(01-07-2016 10:20 AM)arkstfan Wrote: Why should Delaney support a proposal to help another league get a leg up on the B1G? ACC knew what the rules were they expanded to 12 then to 14 and 14.5, Big XII knew the rules when they elected to not expand back to 12.
If nothing else, as a matter of principle. Let's ignore for the moment, the question of whether league autonomy in determining its champion gives any conference a "leg up" on other conferences. I don't believe anybody has yet made a compelling case that this is, in fact, true.
When the Big Ten actually had 10 members, and again when they added Penn State, they determined their champion without either playing a full round robin or creating divisions. They determined which school would represent the conference as its champion in the Rose Bowl, not by tie breakers, but by recency of participation. The team that had been away from Pasadena the longest got to go.
If any other conference had tried to interfere in their internal policy, they would have simply ignored them, saying it is nobody's business how they choose their champion. And they would have been right. Now that they have a system that they like, they want to determine how other conferences determine their champion. That's pretty hypocritical, IMO.
Of course, that leads to another question. If forcing another conference to have divisions doesn't help the B1G from a competitive standpoint, what could Delaney's true motive be?