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RE: Oklahoma to new conference. preferred partner
(01-06-2018 12:48 AM)JRsec Wrote: (01-05-2018 11:54 PM)Transic_nyc Wrote: (01-05-2018 06:54 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: From a gamesmanship perspective taking the Oklahoma pair would be a huge coup for the SEC. It hems in the Big Ten in a huge way and it isolates Texas. Texas can't go north to the Big Ten--the Big Ten can't take them and all of their non-AAU companions. If Texas wants to bail on the Big 12 (and let's face it they won't be heartbroken to leave Kansas, K St, Iowa St, and WVU behind) they have to go west which is undesirable for a number of reasons or they have to grovel their way into your 18+ member southern football confederacy.
If the point is to get access to sun belt states, sans Oklahoma, Texsa and/or schools in the Southeast there is only one option left and that would be a partial merger with the PAC schools and form a wing on the West Coast. Face it, the SEACC will do whatever it takes to keep their respective fiefdoms intact and keep out competitors. Perhaps merging with the PAC becomes a better option if it means the Big 12 doesn't break apart to solidify the SEC to the point of invulnerability.
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You might want to go ahead and add Utah to go with Kansas to 24. That would start the Big 12 implosion. If so then I'd say you have a great shot at landing N.D. and with them Syracuse. Now the Irish have access in conference to Stanford, U.S.C., Michigan, Michigan State, Syracuse (for a New York presence) and with the access to another big prize.
By going West to the California schools and picking off Kansas you open up a track to Texas with the addition of Notre Dame. With Texas on board N.D. has good recruiting grounds in the Southwest, and with a New York, Rutgers, Maryland and Penn State they have a presence where their diaspora of alums reside. So if the SEC picks up the two Oklahomas and a second Texas school not named UT you preoccupy the SEC by having destabilized the ACC. So the SEC picks up 10 ACC schools* to go with the two Oklahoma's a second Texas school and another, perhaps W.V.U. to move to 28.
*(Virginia, Virginia Tech, Duke, North Carolina, N.C. State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, Florida State, Louisville) to go with (Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, West Virginia and Texas Tech).
So the Big 10 plus 9 PAC schools and Kansas stands at 24 and lands N.D. and say Syracuse and now has a play for Texas and rounds them out with Iowa State. Now the Big 10 stands at 28 as well.
Together the 2 new conference form an upper tier of 56 schools of what will be 84 schools. Out temporarily are Arizona State, Wake Forest, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Kansas State, Baylor, T.C.U., Oregon State and Washington State.
So those 9 schools join the following: (Air Force, Army, Brigham Young, Boise State, Central Florida, Cincinnati, Colorado State, Connecticut, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, Navy, Nevada Las Vegas, San Diego State, South Florida, S.M.U., Temple, Tulane, Wyoming) to form another 28 schools in a third P conference.
This completes the upper tier.
East: Army, Boston College, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Navy, Pitt, Temple
South: Central Florida, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, South Florida, Tulane, Wake Forest
Central: Air Force, Baylor, Colorado State, Kansas State, S.M.U., T.C.U., Wyoming
West: Arizona State, Boise State, Brigham Young, Nevada Las Vegas, Oregon State, San Diego State, Washington State
There's your buffer conference. All included in the third P3 conference now have an in to the playoffs
The service academies and all of the 9 remaining original P5 are taken care of, and 16 present G5 are promoted.
It might not be perfect but it's a helluva lot better than what we have now.
Each conference has 2 regional winners (decided by a game between two divisions). Two at large bids go out as well and there is your 8 team playoff for a championship.
Any expansion out West by the Big Ten would only be in reaction to what the SEC might do with Big 12 schools. If it's to head off SEC expansion through the Big 12 they could split the PAC schools with the Big 12 but an SEC with UT and OU on board would make Western expansion almost necessary. The PAC wouldn't have any means of strengthening themselves through expansion, so a partial merger then becomes a possibility.
So an expansion with 9 from the PAC and Kansas might be the max under the scenario above.
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