(04-22-2014 10:48 PM)JRsec Wrote:  ESPN should encourage the ACC to release N.C. State and Virginia Tech to the SEC and to add Texas, Oklahoma, and Baylor to the ACC. The requirement for the move should be Notre Dame going all in. If the Irish refuse add Oklahoma State to get to 16.

Kansas can go to the Big 10 along with either Iowa State or Connecticut.

If the Irish go all in then Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech go to the PAC.

Such a move would give the ACC 4 national brand football schools (Texas, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, and Florida State) Clemson is a strong regional brand and Miami's name has outlived their umph.

This move would please the SEC with markets without making them stronger in football or weaker in football. And the move would essentially make the ACC an equal with the Big 10 and SEC.

There's not much you can do for the PAC except give them 4 central time zone slots to with which to sell more inventory. Texas and Oklahoma would lose money moving to the PAC.

With the new guidelines Slive has been speaking about if anyone drops out of the P5 because of the increased cost you have West Virginia, T.C.U., B.Y.U., Connecticut and Cincinnati to back fill with. If there are 8 eligible G5 schools and former P5 schools willing to go all in on the new measures then simply increase the existing conference by two each.

It's time to get her done and get on with other things like reforming basketball to make it more profitable.

The glacial movements of the NCAA is starting to bite the leaders of college athletics in the backside. People have been writing books and blogs about this matter for awhile, so the shock and confusion I see from their ranks regarding issues like the O'Bannon case or Unionization is quite baffling. Continued dithering will force the P5 to take some kind of action, if for no other reason than to mitigate the damage that's already been done.

I found the unlimited meal plan decision an instructive insight into the quagmire the NCAA faces. Emmert believes he has made a rational concession when in actuality he has fully lost control of the narrative. He's allowed columnists and authors to paint the NCAA as a money hoarding functionary when in actuality college athletics as a whole is a marginally profitable endeavor.

A more proactive leader would have quickly solicited and collated the grievances of the revenue generating athletes and worked towards addressing them as fast as possible. Meal plans didn't need to be highlighted during the Final Four to be resolved. Settling the issue a imagine licensing should have been a quickly handled as well, especially since EA Sports solved the problem for the NCAA. The only reason I can fathom for Emmert's reticence in dealing with these issues in a timely manner is that he is deathly afraid of challenging Title IX.