(07-31-2021 12:07 PM)thrill_house Wrote: Makes about as much sense as Florida leaving the SEC to play in a conference with Florida State, Miami, Central Florida, South Florida, Florida Atlantic, and Florida International.
Florida leaving the SEC for an All Florida conference and trading Georgia, Alabama, LSU, and soon Oklahoma and Texas for Florida Atlantic and Florida International is stupid.
Florida State leaving the ACC for an All Florida conference and trading Clemson, Miami, and the North Carolina schools for Florida Atlantic and Florida International is stupid.
Texas not going to the SEC for an all Texas conference and not playing LSU, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida for North Texas and Rice is stupid.
Texas A&M leaving the SEC for an all Texas conference and leaving LSU, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida and Texas and Oklahoma coming in for North Texas and Rice is stupid.
TCU? They can either be in an all Texas conference or a Texas/Oklahoma less Big 12. Maybe North Texas and Rice aren't Kansas State, Iowa State, and West Virginia but I don't see it as that much of a step down.
After Oklahoma and Texas leave the Big 12, the remaining Big 12 schools can't be considered "P5" level anymore unless any of the SEC, Big 10, ACC, or Pac 12 add them. The question then becomes is it worth it for the next level schools to band together to form a "second level" even if it geographically more inconvenient (especially for their basketball and Olympic sports) or realign to form more geographically convenient conferences? Maybe the "5th" conference becomes a football only conference and all these schools play in more geographically convenient conferences for other sports (ex. Temple in the A-10, Cincinnati in the MAC, etc).
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