(09-16-2019 03:44 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-16-2019 03:30 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(09-16-2019 03:01 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-14-2019 11:10 AM)sierrajip Wrote:  

(09-14-2019 09:56 AM)westwolf Wrote:  I wish there were 7 conferences of 10 teams each, all playing round robin skeds. You could have:

BC,Rutgers, Temple, Syracuse, Penn St, Pitt, West Va, Va Tech, Louisville, Miami

MD, Va, NC, Duke, NC St, WF, Clem, Ga Tech, S. Carolina, Fla St

Fla, Ga, Ky, Tenn, Vandy, Aub, Ala, Ole Miss, Miss St, LSU

Ohio St, Mich, Mich St, Ind, Pur, Ill, NW, Wisc, Minn, Iowa

Iowa St, Mo, Neb, Kan, Kan St, Okla, Okla St, Col, Utah, BYU

Tex, A&M, Tex Tech, TCU, SMU, Baylor, Rice, Arkansas, Memphis or Tulane

Wash, WSU, Ore, Ore St, Cal, Stan, UCLA, USC, Ariz, Ariz St

The playoffs with 7 champs and a wild card would be obvious.

Temple, but no UCF. This is real fake news.

Temple was a member of the power conferences for about a dozen years. And in the original AAC contract, the 4 "class A" schools were UConn, Cincinnati, Houston and Temple.

Now none of this back to the past in the future is going to happen.

What do you mean by "Class A" schools? Those 4 received a bigger conference payout than the others? What about USF?

When the AAC signed its first 2013 TV deal with NBC (that ESPN then matched), the contract did designate those four schools as Category A, meaning that if one of them left, NBC or ESPN could nullify the contract. The rest of the schools were Cat B, meaning two of them had to leave to enable the network to nullify the contract.

This designation thus indicated that the networks thought those were the four most valuable schools at that time.

However, in this new 12-year ESPN deal, ESPN insisted on a renegotiation clause should any team leave, but they specifically mentioned five schools they feared could leave - UCF, USF, Houston, Memphis, and Cincy. Temple was not mentioned this time, so presumably ESPN regards the first five as the current most valuable schools.

The NBC contract was probably more focused on basketball as the primary value.

(09-17-2019 07:40 AM)Gamecock Wrote:  If we're making up conferences, I'd honestly prefer to see South Carolina in a hypothetical Big East/Eastern Independents conference rather than a reboot of the ACC.

Pitt
West Virginia
Penn State
Syracuse
Rutgers
ECU
Louisville
VT
Miami
South Carolina

South Carolina can take Maryland's place in any proposed new eastern conference. I'm sure Maryland would gladly go back to the old ACC plus GT and FSU.

(09-13-2019 10:18 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  It’s very sad indeed. I’d love to see WVU arrange to play VT or Pitt with their OOC P5 game—two years on with one and then two years on with the other.

If WVU/PennSt/Pitt played a triangular series, then over six years each would play the other two both home and away and also have two P5 dates for other teams to slot in. But the soonest such a triangular series could start would be 2024, when Penn State plays the second of a pair of WVU dates, and then WVU and Pitt play the following year.

(09-17-2019 08:13 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I know nobody but Cincinnati fans will agree with this but I thought UC and Pitt had the makings of a good rivalry. The two cities are already rivals in professional sports and frankly people in the two cities seem not to like each other much anyway.

That trophy was the butt of a lot of jokes in the Big East.

https://a.espncdn.com/photo/2010/1206/pg...hy_576.jpg

Big 12 and Big Ten schools play 9 conference games and realistically can only play 1 P5 OOC per year. WVU and Penn St are probably only going to play 1 big name opponent each year