http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story...ealignment

Interesting take on realignment. Could this be an option going forward?

(07-07-2015 12:59 PM)uofl05 Wrote:  http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story...ealignment

Interesting take on realignment. Could this be an option going forward?

Good read. Thanks for sharing. That would be something for all the leagues to merge and have one gigantic tv deal. I just don't see it ever happening because at least 4 conference commissioners would be out of a job. With their egos, I don't know how that can come to fruition.

(07-07-2015 01:56 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 12:59 PM)uofl05 Wrote:  http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story...ealignment

Interesting take on realignment. Could this be an option going forward?

Good read. Thanks for sharing. That would be something for all the leagues to merge and have one gigantic tv deal. I just don't see it ever happening because at least 4 conference commissioners would be out of a job. With their egos, I don't know how that can come to fruition.

If/when the school presidents realize they can cut back on the share paid to the commissioner/league office from 1/15th to 1/65th? For each ACC team, that alone is an extra $1 million per year at least!

So ND will never play USC, Navy, Stanford, Texas, Purdue or Michigan State ever again? Fat chance.

I agree, egos and agendas will keep it from happening, but I really am intrigued with the idea. I think it has a lot of positive features.

(07-07-2015 02:14 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 01:56 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 12:59 PM)uofl05 Wrote:  http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story...ealignment

Interesting take on realignment. Could this be an option going forward?

Good read. Thanks for sharing. That would be something for all the leagues to merge and have one gigantic tv deal. I just don't see it ever happening because at least 4 conference commissioners would be out of a job. With their egos, I don't know how that can come to fruition.

If/when the school presidents realize they can cut back on the share paid to the commissioner/league office from 1/15th to 1/65th? For each ACC team, that alone is an extra $1 million per year at least!

I didn't think about the savings from doing away with the commissioners office. I still don't think that will be enough for a commish to step away or be shown the door. also, even if there is only one commish there would be so many cultural differences that each group of schools is going to want someone to represent them in decisions that will affect them. I just cant see the northeaster schools settling for some one out west to make decisions that affect them. The same goes for schools in the south, or Midwest. Each region of schools have vast differences and interests from each other that may not be fully appreciated by someone in a different region. Each region would have to have a voice that represent them. In other words a conference commissioner.

(07-07-2015 03:25 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 02:14 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 01:56 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(07-07-2015 12:59 PM)uofl05 Wrote:  http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story...ealignment

Interesting take on realignment. Could this be an option going forward?

Good read. Thanks for sharing. That would be something for all the leagues to merge and have one gigantic tv deal. I just don't see it ever happening because at least 4 conference commissioners would be out of a job. With their egos, I don't know how that can come to fruition.

If/when the school presidents realize they can cut back on the share paid to the commissioner/league office from 1/15th to 1/65th? For each ACC team, that alone is an extra $1 million per year at least!

I didn't think about the savings from doing away with the commissioners office. I still don't think that will be enough for a commish to step away or be shown the door. also, even if there is only one commish there would be so many cultural differences that each group of schools is going to want someone to represent them in decisions that will affect them. I just cant see the northeaster schools settling for some one out west to make decisions that affect them. The same goes for schools in the south, or Midwest. Each region of schools have vast differences and interests from each other that may not be fully appreciated by someone in a different region. Each region would have to have a voice that represent them. In other words a conference commissioner.

I don't know...

Why does anybody listen to Chip Brown at this point? Guy has proven to everyone he doesn't know ****.

I didn't bother reading his article, so if he goes into specific scenarios, I'm ignorant to those. But conferences selling all of their rights as one package is not an idea he just came up with. I have said it several times over the years and I know others on this site have as well.

It should result in higher revenue. And for conferences that are fearful of future expansion coming from their current membership, it would help even the revenue playing field in that regard. Because you don't even need to "merge" into one uber-mega-ultra-super-supreme conference. You could just keep the conferences in their current forms and simply bundle the tv rights. (So, I guess that might be a reason why higher-grossing conferences might be against it.)

And who cares about ND? They wouldn't make or break a deal involving the P5 selling their combines rights as one property.

Been there. Done that. And it didn't work. I don't see how that differs from the CFA (which failed). Conference media deals started growing exponentially when the CFA was abandoned.

I don't see college football earning anywhere near the NFL numbers that he predicts.

he doesn't know what he's talking about

The college world was already there.... Then Notre Dame did it's own thing (which I can't blame them for) and the rest is history.

One flaw in his plan...

20 conference games makes for a long basketball season.

(07-07-2015 03:03 PM)krux Wrote:  So ND will never play USC, Navy, Stanford, Texas, Purdue or Michigan State ever again? Fat chance.

Yeah... that kills it for me. Many rivalries would be killed, and other teams would never play again unless its int he postseason. I HATE that idea.

I like it. His divisions need some work. Some things he got right:

- Keeping the Kansas schools and Mizzou together
- Merger between SEC East and ACC South of Potomac


Some things he got wrong:

- Clemson joining the SEC West teams. Wuhhhhhhh?
- The Big 12 South teams will merge with the SEC West teams. People forget Arkansas has more in common with Texas than most of the SEC. Also, LSU's proximity to TX is often overlooked. Most popular baseball team in New Orleans? The Astros.



The biggest problem with this plan? See Notre Dame's past history of treachery. I can still hear Beano Cook ranting and raving over ND's decision to do their own TV contract.

Beano is dead.

(07-12-2015 09:38 AM)TerryD Wrote:  Beano is dead.

His conferences are very similar to what mine were when I was trying to figure out the ideal situation except I had 12 teams in each conference. However, I didn't want to do away with non-conference games.

UConn, Cincinnati, Memphis, Houston, SMU, BYU, and Boise State get the bump up.

I shift VT to the northeast, Clemson and SC to the Atlantic due to their historic ties and Vanderbilt and Arkansas to the south. The rest is the same. I think this works better.

ND
Penn State
Pitt
Syracuse
WVU
BC
Rutgers
UConn
Maryland
Kentucky
Louisville
Virginia Tech

UVA
Duke
WF
UNC
NC State
Clemson
South Carolina
GT
Georgia
Miami
Florida
FSU

OSU
Cincinnati
Michigan
MSU
Indiana
Purdue
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Northwestern
Iowa
Iowa State

Vanderbilt
Tennessee
Memphis
Alabama
Auburn
Mississippi
Mississippi State
LSU
Arkansas
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas State

Texas
A&M
Texas Tech
Baylor
TCU
SMU
Houston
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Nebraska
Arizona
Arizona State

UCLA
USC
Stanford
California
Washington
WSU
Oregon
OSU
Utah
Colorado
BYU
Boise State

(07-12-2015 09:38 AM)TerryD Wrote:  Beano is dead.

Doesn't make it any less relevant or accurate.

(07-12-2015 04:29 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(07-12-2015 09:38 AM)TerryD Wrote:  Beano is dead.

Doesn't make it any less relevant or accurate.

He is still dead. (Like Francisco Franco).

What business was it of anyone else that NBC wanted to sign ND to an individual OTA contract that paid the latter very well, more than anyone else and more than ND could earn otherwise?

If Georgia Tech was and/or is able to do that, I would applaud them.