RonJohn
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This is the same thing I pointed out about the Josh Pate podcast. He strikes me as a loud and obnoxious guy. He sounds the same as SEC fans arguing at a bar on a Saturday in the fall. Mostly bluster, whether their statements are factual or even are directly opposite of what they said five minutes ago. He seems to just now understand that the university presidents don't see the situation the same as fans do.One of the more interesting aspects of what Sankey said, and what he's openly telling the public, is that school Presidents ultimately make the expansion decisions and who gets invited...NOT ADs or Conference Commissioners. What criteria conference Presidents have is totally different than what fans and media think.
With the way that public discourse has evolved over the last decade or more, people believe that you either agree with them 100%, or disagree with them 100%. If I post that matchups and ratings are not the only thing that matters to decision makers in realignment, people believe that I am saying that matchups and ratings will have zero impact on realignment. I have not tried to say that at all. Matchups will matter. Ratings will matter. Media markets will matter. AAU will matter to the Big10 presidents. History will matter. Existing academic coordination will matter. Existing research cooperation will matter. Many other factors will matter. I don't know how much weight will be placed on any of those things. Nobody else does either, probably including the people who would ultimately make the decisions. It is a shame that conversations about anything, including realignment are automatically segregated into things like pro-FSU and anti-FSU tribes. I am definitely not pro-FSU, but I am not automatically against anything that someone from FSU says simply because they are from FSU. If people could have actual substantive discussions and learn from each other, the discussions would be far more interesting to me.