Revisiting Kings and Barons both Football and Basketball
Every once in a while I like to re-visit the topic of Kings and Barons (as Mandel calls them) in football. And this time I would like to add a separate listing of Kings and Barons in basketball as well. For the latter I am not including non-FBS playing members suchas Georgetown, Villanova, and Marquette which would all be at least Baron status.
Football
Kings: Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Louisiana State, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Southern Cal, Texas
Barons: Arkansas, Auburn, Clemson, Colorado, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas A&M, UCLA, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Basketball
Kings: Arizona, Connecticut, Duke, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, North Carolina, Ohio State, Syracuse, UCLA
Barons: Arkansas, Cincinnati, Illinois, Maryland, Memphis, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin
I'm sure the above is not a perfect listing, but I believe that it is a solid enough listing that it might give us an insight into how each conference is viewed.
It also gives us insight into why the conferences not named the SEC and the BiG have targeted who they have targeted for any remaining expansion.
The Pac-12 - Texas and Oklahoma
The ACC - Notre Dame
The Big 12 - Florida State and Clemson
Ultimately, for the ACC (since this is an ACC board), the league truly needs FSU and Miami to get back to being Kings on the field as well as off the field. Should that happen the conference will be fine.
Cheers,
Neil
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