BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

BC should just give up. The football coach position is a revolving door. Either the guy sucks or he leaves as soon as he has a slightly better offer. No news about NIL money and recruiting locally is a big pile of nothing.

Outside of hockey and women's lacrosse and soccer, nothing is going on.

 

The Missouri State thing is completely inexplicable. The administration there wants to sacrifice everything for football, a sport at which it has never been and never will be worth a shit.

 

Uconn will end up somewhere, at least for Basketball.

 

The last time they made the playoffs (2021), they hosted a first-round game and drew 5,000 in a stadium that seats like 17,000 or something. Absolutely embarrassing. So all of their other programs get shuffled into a weaker conference, just so they can say, "FBS!", and they are kicking the financial can down the road when it comes to stadium improvements, an increase in scholarships and much-higher travel costs.

All the while they keep screaming that this is a "budget neutral" move.

It's basically malpractice by the administration.

 

It's already somewhere relevant for basketball.

 

I find it less likely that BC will be kicked out of the Atlantic Coast Conference and more likely that it will be in a greatly diminished one with Memphis, South Florida and the other daywalker programs from the American that always manage to move to a new neighborhood right after it has been picked clean of desirable tenants.

https://tarheelswire.usatoday.com/2...arolina-trustees-board-acc-departure-options/

 

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/re...t-odds-as-the-next-invited-to-join-the-pac-12

 

Beavers and Cougs thinking they’re too good to mingle with the bottom half of the MWC feels like the Rose family arriving in Schitt’s Creek.

 

So South Carolina, Arkansas and Vandy would be happy in the Sun Belt? When the next round comes, they'd better beware. So should Rutgers, Maryland, Northwestern, Wake Forest, BC, Iowa State, all four of the 2023 Big 12 additions and some others too.

 

Maybe many others.

 

Throw in the Stanford-Cal-SMU-ACC marriage as well.

 

Can't see that marriage of convenience lasting too long.

On a related note, it's absurd to me that the low-revenue leagues are being asked to contribute anywhere near half of the bill for the House settlement. I'm not sure how any of these non-revenue sport athletes in any league were really deprived of anything for years. I'm especially confident, for example, that soccer players in the Northeast Conference aren't victims.