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Here's Why Exiting the Pac-12 Would Be a Good Thing for UW
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I'm mostly over cfb in general. If I wanted to watch pro sports the NFL is way better.
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For sure. I just think they haven't had a coach worth a shit at all since Pete C. and combine that with the additional $$$$$ and the NIL advantages that they can exploit, I have a suspicion they are about to re-emerge in a big way. For sure could be wrong, I don't really have a horse in the race in this one.RoadDawg55 said:
They will probably be good, but what was stopping them before. If they have a pulse they get almost any recruit they want.gmo said:
funny and true the last 15 years or so... but make no mistake SC is about to become a force again with the amount of next level cash at their disposal and the breakdown of enforcement of pay for play.LawDawg1 said:At least in your scenario we don’t have to make up fake excuses that the pac only sucks because SC is down and will somehow come back.
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A shit coach won a rise bowl there.gmo said:
For sure. I just think they haven't had a coach worth a shit at all since Pete C. and combine that with the additional $$$$$ and the NIL advantages that they can exploit, I have a suspicion they are about to re-emerge in a big way. For sure could be wrong, I don't really have a horse in the race in this one.RoadDawg55 said:
They will probably be good, but what was stopping them before. If they have a pulse they get almost any recruit they want.gmo said:
funny and true the last 15 years or so... but make no mistake SC is about to become a force again with the amount of next level cash at their disposal and the breakdown of enforcement of pay for play.LawDawg1 said:At least in your scenario we don’t have to make up fake excuses that the pac only sucks because SC is down and will somehow come back.
They are beyond pathetic, which is why all of this happened in the first place. You can't just extend a coach from one good season. -
I lived in the Chicago area for about 18 months. I don’t remember seeing a single Illinois anything. I did see plenty of ND, tOSU, Michigan flags, bumper stickers, license plate frames. Yes, Illinois sucked at the time but there was zero interest in that school.Oly said:
You are underselling Illinois considerably. Yes the football program hasn’t been good the last 30 years; however do have 5 national championships, 2 of the 10 best college football players of all time (Red Grange and Dick Butkus) and more importantly Chicago. Yes Northwestern is located in the city but IL have significantly more alumni in the city and follow the team way closer than NW. There is a reason, despite the crap football lately, Chicago turns passionate when IL is competitive. They rank middle of the pack in revenues in the conference.creepycoug said:
In what world is there a “super conference” with fucking Rutgers and Illinois and no Stanford? The Furd has more football history in the last 20 years than those two turds do all-time, brings in Bay Area TVs, has more money than any school in that conference by a significant degree and would be the academic giant of the conference (if that matters).LawDawg1 said:UW and Oregon will be treated like Utah and be asked to accept half for some time. Illinois, Rutgers, and the BIG bottom dwellers won the jackpot.
This makes slightly more sense if the Big boots Rutgers and Illinois. What do they have that the Zonas, Utah, and even Cal don’t have? I realize the Mid-Atlantic TV market, but does anyone watch Rutgers? I’ve spent a lot of time in northeast the last 7 - 8 years. Nobody there gives a fuck about college football. And Illinois is hot garbage other than strong (but spotty) academis.
They finally have competent leadership in their AD who has shown a commitment to fielding competitive teams (think the anti Jen). -
I’ve never met an East Coaster that gave a flying fuck about college sports.Swaye said:
Unbelievably this is true. There is some level of needle movement for Va Tech in Virginia, but not much. In Maryland NOGAF at all. I have never seen a place with less involvement with CFB than the mid Atlantic. It's just an almost complete non-entity here. Nobody ever talks about it. At all. Ever.creepycoug said:
I’m talking about conference composition. If you’re building a super conference, Furd over those other two junk drawer pennies is a no brainer.LawDawg1 said:
A better conference with much stronger leadership and a media market that gives a shit about them. Everything the west coast doesn’t have. We are too busy policing the national politics and being woke.creepycoug said:LawDawg1 said:UW and Oregon will be treated like Utah and be asked to accept half for some time. Illinois, Rutgers, and the BIG bottom dwellers won the jackpot.
What do they have that the Zonas, Utah, and even Cal don’t have?
I know it’s fun to poke at the west coast as being total dreck, but in real life it’s not the case. 13% of the US population resides in just one of those states. And while nothing compared to the southeast, Texas and the Midwest, the west cares about cfb more than the mid-Atlantic and New England states. -
Didn't you say you lived in the heart of Boystown?CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I lived in the Chicago area for about 18 months. I don’t remember seeing a single Illinois anything. I did see plenty of ND, tOSU, Michigan flags, bumper stickers, license plate frames. Yes, Illinois sucked at the time but there was zero interest in that school.Oly said:
You are underselling Illinois considerably. Yes the football program hasn’t been good the last 30 years; however do have 5 national championships, 2 of the 10 best college football players of all time (Red Grange and Dick Butkus) and more importantly Chicago. Yes Northwestern is located in the city but IL have significantly more alumni in the city and follow the team way closer than NW. There is a reason, despite the crap football lately, Chicago turns passionate when IL is competitive. They rank middle of the pack in revenues in the conference.creepycoug said:
In what world is there a “super conference” with fucking Rutgers and Illinois and no Stanford? The Furd has more football history in the last 20 years than those two turds do all-time, brings in Bay Area TVs, has more money than any school in that conference by a significant degree and would be the academic giant of the conference (if that matters).LawDawg1 said:UW and Oregon will be treated like Utah and be asked to accept half for some time. Illinois, Rutgers, and the BIG bottom dwellers won the jackpot.
This makes slightly more sense if the Big boots Rutgers and Illinois. What do they have that the Zonas, Utah, and even Cal don’t have? I realize the Mid-Atlantic TV market, but does anyone watch Rutgers? I’ve spent a lot of time in northeast the last 7 - 8 years. Nobody there gives a fuck about college football. And Illinois is hot garbage other than strong (but spotty) academis.
They finally have competent leadership in their AD who has shown a commitment to fielding competitive teams (think the anti Jen). -
All the Illinois grads I know are really into basketball and couldn’t tell you who the coach of the football team is at any given time. Similar to Arizona fans with their mentality.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I lived in the Chicago area for about 18 months. I don’t remember seeing a single Illinois anything. I did see plenty of ND, tOSU, Michigan flags, bumper stickers, license plate frames. Yes, Illinois sucked at the time but there was zero interest in that school.Oly said:
You are underselling Illinois considerably. Yes the football program hasn’t been good the last 30 years; however do have 5 national championships, 2 of the 10 best college football players of all time (Red Grange and Dick Butkus) and more importantly Chicago. Yes Northwestern is located in the city but IL have significantly more alumni in the city and follow the team way closer than NW. There is a reason, despite the crap football lately, Chicago turns passionate when IL is competitive. They rank middle of the pack in revenues in the conference.creepycoug said:
In what world is there a “super conference” with fucking Rutgers and Illinois and no Stanford? The Furd has more football history in the last 20 years than those two turds do all-time, brings in Bay Area TVs, has more money than any school in that conference by a significant degree and would be the academic giant of the conference (if that matters).LawDawg1 said:UW and Oregon will be treated like Utah and be asked to accept half for some time. Illinois, Rutgers, and the BIG bottom dwellers won the jackpot.
This makes slightly more sense if the Big boots Rutgers and Illinois. What do they have that the Zonas, Utah, and even Cal don’t have? I realize the Mid-Atlantic TV market, but does anyone watch Rutgers? I’ve spent a lot of time in northeast the last 7 - 8 years. Nobody there gives a fuck about college football. And Illinois is hot garbage other than strong (but spotty) academis.
They finally have competent leadership in their AD who has shown a commitment to fielding competitive teams (think the anti Jen). -
Rowboat fags do.RoadDawg55 said:
I’ve never met an East Coaster that gave a flying fuck about college sports.Swaye said:
Unbelievably this is true. There is some level of needle movement for Va Tech in Virginia, but not much. In Maryland NOGAF at all. I have never seen a place with less involvement with CFB than the mid Atlantic. It's just an almost complete non-entity here. Nobody ever talks about it. At all. Ever.creepycoug said:
I’m talking about conference composition. If you’re building a super conference, Furd over those other two junk drawer pennies is a no brainer.LawDawg1 said:
A better conference with much stronger leadership and a media market that gives a shit about them. Everything the west coast doesn’t have. We are too busy policing the national politics and being woke.creepycoug said:LawDawg1 said:UW and Oregon will be treated like Utah and be asked to accept half for some time. Illinois, Rutgers, and the BIG bottom dwellers won the jackpot.
What do they have that the Zonas, Utah, and even Cal don’t have?
I know it’s fun to poke at the west coast as being total dreck, but in real life it’s not the case. 13% of the US population resides in just one of those states. And while nothing compared to the southeast, Texas and the Midwest, the west cares about cfb more than the mid-Atlantic and New England states.
No offense intended to our own rowboat fags. -
I didn’t live there but spent a lot of nights there.DerekJohnson said:
Didn't you say you lived in the heart of Boystown?CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I lived in the Chicago area for about 18 months. I don’t remember seeing a single Illinois anything. I did see plenty of ND, tOSU, Michigan flags, bumper stickers, license plate frames. Yes, Illinois sucked at the time but there was zero interest in that school.Oly said:
You are underselling Illinois considerably. Yes the football program hasn’t been good the last 30 years; however do have 5 national championships, 2 of the 10 best college football players of all time (Red Grange and Dick Butkus) and more importantly Chicago. Yes Northwestern is located in the city but IL have significantly more alumni in the city and follow the team way closer than NW. There is a reason, despite the crap football lately, Chicago turns passionate when IL is competitive. They rank middle of the pack in revenues in the conference.creepycoug said:
In what world is there a “super conference” with fucking Rutgers and Illinois and no Stanford? The Furd has more football history in the last 20 years than those two turds do all-time, brings in Bay Area TVs, has more money than any school in that conference by a significant degree and would be the academic giant of the conference (if that matters).LawDawg1 said:UW and Oregon will be treated like Utah and be asked to accept half for some time. Illinois, Rutgers, and the BIG bottom dwellers won the jackpot.
This makes slightly more sense if the Big boots Rutgers and Illinois. What do they have that the Zonas, Utah, and even Cal don’t have? I realize the Mid-Atlantic TV market, but does anyone watch Rutgers? I’ve spent a lot of time in northeast the last 7 - 8 years. Nobody there gives a fuck about college football. And Illinois is hot garbage other than strong (but spotty) academis.
They finally have competent leadership in their AD who has shown a commitment to fielding competitive teams (think the anti Jen). -
haie said:
One thing that makes no sense with some of the takes I've read.
"The B1G is fine with Rutgers and Maryland because of the of the TV markets"
But with UW
"Well the TV market doesn't matter as much as the brand of the school"
Which is it?
"An inside source told CBS that UW/UO are tweeners, not big enough for the B1G but still bigger than all the other Pac 12 schools"
Why the fuck would the SEC want Clemson then? They just punched well above their weight for a few years and they're fading fast with the same coach.
Nothing makes any sense (except UW/UO accepting a lesser revenue share to enter the B1G)
I'd rather disconnect entirely and then come back here in a few weeks to either see a flood of "Losing to Texas Tech will be special" threads or "Losing to Northwestern will be special" threads.
They always suck. When you have to bring up Red Grange to support your point, your school is making you work too hard. Stanford is 5x the football program. Illinois is entirely irrelevant in the truest sense.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I lived in the Chicago area for about 18 months. I don’t remember seeing a single Illinois anything. I did see plenty of ND, tOSU, Michigan flags, bumper stickers, license plate frames. I’m Yes, Illinois sucked at the time but there was zero interest in that school.Oly said:
You are underselling Illinois considerably. Yes the football program hasn’t been good the last 30 years; however do have 5 national championships, 2 of the 10 best college football players of all time (Red Grange and Dick Butkus) and more importantly Chicago. Yes Northwestern is located in the city but IL have significantly more alumni in the city and follow the team way closer than NW. There is a reason, despite the crap football lately, Chicago turns passionate when IL is competitive. They rank middle of the pack in revenues in the conference.creepycoug said:
In what world is there a “super conference” with fucking Rutgers and Illinois and no Stanford? The Furd has more football history in the last 20 years than those two turds do all-time, brings in Bay Area TVs, has more money than any school in that conference by a significant degree and would be the academic giant of the conference (if that matters).LawDawg1 said:UW and Oregon will be treated like Utah and be asked to accept half for some time. Illinois, Rutgers, and the BIG bottom dwellers won the jackpot.
This makes slightly more sense if the Big boots Rutgers and Illinois. What do they have that the Zonas, Utah, and even Cal don’t have? I realize the Mid-Atlantic TV market, but does anyone watch Rutgers? I’ve spent a lot of time in northeast the last 7 - 8 years. Nobody there gives a fuck about college football. And Illinois is hot garbage other than strong (but spotty) academis.
They finally have competent leadership in their AD who has shown a commitment to fielding competitive teams (think the anti Jen).
