(05-06-2013 04:27 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote: (05-06-2013 02:28 PM)HHOOTter Wrote: (05-06-2013 02:08 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote: (05-06-2013 02:05 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote: Let's just remember, neither scenario is extremely likely.
Disagree...it's very likely...eventually. There is ALWAYS more movement. Realignment has never stopped...in the history of college football. Now, how long is "eventually"? Don't know. My guess is 2-3 years at most.
Right now Big 12 makes $26 million per team.
What Team in the AAC, Sun, WAC, Mac, Conf USA can bring that?
Here's the answer: Zero, zilch, nada, none!
All will B quiet from the Big 5 for 12 years
Then the next 'rumble will begin
That's not how it works. A team can make peanuts in one conference, switch conferences, and make much more. It happens all the time. They don't have to "bring" that. This has actually happened many times, if you have been paying attention.
Agree, only simpletons think in those terms. The SEC, B12, P12, and Big10 and even ACC have MULTIPLE big brand names like Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida, Virginia Tech, UNC, USC, Oregon, etc who "carry the weight" of the rest of the conference. Fact of the matter is the MAC, SBC, CUSA, AAC (sans MAYBE UConn) and MWC (sans MAYBE Boise),
For example.....
Houston is easily interchangeable with Baylor.
Colorado State is easily interchangable with Colorado.
Boise would be an on the field improvement over Wazzu.
ECU could be interchangeable with Wake Forest, an improvement on fanbase.
Cincy is a big on the field/court improvement over schools like Purdue, Minnesota, Northwestern.
UConn would be an upgrade over Boston College.
Anyone who says otherwise is clueless on the matter as the latter schools' listed simply benefitted from right place, right time.
It simply boils down to wrong place, wrong time for many of the upper echelon non power 5 schools.