This is another good point I hadn’t thought of.Due to this expansion i believe Iowa just became more of a destination school to most head coaches, which bodes well for us as we look to replace our legend in a few years.
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This is another good point I hadn’t thought of.Due to this expansion i believe Iowa just became more of a destination school to most head coaches, which bodes well for us as we look to replace our legend in a few years.
Due to this expansion i believe Iowa just became more of a destination school to most head coaches, which bodes well for us as we look to replace our legend in a few years.
I had not thought of it that way before. sure hope so. I am getting worried about his eventual successor too.
so, as of right now isn't he under contract for about four more years, to age 70?
It’s like a once monogamous marriage moving into swinger modeThe bigger concern to me is that the conference will just get too big and won't feel like a conference anymore. I want to play to teams I have long-worn grudges with most Saturdays, not just anyone.
But, the variety will also be nice. I guess for me it just depends on how they balance things.
College football, like many once-cherished institutions in American society today, has been vitiated, prostituted, and bastardized so as to effect the pecuniary self-aggrandizement of its powers that be.It’s like a once monogamous marriage moving into swinger mode
This. I think without a doubt it will be time to expand the playoff system then as well......The more teams get added, the harder it is for any one team to win the league. To answer your question, Iowa's chances went from difficult to more difficult. My hope is the playoff is expanded to 16 or 24 teams that is where teams are really judged.
Is that any different the what they have now, other then only 4 teams get in? Ok is in the SEC soon as well, so other then a couple of years with Clemson (who will probably end up in the next SEC expansion), who else is getting in? At least if it went to 16 teams you could see a window for an Iowa or a MSU or Wisconsin....So we're going to end up with 2 mega conferences and then a 16 team playoff of mostly teams from those to 2 conferences. Sounds great
Maybe, possibly in the short term, but if this superconference thing actually happens with the B1G and SEC both at 20 programs, it could easily set up similar to the NFC (B1G) and AFC (SEC) in terms of playoffs. Each conference has four divisions made up of five teams, the division winners take part in a four-team conference playoff, then the winners of the B1G and SEC meeting in a championship game. If this thing goes where many think it's going, the NCAA and CFP are essentially going to be neutered by the B1G, SEC, and TV/streaming networks.I think we will care less and less about conference championships as the true power leagues get stronger and larger. My guess is that the CFP will expand to 8 teams and amount to a mini ncaa tournament. The goal will be to get into the CFP, which will be dominated by B1G and SEC, along with a few outliers (e.g. Clemson, FSU, ND, Oklahoma St., etc.). I realize the champ games are now big money but see them being redundant with the playoff. There are going to be too many quality teams left out of conference championships. (think about the SEC with teams like Alabama, LSU, Florida, Auburn, Oklahoma, TAMU, etc.)
No one complains about the NFL with 32 teams and a sub-set of those teams getting in the playoffs. Big 10 and SEC expand, 16 or 24-team playoff with no auto bids, you can include good teams from other conferences that can get in too. But no auto-bids for Big 12 with no Texas and Oklahoma, and no auto-bids for a Pac-12 without USC and UCLA, or Oregon if they are no longer in the league.Is that any different the what they have now, other then only 4 teams get in? Ok is in the SEC soon as well, so other then a couple of years with Clemson (who will probably end up in the next SEC expansion), who else is getting in? At least if it went to 16 teams you could see a window for an Iowa or a MSU or Wisconsin....