I really don't know how this is going to play out in the long run. Maybe there is a good ending to all this. But at this point the above gives me a much better feeling about amateur sports than where this appears to be going. But maybe that's the rub.....they are no longer amateur sports. Maybe some of today's youngster's will feel much more comfortable with this layout, having grown up with it. I will still watch, and cheer, but I'm not sure the passion will be as great for me. Maybe so, but it's going to take some acclimating for me to get as emotionally invested as I once was I fear.
B1G about to have a "surprise" expansion.
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If this comes to pass, it seems to me that this has the potential to eliminate the schedule inequities that come from crossover scheduling. The 'New' West would be USC, UCLA, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Purdue, and Illinois. Each team plays all of its divisional opponents and three non-conference opponents of the program's choosing. The winner of the West and the East play each other in the B1G Championship game.
The passion will definitely go down for me. Switching to a new conference cost some old rivalries, which was a shame. But at least we could establish new ones. But the constant shifting and adding of new teams too far away to watch in person is really grinding me down.
I give it a week before California state legislators make an issue of UCLA at least traveling to and participating in events in states whose political views and laws are not the same as LA's/California's.
Wow!
I don't know what your definition of a dump is but I was there a few months ago and I thought it was sparkly and clean, and iconic. Maybe they had let it go and recently upgraded.
The USC campus adjoining was especially beautiful as well.
But as you said the surrounding area, yech....its somewhere between Bangladesh and Beirut. Throw in a dash of Calcutta.
Edit: this explains it.
LA Memorial Coliseum Completes $315M Renovation Ahead Of Football Season
I love this and in no way feel like we’re done adding schools! Can’t wait to see the next move in this massive chess game between the SEC and B1G to make their conferences better by adding the best out there. Never saw this coming but believe it’s huge!
Question is who is next? Notre Dame is going to be target number one for both conferences and they’re absolutely going to have to make a choice. I see SEC going after southern/SEC teams and ND and I see B1G going after Big 12 and Pac 12 teams and of course Notre Dame.
Question is who is next? Notre Dame is going to be target number one for both conferences and they’re absolutely going to have to make a choice. I see SEC going after southern/SEC teams and ND and I see B1G going after Big 12 and Pac 12 teams and of course Notre Dame.
Get Notre Dame and be done with it.
However,
16 teams gives you 2 8 team divisions with a playoff
20 teams is 2 10 team mini conferences
But, they are eliminating divisions so its going to turn into a playoff committee within the conference to determine which top teams they want in the CFP.
So, Nebraska ends up with the short end of the stick in all of this unless things turn around immediately.
Do you have a link that says they are doing away with the divisions? I read they are considering it only
Strictly talking fooftball, I'd much rather have a Nebraska-USC matchup versus Neb/Kansas
……..and here I thought you were a Boise gal.And while they're at it, add the home team New Mexico State Aggies!!
The speculation of those on the inside anymore (these days it’s sports talk guys and not message board guys and you have to listen close and read between the lines they throw in to keep their inside access) is divisions are going away. In fact all Big 10 schools have already submitted their preferred crossover games “should divisions go away”.
Sigh. Another reason for this old guy to soon become an ex-college sports fan 
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Used to live there. Bought a house in Las Cruces and moved to The Land of Enchantment just over a year ago.
I bet the local PD will be checking bags perdy hard after our first trip out west
