(09-14-2021 05:49 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  Although this is pretty good and it appears you put a lot of effort into it, some will squabble over being in a conference with school x or not in a conference with school y. There's no perfect scenario in which everyone will be happy.

Definitely. Yeah, this is, by design, trying to look at the situation from 30,000 feet, and without any deference to any school in particular, come up with something that is uniform and practical.

The big change this time around is that there's not nearly the same motivating TV contract factor that in previous times had compelled everyone to chase the ever-higher TV contract, of course.

So, just accepting the conditions for what they are, the starting point is, how can we engineer something that can get us out of this cycle of having to revisit realignment every 5-10 years, and at the same time grant everyone essentially the same opportunity to ascend to the highest level of football success?

Didn't focus on the basketball side of the equation in the construction since football is generally understood to drive the athletic department buses... but it's a worthy other area of conversation.