BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

They’ve been to Lubbock. No SEC town will faze them.

 

Nice explainer on why there's no way in hell Clemson/FSU to the SEC happens. (Thread)

 

The reason for headquarters moves is almost always the CEO wants to live someplace else. After the CEO makes that determination then a consultant is hired to write a report containing a bunch of other reasons to justify the desires of the CEO. If, for example, the CEO wants to live in Atlanta, the better plane connections provided by the Atlanta airport as compared to Birmingham will become a determinative factor in the consultant's report.

 

When Grant Teaff became executive director of the American Football Coaches Association - which had its headquarters in Orlando - he just said he didn't want to move. Thus, the AFCA office is now located in Waco.

 

Same reason the NFL Network was based in LA (despite having no teams for the first decade plus of its launch and requiring the morning show hosts to report to work at 2 a.m. local time.) Bornstein didn't want to live back East.

 

Big 12, Pac-12 commissioners scheduled to meet Tuesday: Sources

 

A merger would be way too unwieldy. I'd love to see a co-op, where Pac-12/Big 12 teams play each other in all sports frequently, on a home-and-home basis. Keep the Rose Bowl and plan matchups for some other bowls. This was planned several years ago but fell through.

 

A scheduling agreement between the Pac and B12 might be of some help. I had not thought of the idea of the two conferences acting as an alliance in selling their TV rights as a package. That might gain some purchase. Gets interesting around the 6 minute mark.

Buckeye Scoop on YouTube who was talking to a B1G insider. The insider told him he had a credible source tell him that USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Colorado are in play and Stanford and California are listening. No mention of Washington.

 

That's 20 teams combined. Kick out four bottom-feeders and you have another super league.

 

It would be better for the PAC than MWC teams.

 

I think a lot of people have forgotten that one reason for the move to larger conferences was that the NCAA had passed a rule that if a conference had 12 or more members they could paly a season ending championship game. The rule was passed because a lower division conference (I think in Pennsylvania) had twelve members. But the larger D-1 conferences realized that a season ending championship game could make a lot of money and conferences expanded to twelve.

I think that a super conference with 20 members would have to move to some kind of divisional structure. And if there were four divisions in a conference I would think the entity would have a playoff system with conference semi-finals. Which would be very lucrative. But would require a change in the rules by the governing body.

If such a rule passed then I would think we would quickly see super conferences.