BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

If there are four super conferences, I really do not know how they are going to work out a schedule.

You only have so many games in a college football season, and you still have to play your conference games, you still have to schedule your cupcakes and hopefully you will still schedule your tough non-conference games. And you still have to play the conference championship game.

Honestly, I would like to see a four-game preseason then move into conference play. The two of the preseason games would be against cupcakes (or you could swap a cupcake for an old rival) and the other two games would be conference vs conference challenges like basketball does with the ACC/Big 10 challenge.

That would mean a Pitt schedule if they played in the ACC could look like this...

Toledo (cupcake)
Arizona State (Pac 10 challenge)
Penn State (Big 10 challenge)
West Virginia (non-cupcake by choice)
Virginia (ACC)
NC (ACC)
NC State (ACC)
Syracuse (ACC)
Florida State (ACC)
Duke (ACC)
Miami (ACC)
Virginia Tech (ACC)

ACC championship

Bowl Game

If they force the other conferences to play challenge games, this actually could be pretty sweet.

 

Yeah, that was just complete bullshit.

I'll bet there's at least two new teams officially in the Pac-12 by the end of the October.

These things are worse than coaching searches. Everybody lies and the people who think they're telling the truth are out of the loop. There's new bullshit to read every day from guys who are generally good thorough reporters.

 

Kill this shitty conference, Mizzou.

 

Perhaps, but if not Texas and the Oklahomas, then who? Kansas and Kansas State don't seem to generate much interest for whatever reason. None of the MWC schools are attractive (UNLV has poor academics and San Diego State doesn't offer anything they don't have in that region). Relgious schools are a non-starter, so BYU is out.

 

They can't. If they leave and the Texas and Oklahoma schools stay, the Big 12 survives either as the reborn Big 8 or with an infusion of Big East schools.

 

I'll bet you on that.

I think Pat Haden and some others are dead-set against it...

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-pac-12-expansion-20110921,0,7472169.column

 

I don't know what to believe anymore. This morning I read on ESPN's crawl that Missouri was headed to the SEC and the Pac-12 was staying at 12 schools.

I'm sure that's changed dramatically in the last few hours, or been proven false. I can see the Pac-12 passing on Texas if Texas is making tons of demands, but they're crazy if they pass on Oklahoma.

 

Well, if there was ever a college writer I would never doubt it's Dufresne, and I am not being even the slightest bit sarcastic. He's the best.

 

Actually it was more than just ND who voted against it. Seton Hall, Georgetown, Rutgers and ND voted against it. It wasn't just a a football deal. It was a football/basketball deal with ESPN. According to SBJ, West Virginia and Pitt didn't like the deal either. They rejected the deal because it was ESPN's offer during it's exclusive negotiation phase. They opted to wait until the open market could set the price, not just ESPN.

Was it a wrong move for the Big East? Maybe. Especially since Syracuse and Pitt won't be part of the future rights negotiation. But this was not a case of ND screwing over Big East football on its own. It was four Big East members pushing for an open market negotiation for all media rights -- including basketball.

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2011/06/06/In-Depth/Rights-Fees.aspx

 

The problem for the Pac-12 is that while Utah and Colorado were nice additions, neither had the wow factor that adding Oklahoma or Texas would. With Oklahoma and Texas, the Pac-12 can claim to have football teams that are close to what the SEC will have. Without them, it's not close.

So if the Pac-12 stays at 12, I think it's a mistake. Then again, who knows what Oklahoma's demands were. It's also possible that they might have soured on having to take the tagalongs in Tech and Okie State.

 

If they take Oklahoma, they'd have to find a 14th team. And even if you found them a travel partner (Kansas? Missouri?) then you'd have to split a travel pair if they go to seven-team divisions. Or have the original Pac 8 in one division and the six eastern schools in the other division.

 

I like that the Big East wants to add the service academies. I think that would be a great add for football and would give the hoops teams a needed break during a brutal conference schedule.