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blazerfan11 said:
Tired of nonstop realignment? UCLA’s Chip Kelly may have the common-sense solution

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-08-04/chip-kelly-college-football-realignment

Chip Kelly has a solution for all the crazy cross-country travel, not to mention the century’s worth of rivalries and tradition torn asunder by ceaseless realignment in college football.

Are you ready for a dose of common sense?

One conference. Every team. Divisions are aligned by geography.

"Do it like the NFL, where there’s NFC West, NFC North, NFC South where it’s the same thing and then we all get together,” Kelly, who coached for four seasons in the NFL before coming to UCLA, said Friday morning. “But I think there should be one conference in all of college football and just break it up like they do in the professional ranks. … That makes the most sense. There’s your travel question, there’s all those other questions.”

Traditionalists can only daydream about such simplicity, especially after Oregon and Washington were cleared to join UCLA and USC in the Big Ten Conference in 2024.

The departure of the Ducks and Huskies could spell the end of the Pac-12 since further defections are almost assured. Meanwhile, Florida State officials have publicly stated they’re looking to bolt the Atlantic Coast Conference in hopes of a more lucrative future, even reportedly engaging private equity firms as potential investment partners.
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Yeah I don't think this whole "realignment" issue is over yet by a long shot. Next ten years everything will be much different.
 
Saw another article this morning about the ACC throwing another lifeline out to the remaining PAC teams. Doubt anything happens.
 
"Now, the Ducks will be playing against the best teams in the nation on NBC, CBS, and FOX once they officially make the move next year. It comes as no surprise that the school is trying hard to push that fact with recruits, and making it be known that they will be in one of the most elite conferences in the nation a year from now."
https://duckswire.usatoday.com/list...ing-push-with-help-of-conference-realignment/
 
Shaboid said:
Saw another article this morning about the ACC throwing another lifeline out to the remaining PAC teams. Doubt anything happens.
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I would be very happy if they mix in some Big West, WAC, Big Mountain schools and just run it back. Beavs would crush those schools for a few years and it would be great to see. Make the best out of this situation.
 
BassPlaya said:
Grew up in Shedd.
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about an equal distance between the busy Highway 99 burgs of Tangent & Halsey. Was there even a stop light in Shedd?

my dad was a hot-head diesel mechanic who would get pissed off, say fuck it, and quit his job all the time. Then we'd move. But it was from small town to small town

IIRC, it was Sweet Home-->Lebanon-->Valsetz (logging town that doesn't doesn't exist anymore)-->Blackrock (logging camp that doesn't doesn't exist anymore)-->Falls City (1st grade)-->Sweet Home (2nd-5th grades)-->Monmouth (6th grade)-->Amboy, Washington (7th & 8th grades)-->Sweet Home, but actually outside Foster (high School)

my folks had bought 3 acres up on a hill overlooking the Santiam River ($500/acre in about 1960). They built a house there and that's from whence I commuted to high school and had my heart broke by Sandy Taylor. I think it was my sophomore year when the Army Corps of Engineers began filling Foster Reservoir so we weren't looking down on a river valley anymore but a lake

it was at a table overlooking that lake that I compared the percentages of 34% of OSU being female to 59% of UofO. Didn't have to be good at math to notice that kind of difference and become a Duck

GrandpaBlaze said:
Nice. Love that area. Very picturesque (photography being a hobby)
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yeah, some good photographic options around there, especially in the river canyons
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
"Now, the Ducks will be playing against the best teams in the nation on NBC, CBS, and FOX once they officially make the move next year. It comes as no surprise that the school is trying hard to push that fact with recruits, and making it be known that they will be in one of the most elite conferences in the nation a year from now."
https://duckswire.usatoday.com/list...ing-push-with-help-of-conference-realignment/
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That’s pretty obvious though. Great selling point! Gonna be very favorable to continue getting these 5Stars that they were ALREADY getting in hoops and football.
 
wizenheimer said:
about an equal distance between the busy Highway 99 burgs of Tangent & Halsey. Was there even a stop light in Shedd?

my dad was a hot-head diesel mechanic who would get pissed off, say fuck it, and quit his job all the time. Then we'd move. But it was from small town to small town

IIRC, it was Sweet Home-->Lebanon-->Valsetz (logging town that doesn't doesn't exist anymore)-->Blackrock (logging camp that doesn't doesn't exist anymore)-->Falls City (1st grade)-->Sweet Home (2nd-5th grades)-->Monmouth (6th grade)-->Amboy, Washington (7th & 8th grades)-->Sweet Home, but actually outside Foster (high School)

my folks had bought 3 acres up on a hill overlooking the Santiam River ($500/acre in about 1960). They built a house there and that's from whence I commuted to high school and had my heart broke by Sandy Taylor. I think it was my sophomore year when the Army Corps of Engineers began filling Foster Reservoir so we weren't looking down on a river valley anymore but a lake

it was at a table overlooking that lake that I compared the percentages of 34% of OSU being female to 59% of UofO. Didn't have to be good at math to notice that kind of difference and become a Duck



yeah, some good photographic options around there, especially in the river canyons
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Honest question, wasn’t that tough man? Continuing to start over?
 
wizenheimer said:
about an equal distance between the busy Highway 99 burgs of Tangent & Halsey. Was there even a stop light in Shedd?

my dad was a hot-head diesel mechanic who would get pissed off, say fuck it, and quit his job all the time. Then we'd move. But it was from small town to small town

IIRC, it was Sweet Home-->Lebanon-->Valsetz (logging town that doesn't doesn't exist anymore)-->Blackrock (logging camp that doesn't doesn't exist anymore)-->Falls City (1st grade)-->Sweet Home (2nd-5th grades)-->Monmouth (6th grade)-->Amboy, Washington (7th & 8th grades)-->Sweet Home, but actually outside Foster (high School)

my folks had bought 3 acres up on a hill overlooking the Santiam River ($500/acre in about 1960). They built a house there and that's from whence I commuted to high school and had my heart broke by Sandy Taylor. I think it was my sophomore year when the Army Corps of Engineers began filling Foster Reservoir so we weren't looking down on a river valley anymore but a lake

it was at a table overlooking that lake that I compared the percentages of 34% of OSU being female to 59% of UofO. Didn't have to be good at math to notice that kind of difference and become a Duck

yeah, some good photographic options around there, especially in the river canyons
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I grew up in Albany but loved driving through the more rural parts of the valley, Tangent, Brownsville (love the Brownsville to Crawfordsville to Sweet Home route), Scio area, etc.
 


if true, this wouldn't have been either the UofO/UofW as they had no intention of joining the Big-12 and getting locked into the 99 year exit fee

so would have to be one of Stanford (unlikely), Cal (maybe), Utah (unlikely), Arizona (maybe), or ASU (probably)
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wizenheimer said:
so would have to be one of Stanford (unlikely), Cal (maybe), Utah (unlikely), Arizona (maybe), or ASU (probably)
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I doubt it would be Utah, Arizona, or ASU.

Stanford is probably assuming that they were going to BIG20, so I don't think they'd be doing that either.

Most likely would be CAL.... because they might be left out in the cold.
 
GrandpaBlaze said:
I grew up in Albany but loved driving through the more rural parts of the valley, Tangent, Brownsville (love the Brownsville to Crawfordsville to Sweet Home route), Scio area, etc.
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I grew up in that stretch, a couple miles outside of Scio (but went to school in Stayton). I ended up being both a Beaver and a Duck!
 
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This is exactly what will drive the next alignment change. The 'elites' will get together and find a way to separate from the lower-tier teams.

Teams like Vanderbilt, S Carolina, Rutgers, Missouri, Syracuse, OK State, etc will really need to watch their backs.
 
HailBlazers said:
F that (travel)
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yeah, it just doesn't make sense, even if the media payout is bigger

but everything I've seen is that the MWC payout is under 5M/year. Jonathon Smith's salary in 4.85M. OOPS

the Beavs really need to get into the Big-12, even if it's for 15M/year...or less. Otherwise, they will have to cut a lot of sports. They can't run the AD at a 25M/year deficit year after year
 
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