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cricket77 OP
Jul 05, 2022 at 01:03 PM ET
I say let 16-20 teams go and form their own Fox/Disney league totally.
Let’s play our own league with the rest. Too many people say on here that they don’t watch the SEC/other heavyweight championships anyway, so let them become semi- pro leagues. Let’s get back to college athletes playing for love of school. That leaves about 100 other school# still left in Div 1. Some could move up from Div 2( NDSU). I’d love to play Ok St. for a Natty or Ariz St. or TCU. We can still call it the NCAA and let the big 24 make up their own rules, championships and make them have a new name not associated with the NCAA. I’m all in for opting out of this arms race. Now if the big 2 is going to get to 24-32 or so then that’s another story. But if they stand at 16 each, let em go.

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133743Hokie
Why does your opinion change if those two conferences go to 24?
Is it a function of whether we're allowed a seat at the big boys table?
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Stech
Think of 🏈 as the marketing arm of the school, yes having our name out
there more through football, helps get better students, get Grants and get better faculty. Our biggest rise in those things happened when we got on Big East football all the time. We need to maintain that, and to grow.
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133743Hokie
Not really. Yesore exposure and more applications, but it hasn't driven
up the overall quality of students. The honors program hasn't been enhanced by it. Nor engineering.
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cricket77 OP
Would be curious to know who has more natl. exposure. VT or Grand Canyon U.
I think over the next 50 years on campus enrollment will drop for all colleges.
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vtka93
Isn't the big 2 already at 32?*
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cricket77 OP
I meant 16 each. Not 20-24 each.
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vtka93
Then i tend to agree
let's go play some sort of division 1a football with the pac 10 leftovers and big 12 teams and whatever is left of ACC and group of 5. have our own national championship. see how sustainable this 40-48 team " league" is
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I hope that both Virginia Tech and Florida State are in the P-2. We have played some great games.