BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Yep, and I wonder if the Big East won't be the next to start crumbling.

I get the impression that the eventual result of this restructuring will be that, instead of 6 BCS conferences, college football's future will be ruled by four superconferences, each with around 16 teams, each with their own TV network modeled after the Big 10 Network.

May take a several more years to get it done, but that seems to be the direction things are headed. And the Big 12 and Big East are the sacrificial lambs needed to get there.

 

Except the Big East will still exist as a basketball conference - and a fairly decent one - if this happens.

If the Big 12 breaks up a lot of folks will be out of work and that really sucks.

 

If the Big 12 teams jump the the Pac 10, the SEC surely will make a push for four more teams to get to 16. Then, the Big Ten will try to get that number. If all these dominos start to fall, wouldn't Notre Dame be nuts to not join the Big Ten? If the super-conferences form, then there's no way they'll want to get left out, is there? I know there's a lot of pride there, but they have to be smart enough to realize they've lost a lot of their leverage and if these conferences expand, they'll lose a lot more if they don't get on board. Am I crazy to think that?

 

One far-fetched idea is that if the Big 12 break up, Iowa St. and the Kansas schools could re-form the Big 8 and invite 5 teams to join.

ISU and Baylor are fucked if this goes down. exmediahack, I think I can say this, with Armchair's endorsement, that ISU will never go near the Missouri Valley, MWC, or the WAC.

As long as Jamie Pollard is running the show in Ames. ;D

Paul Rhodes turned a 2-win team under Chizik into a respectable 7-win team in 12 months. If ISU is going to get any notice from a good conference, football has to win and Hoiberg better pull a Rhodes-like miracle and get hoops into the Big Dance. Their locale notwithstanding, Ames will always piggyback off of Des Moines, while Iowa has Iowa City where they're at, Cedar Rapids 20 minutes north, and Davenport 60 minutes east.

 

Who would have thought the Pac 10 would be the bold conference? MWC should grab Boise St. For 12 teams, MWC could try to get Fresno State and Nevada.

 

The Big 12 situation reminds me of one of those Law and Order situation where Stone is offering a deal to an underling (Missouri), while Texas and Oklahoma are telling the guy to keep his mouth shut and everything will be cool. Stone starts pulling back the offer and the underling starts spilling his guts, then everyone wants a deal.

 

I'm just waiting for the first domino to fall. This crap makes my head hurt.

The one conference we haven't heard from is the SEC. They may yet have designs on Texas and A&M, and a bidding war could break out. I saw that Byrne (the AD at A&M) isn't keen on going west.

 

I almost feel like the system we have is better than the mess we could have. I don't know if 16 team superconferences will be any good.

I agree that the SEC doesn't need a 16-team conference. Neither does the Big 10. If we go west with this 16-team Pac-10 its going to be a mess.

 

I suppose the four unwanted Big 12 schools could merge with the four discarded former Southwest conference schools (TCU, Houston, Rice, SMU) in the "we used to be big time" conference.

 

Those four -- in particular, KU and K-State -- would be much better off going to the Mountain West, which has already built up a high level of football credit and could use a boost the Jayhawks would provide with men's basketball come March.