney starts. Hard for fans to book trips that way.

Yup. I don’t think they’ll call them divisions though. I think they’ll just group them but not have names

They got it in this current cycle? But they did have risk that Indiana was one upset of Ohio state away from wrecking it for them. And they got lucky the schedule broke to get Penn state the tie breaker over Indiana And the chances of that happens goes up the bigger the conference is. Because...

Because the tv owners are going to want the best teams to have the best records because that’s the best product. Pretty simple They want 10-2 penn state vs 11-1 Oregon Not 8-4 penn state against 10-2 Oregon while 11-1 Indiana plays 9-3 Illinois because of unbalanced schedules

An unnamed source who we don’t even know what kind of job they have…media? Coach? Connection to program? Says “ruthless” And literally no other quotes or context from that source. WTF

I haven’t read it for a while but I believe it says like jobs and defines them as D1 head or assistant or NBA head or assistant If he accepts de la salle job that would be the same as him not pursuing like jobs

Once he has told Ben Ben is likely telling someone So that risks it leaking early and he probably wanted his statement first I personally would’ve waited to have the meeting this morning and would’ve released about 9-10am

In his contract he has to seek employment or his buyout in null

Just good enough to be mildly entertaining for a month in the middle Just bad enough to get a fresh start

Should be expected He never does it until after the season He always wants a meeting This was the earliest it could be announced

Just bad enough to have no chance this year Just good enough to have no chance next year

Also heard that Probably with the timeline though is that the opt up form is due before the appeal form was due Valley never had to appeal

Probably not many! But the groups could change from year to year If they don’t care about playing everyone your previous concern isn’t really validated True. The money will matter at some point. And at some point the money doesn’t want the best teams to have the middle records because they...

I don’t think it’ll ever go two divisions again. There’ll be groups. Maybe 4 groups and you fully play 2 including your own Maybe 6 groups and you play yours, another, and then random Grouping is also the way to get regular rotations of everyone playing everyone without a boondoggle of a...

If it morphs into auto bids the conference is going to want it so the best teams in the conference go to the playoff rather than the luckiest schedules going to the playoff The reasons the divisions went away was because it was routinely putting the 3-5th best team in the conference...

You don’t need divisions to have balanced scheduling Divisions are never coming back. But scheduling groups probably will in the next round of expansion to create more internal round robins

I don’t disagree. I think that Texas A&M and Missouri are the most realistic targets for the big ten. But Florida or Georgia would be interesting. If the SEC hadn’t added Texas and Oklahoma there is no doubt the big ten would’ve added Texas + one more

I suppose that one depends on who you credit the transitions backs to If kill gets the end of the careers of guys he recruited that played under fleck it’s close

No because he wanted it to sound like 12

Agree with all of this. Unless 2+ big names in portal and/OR big name teams in non conference home schedule…it will be (more) desolate next year