OU and UT was a massive game changer.
To me, it changed the landscape of college sports more than anything in recent memory, including NIL, including CFP expansion, etc. It seriously diminished the existing BigXII, and it basically put the other conferences on notice that the stakes for conference expansion are now raised. It involves bluebloods and bluebloods only. The tragedy (or reality) is that in order for other conferences keep up, bluebloods must be acquired from other conferences without taking on "dead weight" (read: non-bluebloods), whereby other conferences will be greatly diminished.
The SEC could have easily taken Oklahoma State. Always good in football. Always good in basketball--could keep the Bedlam rivalry as its own. But they didn't. They kicked the Cowboys to the curb.
So to me, there are a few major players in all of this: USC and Notre Dame. These are the bluest of the bluebloods that are not in the B1G or the SEC. While FSU and Clemson are also in that blueblood realm, I don't think they have the same pull as USC and Notre Dame wrt the future of college football.
Bottom line for VT: I don't think the options we hoped we had are quite the same moving forward. That's why I say get good in football again, and do it quickly.
[Post edited by Maroon Baboon at 01/14/2022 09:16AM]
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Posted: 01/14/2022 at 09:16AM