2024 college football offseason thread

When they say "FOX" do they mean Fox? FS1? FS2? a sub-digital channel? Streaming? Its a big difference.

 

I’d imaginr Richmond will run over anyone else in the Patriot.

 

The old board was shut down for less than this.

 

I worry the owner is going to pull the plug one day. I know an SJer inquired about buying it from him several years ago. Wish they could have made a deal.

 

Is there still a fallout shelter?

 

Depends on how many players and future recruits buy into some of the old grad's narrative of how the Patriot League is such a huge stop down from the CAA, which has become an inflated piece of crap lately with all the additions. If Villanova (and even W&M) joins too, that would alleviate much of the concern, but some of the old guard are still pissed we dropped to FCS, stopped playing "Dixie" and dumped the General Spidey mascot almost 40 years ago.

The overall Sagarin ratings of the PL, Southern Conference and CAA were very close this past season. Remove Delaware and UR from one and add UR to the PL and they are essentially even.

CAA (19th - 47.14)
93. Villanova
116. Albany
142. Delaware (leaving)
145. UNH
167. Elon
168. UR
171. W&M
172. Bryant (incoming)
174. Monmouth
177. URI
190. Towson
196. Campbell
208. Maine
228. Hampton
230. NC A&T
243. Stony Brook

Patriot (22nd - 42.91)
135. Holy Cross
154. Lafayette
188. Fordham
198. Colgate
207. Georgetown
219. Bucknell
229. Lehigh

SoCon (21st - 44.33)
130. Furman
159. Western Carolina
161. Chattanooga
166. Mercer
181. Samford
209. VMI
221. Wofford
232. ETSU
252. Citadel

 

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Has it been repoted how much OSU and WSU will receive from the deal?

 

All I've heard is "its not about the money."

As much as the demise of the Pac-12 would make for an interesting book - how Wazzu and the Beavs are handling this would make for an equally interesting read. Seems like they aren't standing still at all - interim scheduling agreements with the WCC and Mountain West, maybe the OSU gymnastics team joins the Big 12, perhaps Cal and Stanford are wondering what the hell they got into with the ACC.
I really think we may end up seeing a return to some normalcy sooner rather than later with conference realignment, when all of these schools realize they may not be in a better place than where they were.

 

Around here preps-wise, they tried to smash together a very urban league and a suburban league, and the culture clash was too much. Everyone went their separate ways in a couple years, and the reborn urban league even sliced off a couple of the more urban schools in that suburban league. Of course there wasn't a billion-dollar TV deal involved.

 

UMass adjusting schedules in preparation for entering the MAC in 2025.

UMass cancels ten future football games (fbschedules.com)