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ExCat21
10/18/2024 1:06 PM
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Thought that this is an interesting graph. Note that several MAC schools rate higher academically in this listing than a few of the lesser ranked B1G schools. A wag on the MACbbs board was advocating droping the lowest ranked MAC schools to up our academic profile. Droping Akron and EMU would do wonders for our academic profile.
Thanks for posting this! ACC is the standard.
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GoCats105
10/18/2024 1:20 PM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
Thought that this is an interesting graph. Note that several MAC schools rate higher academically in this listing than a few of the lesser ranked B1G schools. A wag on the MACbbs board was advocating droping the lowest ranked MAC schools to up our academic profile. Droping Akron and EMU would do wonders for our academic profile.
This is the kind of thinking that killed the PAC 12 and almost killed the PAC-8 back in the day. Back then, USC and UCLA wanted the Arizona schools but Stanford, Cal and Washington didn't want to bring in anyone that didn't fit their academic profile. They eventually folded once they realized how much more money the conference would make from ticket sales and TV revenue in places like Tuscon and Tempe compared to Pullman and Corvallis.
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L.C.
10/18/2024 2:46 PM
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Let's play commish for a moment. These FCS schools have the top 25 stadiums. If and when we lose Toledo/NIU, what 3 teams would you like to replace them with to get back to 14 teams?
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There is nothing magical about 14 teams, or 12. Twelve teams allows you to do 3 pods of 4 teams each. 16 would allow 4 pods of 4. You could also shoot for 15, giving you 3 pods of 5. Just stay away from prime numbers like 11, 13, or 17, and you can work it out. Even then, not all pods have to be the same size, so at the current 13 you could have two pods of 4 and one pod of 5.
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ExCat21
10/18/2024 3:08 PM
L.C. wrote:expand_more
Let's play commish for a moment. These FCS schools have the top 25 stadiums. If and when we lose Toledo/NIU, what 3 teams would you like to replace them with to get back to 14 teams?
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There is nothing magical about 14 teams, or 12. Twelve teams allows you to do 3 pods of 4 teams each. 16 would allow 4 pods of 4. You could also shoot for 15, giving you 3 pods of 5. Just stay away from prime numbers like 11, 13, or 17, and you can work it out. Even then, not all pods have to be the same size, so at the current 13 you could have two pods of 4 and one pod of 5.
I do like 16. Add 2 northeastern schools and put Buffalo and UMass in their own pod.
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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
10/18/2024 5:12 PM
I'm not sure I understand the desire to expand the conference. Unless you're expanding with teams that you're certain increase the value of your TV deal substantially (at minimum more than 13%), doesn't expansion run the risk of harming the league financially? Aren't there just two more schools to share every dollar with?
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Pataskala
10/18/2024 7:46 PM
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:expand_more
I'm not sure I understand the desire to expand the conference. Unless you're expanding with teams that you're certain increase the value of your TV deal substantially (at minimum more than 13%), doesn't expansion run the risk of harming the league financially? Aren't there just two more schools to share every dollar with?
I think it's the old fear that if you don't grow you die or if you stand still you actually move backwards. Expansion should be a positive move, not an act of desperation.
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