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  1. Only watched it because I was randomly in KC where it was shown on NBC
  2. I feel like they've toned it down recently. I think I only saw her 2 or 3 times yesterday, which isn't that much different than how often they usually show someone important.
  3. ? This was uncovered by The Athletic
  4. Beyond disappointed. Why is it so bland? Was there something wrong with the tricolor? Why would you want the colors to just be blue? Step up from the old flag, but not enough of one compared to other submissions. Additionally, it sounds like the new state seal is going to have to be redone, prolonging this even more.
  5. Honestly, that one was my favorite, it has a nice classic look that the others lack. 17 is my favorite of the revisions. I don't like messing around with the star and I think the field looks nice with the tri-color
  6. But why? If the goal is for conferences to be as close to 6 without going under that would be incredibly unstable. For example, the MVFC has 12 schools this year. According to you, they should split into 2 conferences: the MVC with Indiana St, Illinois St, MO St, Murray St, Northern Iowa, Southern Illinois and the Summit with UND, NDSU, USD, SDSU, Western Illinois, Youngstown St. Once Western Illinois leaves after this year, then Summit would have to scramble to find another team to replace them and get back to 6 members, something the MVFC doesn't need to worry about since they are only down to 11.
  7. I'm not sure what you mean here, the MVFC only has 11 teams (once Western Illinois leaves) : 6 from the MVC, 4 from the Summit, and 1 from the Horizon. This is impossible to split into 2 conference of at least 6 (the minimum number of schools required for the auto-bid). Also, the MVFC has had at least 3 berths to the playoffs each of the last 5 years, so they're not exactly hurting for bids. The UAC on the other hand, only has 9 teams (11 in 2025 once UTRGV and West Georgia join). This is also impossible to split into 2 conferences of at least 6.
  8. WKU would likely block any attempt to join by EKU. I doubt UMass would be willing to leave the A-10 for non-football. Tarleton certainly has the ambition, but personally I think SFA makes more sense from CUSA's perspective.
  9. Number 5 here would be my preferred winner. Disappointed but not surprised that none of the Nordic Cross options advanced. As @Germanshepherd said, lots of Milwaukee-esque designs here.
  10. If I'm not mistaken, I think a lot of its stuff has been used as filler on Bally recently
  11. https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/will-chicago-state-university-get-a-football-team Chicago State seems to think the answer to its athletics problems is adding a football team.
  12. It gives them an even number. 12 for all sport plus Army & Navy for fb only and Wichita St & whoever for non-fb. Personally, I would consider GCU, FGCU, Belmont, and Denver for the last spot.
  13. Really the only way this made sense was for college sports, but now thanks to NIL anyone in position to rig a high-profile game is certainly already making money. Part of the reason the Bama baseball scandal was caught quickly was bc there were only 4 total bets on the game iirc. Again this was on an SEC baseball game, not anything super obscure. If your profit is only a couple hundred bucks at most, you're not convincing a college pitcher to throw a start for $100 a risk his entire future.
  14. After the TV Networks inevitably blow up the last semblances of traditional conferences and replace it with one superconference, I believe that the next "evolution" of conferences will be back to independents. Right now, the B1G TV-deal is "dragged-down" in per game value by games that don't draw as many viewers as Ohio St-Michigan (or even Nebraska-Penn St etc.,) such as Minnesota-Rutgers and Northwestern-Indiana. Inevitably, this will occur in the superconference as well, since not every game can be Ohio St-Michigan or Alabama-LSU. Some executive will have the "novel" idea of continuing this consolidation down to individual teams selling their TV rights, since Ohio St (and Notre Dame, Alabama, Texas, etc.,) can presumably make more money selling the rights to their home games and only their home games, than from a 1/16th (or however many teams in conference) share in selling the rights to not only Ohio St-Michigan but also relative "snoozefests" like Tennessee-Oklahoma and Clemson-Oregon. Although all of this might sound bad, I personally wouldn't mind it compared to the 1- superconference distant future or maybe even compared to the 2.5-superconference less-distant future. This way teams could schedule traditional rivals, other top teams, and a buy game or two. Could even possibly go to a 13-game schedule since there would be no conference championship. Using TCU and Alabama as examples: TCU Week 1: Tarleton St Week 2: SMU Week 3: Kansas St Week 4: Arkansas Week 5: Texas Tech Week 6: Indiana Week 7: Off Week 8: Oklahoma Week 9: Texas Week 10: Louisiana-Monroe Week 11: Texas A&M Week 12: UTEP Week 13: West Virginia Week 14: Baylor Alabama Week 1: Georgia Tech Week 2: San Diego St Week 3: Ole Miss Week 4: Arkansas Week 5: Florida Int'l Week 6: Mississippi St Week 7: Tennessee Week 8: Off Week 9: Texas A&M Week 10: Troy Week 11: Washington Week 12: LSU Week 13: Chattanooga Week 14: Auburn There would then be an xx-team playoff. I'm sure the TV Networks would help set up home and aways for teams they have under contract. I assume something similar would happen for basketball, but other sports might retain something similar to traditional conferences. Not sure what other peoples thoughts are on this, but I believe that this is where the sport is eventually headed.
  15. Personally, I think that if the Pac-xx implodes that Stanford and Berkley will play football as independents and join the WCC for everything else.
  16. I'm sorry, but Bemidji as a D1 school just doesn't make sense. They're relatively small and aren't very successful in hockey. UMD and Kato make much more sense. Augustana in Sioux Falls is perpetually looking to move up and will have a new hockey team, but the Summit has already turned them down at least once.
  17. Yea they wouldn't merge, but the remaining schools would backfill with SDSU, Boise St, Fresno St etc., maybe even SMU, Memphis, Tulane depending on who's left.
  18. That mountain of incentive already exists and it is called money
  19. I find it hard to believe that Stanford wouldn't be on the Big 10's wish list ahead of some of these schools. The Big 10 won't add a team unless they bring more to the conference TV deal than the average member (i.e. Wisconsin).* IMO, only Washington and Oregon hit that criteria, with Stanford being borderline and probably only worth it if they're brought in with Notre Dame. *Based off of vibes and nothing else, this is how I judged the value of each Big 10 team. Oregon would probably slot in between Penn St and Nebraska, Washington between UCLA and Michigan St, and Stanford between Sparty and Madison. The four corners schools are probably in the range of Wisconsin-Purdue. OSU Michigan USC Penn State Nebraska UCLA Michigan St Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Purdue Indiana Northwestern Maryland Illinois Rutgers
  20. Isn't Iowa Wesleyan a private school? Why should they be getting government money
  21. Just so we're clear, you think that the PAC-12, which has a team in Pullman, Washington as well as Corvallis and Eugene, Oregon won't invite a team that plays in a city of over half a million because of it's remoteness and lack of amenities? The city of Fresno probably brings more to the table than a third of Power 5 cities. Markets very briefly mattered when conferences were trying to get their channels into as many homes as possible before cable stopped being the end all be all of television. At this point it seems like two things have replaced market size; how many committed fans are going to tune in for every football game, most basketball games, and a few baseball/women's basketball/softball/other games and how many casual fans across the country will tune in occasionally based off their impression of the school.
  22. St Francis just moved campuses, so a big issue for them was lack of facilities. Men's Basketball played this year at Pratt Institute, which played in the USCAA (below the NAIA) until about 5 years ago.
  23. This is basically right with a few exceptions. VMI and The Citadel don't sponsor women's basketball (although they do sponsor other women's sports), Morehead State and Presbyterian play football in the non-scholarship Pioneer despite the OVC and Big South (respectively) sponsoring football, and despite the Patriot League sponsoring football Army plays as an FBS independent and Navy in the American. But yes, if a school plays basketball in a conference then it traditionally hosts as many of its teams there as it can.
  24. I feel like if the Big 12 wanted Boise they would already be in. If the Pac-12 keeps bleeding though I think Boise would be one of their first picks.
  25. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Cal and/or Stanford, after missing out on the Big 10, join the WCC and go independent for football. IMO that's probably the best cultural fit for them outside of the Big 10.
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