(07-09-2017 05:17 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  

(07-09-2017 02:33 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(07-09-2017 02:19 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  ...would your power conference legitimately consider?

Seriously, are there any non-power schools that could contend for a spot in your conference?

Cincinnati to the ACC or SEC? Connecticut to the B1G or ACC? UNLV or New Mexico to the PAC? Anyone to the XII or is it a dead man walking?

Big 10 if all else they have planned fails possibly Connecticut. 1 chance in 50.

SEC if all else fails they sit at 14 for a long long time and if E.C.U. or South Florida improve enough to get their academic ranking within range and an R1 status maybe in 30 to 40 years they get a look. 1 chance in 100.

ACC if Notre Dame has a hankering for Cincinnati for some reason and is willing to go all in maybe. 1 chance in 10.

Big 12 most likely will be picked apart by the others. They've already exhausted a search and decided no. Little to no chance.

PAC 12 is the most likely to promote current G5's IMO. U.N.L.V., New Mexico,and Hawaii might one day get a look. 1 chance in 3.

It may sound crazy to most, but the best chance for G5 promotion resides in the current P5 becoming a P3. Should the SEC and ACC take the best of the Big 12 and the PAC lag behind everyone else economically then it is possible that the Big 10 might one day take 6 to 10 PAC schools.

If so the remnants of the Big 12 and PAC could join with the best of the AAC and form a four division national conference that would become perhaps the 4th Power Conference effectively promoting them all. Why? While they might not be paid as well as the other P3 they nonetheless would provide networks with games across all time zones, would alleviate the greatest threat of law suits, and by becoming a P conference would enhance the value of tickets for games played against them by the other 3.

South Florida? I'd figure it'd be UCF in a non-NFL market and bigger school getting the call.

Also, I could see the Pac taking UNLV and Nevada or BYU and Hawai'I but only in those combos.

Yes and Disney is a destination location. But USF has stepped up their research spending and will probably reach the metrics before UCF.