(05-04-2017 01:22 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(05-04-2017 11:02 AM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(05-04-2017 10:34 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(05-04-2017 09:51 AM)BigHouston Wrote:  

(05-03-2017 05:00 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  Power Conference = conference's w/ high media payouts

The AAC is correct in that there are 6 of them. But the AAC isn't one. The 6 are:
1. SEC
2. Big Ten
3. ACC
4. PAC 12
5. Big XII
6. ???

FIFY ^^^

The NEWbigeast does NOT have football

Look at it this way... Is like purchasing a vehicle with no engine in it.

Here's how I see it, if the Nbigeast wants view themselves as a power conference than man up with football but even if they did, they'll be a league full of startups... Not gonna happen, well, not in this life time at least.

The Big East makes more TV money for just basketball than the G5 leagues do for both football and basketball. I personally think that makes them smart as opposed to some amorphous "man up" macho crap being propagated by the G5 conferences. Once again, the Big East make more TV money than the G5... and that's basically the only scoreboard that matters in conference realignment. It would be more fruitful if the G5 leagues would quit whining about it and/or pretend that they're more powerful simply because that they have football and figure out WHY the Big East is valued more in the marketplace for just basketball when the G5 teams are hemorrhaging trying to compete in FBS football.

The Big East found a valuable niche and they maximized their value in such niche with consistent branding and institutional fit, whereas the G5 leagues are hodgepodge leagues that are still deluding themselves in believing that they can ever achieve power status. There might very well be a handful of individual G5 *schools* that have a legitimate shot of moving up to power status, but people need to quit pretending that there will EVER be a thing known as the "Power 6" or "Power 7" or anything more than the current Power 5. A power conference (such as the Big 12) is more likely to be wiped out than a G5 conference ever getting elevated.

Like I mentioned above... The NEWbigeast doesn't have football.

As many ways as you love to skin/defend this cat (NEWbigeast), football is far more important to any true power league.

^^corrected your mistake

No. Money is what makes a conference s power conference.

The Big East makes a ton of money. Therefore they're a power conference. If the AAC made 20-30 million a year, they'd be a power conference, too.

Big East BB probably makes more TV money than any other conference.