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Anyone subscribe to The Athletic? (Realignment article)
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<blockquote data-quote="Purp" data-source="post: 2835606" data-attributes="member: 12852"><p>I agree that ND isn't joining the ACC for football. All the networks would basically have to conclude there was no demand for ND football on TV with their own deal to convince ND it needed a conference. I don't see it happening.</p><p></p><p>I also don't think Rutgers, Vandy, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, and a handful of others are quite as safe as he lets on. Truthfully, I think TCU and baylor (gag) are in much safer positions than most of those I mentioned and many that I didn't. I'd even speculate that EMAW may be the most vulnerable school in the B12 currently.</p><p></p><p>I'm also not convinced 16 is the magic number that all conferences will get to. I can easily see a 4 conference set-up with 18 teams per conference setting up to 9 team divisions. That makes for an 8 game regular season football schedule with a natural conference title game between teams who haven't seen each other during the season. If teams wanted to preserve a rivalry game with a team in the other division it could be a non-conference game every year. Such a scenario would open up space for some fringe G5 schools trying to make the push to the upper echelon of college sports.</p><p></p><p>I don't feel threatened right now by realignment as a TCU fan. I think we're in a very good spot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Purp, post: 2835606, member: 12852"] I agree that ND isn't joining the ACC for football. All the networks would basically have to conclude there was no demand for ND football on TV with their own deal to convince ND it needed a conference. I don't see it happening. I also don't think Rutgers, Vandy, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, and a handful of others are quite as safe as he lets on. Truthfully, I think TCU and baylor (gag) are in much safer positions than most of those I mentioned and many that I didn't. I'd even speculate that EMAW may be the most vulnerable school in the B12 currently. I'm also not convinced 16 is the magic number that all conferences will get to. I can easily see a 4 conference set-up with 18 teams per conference setting up to 9 team divisions. That makes for an 8 game regular season football schedule with a natural conference title game between teams who haven't seen each other during the season. If teams wanted to preserve a rivalry game with a team in the other division it could be a non-conference game every year. Such a scenario would open up space for some fringe G5 schools trying to make the push to the upper echelon of college sports. I don't feel threatened right now by realignment as a TCU fan. I think we're in a very good spot. [/QUOTE]
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