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It's up to the conferences to regulate themselves and what you said just won't happen. Players perhaps getting a small sliver of a media rights money just for playing in a conference would help quash NIL inducements, and amateurism is already gone. If every scholarship player got $100k a year just for being on a team, that's $8.5 million a year out of the future media rights money that is projected to be $120 million in annual distributions, per school by 2030 for the SEC/Big Ten. Something like that is doable, but what you said will never, ever happen. Even so, it would take a lot for revenue sharing to happen and cry me a river about Title IX. The TV money is going to be 95% from football, and men's basketball doesn't make a lot from TV either. Women's basketball loses money at every institution. I can't see this Supreme Court letting women's college basketball players, who would inevitably sue claiming they're entitled to some of that money, win. That money isn't even men's basketball's, only football's.

The Knight Commission proposal is one of the dumbest things I've read in a long time. The NCAA has no authority whatsoever to regulate coaching salaries(that got struck down in Law v. NCAA) and the conferences regulate themselves. And the buyout money is plentiful from the TV contracts and will only continue to increase, it's the free market. It's funny no one has mentioned this, but certain public schools(if they wanted to) could fire a coach for-cause(even if they made something up or it was lies), and then hide behind the shield of sovereign immunity, which is what Texas Tech did to Mike Leach so he couldn't sue them.

Financially, it makes sense for the B1G to destroy the remaining Pac-10. The Presidents probably like the additions of Stanford/Cal/Oregon/Washington to the B1G's academic consortium. Additionally, it financially makes sense if you're able to get even more money with a "B1G Ten after dark" media deal, and the carriage fee of the Big Ten network in the Bay Area/Seattle/Portland, as well splitting the 12 team playoff money 4 ways instead of 5, makes financial sense for the B1G. It also alleviates travel concerns for USC/UCLA, and the Big Ten will go to a 4-5-5-5 rotating schedule, with 4 permanent opponents and limit football trips for Rutgers to USC to once every 6 years, although they'd probably play 1 West Coast game a year in football. It would be a home & home for every team in the conference on a 6 year rotation. If that happens, I think it makes at minimum FSU/Clemson to the SEC when the ACC media deal comes close to expiring more likely. But I don't think the SEC will expand again for at least 10 years.

They've pretty much said it'll be 1-7-7 or 3-6-6, as those are the only future scheduling models the conference has decided on. The SEC West and East are history starting in 2025, and maybe 2024 if the incoming schools join early

The pac 12 and ACC were fools to turn down the original 12 team playoff. *If* the pac 12 survives, it’s more likely they merge with the big 12. Notre Dame sure seems likely to join the Big Ten. An open market 12 team playoff is expected to be worth more than 2 billion annually. There is no way that the Pac 12 will get an auto bid in the new format. The format quickly went from 6 auto bids and 6 at-large(and ND would likely get one), to only 5 auto bids(maximum, factoring in 1 G5 conference champ) and 7 at-large and taking Notre Dame out of the at-large equation. B1G expansion nearly guarantees the SEC gets 4 teams in the 12 team playoff going forward, while the B1G gets the remaining at-large spots. It’s still unknown now how the 12 team playoff in 2026 on the open market will look format-wise and how it will be financially, but the Pac-12 failed spectacularly and the B1G really betrayed them.

The now Pac-10 will not survive this and everyone knows it. Schools like Cal, Oregon State, & Washington State will be relegated to the Mountain West. Utah/Arizona/Colorado/Arizona State go to the Big 12, while Oregon/Stanford/Washington go to the Big 10 with ND is my prediction. Things can change, but I think that's likely where we are headed. The Big Ten network carriage fee of Seattle/Portland/Bay Area + ND more than justifies that, along with killing a conference and splitting the 12-team playoff revenue 4 ways instead of 5. And this won't end here, ACC schools are gonna realize it's in their financial interest to join the SEC/Big Ten and to break their bad Grant of Rights, because they'll still make more money in the long-run compared to what they'll make in the ACC. And Notre Dame is never joining the ACC. It's likely they pull out of the ACC and join the Big Ten full time. All their rivals will be there now, it would apparently only cost them $130 million total to break the ACC exit fee/grant of rights for their olympic sports, and that kind of money is insignificant to school like Notre Dame with the $100+ million annually they could be making in the Big 10.

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There's NO way they stay Independent. Something has gotta give with the ACC now. Florida State and Clemson are almost certainly going to join the SEC at some point now, and conversely, Notre Dame joining the Big Ten with NBC likely airing a couple B1G games now makes too much sense. Both conferences will be 18 or 20 teams in a few years. Notre Dame's permanent opponents could easily be USC, Michigan, Michigan State, & Purdue. It makes too much sense. Notre Dame joining is just a matter of time. And the Pac-10 now might fall apart completely

Never heard of him

Apparently the biggest issue is that the ESPN contract doesn't reward the SEC financially for playing an additional conference game. Simply put, in no divisions, you have to more than 1 permanent opponent otherwise it screws with rivalry week. They're likely gonna fix that with ESPN, then compromise with schools such as Arkansas and Mississippi State and say you don't have to play an OOC P5 team every year so they vote for 9 games. I highly, highly doubt that any of the SEC-ACC rivalry week games get cancelled too, Kentucky will likely just cancel all of our 2 for 1 series with Akron and Toledo, and it's possible South Carolina cancels its Miami, UNC, and NC State series. The SEC will probably work with South Carolina & Kentucky to make sure they get 7 home games and 5 away games a year so that the Clemson and Louisville series don't get cancelled.

While it’s entirely possible that Texas puts Bama in the nosebleeds, you should look up the townhall of Texas’ AD about the SEC changes. Texas moved their student section this past season(again) from the Southeast to Northeast corner of DKR with the Longhorn band since the SEC rules require 2000 lower level seats + visiting band in lower bowl and the SEC doesn’t allow the student section to go past the 35 yard line if the students are closer than 25 seating rows to visiting bench, so they had to move it. However, Texas may or may not give the 2000 tickets they are selling as single game only to Bama. They are apparently reserving 2000 tickets in sections 31 & 32 of DKR for the SEC, but until that time, they won’t give them to the visitors. Single-game tickets only, off-limits to season ticket holders in preparation for the SEC.

The SEC needs to do 3 permanent opponents if we go to 9 conference games when Oklahoma and Texas join, it would likely get 4 SEC teams a year into the expanded 12-team playoff when it happens

I don’t think I’ve ever been this pessimistic about UK’s future under Cal. The transfer portal was supposed to change things, and while it has, that doesn’t make up for the fact Cal is a garbage floor coach. No one has done less with more talent. If you were to compare Tubby’s last 7 years and Cal’s last 7 years(it’s been 7 years since we’ve been to a final four), Tubby actually achieved more. More tourney wins, more elite eights, and more wins. Calipari has lost the fan base and it will only get worse, because as usual, he won’t make the necessary changes. Shame on AD Barnhart for giving this clown a lifetime contract. He’s extremely overpaid. I, for one, am looking forward to football season. Stoops benefits heavily from Calipari and basketball losing fan support and underwhelming expectations, as that transitions to football fan support. I wouldn’t mind UK having a bad year next year in basketball if it means Calipari getting run out of town. He will never win another title here since he can’t coach modern basketball. The coward won’t show his face in town until fall.

To say it stings is an understatement. The UK fans that think Cal is going to change are delusional beyond belief. We’ve been telling ourselves “he’s going to make adjustments in the off-season” for 8-9 years since his last title. None have come. I lost a lot of faith in him as coach back in 2018 when we lost to K-State in the Sweet 16 after blowing a 2nd half, double digit lead and had an easy path to the Final Four(had to go thru Nevada & Loyola.) I was at that game in Atlanta and we missed 20+ free throws. He’s a joke. He doesn’t care about free throws(he’s talk about this) and it’s cost us games, and it cost him the 2008 natty against Kansas when he was at Memphis. Any decent floor coach would have won 3-4 titles at UK with the talent he’s had. His assistant coaches coached us better(Kenny Payne & John Robic) when he got ejected from the game. I don’t know if he even listens to them during the game. He refused to use a zone defense until a couple years ago and he doesn’t even play a half-court offense while trying to milk the clock. His offensive plan for the St Peters game was stupid as well. He doesn’t even run a modern offense. He also doesn’t call timeouts when necessary to call plays(which he should’ve done at the end of the St Peters game, the game at Arkansas also sticks out in this regard.) Additionally, he also has never had an out of bounds play. Never had one. It’s easy to see his coaching flaws. We got worse this year every game after the Alabama home game. I’ve started to care way more about Kentucky football, because Cal has started to disappoint us every year consistently. We’re underachieving with him and there is an idiotic portion of the fanbase that thinks we will be worse after Cal. Was that true when Pitino left? No. And Gillespie doesn’t count because Bill Byrne tricked Mitch Barnhart and told him he would be a good hire because Mitch fired his son and he wanted revenge. That’s a completely different circumstance after Tubby and the story of Byrne tricking Barnhart is true, search it up. We are the most prestigious men’s basketball program in history, we’re the biggest brand in college basketball, we have the best traveling fan base for basketball, and we have one of the best NIL systems set up. It will not be hard at all for another coach to recruit at Kentucky. But Cal needs to go, especially considering how he’s unwilling to change his philosophy to win today. Losing 1st round after going 9-16 the year before is completely unacceptable. Even if people come back next year, we still will not be as good as we could be if Cal doesn’t change his coaching philosophy, and he probably won’t because of his huge ego. He clearly cares more about NBA draft picks than national titles, which most of the fan base could care less about.

A large part of our fanbase needs to wake up from the delusion that Cal is still the right coach. He can’t coach an offense and he’s a horrible floor coach. He’s ego is so big and he’ll never change. He’s probably never going to win another title at UK(it’s been 10 years since that), in addition, no SEC tourney since 2018, no final four in 7 years, and no March madness wins since 2019. The game has left him behind and I hope he retires. NO ONE has achieved less with more talent than Calipari.

Illinois is overrated and won’t get past Houston. Tennessee/‘Nova and Arizona/Houston will be that region’s sweet 16

Lunardi should just admit he’s a big 12 fan and hates the SEC. Kentucky has the better record against Quad-1 opponents compared Kansas(almost like there should be a head to head result that determines who is the 1 seed, right?) and Baylor lost to Oklahoma. Kentucky & Auburn deserve the 1 seeds, Kansas and Baylor absolutely do not deserve them. Lunardi is such a clown

I'd like to see them try. Bill Powers and DeLoss Dodds are gone, as is their former regents chairman. They very well may try to get their way on issues in the SEC(visitors seating is something you know is gonna come up), but I doubt they'll prevail

*+ 1 more for a 20 team conference

The ACC is the biggest loser. The Big Ten will stab them in the back once the Big Ten gets what they want(Rose Bowl issue & no-ESPN exclusivity) if the ACC still opposes expansion. Moreover, it's likely the ACC gets raided in the 2030's when their grant of rights ends. If Miami, Clemson, Florida State, & North Carolina want out that decade(highly likely due to the money difference, and money rules over all), they're gonna leave. I expect it. Miami-FSU-Clemson + 1 more(UNC/NC State/VT/UofL?) try for the SEC, while the Big Ten tries to scoop up Notre Dame as a full member, plus UNC, UVA, & VT for a 20 team conference.

Pods or 3-6 scheduling is the perfect method. If the other P5 conferences aside from the SEC switched to this, that's the only way I would EVER support automatic qualifiers for each conference in the playoff, because it would assure that each conference got their best team the auto bid. You don't need a 9-3 or 8-4 team from one division upsetting the 11-1 or 12-0 team and getting the autobid, taking away an at-large spot, when the top 3 teams in one division could be better than everyone in the other division. That's a bit wordy, but y'all get what I mean. JTF the Georgia fan made the correct point

They way things are going, the SEC could very well get 2 #1 seeds in March madness. I don’t know if that’s ever happened before

A 9-3 LSU or 10-2 Florida that gets into an expanded playoff to play a 13-0 USC would still destroy them. Regardless of how well he recruits at USC, Lincoln Riley has flaws that would be exposed rather quickly in the SEC. It's part of the reason he ran from the SEC. A 10-2 SEC team would have the experience of playing a real schedule(especially when the SEC eliminates divisions), while the Pac-12 is a G5, cupcake league outside of *maybe* Utah & Oregon.

Some of those will get moved or cancelled when the conference inevitably goes to 9 conference games in 2025. UGA will likely have 4 home, 4 away, 1 neutral site conference game a year, play at OSU/Clemson/FSU as part of home and home series on years when they host Georgia Tech, and then play just 1 FCS team for a total of 6 home games a year. Same with Florida. It’s likely Florida/Georgia play a total of 11 P5 games a year, but 5/6 home games will be against good programs.

If the playoff expands to 12 teams it needs to be all-at large. Conferences like the Pac-12 are absolutely undeserving of an auto-bid to the playoffs considering just how pathetic they are. Same goes for the ACC. I'd argue the new Big 12 with UCF/BYU/Houston/Cincinnati is probably the 2nd best football conference behind the SEC(because the B1G Ten is nothing special either)

Wow. This has to be the craziest coaching cycle I can remember. The only thing that can make it crazier is a permanent Bob Stoops return to Oklahoma or an Urban Meyer to ND return, and it feels like something of that caliber is going to happen. Guessing Fickell or Campbell goes to Notre Dame.

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He chooses to be a god in the Pac-12 instead of a mortal in the SEC. Buy SEC mortals will still slaughter any Pac-12 Gods lol. He's betting on an expanded playoff, and you're right, he'll still get annihilated at USC by any SEC or Big 10 playoff team.

I could be wrong, but I think UK is mostly likely going to the Citrus Bowl. Technically, they could pick Arkansas or A&M over us and we go to the Outback instead, but that won't happen since we travelled so well in 2018. Ole Miss is going to a NY6 at-large or the Sugar, and UK won't get a NY6 if Bama wins against UGA and they both get into the CFB. All that would do is move Ole Miss to the Sugar instead of the Peach. What's to watch is the Big Ten championship. If we get sent to the Outback bowl(highly unlikely), our opponent will probably be Wisconsin or Michigan State. However, if it's the Citrus, it'll be Iowa if Michigan wins. If Iowa beats Michigan, it's most likely to be Wisconsin(or Michigan State.) The secondary opponent other than Iowa depends a lot on what happens during championship week and the CFP, and who gets the at-large NY6 spots from the Big Ten other than the Rose Bowl.

Miami still has somewhat of a decent fanbase, the ability to recruit good in a great location in Florida, and their fans will show out when they win(their home game against ND was an example), but they're never gonna be relevant or have sustained success again. Their administration doesn't care about football, having an off-campus stadium that takes 30-40 minutes to get to from campus means very few people ever pack their stadium unless it's a huge game and they're doing good, and because of the lack of commitment from the Miami administration and the ACC's revenue distribution being so low, any successful coach they have will be easily poached for twice the price Miami can afford. Miami isn't Pitt where Heinz field is 4 miles from campus, in this case it's 20 miles. The U is dead and probably won't be back. It died when they tore down the Orange Bowl and started playing at Hard Rock stadium.