Miami to ACC

[MiamiRedskins]

Wheres he going?

[Carm_in_San_Diego]

I think Steele is going to avoid:

1. Work for a mid-major, have a great record
2. Get hired by a not-so-hot program (like Oklahoma or Minnesota), have a meh record
3. Get fired by the not-so-hot program
4. Go back to the mid-major route

You can live like a king for a few years, or live like a prince forever.

[Miamiamigo1]

The comments were about the construct of capitalizing on your opportunity with a 31-0 team. If Steele loves Oxford and is one of the exceptions that extends at the mid-major vs taking major $$$, then that’s great.

[Bash_Riprock]

@MiamiAlum

But he said that he thought athletically there was going to be a schism and schools like Notre Dame and such would not buy into the semi-professional model and that there would be a conference with ND, Stanford, Vandy, Northwestern, Duke, Rice, perhaps the service academies, and some others

Hodge stole my idea! I proposed a similar conference of schools here on MHT.com about 20 years ago. I called it the “All-Academic Athletic Conference”. Its member schools would consist of Miami, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Rice, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, and the three service academies. In hindsight, I must admit I was delusional too.

[Carm_in_San_Diego]

Throwing out a wildcard here: LIV Premier College Football, where some company offers 24 top CFB teams from the P4 and ND boo-koo bucks to play in a new league, and they ONLY play those teams. They keep the revenues, don’t have to share with the have-nots of their current conference, and it basically becomes minor-league NFL.

• Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and USC in. Northwestern, Iowa, Purdue, Rutgers, etc. OUT.
• Georgia, Florida, Bama, LSU, Texas in. Arkansas, Texas A&M, Vandy, both Mississippis, etc. OUT
• Clemson, ‘Canes, Florida State in. Everybody else? OUT

LIV College Football creates a channel at $25/month for viewers, gets premium prices for ads and makes out like bandits.

Then the re-alignment begins.

[OldRedskin]

I don’t think you’re far off here. I think the most likely scenario is the B1G and SEC each going to 24 teams and doing their own thing in football, but remaining in the NCAA for everything else. Something like, FSU, UNC, Duke, UVA, ND, and GT to the B1G, and Clemson, Miami, NC State, Ok State, Arizona State, Louisville, VA Tech, and TT to the SEC.

[Love_and_Honor]

I’d be fine with that. Let the lunatics escalate to official pro status and let them choke on their cash when a third of the teams are depressed that they’ve gone from blue bloods to their league’s version of the Browns, let the rest of us can have a system that makes sense.