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Nov 8, 2020
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So will OU and Texas sayin' "see ya later" to the Big 8 or Big 9 or Big not quite 12 as they run in to the open checkbookserrrrr arms of the espn darling SEC going to help or hurt college softball?

OU, the defending Champs, has more titles than all of the SEC teams combined.

Will the Big whateversleft manage to stay a power 5 conference or will there now just be 4 power conferences?

What's to happen to the remaining teams that didn't get invited in to the SEC? Do they beg to get in to the Big 10 (who already has 14 schools) or the ACC (which would really only make sense for West Virginia)?


I dont see anything positive from the move, 4 bloated conferences seems like a worse idea than 8 conferences of about 8 to 10 schools each.

And I know softball doesn't even really matter to these conferences as they are only interested in football and maybe basketball.

Maybe the NCAA should allow the schools to make their own conferences for each sport so you don't have conferences like the Pac have just 9 of its 12 schools even bothering to field a team.

Maybe I'm a cups half empty sort of realist but I don't see anything positive coming from this.

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Jul 5, 2016
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You would think that softball, like basketball, could be a fairly democratic sport. By this I mean that as with basketball, smaller colleges and universities (e.g., Gonzaga in basketball) should be able to field really competitive teams.

I see this move upending football more than anything else. As far as softball is concerned, I look forward to see OU play in a tougher league.
 
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You would think that softball, like basketball, could be a fairly democratic sport. By this I mean that as with basketball, smaller colleges and universities (e.g., Gonzaga in basketball) should be able to field really competitive teams.

It's probably because basketball teams can make big revenue and really market a university. Gonzaga's basektball team helps put that school on the map. Not sure a softball team or non-revenue school can do that, so the smaller schools (and alumni) are less willing to go all out to support a non-revenue sport. What James Madison's softball team just did is great for the school, but JMU would rather have its men's basketball team in the Final Four.
 
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Everything is a circle, NCAA came about from the "lawlessness" of the early years of college athletics and now it's going back around to those years and then it will go back to being regulated. I yell at people on my lawn so I'm not a fan of this new era.
 
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It's probably because basketball teams can make big revenue and really market a university. Gonzaga's basektball team helps put that school on the map. Not sure a softball team or non-revenue school can do that, so the smaller schools (and alumni) are less willing to go all out to support a non-revenue sport. What James Madison's softball team just did is great for the school, but JMU would rather have its men's basketball team in the Final Four.
Several of the smaller D1 schools have done well in Baseball
Fullerton, Fresno St, Pepperdine.... all have national champjonships, and Wichita State and Rice have had some very good teams as well.
What happens with the power conferences though is they get a ton of TV money amd then use that money to buy facilities and coaches which in turn buys them players.
The SEC was never a power conference in softball until they became a power conference in football and then poured some of that money in to softball to buy themselves to power status.

What this does is put more money in to the SEC bowl.

All of the conferences have at least 1 private school member, that private school member allows the conference to not make all of its financial records public. The SEC won't throw Vanderbilt out because the Commodores are the SEC's private school firewall. Vandy doesn't even bother with softball but all of the money the other schools pour in to their softball programs can be kept secret.

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Jul 5, 2016
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I suppose if Texas and OU join the SEC, the NCAA and SEC can get a divorce and the SEC can become a farm league for the NFL and NBA.
 
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