(01-28-2016 11:00 AM)jhasting Wrote: Opinion Question. Considering all factors (brand, TV market, academics, revenue sports success, Olympic sports success, geography, culture ...) and any GOR could be broken, which school(s) are most likely candidates to be dropped by each P5 conference?
ACC: Wake Forest has had little revenue sports success compared with the rest of ACC. (NOTE: Gene & Dixie will protest)
B12: West Virginia. Geography.
B1G: Rutgers. They are a state flagship school but have had shockingly low revenue & Olympic sports success. They are also on the lower end of B1G academics.
P12: Washington State. Their academics and athletic history are not in-line with the rest of P12.
SEC: This is the hardest to select. Vanderbilt athletics or Mississippi State academics?
I think the SEC is happy with all their members. A few years ago Mississippi State might have gotten the boot but I think they have proven they can compete.
ACC: If they could they would kick out Wake Forest and probably add East Carolina. The Pirates keep them at four in NC and the NC schools control the conference still. The addition brings another good southern football program that can put butts in the seats and creates a good game day atmosphere for tv. Clemson-ECU, NCState-ECU, UNC-ECU, VT-ECU, FSU-ECU would all be great TV games. ECU baseball would be on par with the ACC bring in another power program to keep the ACC good there. Basketball wouldn't be that great but would probably be about how Wake Forest is now and would get better. Also ACC doesn't need too many good basketball schools they have enough.
Big Ten: Is probably happy with all their members but they would probably trade Purdue for Notre Dame.
PAC-12: Would probably trade Washington State for Boise State. Their both not the greatest schools for education and both in the Idaho-Washington region. Boise State would probably bring more fans another good football program and a basketball program better off too.
Big 12: If they could they would probably trade Kansas State for Nebraska, West Virginia for Texas A&M, and Iowa State for Missouri. (I bet they would take back the old Big 12 in a heart beat).
G5 schools just for fun!!!
American: Probably trade Tulane or Tulsa for Rice and Southern Miss
C-USA: Probably trade UTEP (Just so far) for Georgia Southern.
MAC: Probably trade Buffalo for Marshall
MWC: I think they are happy right now, but would probably trade out San Jose State for BYU.
Sun Belt: Trade Idaho and NM State for James Madison and someone else