With all kinds of chaos going on in realignment is it possible that an all private school conference would work? You would have schools like USC, Notre Dame, Stanford, BYU, Duke, Syracuse, Boston College, TCU, Baylor, Miami, Wake Forest, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt. You could also include military academies.
All Private School Conference
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No, you want to stay with the Big public universities with huge alumni/fanbases.
There wouldn't be that much money in an all private conference.
Maybe like 3 or 4 schools have large enough fanbases to make it work.
There wouldn't be that much money in an all private conference.
Maybe like 3 or 4 schools have large enough fanbases to make it work.
Right, Let's be perceived as being even more elite than we already are.
Oh, that's right, there's already the Ivy League--Who somehow knew NIL was coming 70 years ago.
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You neglected Rice. With them, you could have two 7 team divisions. A super conference in the making. Next you could go after the best public universities: Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Cal, UCLA, Texas, and Virginia. There you have it folks, the way to academic excellence in Football. The Coup de Grace of course would be to add the Ivy League, but then you would need 3 more schools to round out four 8 teams divisions. The answer is obvious--Wisconsin, Illinois and Florida. This conference would kill. It would be the end of Alabama, Clemson and OSU. EvanstonCat would like that.
Not going to happen unless all/most of those schools get left behind by realignment. It's not economically sensible; you have national travel costs that you're trying to finance by sports that mostly aren't competitive at the highest level.
The annual payout to each school in the next iteration of the B1G is going to be somewhere in the vicinity of $80 million. That's what you'd be competing against in NU's case.
The Ivy League (in football) plays at the FCS level, but really not even that, because they don't play a full schedule, don't play any FBS teams anymore, don't participate in the FCS playoff, and don't award any kind of athletic scholarships. They wouldn't be interested in a conference where they had to play against Michigan and USC, unless you're proposing that Michigan and USC also de-emphasize football to the point of playing a truncated FCS schedule and refusing to play in the national championship playoff ... which is not going to happen.
I proposed an all-academic super conference. How would one truly accomplish that without the Ivy League? /S
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Hey, Yale beat Army less than a decade ago.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/yale-beats-army-in-ot-for-first-win-vs-fbs-team/
Do you know who lost to Army last time they played each other?
Northwestern. They were so ashamed that they cancelled the return game against Army and said nothing about it in the hopes that nobody would notice.
But I did.
Yeah, back when I was a pup, Harvard used to play Army every year. But not anymore.
We also a game against Dartmouth (at least, maybe another Ivy as well, don't recall for sure) scheduled, until the Ivy League stomped on that idea. The Princeton game was 1986; I believe the Dartmouth game was supposed to be in 1990.
Why would you ever want to leave the BigTen? We will make much more money in the B1G which allows us to fund more and higher quality non-revenue sports. We also compete on a bigger stage and being a private school in a Power 2 conference is a differentiator from many of the other private schools out there, too.
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So handily (37-0) that Princeton backed out of a trip to Evanston that had been scheduled for the next year.
I think it was a mutual decision. They wanted to cancel the game that actually happened, too, but for some reason it was locked in. I think the other games vs. the Ivy League had already been cancelled by the time the Princeton game was played.
That was a very bad Princeton team, for the record. I wonder how Northwestern would have done against the undefeated Penn team that beat Navy that year.
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