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Date Posted: 17:03:39 07/02/22 Sat
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Subject: A surprising 2024 realignment
In reply to: charles arey 's message, "2022 realignment is complete (I think)" on 15:19:09 06/22/22 Wed

I know this is not related to the 2022 realignments, but I'll leave this here for the sheer ludicrousness of what happened a couple of days ago: the Big Ten will accept UCLA & USC as new members in 2024.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/sport/usc-ucla-big-ten-spt/index.html

What happened to regionalism? Why is the NCAA realignment mess so monetary-driven? What other dominoes are going to fall before the divisions become stable again? Will the Big Ten rename itself the Big Tent?!

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[> [> Re: A surprising 2024 realignment -- charles arey, 22:05:07 07/03/22 Sun (98.20.171.106)

>I know this is not related to the 2022 realignments,
>but I'll leave this here for the sheer ludicrousness
>of what happened a couple of days ago: the Big Ten
>will accept UCLA & USC as new members in 2024.

Yes, that seemed to really fall out of the blue and I don't quite understand it, either. Are we headed towards having two or three superconferences with 18-24 teams each? What's the appeal of that? Are fans of say, Iowa, going to enjoy playing UCLA every year but Ohio State or Michigan just once every 3 to 6 years? Geography seems almost completely irrelevant now.

At this point it wouldn't surprise me much at all to read tomorrow something like "Miami, Florida State, and Clemson announce move to Southeastern Conference", or "ACC and Big 12 announce merger". Presumably somebody has calculated that there's more money to be made this way.


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[> [> Re: A surprising 2024 realignment -- CB, 10:50:41 07/04/22 Mon (99.113.174.32)

>I know this is not related to the 2022 realignments,
>but I'll leave this here for the sheer ludicrousness
>of what happened a couple of days ago: the Big Ten
>will accept UCLA & USC as new members in 2024.
>
>https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/sport/usc-ucla-big-ten-s
>pt/index.html
>
>What happened to regionalism? Why is the NCAA
>realignment mess so monetary-driven? What other
>dominoes are going to fall before the divisions become
>stable again? Will the Big Ten rename itself the Big
>Tent?!


All about $$$, always. Always has, always will be. $$$.


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