(01-18-2019 07:27 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-18-2019 05:27 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  At 48 you are looking at:

SEC + Texlahoma 4 + 6 ACC schools

Big Ten + 8 PAC 12 AAU schools + ND + 1 lucky winner

JR--To me it just feels a bit stale and contrived and getting huge just to be huge. You'd be dropping a whopping 17 schools from the ranks of the elite and while some of them certainly deserve to be downgraded a lot of schools would be devestated.

I'd really just prefer letting the ACC (ND), Big Ten (Oklahoma), and SEC (Texas) divide the 3 big gems out there along with one companion school each and have a true P4.

At 56 who would you have going where?

On a separate note, what do you think the true market value of the SEC Tier 1 rights are and who could realistically afford them? Could they get more for their dollar if they created two bundles of T1 rights and split them between bidders?

Oh let's see:

48: (56)

B1G:
Maryland, Notre Dame, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Syracuse (Boston College)

Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State (Pittsburgh)

Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin (Utah)

California, Cal Los Angeles, Oregon, Southern Cal, Stanford, Washington (Arizona State)

SEC:
Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, South Carolina (Miami)

Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Tennessee Vanderbilt (West Virginia)

Arkansas, Louisiana State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M (Kansas)

Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia, Virginia Tech (Louisville)

As to T1 rights values? With no additions we are probably looking at 7 million per school conservatively. Some have suggested 10 million but I prefer conservative numbers.

If we added 4 and split the T1 rights between bidders who knows what kind of bump would be available? It's not been done before.

This could work well - especially the 56, since that keeps nearly all of the best programs in the club.