Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Kansas, Kansas State, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee
Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Kansas, Kansas State, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee
WEST
Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Baylor, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas Tech
EAST
Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Kansas, Kansas State, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee
http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story/1561434-the-next-big-move-in-realignment
Chip Brown has a piece today about what he thinks the next big move in realignment will be, and that is all of the Power Five conferences coming together and collectively bargaining for one single TV contract. Says the money would be better and could possibly even dwarf what the NFL might be able to make.
Says a collective bargaining could also bring some geographic normalcy back to leagues and suggests that the collective group would also determine that the most money can be made off a 16-team playoff, and to get to that take all 65 of the current P5 teams (including Notre Dame) and add a 66th team (congratulations BYU, you are now a big boy) and split them into six 11-team divisions (three in the west, three in the east). You play just 11 regular season games (10 games in your division and one non-conference game against an FCS team). You restore rivalries that way and then take the top two teams in each division and the four wildcards (two from east, two from west) to make up for 16-team bracket. He suggests splitting teams up as follows:
WEST
BYU, California, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State
Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Baylor, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas Tech
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin
EAST
Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Kansas, Kansas State, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee
Duke, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami (FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
Boston College, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Vanderbilt, West Virginia
Chip also mentions if that doesn't work out, maybe there should just be a full-blown Big 12/SEC merger, and create a 24-team super conference.
there is no way Alabama is excepting that division above they want access to Florida, Georgia or Texas recruits.
I didn't realize the proposal also included the forced limitation of recruiting territory to the geographical footprint of the division. Oh, wait. It doesn't.
You don't get the point they want to play games in those states that produce higher amounts of players? Do you not remember some of the issues with the Big 12 and why they added TCU for expansion? Because schools outside of Texas especially the northern schools didn't want to lose a state of Texas game.
Seems to me he eventually wants a conference with a collective unity - same reason Neb, Colo, Mizzou and A&M left. It's a matter of time before OU heads to the SEC.Son of a ***** should've cured cancer by now with that resume.
Instead he wants to sit in his ivory tower and lob bombs at the Big 12
Seems to me he eventually wants a conference with a collective unity - same reason Neb, Colo, Mizzou and A&M left. It's a matter of time before OU heads to the SEC.
http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story/1561434-the-next-big-move-in-realignment
Chip Brown has a piece today about what he thinks the next big move in realignment will be, and that is all of the Power Five conferences coming together and collectively bargaining for one single TV contract. Says the money would be better and could possibly even dwarf what the NFL might be able to make.
Says a collective bargaining could also bring some geographic normalcy back to leagues and suggests that the collective group would also determine that the most money can be made off a 16-team playoff, and to get to that take all 65 of the current P5 teams (including Notre Dame) and add a 66th team (congratulations BYU, you are now a big boy) and split them into six 11-team divisions (three in the west, three in the east). You play just 11 regular season games (10 games in your division and one non-conference game against an FCS team). You restore rivalries that way and then take the top two teams in each division and the four wildcards (two from east, two from west) to make up for 16-team bracket. He suggests splitting teams up as follows:
WEST
BYU, California, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State
Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Baylor, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas Tech
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin
EAST
Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Kansas, Kansas State, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee
Duke, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami (FL), North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
Boston College, Kentucky, Louisville, Maryland, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Vanderbilt, West Virginia
Chip also mentions if that doesn't work out, maybe there should just be a full-blown Big 12/SEC merger, and create a 24-team super conference.
Seems to me he eventually wants a conference with a collective unity - same reason Neb, Colo, Mizzou and A&M left. It's a matter of time before OU heads to the SEC.
I agree it is a very simple concept but it's one that makes zero financial sense at this point in time.
ESPN and the ACC are unable to launch a viable ACCN and their turf has way more potential premium CATV/SAT subscribers. Do you really think the B12 can partner with ESPN or Fox to come up with a viable CATV/SAT conference network plan in B12 turf? Or add two available schools to make it worth their while? The answer is no on both.
Now if Texas and the other schools in their corner can be convinced that a shared IP-delivered B12 conference network will make them all more money over the long-term with a partner like Yahoo Sports, then maybe Boren is onto something but I highly doubt that is the case at this point in time.
This isn't 1974. You don't have to play a game in a recruit's state for them to see you. If a top recruit from TX/FL/GA passes on a scholarship offer from Alabama just because they don't play in his home state, then he's a moron.
This isn't 1974. You don't have to play a game in a recruit's state for them to see you. If a top recruit from TX/FL/GA passes on a scholarship offer from Alabama just because they don't play in his home state, then he's a moron.
Recruits like to know their friends and family can see them play in person. If you don't believe that, look at what happened to Nebraska's roster once they weren't playing in Texas anymore.
SB Nation: Speaking of Big 12 expansion, University of Oklahoma president David Boren recently made headlines when he said that he felt the Big 12 was "psychologically disadvantaged" by only having 10 teams. Do you personally agree with those comments?
Dr. Gee: President Boren is one of the real leaders in higher education and certainly one of the leaders in our conference. I certainly don't feel [the conference] is psychologically disadvantaged. I do think that having the name Big 12 with 10 teams is, of course -- I was in the Big Ten when we had 11 teams -- and there is something to be said about that. I do think that the issue of conference expansion should be one that we talk about.
I will also say this, having been a part of larger conferences, that I do like the round-robin format that we have. Obviously, our conference is also very healthy, from both a playing point of view, and obviously from a financial one. There are things to be said.
Now, of course, as a former Ohio State president, I was just absolutely delighted to see Ohio State win a national championship last year, but if TCU or whoever hadn't lost, you know, there could have been two Big 12 teams in the playoff. So you know what happens one year doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to happen every year.
Seems to me he eventually wants a conference with a collective unity - same reason Neb, Colo, Mizzou and A&M left. It's a matter of time before OU heads to the SEC.
Collective unity and those four schools in the same breath. Hahahahahahaha
Personally I would love to not have to get the BIG 10 Network bundled with my Direct TV and instead just purchase tier 3 channels from selected schools. I would gladly buy tier 3 content from ISU, Miami and maybe ASU.