(08-17-2019 11:23 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-15-2019 10:41 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  In regards to the FAANG super conference idea I don’t think it’ll ever happen. What makes more sense is to approach either the SEC or Big Ten and toss money at them to expand by 10 or so members. instead of 5 Power conferences you consolidate into 2 Super Conferences.

The Big Ten could absorb the top of the PAC 12, maybe some old Big 8 schools, and ND and or some NE schools.

The SEC would be looking at Texlahoma and the southern wing of the ACC.

The B1G and SEC dividing up the ACC makes more sense, maybe along Coastal and Atlantic lines, each group having 2 conferences. They might be able to get more value of the ACC schools than the ACC schools can do in their current configuration. That would force the Big 12 and Pac 12 into an alliance.

I agree with you on this point. Much will depend on Oklahoma however. I sincerely believe that a Big 12 / PAC alliance would be better for the Game. It's just that there are many factors lining up against it. The PAC's financial ineptitude is not the least of them. And with the Big 12 GOR up first and the ACC's not until 2037 (a date beyond Boomer influence in which donations, attendance, and viewers of the sport are all likely to be in decline) it might well be that waiting until that time won't be beneficial to the SEC and Big 12. If they enhance, however, from the Big 12 the additions would come at a time when content value is still high.

So the finances of the PAC, the timeline of demographics, and the immediate desires of the largest two suitors don't line up that way.

I believe that if the Big 10 and/or SEC grow out of the Big 12 that the future will be that of two large leagues and not 4 conferences, and that those leagues will consist of no more than 24 schools each. However if the Big 12 and PAC merged into a stronger conference of 20, then the Big 10 and SEC would grow accordingly out of the ACC. Then we would have 3 conferences of ~60 and with it greater competitive and financial balance.