BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

I wonder about an SEC-ACC merge paired with a B1G-Pac merge. Raid a few, purge a few, go to 20-30. Those two conferences are ESPN's darlings, and the new football and basketball playoff.

Everyone else goes to the G5 equivalent odds and sods league. I wouldn't be surprised if this is what ESPN is maneuvering toward.

 

Two 32-team "conferences" also gets you a perfect 64-team basketball bracket -- or the option to "invite" 16-32 teams from the remaining mid-majors.

 

They'd outright kill March Madness if there was not some form of option on that order.


It's normally silly season on message boards, but throw in realignment and they're all boiling.

 

Seems to me two, 32-team super conferences living on ESPN and ESPN2 and ESPNOcho makes sense, and the remainders could form a sort of regional equivalent and do OK for themselves.

 

We do live in interesting times.

 

Disney is the kind of conglomerate that could throw silly money at enough programs -- and partner with other networks -- to at least break football away from the current structure.

I don't know what the magic number is, but if the SEC, Big 10 and Pac 12 lead, the ACC has to follow.

 

Any idiot could figure out that making March Madness exclusive to the big schools only would cripple interest in the tournament. Which means it is a 50-50 shot whether the big wigs running college sports are bright enough to suss it out.

 

They'll try to hog it, and wind up with teams that are 8th and 10th in their conference matched up in exactly the kind of games everyone now ignores in February.

 

C’mon. Who doesn’t want to sneak away from work to watch Ole Miss-Northwestern at noon Thursday?

 

Yeah, I'm gonna schedule a vasectomy to get off for that. /blue font off

 

While this is not an extreme possibility by any means, he reported a damn message board rumor?

I can confirm, my own schools fan board is insane right now. Would love to see something reported off that! And it's a G5 likely no chance to move up school.

 

There are about 350 schools eligible for the NCAA Division I basketball tournament. If the Power Four conferences, consisting of 57 basketball playing schools, organized their own tournament, interest would be far less than it is for the expanded field. Let's say 50%. But revenues would be split by a population of schools that is 84% smaller. The cut to the schools in the tournament could well increase despite this drop in interest and total revenues.

The avarice of the leaders of Power Four conferences is such I can easily see this happening.