Project Rudy
Interesting read. And look who’s back…
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First crack at what this might look like. Kick the tires, make suggestions...
Who did I forget that should be included? Who did I include that should be omitted?
The extra teams at the bottom of each conference bracketed by ** ** are alternate substitutions if a team listed should be removed.
{{{B1G}}}
Tosu
Notre Dame
michigan
PSU
MSU
Wisc
Iowa
Illinois
Cincy
Purdue
Indiana
Minn
NW
MD**Rutgers**
**Army**{{{SEC}}}
Bama
Georgia
FSU
Auburn
Tenn
Ol Miss
Florida
Mizz
SC
Kentucky
Ark
Miss St
Vandy
Memphis**UCF**
{{{ACC}}}
Clemson
Miami
VaTech
LVille
WVU
Pitt
GT
BC
SYR
UNC
NC St
UVA
Duke
Wake**Navy**
{{{PAC}}}
USC
Oregon
Wash
UCLA
Utah
BYU
Oregon St
Boise St
AZ
ASU
Cal
Stanford
Wash St
Nevada**UNLV**
{{{Big-12}}}
Texas
OU
LSU
Colorado
Nebraska
oSu
A&M
TCU
KSU
Baylor
ISU
Houston
TxT
KS**SMU**
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Someone needs to bring order to the chaos & sooner rather than later
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Indeed...install P. Diddy as Commissioner...and move to a 16-team Freak Off...
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Savvy Jack is going to have to earn the commissioner’s job the hard way
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If we continue to have a 12 team playoff or more then there has to be some uniformity
In scheduling. U can’t have varying levels of scheduling and try and compare to select qualifying teams
It has to be something resembling the NFL model with teams qualifying via records against like opponents. Even in the big ten and SEC some teams have decent out of conference matchups and some have awful ones.
If this is the way it goes there has to be a central process that is well defined
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Don't see it. These independent guys want 12.5%. Conferences can raise their own private equity cash
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Probably wouldn't name it after "Rudy"...after the pump and dump stock scam...
TakethetrainKnute 35772 postsCould be just me...
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Not just you...that is THE thing I don't like about it.
(no message)"Leave No Doubt." -Marcus Freeman
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Maintaing the conferences instead of creating geograhic divisions makes no sense...
The hyper-conference model destroys legacy match-ups.
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I took the exact opposite from it..
that part of the goal was to maintain conferences and get back to them being more regional with the travel coming from Conf vs Conf matchups.
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Agreed.
Bring back Big East, PAC-10, and SWC!
Kind of reminds me of when Rocket Ismail played for Notre Dame
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Chrisb & Albany, note from the link: "The model preserves the four power conferences..."
The 4 Power conferences ripped apart the legacy regional rivalries.
Create geographic divisions that recreate the legacy Pac 12, SWC, Big 12, etc. rivalry games.Comment?
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I think you are missing something...
They are maintaining those conferences but that doesn't mean the teams in them will stay the same as now. It also doesn't mean those will be the only conferences (70 teams in 4 conferences would be 17.5 teams per conference, 5 conferences is a perfect 14 pet conference).
Most importantly you have to consider the "Why?" behind teams like USC, Oregon, UCLA, Washington going all the way over to the B1G. It was money!
That reason would no longer exist under this plan and with all of these teams under the same League (not called the NCAA) the money remains same regardless of their conferences and they could have freedom to easily realign the teams to their regional conferences.
Example: B1G has 18 teams and would need to move to 14. 4 Pac teams return to Pac/Western Conference (not sure about rights regarding the naming of it), Nebraska goes back to Big 12 and ND makes long anticipated move to B1G.
This same type of thing would happen with the other conferences, like the SEC currently has 16 teams, so they could slide TX, A&M, and OU back to the Big 12 and add, say FSU since bridges seem burnt between them and the ACC.
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My take from the statement is that the conference teams remain as is...
I think we both agree that reconfiguration should happen whether with
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I think we both have similar vision for how it should be, but took different things from it.
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Freeman is a huge proponent.
No more MAC games for him to lose.
Kind of reminds me of when Rocket Ismail played for Notre Dame
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You read it wrong, it's not a 70 team conference but a 70 team league..
with likely 5 conferences made up by 14 teams each...this would allow conferences to return to being more regional based...think SEC, B1G, PAC, ACC, and BIG 12 but everyone only plays teams from these conferences.
"Leave No Doubt." -Marcus Freeman
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