College Realignment From The Birthplace Of College Football
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00:00 SportsFed's Rick Harwin with $1.3 trillion business in sports with your Sports News Minute.
00:10 Rutgers University, the birthplace of college football they claim, 1869.
00:15 It is absolutely ironic that as we start the college football this season, next year over
00:20 38 teams will transfer conferences including Cal and Stanford.
00:26 Rand McNally would be proud.
00:27 They're going over to the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic Coast Conference.
00:30 Rutgers remember when they moved nine years ago it was a controversial move because it
00:36 was so far geographically removed from the Big Ten.
00:39 That's child's play now.
00:41 The latest move will generate $30 million for the ACC, the Cal, Stanford, SMU move,
00:48 probably even more.
00:49 They're allocating it for competitive dollars as well.
00:53 New era for college athletic directors with more leverage and more money.
00:57 Let's just remember where it started and how it happened as we embark on a brave new world
01:03 next year.
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