BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

The housing bubble - a good analogy. I understand the need for schools to increase revenues due to decreasing govt. support, but this thing seemed to get legs before it was even thought through. Conferences became more worried about being lost in the shuffle, than really figuring out what they wanted.

 

Here, read this link. The Pac-10 has not just thought of expanding in the past two weeks. I think the league has thought about this for a while and went and got a man who could pull it off.


http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2010/06/08/pac-10-expansion-should-we-have-seen-the-possible-big-12-invites-coming/

 

I think the Big 10 network thinks it only needs a couple more teams to get enough markets to make money.
I think they are wrong. If you can't make it work with almost all of the Midwest, St. Louis and Omaha aren't going to be enough either. And really, I don't even think Notre Dame would make that much of a difference.

 

Kentucky fans, especially those on Cats Pause, tend to think it would be Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and Miami.

They keep on talking about TV markets - although the SEC is already firmly in all three of those states - but by taking those specific four, the SEC would be kicking the ACC out of the south.

TV market wise - isn't what this is supposed to be about - the SEC nabbing Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and Miami doesn't make sense. Product-wise, however, it makes a lot of sense.

I do find it funny, though, that SEC-Kentucky fans love to bash Big East-Louisville fans over their huge conference with unbalanced scheduling.

Then they would turn around and do the same damn thing.

 

That would have been my initial thought, too, but if UNC were to express a serious interest in joining the SEC, then they move ahead of Miami. The Heels would obviously offer big-time hoops cachet and they draw better in football than the Canes.

One thing I'm not up on, and this is something maybe Sam Mills and a few others from that area might enlighten us on, is whether the NC legislature would put the squeeze on to keep UNC tethered to Duke, NC State and Wake.

 

Nebraska to Big Ten almost official?

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100608/NEWS01/100609687#nu-to-big-10-as-early-as-friday

 

I'm not sure where this UNC in the SEC speculation keeps coming from, but there's no way I can see the alumni standing for it. I'd expect Holden Thorp and Dick Baddour to get run out of town on a rail if they started talking seriously about it.

EDIT: Oh, and Duke and Wake have little to no sway with the legislature. This ain't Texas.

 

How disappointed will people be if nothing changes after all this?

 

What will all this realignment do for the bowl situation? If the Craptaculardotcom bowl features the 6th best team from the B-12 and the 5th best team from the B-10, those conferences will be totally different (maybe gone in the B12).

The Rose Bowl can no longer hold up the "traditional" Big 10 vs Pac-10 Rivalry. Half the teams in the conferences would be brand new. Maybe this is a way to finally bring us a playoff.

 

Like I've said, I eagerly await the Kansas-Indiana State Mountain West-Missouri Valley Conference Showdown game.

(I'm just messing with you Oz. )

 

There will be changes. Whether it's total chaos or not remains to be seen.