![]() The adults in the room get to do whatever they want, apparently."įor the sake of better football matchups and the money they generate, scores of athletes at those new West Coast Big Ten schools will now be making regular cross-country trips to play sports that get a fraction - if that - of the attention of football. "Oh, that’s just for the student-athletes. "I thought the transfer window, I thought the portal was closed," he said a day after five Pac-12 schools announced they were leaving next year. Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz pointed out the hypocrisy over the weekend. ![]() ![]() Athletes cashing in and having more freedom than ever to choose where they play has literally become a federal issue. Where is the NCAA in all this? Lobbying Congress for laws to rein in how college athletes can earn money from their fame. If deals don’t hold, everything about the trajectory of college sports over the past decade points toward the SEC and Big Ten stripping the most valuable parts of the ACC and the Big 12 picking through the leftovers.Īt what point do networks decide they’re done paying for Purdue and Indiana to get Ohio State and Michigan in the Big Ten? When do Georgia and Alabama look across the table during an SEC meeting at Missouri and Mississippi State and ask, "What would you say you do here?" The ACC’s contractual obligations seem to be the only thing keeping it from being raided. RELATED: Big Ten presidents' council votes to admit Oregon & UW in 2024, a crushing blow to Pac-12 Conference ![]() The Big 12 was a winner in this round of realignment, but what about next time? It’s already apparent the next match of this survivor series will pit it against the ACC, where Florida State is telling everyone it’s not happy. "It’s interesting that the Big Ten and the SEC have separated themselves, and now it’s the race to who’s going to be third," said Karl Benson, who oversaw the Western Athletic Conference as it was torn apart by realignment in the late 1990s and 2000s. The TV networks have less money to go around, and have come to realize that paying for Washington State and Oregon State doesn’t make sense when all they really want is Washington and Oregon. The American Athletic Conference was birthed from its remnants, quickly confined to the so-called Group of Five conferences and cordoned off from the largest piles of cash TV networks were willing to pay for top-tier college football. Dismayed by the experience, he left the job and was not around when the ACC circled back to finish the job.īy the time the CFP was unveiled in 2014, the Big East was out of the football business. Tranghese kept the Big East afloat and relevant in football. "Here it is, some 20 years later and people are moving around like there’s no hesitancy in moving. "I held a press conference and I said my great fear is that people are going to look around and say we can do this," Tranghese told AP. The Atlantic Coast Conference did the majority of the damage over a span of about a decade, starting with poaching Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech in 2003. The Big East was a so-called BCS conference back in the day, and the first deemed dispensable. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Washington and Oregon leave behind heritage – and rivals – for stability in the Big Ten The Pac-whatever might survive, but it will never be the same. "Once USC and UCLA went to the Big Ten (last year), I knew this was all going to happen," former Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese said. Don’t think it is a coincidence the latest hit came one year before the CFP - and the revenue it creates - expands.
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