BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

I think it's too late. I've come to believe that a consolidated league of the top football schools, or two leagues of them, is all but inevitable within the next ten years or so. Skim the cream of the P5, throw back the Vanderbilts and Northwesterns, and sign a humongous contract. I hope for some form of relegation, but I sincerely doubt that we'll see it. It's going to be a billionaire boys club.

You might as well just strap in and get ready for the National Championship to be settled between the B1G and the SEC in perpetuity.

I wish I believed that the schools not in that league would refuse to play against them. Let the schools in their bottom half take 3-8 losses because they're no longer beating up on the Little Sisters of the Poor over half of their schedule. The problem is that the P2 will have enough money to buy attractive non-P2 match ups.

The only good thing I see possibly coming out of this round of realignment is sanity breaking out far enough to break off the non-football and MBB teams into regional leagues.

 

Basketball isn’t much different. You have the football P5 + the Big East + one-offs like Gonzaga. If football breaks away, basketball will likely be along for the ride.

 

If they do that in the NCAA's they'll kill the golden goose that is March Madness, the best tournament in the country.

 

Since conferences really don't matter - they may as well go with an English soccer model and have relegation, promotion. No more non-conference games. Divide teams into east and west or north and south. Top four from each sector advance to playoff, bottom two from each are relegated to "G5" Top two of each G5 are promoted. G5 can have a "playoff" via the bowls to determine "champion."

It might get me to be interested in college football again.

 

Teel doesn't usually just go out on a limb ...

 

They called a meeting for tonight. They wouldn't call for a vote if they didn't know it would pass.

I just don't see it with SMU. They lack a whole bunch of ACC sports - baseball, lax, softball, field hockey, wrestling. They're entering as the second-smallest member of the conference - only Wake is smaller. (Duke is slightly smaller undergrad but has more grad students.) Small facilities in the revenue sports. Habitual cheaters, although some of what they're most famous for is legal now. Academically decent, but ahead of only Louisville and Clemson (tied with NC State) in the USNWR rankings. No AAU membership. The ACC will be their fourth conference this century.

The pros seem to be that they're geographically advantaged and willing to forgo TV money for some period of time.

Let's boot BC, Cuse and Louisville too, since I'm bitching.

 

Also, the next AAC football title will be the first for the Mustangs. But otherwise sure.

 

Confirmation.

 

Beavers and Cougars should just play one game a year and call it the PAC championship. Roll into the playoffs with that undefeated momentum.

 

What I would love to see - it won't happen but I can wish - is somehow there is a lawsuit, or a threat of one, and Oregon State and Wazzu are awarded full shares of the Big 10 media deal. I've seen companies harmed by various mergers etc. awarded significant claims, the defendants end up shelling out just to make sure the deal goes through.
How else do you figure rival leagues and TV networks ended up paying more in total to the defecting 10 than they were for the entirety of the then Pac-12 conference?

 

The owners of the Spirits of St. Louis say hi.

 

ACC meeting tonight postponed after faculty member shot and killed at Chapel Hill.