(04-06-2016 09:56 PM)JRsec Wrote:  It's time to end this mess and issue the coup de grace. If the ACC doesn't want a western division then lets take a different tack. Offer Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Baylor. Baylor is the least likely of the Texas P5's to find a home. They are decent enough in all sports to provide a good role player year round. They don't wear red and they aren't named Tigers. I figure the PAC would take Texas Tech and T.C.U. along with possibly Rice to get into the Lone Star state. If Texas could claim they made the move to keep OU's rivalry and to get the Bears a home that makes them the hero. That may be enough cover for them to make a move they said they would never make. Plus it makes sense to play regionally.

The ACC can add N.D. all in, pick up Connecticut, pick up Cincinnati, and reconnect all of the them with West Virginia.

That would catch the Big 10 off guard. If they want to go to 16 they can take Kansas and Iowa State. They are Big 10 schools anyway.

The LHN can become the headquarters of the SECN and Charlotte can become the ACCN but do double duty covering the Eastern SEC schools. Bristol can become the ACCN for the Northern half. Let ESPN package the two conferences and sell them together. The revenue for the SEC would stay the same but with added footprint and the ACC can ask what they can get. Even if they get a 1.00 per subcriber It should be enough to quell the lure of the Big 10 cash and keep them close to the SEC.

The two can partner with the bowls and set up scheduling alliances.

ESPN would control 7 or 8 of the top revenue producers in the nation and about 16 or 17 of the top 20. And they would keep FOX out of the Southeast and sew up the best football, baseball, softball and basketball product on the market for college sports. Toss in Olympic sports, lacrosse, equestrian, golf, tennis, track & field, swimming & diving, and gymnastics and there isn't much we don't have to offer. We are even getting better at women's volleyball.

Since the ACC doesn't seem to be intelligent enough to add a western division I would give this a high probability of occurring. This is probably the best that the ACC can hope for.

To nullify the B12 GOR 8 teams need a home. You've already placed 5 in the SEC & in the ACC. If you could find some way for the PAC to take TT, TCU, Kansas & Iowa St that would be ideal. Finding a place for 4-6 is easy, it's the last 2 that's difficult.