(07-23-2013 07:25 PM)FromTheInside Wrote: Seems to be a popular number huh?
Acc - 14.5
B1g - 14
Sec - 14
PAC - 12
B12 - 10
That's 64.5
The original American "idea" of being the 6th best and at the table was suppose to be who? Boise, BYU, af, uconn, Cincy, SDSU, uh, SMU, USF, UCF, temple, Memphis.
Now the American has navy, ecu, Tulane and Tulsa.
The 4x16/18/20 is going to take years of contracts blah blah to happen. Until then the 4 team playoff will be open bids to the best by a committee. When the 4x happens then we can talk slot place,net and more likely a 8x10/9/8.
The b12 needs a ship game otherwise in the grand scheme ok or Texas will get hurt SOS/pri wise by not playing that game. The committee will use that as a excuse every time and f that conference as result. That will kick expansion up again.
But 75?
Why is that number so dam popular all of a sudden?
Cincy and Mem to the b12.
Boise and SDSU to the PAC.
BYU does a nd type deal with the PAC.
Uconn and temple to the acc.
Mizzu and Kansas to the b1g.
USF, uh and UCF to the b12.
Ecu to the sec.
The PAC 12 will never vote to invite Boise. BSU is a community college in their eyes. Hell will freeze over before UConn ever got over the blackball votes against them in the ACC. It only takes 4 no votes to blackball in the ACC. UConn has at least 6 if not 8 no votes. Temple to the ACC - nope. You think that the SEC would fill a hole with ECU? I don't see the AAU teams in the SEC voting for ECU.
The only chance those other schools have is to aggregate into a very large 16-18 team conference that can meet the probably seating threasholds that the B-5 put into place. Most likely your league will have to average an attendence of 50K a game, and at least 50% of your teams will have to average an attendence of more than 50K a game.
You can estimate the bottom size threashold using the ACC because they have the most small schools - in terms of enrollment - Wake, Duke, BC, ND, Miami, and the ACC has none of the monster size schools like Arizona State, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Texas, etc. The ACC average attendence of all 15 schools is around 50-53K depending on whose stats you use.
Once the new division is in place you could pull from the G-5 and get something like:
East West
UMass San Diego State
UConn UNLV
Temple Boise State
UOhio Air Force
Cincy SMU
Navy Houston
ECU Tulane
UCF Southern Miss
USF Memphis
Since a number of these schools can play in NFL stadiums (UMass, Temple, Cincy, USF, Tulane, Houston, SMU, SDS - they have the ability to gin up a larger than normal turnout)
I think this is the only realistic hope for these schools in regards to making it to a so-called divsion 4 football.
