Conference Realignment

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Serious Late

Serious Late
Peoria via Denver via Ann Arbor via Albuquerque vi
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Shief said:
I am not surprised to hear Missouri State is moving up. That rumor has been going around for a few years.

I grew up near ISU and I also feel like they should be higher profile. When I was younger, I heard a rumor that an Illinois Assemblyman that graduated from Illinois but who represented the Bloomington-Normal area put forward a bill to have UI and ISU play annually in football, with the hope of building up ISU but that did not pan out. Then in the late-2000s/early-2010s the State of Illinois was trying to 'get a second state school in the Big 10' and many thought that ISU could built up to that, that obviously did not happen. All that to say, ISU was the first state school but Illinois grew and gained most of the attention.
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The Valley has been a breeding ground for programs moving up in basketball, but a football driven move is a first for the conference, isn't it?

I don't even know if I was a Missouri State fan that this would be all that exciting. The basketball side of C-USA is gross, and they are bottom of the pack in FBS Football...

Who am I kidding, I'm sure most MSU fans see this as just the start of their journey to the SEC. 😀
 
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SoCal Illini

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Saw something I really want to share, no one I know would appreciate this, hopefully you all do….

I saw a vanity license plate complete with frame. Presumably this person went to USC for undergrad and to Michigan for MBA, since the frame was the Michigan school of business.
The plate itself read “SC 2 UM”…. Scum lol

I think it’s funny at least. Person is either shameless, or not very bright. I’d like to think both of those institutions failed them, as I hate them both.
 
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Mr. Tibbs

Mr. Tibbs
southeast DuPage
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The Former Conference of Champions

they won’t be the last conference to disband
 
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TentakilRex

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Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
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Fighter of the Nightman said:
So sad. Even if I’m glad we are part of the haves in this current environment, I still wish this werent all happening.
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We shouldn't get cocky, Washington State (and maybe Oregon State) has been more relevant than us in football in the past 30 years
 
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Fighter of the Nightman

Fighter of the Nightman
Chicago, IL
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TentakilRex said:
We shouldn't get cocky, Washington State (and maybe Oregon State) has been more relevant than us in football in the past 30 years
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1) I agree, and I’m definitely not! However … 2) there are still just a lot more people who’d consider themselves Illini fans between a much bigger alumni base and larger state population that isn’t dominated by another team like in Washington and Oregon. It’s #2 that helps us, regardless of how bad we’ve been.
 
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TentakilRex

TentakilRex
Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
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Fighter of the Nightman said:
1) I agree, and I’m definitely not! However … 2) there are still just a lot more people who’d consider themselves Illini fans between a much bigger alumni base and larger state population that isn’t dominated by another team like in Washington and Oregon. It’s #2 that helps us, regardless of how bad we’ve been.
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My fear:

1. The TV execs might view Notre Dame as the team that owns Chicago (the rest of the state doesn't matter)
2. Even at the best of times, TV execs having this much power over CFB is a bad thing.
3. This is not a good era for having intelligent savvy TV execs (ex David Zaslav) plus it is an era where media companies are having major financial issues (from Paramount to Disney to WarnerMedia). Being slaves to corporate greed is one thing, add shortsightedness, incompetence, and possibly desperation, this could ugly for us. Heck worst case scenario, there are going a couple of teams getting screwed over with us that will have more legit gripes.