72 team CFB Super League proposed

Football
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It is really silly to have a Texas division and not have all the Texas schools in it. But it would be cool to play LSU and Arkansas every year.

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UH is the new kid on the block so to speak so not in the Texas division. Not possible to fit 7 schools into a 6 team division, someone gets left out.

Not that I like anything about this proposal.

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Hmmm



Hard to imagine Michigan and Ohio State not being in the same division.

Hate to see UH not with UT and aTm, but I guess LSU, Arkansas, and the Mississippi Schools would be tolerable.

Where’s Tulane?

And wait
Wazzu and OSU get promoted back up?

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But we are back with our rival Memphis! Most deny them as our rival but they are.

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This alignment breaks up some of the oldest rivalries in college football. If they go to 9 conferences of 8 or 6 conferences of 12 instead, they’d be able to avoid that. For that matter, they could go to 70 and not promote Memphis or Navy, both of which sort of seem shoehorned in here. Just looking around at first glance, this breaks up:

  • UNC-UVA (The South’s Oldest Rivalry)
  • Auburn-Georgia (The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry)
  • Michigan-Ohio State
  • Texas-Oklahoma

The actual geography is also just generally weird, with the East and Great Lakes in particular standing out in that regard.

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Only one directional school in the P5
thanks UCF
Not crazy about Navy either
maybe Temple? They have had some success
but they play at Lincoln Financial Field. That place is a tomb. They would need their own facility. But with so many Phill palms to grease it would take $500MM to get something like we had, or the Bounce House.

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Yup. Why navy? They are only in the American for football. Doesn’t make sense.

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what is northwestern if not a direction

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I’m guessing because it referred to the NW United States at the time. Since “directional school” is used in a pejorative way. Just my 1/2 cent thought.

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Im not opposed to having LSU and Ole Miss on the yearly schedule. Its not the big Texas ones, its alot better than where we were in CUSA land 30 years ago.

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Sourhern California didn’t make the cut?

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Privates (USC and NW) aren’t thought of as directional schools.

Better examples would be Central/Eastern/Western Michigan, Northern Arizona, Southern Utah, Northern Illinois, SW Texas back in the day, North Texas, East Texas, Eastern/Central/Western Washington, etc. that is to say, local public schools that are nearly always regarded as inferior to their state’s flagship publics and land grant publics.

Because of the stigma associated with such names, many of these publics have started changing their names to something non-directional in recent years. See U of Louisiana, Texas State, etc for examples.

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It also just occurred to me that Air Force and Army aren’t on the 72 list, but Navy is?

This has NOT been well thought out.

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Army and Air Force are mentioned at the bottom of the G8 divisions.

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This kind of proposal would most likely require the elimination of all of the power conferences
 and that seems most unlikely to happen.

A few major hurdles include:

  1. Who would reign supreme as the collegiate professional football czar?
  2. Where would the new ‘collegiate professional football league offices’ be located?
  3. Who would negotiate the media rights and decide how to distribute same?
  4. Who would negotiate the players’ share of media rights?
  5. Who would represent the players union and negotiate the players salaries?
  6. Where would the new ‘collegiate professional football players union’ offices be located?

[NOTE: I could see the potential for a “Super League” of four P4 conferences where the existing four conference commissioners (and their related infrastructure) all stay in place and the leagues collaborate on such things as rules, salary caps and playoff selection as well as the distribution of media rights revenues outside the NCAA structure as we now know it. It seems to me that the SEC & B1G have already started down this road. Do the Big12 and ACC both earn an invite?]

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Yup, I would believe most conferences are not on board with this model.

You can google, " college sports tomorrow" and read more in depth of how the model works.

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Why aren’t they also in the 72?

As I said, NOT well thought out.

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Now I wonder if Northwestern is really something like Northwestern Illinois.

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No.

After the Revolution, the area where Northwestern U is located was considered the “Northwest Territory of the Ohio River,” via the 1787 “Northwest Ordinance.”

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I didn’t make the proposal. I’m just sharing what is out there. You can Google “College Sports Tomorrow” and read what they are proposing.