BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

The MAC title game is always on the Friday night before Championship Saturday, so you'd either have to boot the MAC from Ford Field or put together quite a quick-change crew to scrub the turf of all those Marathon Oil logos.

 

64,000 in a 67,000 seat stadium qualifies as "didn't draw shit"?
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=313370127
and I covered that game. A few empty spaces in the upper deck in one end zone, other than that pretty full

And Indy keeps getting tabbed for these things because it's a good downtown location with everyone's hotel within walking distance of the stadium and a lot of bars (for the basketball tournament they would even designate one bar downtown as the gathering place for each school)

 

Ohio State President Gordon Gee told school Athletic Council in December that Big Ten is looking to expand.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/21614027/gordon-gee-calls-big-ten-expansion-talks-ongoing-in-meeting

 

For whatever reasons, Indianapolis seems to have a reputation as doing a good job with big events: Super Bowls, Final Fours, Pan American Games back in 1987. I suspect it will get a national political convention pretty soon.

I suppose a lot of it has to do with it being a destination site where people want to go for more than just a day to watch a game and then go home. Also, Indy is sort of centrally located to a lot of places in the Big Ten region.

 

Per the Austin American-Statesman, Bowlsby says the Big 12 is considering a scheduling alliance with three conferences, though the ACC is the only one he mentioned by name. Why he didn't name the other two is anyone's guess.

http://www.statesman.com/news/sports/big-12-exploring-alliance-with-acc-two-other-leagu/nT7Bt/

Also worth noting that the Big 12 will meet Monday and Tuesday to have "philosophical" discussions about conference expansion.

 

That's the show stopper. No tax exemption means no tax write off for Mr. Super Booster when he makes his annual "donation" for the right to purchase season tickets on the 50 or in the skybox. The whole thing starts crumbling from there.

 

Never. Gonna. Happen.

 

From AL.com, SEC and Big 12 have had limited discussions about potential partnership. ACC had been the only conference mentioned as a partner before, but the SEC would be much better (I think) for the Big 12, if they can make it happen.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/01/sec_and_big_12_have_had_limite.html#incart_flyout_sports

 

I know I'm late to the game on this, but just wanted to say that I'm glad Middle Tennessee (the old alma mater) is getting out of the Sun Belt after this year as opposed to next year. No offense to anybody who has schools in the Sun Belt, but I have to say good riddance after what the SBC did to MTSU's football team last season.

 

Is there a team that has bettered their situation with the recent realignment more than Texas A&M? And yet, Missouri's move to the SEC seems to have doomed it to permanent mediocrity.
Figure Louisville helped itself - jury is still out on WVU.

 

Texas A&M has an outstanding young coach, found out its freshman QB was amazing and can still recruit Texas. Missouri has an OK coach with off-the-field issues, took a step down at QB after a good run of producing them and pretty much took an ax to the recruiting pipeline it had established in Texas with the move to the SEC.

Nebraska's pretty much Nebraska whether it is in the Big 12 or the Big Ten. Colorado is the shits right now no matter the league, but fits pretty well in the Pac-12. West Virginia, Louisville, Syracuse, TCU, Rutgers and Pitt all have to be happy right now just to get out of the Big East, but if the dominoes keep falling in the ACC, that could change for some of them.

We'll see what happens with Maryland.

 

What was the actual number in the stadium, not tickets sold? Quite a big difference. Tickets sold makes it look like more people attended than actually did. I saw a lot of empty seats on TV. Just curious.
True about downtown, but Indy isn't exactly a destination city.