(02-20-2013 08:38 AM)Derby Wrote:  B1G to expand to 132.
Create divisions.
Withdraw from NCAA.
Draw up own rules and governing body.
Pay athletes.
Create new post-season playoff structure.
Sign new TV deal.

We still wouldn't get in.

(02-20-2013 08:46 AM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

(02-20-2013 08:38 AM)Derby Wrote:  B1G to expand to 132.
Create divisions.
Withdraw from NCAA.
Draw up own rules and governing body.
Pay athletes.
Create new post-season playoff structure.
Sign new TV deal.

We still wouldn't get in.

pushed out?

(02-20-2013 08:47 AM)Derby Wrote:  

(02-20-2013 08:46 AM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

(02-20-2013 08:38 AM)Derby Wrote:  B1G to expand to 132.
Create divisions.
Withdraw from NCAA.
Draw up own rules and governing body.
Pay athletes.
Create new post-season playoff structure.
Sign new TV deal.

We still wouldn't get in.

pushed out?

The two slots reserved for us would be taken by South Florida and SMU.

Anybody wonder if this is calculated to leak at the height f the NBE contract negotiations.

(02-20-2013 09:05 AM)egrizzard Wrote:  Anybody wonder if this is calculated to leak at the height f the NBE contract negotiations.

Good point, but NBC Sports Network is paying so little, we do they need to get any lower?

(02-20-2013 08:47 AM)Derby Wrote:  

(02-20-2013 08:46 AM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

(02-20-2013 08:38 AM)Derby Wrote:  B1G to expand to 132.
Create divisions.
Withdraw from NCAA.
Draw up own rules and governing body.
Pay athletes.
Create new post-season playoff structure.
Sign new TV deal.

We still wouldn't get in.

pushed out?

Tendinitis

(02-19-2013 05:45 PM)Original Sabretooth Wrote:  Conference realignment is killing college sports.

Yep

(02-19-2013 06:02 PM)Dat.B.Me Wrote:  If North Carolina leaves and UConn and Cincinatti goes to the ACC....The Big East will be all but finish. Memphis, Temple, Houston, Tulane, SMU, UCF, USF and the rest would be worse than the current C-USA.

It's all relative, what is the ACC without UNC or Duke?

It's a football conference from there on.

(02-20-2013 10:50 AM)gotigers1 Wrote:  

(02-19-2013 05:45 PM)Original Sabretooth Wrote:  Conference realignment is killing college sports.

Yep

Consolidation ruins regional & local rivaliries and will ultimately drive a number of programs completely out of the college football business. Its a bit harder to say how it will effect basketball, but the tremendous influx of cash in the hands of 1/4 to 1/8th of college athletic departments will certainly make it much more difficult for the others to compete. In my opinion, anything that drives fans away from college sports is not good for college sports... be it the networks who pay for viewers or the schools who are creating this caste system. Oh, it sounds good now, but ultimately, the product is inferior to professional sports and if thats who these handful of schools are trying to compete, then they'll lose.