(07-01-2017 12:51 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(07-01-2017 09:59 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  We discuss realignment options for schools that we didn't attend all of the time.

But what about realignment options for your school? I will start with mine.

1)B12: Our academic peer list includes Oklahoma St, Iowa St and WVU so this would be the conference to join with its rural college towns. We make a perfect travel partner with WVU only 2 hours away.

For Ohio, this is laughable, at about the same level as the "Buffalo to the Big 10!" talk around here in recent years.

The day the Big 12 invites Ohio is the day it is no longer the Big 12 in any recognizable current form, e.g., Texas and Oklahoma will be long gone, the Big 12 will no longer be in the Power club, will have an AAC-level media deal, etc.

And not that it matters, but when you say Iowa State, WVU, and OKST are on your academic peer list, is it reciprocal? It doesn't mean much if it isn't. E.g., I once saw a list of schools that said Harvard was their peer - it was about 20 schools that had them on their list. Problem was, Harvard only had two of them on its list, LOL.

What he also fails to tell everyone is that Ohio hasn't won a MAC Championship since 1968.

And they do not bring any sort of media market to the table. Being in one of the poorest parts of the country doesn't help either.