BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

The offer may not be there, but I bet Texas State sees the turmoil and decided that it's best to let the dust settle a bit.

 

From a level standpoint, are they waiting for someone to get poached from the AAC and then moved there?

 

The only real advantage the American and MWC have had over the Sun Belt is the TV money. And the first two are about to be in for hard corrections on their next deals, so that may not be enough to offset any exit fees. Likewise, the PAC-Whatever is probably too risky a gamble to take with so much unknown.

 

I used to work at Arkansas-Little Rock, and had no idea of its current conference affiliation. It's in the Ohio Valley, which, for travel purposes, is so much better than when it was in the Sun Belt. At the time, Florida International and Denver were also in the Belt, and travel was not fun. UALR didn't have the budget to charter flights, so it was either long bus trips or a series of commercial flights to get anywhere.

On one of my last trips with men's basketball at UALR, this was the schedule for a Thursday-Saturday series:

Little Rock to Houston
Houston to El Paso
Bus from El Paso to Las Cruces
Game at New Mexico State
Bus from Las Cruces to El Paso
El Paso to Houston
Houston to Lafayette, La.
Game at Louisiana-Lafayette
Lafayette to Houston
Houston to Little Rock

Absolute brutal travel

 

Sounds like the old ECHL, when the Raleigh IceCaps would ride overnight to Toledo/Johnstown/Peoria, then back for Greensboro/Hampton Roads/Roanoke.

 

It's times like this I miss Sagarin.

 

Private equity makes everything better, right?

"Spearheaded by former Disney executives-turned-investment professionals, Project Rudy is a super league-esque concept — separate and more simplified than the one made public last week — that incorporates football programs of the four power conferences in a 70-team structure. The model preserves the four power conferences, expands the postseason, overhauls scheduling, tiers revenue distribution and, most importantly, infuses as much as $9 billion of private capital cash into the system.

The architects behind the model work for Smash Capital, a venture capital and private equity firm with offices in Los Angeles and New York. Representatives from Smash Capital declined to comment when reached last week, but their concepts are outlined in a 14-slide presentation obtained by Yahoo Sports."

https://sports.yahoo.com/while-sec-and-big-ten-leaders-mull-major-changes-a-new-super-league-concept-looms-that-could-radically-alter-college-sports-130031534.html

 

70 teams?? LMAO. It'll be 32 tops.

Private Equity. Starve the beast, bleed it dry then sell the corpse off for dog food.

 

But in this model, the Fat Two won't be the decision makers, so you can forget them being on board.

 

Project Rudy, huh. We can probably conclude that this is Notre Dame's plan based on what would be best for Notre Dame in the long term.

 

There may be some natural attrition. How long can an Iowa State or Wake Forest afford to keep up appearances while falling further behind in the arms race and becoming the kind of punching bag that would have made Francis Peay shudder?

 

If Iowa State is falling behind then I sure shouldn't want to be Baylor.