(10-23-2018 06:08 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-23-2018 05:53 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  

(10-23-2018 02:05 PM)JRsec Wrote:  To put this into a visible idea:

B1G:
Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin

PAC:
Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, Southern California, Utah, Washington

SEC:
Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, L.S.U., Mississippi, Miss State, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M

ACC:
Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia Tech

B12:
Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech, West Virginia

So how do you pare those down into divisions?

South:

Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, North Carolina, N.C. State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia Tech

Southwest:

Arkansas, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Miss State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech

North:

Iowa, Iowa State, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, West Virginia, Wisconsin

West:

Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Oregon, Southern California, Utah, Washington

Two questions:

1) Does the model allow for schools to transition upward? Downward would be easier, I presume. I suspect there’d be something to allow for a school to move up as an indepdent with the hopes of gaining an invite.

2) Does this effect basketball and other sports or would football conferences be a completely separate entity?

1. I believe movement upwards and downwards would be much easier in this model. It would simply be a matter of removing salary caps for players or imposing them. No caps and you move up. Implement caps and you move down. Since the tier would be the new conference and individual schools simply grouped regionally your only limitation to expansion would be balance of scheduling. You would probably have to move up when one dropped down from your region, or move up in groups of 4.

2. Does this affect basketball and other sports? I expect basketball to be a salary cap no salary cap division as well. The rest of the sports not so much with the exception that if men's sports are paid it will affect the number of women's sports that have to offered under Title IX. I expect to see women's sports keep basketball, softball, soccer, and volleyball. I would think that golf, tennis, gymnastics, and possibly volleyball and soccer to fall under the guidance of the IOC.

1. I was thinking the same thing.

2. So, football and basketball have separate conferences from other sports?