And with that......WAC football perishes

[J-Rod]

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The clock just ran out.....SJSU wins the last football game ever featuring a WAC school. Very sad.....this conference was very good too many schools. Realignment officially claims its first victim.

 

[phxpoke]

I must be getting old because I hate all this change. I hope we can come out of all this ok. I would hate to see us lose our rivals, or worse, never on tv.

 

[Wyo2dal]

I must be getting old because I hate all this change. I hope we can come out of all this ok. I would hate to see us lose our rivals, or worse, never on tv.

Ya I can't stand the fact College football is 100% about money and 0% about sports, tradition and rivalries.

 

[Wyokie]

I have a bad feeling this whole realignment thing will get much worse soon......

 

[Wyo2dal]

^^

 

[J-Rod]

I have a bad feeling this whole realignment thing will get much worse soon......

+1 I think this 16-team conferences thing will happen......and slowly. Death by a thousand tiny cuts. This shit sucks.

 

[Wyokie]

I have a bad feeling this whole realignment thing will get much worse soon......

+1 I think this 16-team conferences thing will happen......and slowly. Death by a thousand tiny cuts. This shit sucks.

I saw the 16-team league thing coming a mile away at least 2-3 years ago.

 

[Wyo2dal]

Long as UW is one of the 16 w/e I don't care it's not like any of the 16 teams have the opportunity for fuck all.

 

[J-Rod]

Long as UW is one of the 16 w/e I don't care it's not like any of the 16 teams have the opportunity for fuck all.

Seems like the SEC, Big Ten, Big XII, and Pac-XX (Pac is iffy on expanding) will all go 16 eventually, leaving the ACC to die. I doubt Wyoming makes that cut.....the Pac-12 will never happen, and the Big XII is likely to raid the ACC for its remaining schools. T.V. markets win, and this is a situation where being the last remaining remnants of the old west is a really bad thing for UW.

But who knows? The Big Ten adding Maryland suggests more conferences will make "bitch additions"......expand to 16, but make it market-only teams....nothing to do with athletic strength. Hello, UNLV. :roll:

 

[Wyo2dal]

Even if they all go 16 teams that still leave a lot of non power conference teams which is where Wyoming will always be.

 

[Cowduck]

And you know what's going to perish next? Antiquated notions of "amateurism" in athletics. Within a decade I think the revenue sports will essentially be divorced from the academic mission. Connection to a university will be nominal only at most and the college ranks will be essentially minor pro leagues. I have mixed feelings about it, I am so emotionally attached to my school and my state and it makes me very sad that this connection will not mean anything to future generations. But at the same time I think players deserve to be compensated financially and frankly the US is the only place in the world where colleges and even high schools are do the business of player development for high-level athletics.

 

[WyoExpat]

And you know what's going to perish next? Antiquated notions of "amateurism" in athletics. Within a decade I think the revenue sports will essentially be divorced from the academic mission. Connection to a university will be nominal only at most and the college ranks will be essentially minor pro leagues. I have mixed feelings about it, I am so emotionally attached to my school and my state and it makes me very sad that this connection will not mean anything to future generations. But at the same time I think players deserve to be compensated financially and frankly the US is the only place in the world where colleges and even high schools are do the business of player development for high-level athletics.

I know how you feel. The irony is that I doubt the major sports would be able to market themselves if they were not part of their host schools. Look at minor league baseball to see what life would be like for these teams if they were not built into the universities.

I also think that we under-value a university education when was suggest that the athletes are not compensated. The fact that the high-end players that are sure to go pro seldom major in business or finance is evidence that they are not even making the most of the existing compensation package as it is.