BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

I think they should have an all-directional school conference.

 

As it stands now, the Pac-10 is the best structured of any of the conferences. 10 schools, five legitimate rivalries, and every school has an obvious travel buddy.

Texas and Texas A&M fit perfectly into this model. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State fit perfectly into this model. You could argue that Kansas and Kansas State or maybe even Colorado and Nebraska would fit in well, but if you believe that KU has no interest in the Pac-10, that would eliminate them. Since NU appears headed to the Big 10, that takes a lot of the luster away from Colorado. Very few people care about Texas Tech and nobody gives half a shit about Baylor, so the thought of those schools joining the new proposed Superconference is just insane.

 

Our buddy Chip Brown has been on the radio this week saying Texas has zero interest in joining the SEC. I've heard other reports saying the SEC's play has already been made and Texas turned it down.

 

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Chip Brown is kicking ass and taking names.

 

The SEC would/could get A&M a whole lot easier than Texas.

 

Berry Tramel of the Oklahoman argues the SEC would be wise to look at KU as an expansion option.

http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2010/06/07/emails-in-on-pac-16-and-realignment/

"I think Kansas is in for some worrisome times. But I believe the Jayhawks will come out OK. People call me crazy, but I think KU could talk its way into the SEC. The SEC has plenty of money and more than enough great football programs. What it needs is another big-time basketball program. KU could provide that, and Lawrence is a lot closer to Fayetteville, Ark., than Fayetteville is to Oxford, Miss., its next-closest league member."

 

Agree Mizzou grad, but again how do you divide the Pac-10 by adding just two or four schools? You almost have to expand to 16. Pac-10 wants Texas. If it does not get Texas, which also means adding five other Big 12 schools, then I don't think it will expand. Why expand and break up your natural rivalries just to add a Colorado or Utah or BYU. Pac-10 would be wiser to go after Nebraska than any of those schools. Texas is the gold mine.

 

Berry Tramel is good, but there's no way the SEC is adding Kansas for either basketball reasons or proximity to Fayetteville.

 

The SEC is the only conference with no worries about opening up more TV markets. Even if the Pac-10 adds six teams and the Big 10 adds four, the SEC would probably still be the biggest TV draw for football.

I'd love to see a list of how many games on national TV every conference has. I'd bet the SEC has twice as many (I'm talking ESPN or the networks) as anyone else.

 

I'd say the Big 10 is up there, Mizzou. They have the noon slot at ESPN, and many 3:30 games on ABC.

 

No way. The Big Ten has just as many network and ESPN broadcast slots as the SEC does for football and basketball.

 

Basketball? Maybe. Kentucky, and to a lesser extent Arkansas, are the only schools in the SEC with strong, consistent fan bases.

Football? I'd have a hard time believing that Ohio State is on national TV more than Florida, Alabama and LSU, but I could be wrong.