You must think you have a chance to marry Salma Hayek.

That's a bit too good for KU football.

As bad as KU football is, could you imagine what this might have looked like had it taken place in say, oh, 1987.

A thought experiment - say right after the death penalty of SMU, the power players of the college football world feared the over reach of the NCAA and said enough was enough and started what we’re seeing now.

https://time.com/3720498/ncaa-smu-death-penalty/

Would it be K-State that would be getting these memes?

https://vault.si.com/vault/1989/09/0...t-hapless-team

TLDR - When it comes to college football, nobody does it worse than Kansas State. After 93 years of trying to play the game, the Wildcats' record is 299-509-41, dead last among the 106 schools in Division I-A.

34 years ago?

https://media.tenor.com/images/c85ce...e385/tenor.gif

I understand that. But do you understand that when it comes to conference alignment the powers that be actually DO care about money? And that the conference you're in DOES matter? Thankfully you're not in charge of these things because KU would end up in the mountain west destroying them in basketball. I for one do not want to be Gonzaga.

Kentucky's revenue for basketball is still well behind football, though. IIRC, the only program a few years ago that was Power 5 that had their basketball team out generate football was Louisville.

I will say I am shocked KU and UK are both that large in terms of viewership/national draw as basketball typically doesn't outdraw football.

I'd guess those 2, along with maybe UNC and Duke, probably pull the strongest television numbers.

KU should be fine with landing somewhere-national fanbase for basketball and AAU for academics. Only downside is TV market, but regionally speaking they make sense for B1G.

Can you post the article. I’d be interested in who wrote that.

A KU mouthpiece.

https://theathletic.com/2745528/2021...it-could-look/

Here is an example of the pods based mostly on geography and somewhat on competitiveness (though D could get pretty rugged) …

Pod A
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Tennessee

Pod B
Alabama
Auburn
Kentucky
Vanderbilt

Pod C
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Missouri

Pod D
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M

Pod C & D probably would not be like that. Also, Texas A&M would throw a shitfit if they were stuck in a pod like that with Texas.

For Mizzou, from a competitive standpoint, Pod C is an 'easier' pod. That said, Pod D makes more sense for them for recruiting. Also, renews an old Big 8 rivalry and the SEC has been 'pushing' the border rivalry between Mizzou-Arkansas and trying to make something out of it.

So i think it's more likely that if they went to a Pod system, you would see Mizzou and Texas A&M flipped.

But you never know, I guess . . . . . .

Kentucky doesn’t have much of a historic/geographic rivalry with either Auburn or Alabama, unlike Tennessee or LSU(they played them like 40 or 50 years straight until the mid-late 2000s).


For rivalry perspective, Kentucky should be in same pod of at least 1 of Florida/Tennessee along with Vandy.

I also don’t think you can separate Vandy from Tennessee

I mean not to cherry pick but: KU-Duke 2018 Elite 8 game drew 15.6m viewers

The Bama-Ohio State FB title game in January this year was 18.7

People act like college FB is soooo popular and BB isn’t.....but that’s false

When you are a Mizzou fan and you have nothing, you must invent something to pick at your betters about.