Another Realignment Thread: Why? Just Because
B1G:
East: Maryland, Notre Dame, Penn State, Rutgers
South: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Purdue
North: Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Wisconsin
West: Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Northwestern
Why Notre Dame and Kansas?
If we move to a P4 model and Notre Dame has to go all in the money is better in the Big 10. The Big 10 offers them another New England division in which to showcase their school. It will likely offer a scheduling alliance with the PAC. And Notre Dame can schedule SEC schools to play in Florida and Georgia. And the academic consortium would be a plus and all of their sports would be together again.
Kansas? It's their overarching preference.
SEC:
East: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina
North: Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
South: L.S.U., Mississippi, Mississippi State, Texas A&M
West: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State
Why? Oklahoma and Oklahoma State need to stay together and Oklahoma gives us all we need to carry DFW completely with A&M.
PAC:
East: Iowa State, Kansas State, Texas, Texas Tech
North: Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State
South: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah
West: California, Cal Los Angeles, Southern California, Stanford
Why? Because Texas is a pain the rear and the PAC is the only one who has really shown enough interest to take some of the Pals. They pick up two AAU schools and 33.5 million viewers.
ACC:
North: Boston College, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Syracuse
West: Louisville, N.C. State, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
East: Duke, Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia
South: Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami, T.C.U.
Why West Virginia and T.C.U.? West Virginia reconnects them, offers a solid baseball, basketball and football program. Reestablishes the backyard brawl. And T.C.U. fits in with a conference where it is connected to F.S.U. by an interstate and to Miami and Georgia Tech by major airports. And the ACCN will need the DFW metro to add cash to their pockets.
That places 9 Big 12 schools. It makes the Big 10 carriage within their footprint complete which raises their leverage within their own footprint. IT gives the ACC the footprint expansion it needs for its network. The SEC gets what it is really going after without offending A&M. And the PAC gets enough to improve their carriage. And Texas like the Elves in the Lord of the Rings goes into the West hopefully never to be heard from again.
|
/
Another Realignment Thread: Why? Just Because
