BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

It’s not done yet. FSU still opposed and trying to sway enough others to nuke it. They might vote no even if they’re the only one. Just to mark their territory and score points with their base and the political klan that runs the state.

 

I'm sure that's it.

 

Screw it. I'm naming myself Commissioner of College Football Inc. and creating eight 10-team conferences, grouped in four regions.

CFI EAST

Seaboard: Boston College, Maryland, N.C. State, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech

Sunshine: Clemson, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami, South Carolina, UCF, Wake Forest

CFI CENTRAL

Rust: Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue

Dust: Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Wisconsin

CFI SOUTH

Pulled Pork: Alabama, Auburn, UAB, Kentucky, Louisville, Memphis, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

Brisket: Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, LSU, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Tulane

CFI WEST

Pine: Boise State, Cal, Fresno State, Hawaii, Oregon, Oregon State, San Jose State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State

Palm: Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Colorado, San Diego State, UCLA, USC, Utah, Utah State, Wyoming

Sorry to the service academies. You didn't make the cut.

I'm certain I missed somebody. And I had to split Duke/Wake/UNC/Wolfies somehow to get 10 teams in each.

 

Those Rust and Dust people are going to hate you.

 

Palm needs a rename. Not enough palms.

You already have the Pine Division … how about the Aspen Division?

 

FOX and ESPN are driving the bus toward a Eurosoccer style relegation system.

Soon enough there will be the 24-team BIG B1G Division, the 24 team SECond Level Division, then the Also Collecting Concussions Division of 24 more.

Every 4 years on a rolling basis, 4 teams will be promoted/relegated from each division based on cumulative records.

 

The Brisket is just a reconstitution of the old SWC, minus Rice and plus LSU and Tulane.

 

Stop trying to make relegation happen.

It’s not going to happen.

 

I don't know who you've got me mixed up with, but I've never ever voiced any particular support for promotion /relegation ever, in relation to college sports.

But it is obvious the Faux Fascist Sports Empire as steered by Rupert Murdoch now on concert with Disney/ESPN is trying to ram the entire mentality of Eurosoccer up the collective ass of America. The current restructuring of college football is gravitating towards assembling everybody in a couple of superleagues.
Once everybody is in a couple of superleagues, the superleagues will do what the Teevee networks tell them to. The teevee networks don't want to see Michigan vs Minnesota. They don't want to see Alabama vs Mississippi State. They don't want to see Penn State vs Pitt. They don't want to see USC vs Stanford. They don't want to see Notre Dame vs Michigan State. They don't want to see Ohio State vs Purdue. They want to see the top teams playing the top teams every week. You get that with relegation.

It's not the way I want it, but it's the way we're headed. Essentially the working model of Eurosports is being rammed up the ass of America -- you can see the development models for football and basketball, the most intrinsically US sports, being ripped away from the high school/college model which has been in operation the last 125 years, and being supplanted by the youth academy and skills development model. The Bishop Sycamore doc shows where this Frankenstein monster is headed.

 

Chicken Little has entered the chat!

Promotion-relegation would at least be somewhat based on meritocracy. It will never happen and Eurosports being "rammed up the ass of America" is hyperbole.

The bigger, and more likely, danger is that those networks push the power teams to just jettison themselves from playing any of the have not's at all.

The one and only thing that is a brake to that is, suddenly, some of those "power teams" will become have not's in a league of so-called elites. We forget sometimes that those power teams need those games against have not's more so than they'd ever admit and more so than any Fox and ESPN exec would like to maintain their winning brands.

But then? I don't think that's the likely future either. Every assumption about college athletics going forward presumes that both Fox and ESPN retain their measure of financial power over college athletics.

I wonder.

There's so many options already available and coming up the pike, most of which are not sports-related, but that impact the overall health of Fox and Disney.

The only thing keeping them powerful is their ability to monetize their venue via media rights money (see Apple TV unable or unwilling to pay stupid money to the Pac-12 to keep up with the joneses), but how long will that last?

The more these other options eat into their market share beyond sports, the less capable they'll be to monetize the machine. Then, the whole Monopoly tycoon swimming in cash model of college athletics is severely restricted. I think that scenario is more likely than the consolidation scenario.

 

Hyperbole? Starman??