(09-14-2017 06:15 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-14-2017 05:42 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(09-14-2017 05:38 PM)murrdcu Wrote:  

(09-14-2017 09:38 AM)BePcr07 Wrote:  

(09-13-2017 09:02 PM)JRsec Wrote:  If the SEC took 4 Big 12 schools and the ACC took 3, and Baylor got parting gifts for the AAC that would be just enough to make it work. ESPN could keep half of the lease for the PAC product and they will have plenty of inventory to sell.

SEC + Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St
ACC + TCU, West Virginia, Kansas?

I'll go a little different:

SEC + OU, OSU, KU, WVU

B12 retools as 8 team conference
Texas, Tech, TCU, Baylor, KSU, ISU
+ BYU, Boise State

No one is paying money for that rebuilt B12 and the Longhorns are on the first smoking out of there

Pretty much. But as to the distribution I would say this if we are going to 18:
SEC: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Texas Tech/Iowa State.
ACC: Texas, T.C.U., West Virginia,
AAC: Kansas State, Baylor, Texas Tech/Iowa State

That gets her done. Arkansas State Fan posted a pertinent detail on the main board today, the need to look at the number of sports offered by these schools and the kinds of sports offered by these schools.

The Big 12 programs really only match the SEC in that regard. The ACC is more country club sport oriented outside of the top 3. The Big 10 and PAC offer more ancillary sports. So from a profitability standpoint the Big 12 philosophy matches that of the SEC. The others not so much.

This is probably the only scenario where the ACC moves out of the ETZ and takes any Big 12 teams other than West Virginia.
I think the SEC would end up with Texas Tech instead of Iowa State, JR. Politics #1. It also gives Oklahoma State a semblance of a rivalry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_S...ll_rivalry with a team NOT out of the old Big 8.