The problem with that is that eventually there would be a top and a bottom of that 16-team circle jerk, the bottom half would no longer be viewed as bluebloods and the top half would question why they're carrying these inferior programs and giving them a cut. So then you have an 8-team circle jerk, and then eventually a 4-team circle jerk when another top and bottom form. If the core logic behind the formation of a 16- or 20-team superconference is greed/money, I don't think that greed suddenly goes away. The top brands would always feel deserving of more.At some point I think the only thing that makes sense is the Top 16 brands breaking away for their own circle jerk. Nothing but blue bloods vs blue bloods and no schools to subsidize.
This would push schools like Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, NW, etc into our level.
Frankly, that would be a lot more fun to me. The only reason this reorganization sucks is that schools that bring nothing more to the table than we do are getting to go along for the ride because of who they hooked up with 100 years ago. If ISU had hooked up with Ohio State and Michigan instead of Nebraska and Oklahoma, we'd be in the same boat as Iowa. If they had hooked up with Nebraska and Oklahoma, they'd be in the same boat as us.