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RE: The financial viability of mega-conferences
(01-19-2018 03:32 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote: (01-19-2018 02:55 PM)bullet Wrote: (01-19-2018 12:11 PM)BePcr07 Wrote: (01-19-2018 11:13 AM)bullet Wrote: Or a BTN group and SEC group, each with 2 12 team conferences:
BTN Group
Big 10-Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, Michigan St., Michigan, Ohio St., Penn St.
Big Atlantic-Rutgers, Maryland, Notre Dame, Pitt, Georgia Tech, Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, Clemson, Miami, UConn, USF
SEC Group
SEC-Texas A&M, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi St., Alabama, Auburn, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Florida
ACC-Missouri, South Carolina, Florida St., North Carolina St., Louisville, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Syracuse, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Temple
"Network Conferences" could be the route of the future. However, why Connecticut, South Florida, Wake Forest, Cincinnati, and Temple? Do you see the XII (- West Virginia) all heading West?
In this type of scenario, the Big 12 schools don't fit other than WVU. They would be too far west to fit into the conferences formed out of the ACC. And the SEC and Big 10 wouldn't want to change too much by adding them and subtracting schools in the east.
Of course, if this sort of them were to happen, the Pac 12 and Big 12 would be pretty much forced to form a third mega group.
How about 3 conferences of 20?
Big Ten
East: Duke, Georgia Tech, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio State, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia
West: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin
Protected crossover: Michigan/Ohio State
Pac-20
East: Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech, Utah
West: Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State
SEC
East: Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisville, NC State, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, West Virginia
West: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Protected crossovers: Auburn/Georgia, Kentucky/Tennessee
Left out in cold: Baylor, Boston College, Miami-FL, Wake Forest
Gloriously independent: Notre Dame
The nice thing about that PAC 20 arrangement is that it could be purely for bargaining of media rights. Two divisions of 10, 9 conference games to determine a true champ of each division because everyone plays everyone in the division and the two division winners square off in the title game.
No crossover required to maintain rivalries. The West is the old PAC10 so rivalries kept. The East are, with the exception of Utah, schools with long ties to each other, and even Utah has some history with Colorado and TCU.
If a guaranteed auto bid was included then a PAC 20 with that arrangement would allow each and every member to control their own destiny for a CFP spot.
(This post was last modified: 01-19-2018 03:58 PM by tcufrog86.)
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