College Football--Big Ten Expansion
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Anonymous
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Crazy that a b-level rag, and that would be generous to US News & World Report, has become what it has as a major influence on college decisions, school district decisions, and hospital decisions.
Their staff isn't exactly a who's who either, and most of what their newer rankings use input wise for methodology is public info. Complaining about writers and coaches ranking football teams poorly is funny because the older US News rankings were similar and heavily waited "expert" peer assessments based on a survey they'd send out to other schools. |
Anonymous
By "b-level", I assume that you mean billionaire level ? |
Anonymous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report Was USNWR ever a well-regarded publication? The pivot to rankings was genius. At this point, they send a survey and repackage a lot of public info and rake in ad and subscription revenue! Their small and somewhat inept staff was on full display when they had to pause and rerelease their law school rankings earlier this year. |
Anonymous
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I suspect most of those who do not respect US News college ratings & rankings never experienced the college selection process prior to its inception.
US News brought a sense of order and understanding to the chaotic, baseless, and mysterious world of college selection that thrived primarily on a school counselor's relationship with the local college representatives. |
Anonymous
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I feel like football should have its own divisions.
Makes no sense for kids on the golf team to have to fly all over gods green earth. Often players in these non-revenue generating sports got an admissions tip, but receive no scholarship. And now this? Some of these football teams fly charter. Not so much the diving team. |
Anonymous
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Congratulations to FSU (Florida State University) football team which destroyed #5 ranked LSU last night 45 to 21 !
FSU is definitely ready for SEC membership. Should be ranked #1 after this week. |
Anonymous
Agree. Fencing & sailing are other Stanford teams with few members. Maybe members of Stanford's olympic sports teams will stop participating as a Stanford team member after one year of repeated cross-country travel. Bet that these athletes will give more consideration to Ivy League schools than to living on an airplane with Stanford. |
Anonymous
Combined with a Florida loss to Utah, there is now even less of a chance that Florida wants them in the SEC |
Anonymous
Agree. The University of Florida is probably better suited for the Big Ten Conference--as is the University of Texas--than the SEC. |
Anonymous
No it didn't. I applied to colleges before the first rankings. the 'rankings" are plain stupid and didn't bring any order at all. |
Anonymous
B as in bribery, b.s. made up stats and bogus formulas. |
Anonymous
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SEC sports analyst Paul Finebaum disapproves of the ACC's recent expansion move:
https://si.com/college/stanford/football/paul-finebaum-acc-expansion-adding-stanford-cal-smu-college-football-realignment |
Anonymous
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Due to the large & growing revenue gap between the Big Ten/SEC and the ACC, any teams staying in the ACC for more than 5 years will become non-relevant:
https://chopchat.com/2023/09/02/acc-expansion-means-three-teams-serious-football/ |
Anonymous
We’re not talking about now. Where will SMU be in 3-4 years? However, it sounds like you played against SMU when they were good. So, no, it’s not a surprise that you would bear a grudge and not want to watch. In any case, I noticed FSU is not on your “must watch” list, which was my point. And sure, I’ll watch the big matchups — I’ll probably watch LSU-FSU tomorrow night. But I probably wouldn’t if it was FSU and a random G5 team. I didn’t watch Bama or Georgia today. I have a friend who went to Wyoming, and we’ve followed the team since the time Josh Allen was playing, so I greatly enjoyed watching them beat Tech tonight. See how that works? If you were recruited by Texas (and presumably other schools) then you also know that every school was doing it. I went to a Texas HS with a top football team, and I had multiple 4 & 5* friends recruited during that era, and they said there were recruiting violations at every school they visited. In fact, one friend said the most blatant was Rice. SMU’s mistake was being successful and beating Texas twice. (FWIW, Eric Dickerson’s infamous gold Trans Am was bought by an Aggie booster.) Punishment was one thing, but the NCAA was pushed hard by Texas and others to go for the death penalty, and it’s pretty clear that it was a terrible idea (judging by the fact that they’ve never done it again to any number of schools that have done things that were worse, by any measure). Who knows how SMU will do in the ACC, but now they’ll have their chance, which is long overdue. I will agree with you to a point. I did get recruited to several D1 programs back in the day. The SWC was crazy back then. Money was passed around to the top players. The things that happened at SMU were outrageous. I don't think the death penalty was the right punishment for SMU. And you correct in that the NCAA will not sentence any other schools to the death penalty despite egregious violations of NCAA rules. It makes no sense to do it Dollar wise. BTW, Texas did not push for the death penalty for SMU. Please give me a source for that outlandish claim! |
Anonymous
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The 25 largest college football stadiums by seating capacity:
https://ncaa.com/news/football/article/2018-07-30/25-biggest-college-football-stadiums-country |