ChiefsPlanet - Funny Stuff New Conference re-alignment thread

Plenty of people care about basketball, especially during the tournament. Nobody has said otherwise.

What people have said, and correctly at that, is that basketball has very little impact on the landscape of realignment. I don't know how you could argue otherwise.

The first 2 schools to move were Nebraska and Colorado. Basketball schools? I think not.

aTm went to the SEC. Basketball school?

TCU went to the Big East and now the Big XII. Basketball school?

Syracuse and Pitt were in the best basketball conference known to man. They left that conference for the sake of their football teams that were withering away in the Big East despite the fact that their basketball teams flourished.

Mizzou, Rutgers, and WVU are all being rumored to join new conferences. None of them are basketball schools.

If you think that this isn't all about football, its because you are choosing to ignore reality. The list above is almost comical in how obvious it is that basketball doesnt matter.

Holy shit man....I think everyone.....EVERYONE....understands what you've just said. Everyone has heard it each time a MU fan posts....we get it. If they don't get it, do they really belong in this thread?

Basketball is secondary. We got it. Football is like Jesus hanging with Zeus shooting basketball fans with a football gun.....basketball is like synchronized swimming on dry land.

Mr. Plow

10-13-2011 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Pants (Post 7992381)

I know his posts are hard to read. I think he already knows all this is driven by FB and tries to explain it by saying that NCAA takes all the BBall profits away from schools unlike BCS. I'm not sure how correct he is.

I believe basketball funds all non-revenue spots.

Frazod

10-13-2011 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DeezNutz (Post 7992498)

K-State's home alternate:

http://image.spreadshirt.com/image-s...s-t-shirts.png

ROFL

Post of the day

HemiEd

10-13-2011 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Plow (Post 7992520)

:clap:

Pants

10-13-2011 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Plow (Post 7992520)

What are you saying here? I'm confused.

:D

alnorth

10-13-2011 04:17 PM

The whole "the NCAA stole basketball postseason revenue" argument is a decent one, but its not an end-all be-all argument. Yes, the basketball contract is huge, and yes it is not fair that basketball tournament revenue is taken and used to fund non-revenue sport championships with whatever is left redistributed to everyone in the NCAA while football money is grabbed by a few conferences. Yes, if it wasn't that way, basketball would become more relevant. However, football would still be king, by a long shot.

The football postseason plus the regular season combined produces a lot more than twice as much as the ncaa tournament. While the basketball regular season isn't very valuable except for a handful of schools, the football regular season is hugely important. So we're basically comparing basketball tournament vs all of football. So if you wave a magic wand and force football to start supporting some of the non-revenue sports, ncaa tournament money would still be dwarfed by football postseason money + football regular season money.

I wouldn't change things very much for KU.

kstater

10-13-2011 05:06 PM

This will be fun.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/...ed/?tigerextra

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Neal Pilson, the former president of CBS Sports, is a consultant who helped negotiate recent multibillion dollar deals for NASCAR and the Olympics. He said the fact that the SEC is just two years into a 15-year contract with its TV partners means it has little leverage.

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If SEC wanted now to pool its Tier 3 rights and try to start a network, its bargaining power might be diminished, according to a media consultant with experience in TV rights negotiations, who wished to remain anonymous. He said the SEC’s big chance came before it signed its current contract.

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Maestas also was dubious about the SEC’s ability to start a network on par with the Big Ten or Pac-12 considering it’s current circumstances.
“Because they signed a pretty comprehensive deal and decided not to launch their own network last time, they didn’t leave themselves the kind of inventory you need to really do a network successfully,” Maestas said. “Let’s use the Pac-12 as an example. I think the direction conferences will go is leaving a lot more quality football and basketball inventory to drive distribution and sales of that network. The Big Ten did a decent amount and had great success. The Pac-12 has left a good deal of inventory and has had tremendous success. The SEC doesn’t have that high a quality of inventory left over on a relative basis.

Anyong Bluth

10-13-2011 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 7992202)

Ignoring the fact that what you said has absolutely nothing to do with my post, I'm less than convinced that. TCU is going to waltz in and start throwing its weight around.

Your's was just the last comment on TCU I saw & it really is more a reply to some talk Ive seen around that people think UT is happy they got another Texas school back in the fold as if they are going to block vote & follow UT, so my point was more mentioning that Ive heard that TCU isnt down with that at all.

WilliamTheIrish

10-13-2011 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DeezNutz (Post 7992498)

K-State's home alternate:

http://image.spreadshirt.com/image-s...s-t-shirts.png

Holy hell that's LMAO

Pants

10-13-2011 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by kstater (Post 7992723)

This will be fun.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/...ed/?tigerextra

MU is going to be that inventory they need.

Saul Good

10-13-2011 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Pants (Post 7992737)

MU is going to be that inventory they need.

You sarcasm not withstanding, if they expand their potential audience by 40% with the additions of aTm and Mizzou, pretty much.

Old Dog

10-13-2011 06:43 PM

Boise St possibly to the Big East? The article doesn't make it seem probable, but even the possibility makes about as much sense as basketball cleats.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...eed-persuading

HemiEd

10-13-2011 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 7992862)

You sarcasm not withstanding, if they expand their potential audience by 40% with the additions of aTm and Mizzou, pretty much.

Will the woman's softball coverage be regional, or conference wide?

O.city

10-13-2011 06:45 PM

Good grief with all this conference stuff. Just do away with the SEC, Big 12, 10 whatever and make 5 major conferences according to your location.

Saul Good

10-13-2011 06:51 PM

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