BearcatMan
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RE: All Things Realignment 2.0
(12-21-2020 11:22 PM)eroc Wrote: (12-21-2020 11:05 PM)BearcatMan Wrote: (12-21-2020 11:00 PM)eroc Wrote: (12-21-2020 10:38 PM)UCBearcatlawjd2 Wrote: (12-21-2020 10:33 PM)BearcatMan Wrote: If you go football-only adds of Boise and maybe BYU, I think that's a conference that starts to get considerably more respect...but then you're running into a similar inequity issue that caused the Big East to die.
Trading Boise football for UConn basketball is probably a wash as far as TV money is considered (and only TV money...)
I go big with BYU, Boise State, and Gonzaga. Maybe SDSU or Air Force. I always wanted to big and improve both major sports.
i think if we are going to expand it should be with football in mind. i can see East and West divisions for football and basketball by adding Boise, Air force, and Nevada (who are ranked every now and again).
West: Tulsa, SMU, Houston, Boise, Air force, Tulane, Nevada
East: Cincy, Temple, ECU, USF, UCF, Memphis, Navy
six division games, four cross divisions, two OOC. You can also do three cross divisions and three OOC as well.
if i'm being honest, i would prefer to drop ECU and go with just Boise and Airforce, shifting either Tulane or one of the TX teams to the East division.
I agree with the thought process, but I don't think the other two are worth anything to any media deal. If you go past 12, you NEED to get BYU, probably for all sports, otherwise it isn't worth it at all IMO...then you could add whoever you want between AF, CSU, SDSU, Nevada, UNLV, etc. and be all set. You'd kill your primary competition, add two "names" and basically position yourself as the only conference worth a damn outside the power structure. To me, that's a better football conference than the Big East was by the end of it all...when you consider that all but two of the "auto-bids" from outside of current P5 members since 2007 would be in this conference, you have all the ammo you need to negotiate for an auto bid and more compensation.
If you have the drop scenario, it would be a coin flip between Tulane and ECU for me...we recruit the SE more than the Mississippi Delta, so I'd probably stick with ECU, especially due to divisional alignment issues it would cause otherwise.
From BYU's perspective, why would they join the American? The cfb mentioned that if they were able to play their original schedule and go undefeated, they would have garnered playoff consideration. They might think they have the winning formula, why would the give that up?
Because if they join the American, they would have a shot at a NY6 every year, something they don't have now unless they're basically ranked in the Top 8...which wont ever happen. For ND the benefit of independence is the ability to negotiate a solid media deal and to schedule all of their rivals...two things that BYU doesn't necessarily have in comparison to a spot in the AAC. They media money would increase if they joined a conference alongside Boise and all of us...I think that could easily net $10M/team, which is far more than the estimated $8M/year they currently get...they would also still have 2 games outside of Utah and Utah State every year to pick, along with a game against Boise which has become a rivalry of sorts. To me, it's a no-brainer for their Football...but they have other motivations and a lot of people still living in the 90's in Provo. They haven't been the same since leaving the Mountain West, that much is abundantly clear.
(This post was last modified: 12-21-2020 11:36 PM by BearcatMan.)
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