Purdue is in the fight for its life here in the next few years. If I’m Bobo I cut everything I can that isn’t linked to football or basketball because the BIG money tree isn’t the gift that keeps giving into eternity. Purdue athletics future hinges on what happens in football ….. period …. End. We may be a founding member but that gets swept under the rug when $ start getting thrown around with 8 or 9 figures attached to them. Yes we have a phenomenal golf course and diving pool but that crumbles into oblivion without football and basketball paying the bills. We need to be a solid middle of the pack football team before we waste money on other sports. Bitch all you want but they exist at the charity of football and to a lesser extent basketball.
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What number do you put on replacing Purdue with Clemson? Not saying you’re wrong but this is gonna come down to $. Why even allow yourself to be on the chopping block? If you are you’re F^€£3d and you die. Never be the slowest gazelle.
Disagree completely. In this conference, the top teams are going to still want some conference games they can count on winning. We won't always be that team but it looks like we are now. The only danger I see of us every getting left out of college football if all the conferences consolidate, including the Big Ten and SEC, to create an NFL type of league where only 24 or 32 teams get in.
No team has ever been kicked out if there confrence yet. the heavy hitters move on. Where is Ohio state going to go? sec make same money with more competition. And ohio state also wants easy games in confrence. someone will always have a down year and get last place Florida state this year
lol…. You don’t think they can find a few teams the upper echelon can beat with a bigger fan base than us? Seriously?!? Your defense for this is we suck so bad they want to keep us as a door mat? There are plenty of better looking door mats than us in college football.
The moment the PAC12 couldn't get a TV contract competitive with the other top conferences they'd have gone anywhere.
Eventually … yes I do. The only question is when. And if I could tell you when you wouldn’t be able to afford the bet. But the bet isn’t my point. My point is if your life is on the line why be so cavalier about it? Because right now Purdue is pretty cavalier about assuming BIG money will always be around for them to squander on fruitless endeavors.
Like I said, the only way we ever get left behind is if the top 24/32 teams from all the top conference align to form a new conference. I don't think we'd make that. But are we in danger of getting kicked out of the Big Ten? No. We have one of the top 10-15 enrollments in the country. When we aren't terrible, we fill a 60k seat stadium regularly. We played in the conference championship game less than 2 years ago. If you want to be scared about it, feel free. Not going to happen.
The B1G had a minimum number of varsity sports, and I think we are at it.
Enrollments? Not sure how that is a defense here. The game is no longer about butts in seats but rather eyes on screens and we aren’t going to pull them. Not to mention with how the BIG is currently structured for butts in seats we are a welfare state. It’s all pooled and split in the BIG. Shocker we aren’t in the top half. So basically we are living on the other BIG teams having butts in their seats.
You don't think large alumni bases increases eyes on screens? I don't know what to tell you other than you're just wrong here. I'm guessing you were drinking on Saturday.
If you think this scenario isn’t going to happen, you’re naive. Illinois current AD even discussed it on the record. He clearly thinks is a very real possibility.
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Getting kicked out is not going to happen. This entire house of cards that the NCAA and courts have created can't be sustained and will collapse under it's own weight within the next few years; you can already see it starting to crumble. NIL athletes are not getting paid what they've been promised (lawsuits), the courts have ruled Universities owe 21 million BACK TO 2016 to athletes (that's 180 million right off the top and it's only expected to increase every year) the fan base will continue to decrease as there are less kids and less young adults interested in the product and there is NO WAY that the cash that is being collected won't come under fire (lawsuits and congressional action)) to be "equitably distributed" amongst the non-revenue women's sports. Nobody can play in that sandbox, but there will be those that try. I think it ends with a Super League with a minimum of 20, max 24 teams that will basically be an extension of the NFL where the Universities get a much MUCH smaller cut of total revenue to keep the lights on and the grass growing.
I think something like this will happen within the next 20 years. Personally, I hope it will be a football-only arrangement. It would be nice to see traditional conferences preserved for all other sports, including basketball.
I foresee the eventual creation of 4 or 5 football "super leagues" based roughly on geography and historic rivalries---an NFL-type arrangement as TC4THREE put it. Each super league would probably have around 6-8 teams and play a 5 or 6-game "conference" schedule. They would fill out their remaining schedule with a mixture of cup cakes and mid-level P5 programs. After all, Penn State doesn't want to join a super league only to face the possibility of going 3-9.
Purdue would no doubt be left out of the super leagues, but that doesn't mean we'd be left out altogether. Purdue would band together with remaining B1G football programs (Illinois/Northwestern/Indiana/Minnesota/Iowa, etc.) to form their own football league. That would be the basis of most of our schedule. Purdue would still be able to schedule G5/FCS opponents and would fill out the remaining games with super-league teams as non-conference opponents (hopefully on a home-home basis, but more likely on the road most of the time). The main thing that would change for Purdue (and most other mid-level P5 programs), is that it probably will become harder to schedule home games against the likes of Ohio State and Michigan.
There would be a post-season play-off with at least 12 teams. The super leagues would undoubtedly get automatic bids, but there would also be at-large bids. There might even be a couple reserved for the highest-ranked teams outside the super leagues based on something like the NCAA basketball tournament selection criteria.
