Kind of like Raiders fans with regards to the Chiefs? :p

But nevertheless, Mizzou thanks you for your concerns and assures you they are very happy to be in the SEC and have some stability going forward.

I’m sure KU will be fine when the big conference re-shuffle goes down.

Scheduling would be a lot easier with 16 teams rather than 14. Play your pod every year, then two from each of the others as well. 9 conference games, play everyone in your conference at least once every two years.

LMAO Just how obsessed are you? Rams fan is a Kentucky fan, not Mizzou.

I could see the PAC 12 doing something potentially like this:

Pod A:
Washington
Wazzu
Oregon
OreSt

Pod B:
Stanford
Cal
UCLA
USC

Pod C:
Zona
Zona St
Okie St
TCU

Pod D:
Colorado
Utah
Houston
Kansas

You ****ing idiot.

I went to Kentucky. I am a Kentucky alum. I have seen Kentucky lose by 60 to Bama in person and beat Charlotte by 50 in sleet in football. I have seen them lose and win against Kansas in person.

How obsessed are you?

And also, PB’s civil in these discussions and doesn’t automatically pin an opposing viewpoint as OMGMIZZOU.

Go **** yourself.

I’ll pull up numbers later, but if I’m to shoot some shit out of my ass randomly I’d guess that UK-KU regular season does not draw the same as say Arkansas-Texas will for football this year or LSU-Texas from 2 years ago

I went to the Bragging Rights in 2019 lower level about 3 rows back in a Mizzou booster/donor section (tickets that were gifted to me) wearing a Kentucky pullover while everyone else was wearing Mizzou colors. LMAO

Go **** yourself, lawrenceraider.

Agreed.

But there’s a lot more hoops inventory. Kentucky basketball plays 3x the games Kentucky FB does. In aggregate it narrows the #s a lot. Plus FB has to go up against the NFL in the fall whereas hoops is a dead period or programming from Jan-March.

I ran the numbers a few years back from SportsMediaWatch and found about 850M viewers for college football season. 600M for college hoops (225m or so for March Madness alone. )


But those count too, and still it’s <1/2 of total eyeballs for a hoops season

You bring up a valid point and I’m not disregarding that basketball has a national following for it. It’s just not THE main factor for all of these conference alignments.

It’s football-plain and simple. And the. Anything involving basketball is an additional bonus for the most part.

Texas and Oklahoma aren’t joining the SEC because they have a large following for basketball-they’re joining because of football. And football moves the needle for decision making. You have anomalies like Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, UNC where basketball still has a large national following that probably supersedes football, but it’s still not as large of a $ driver. as footbal.

KU won’t fall to the wayside like Kansas St. because of their basketball following, but from a department and revenue standpoint, having football not be a complete embarrassment for the last decade would probably benefit them more for the next conference wars(if there’s another one).

Just looking at Kentucky. 2019 FB attendance 425,000. Hoops 390,000


Markets. Then football second. See Buttgers, Maryland.

2019 all NCAA levels FB attendance 47M. All hoops 31M. Again, the gap isn’t nearly what the avg fan has been told by talking heads.

KU FB is a lost cause and it’s prinariky because they’re next door to an NFL franchise. Even when the Chiefs suck, I go to the games and watch them all because the quality is so superior. Not many programs (if any) can compete with The Shield.

Football moves the needle and KansASS hasn't posted a winning season since Twitter was invented. You would be in better shape if your dumbass dept didn't fire Mangino.

Truth hurts.

Kentucky is more relevant than the Beaks. That's gotta suck.

Obviously no one really knows anything at this point.

But latest I heard is there’s interest between the B1G and USC(there’s also previously been rumors the PAC schools want to stay together). The B1G is in no rush, and deciding if they want USC +1 or +5.

Or obviously they could stay at 14 if they want.

I don’t know all the rules for every conference, but I know in the Big12 you’re supposed to give a 12 hour notice before talking to another conference about joining.

Which obviously Texas and Oklahoma broke that rule, but I’m guessing especially now schools/conferences are trying to keep things as hush hush as much as possible while trying to figure out the future.