BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

I loves me some Starman. Just disagree on this point.

 

I'm sorry, but the idea of promotion and relegation coming to college football is completely batshit for one particular reason: Why would the B1G and SEC schools agree to it?

Those schools are sitting pretty and in a position to command an increasing share of revenue moving forward. Why would they have any interest in changing the status quo that favors them so heavily?

 

Because eventually the Alabamas and Ohio States of the world are going to start asking themselves why they're subsidizing Vanderbilt, Rutgers and other DDS's.

 

Bubbler had the answer to this. Alabama and Ohio State need the wins the Vanderbilts and Rutgers of their conferences offer. A superduperconference of the top 20 teams would invariably lead come of today's big fish into 7-5 records. The superpowers have nowhere left to go, so their conference members can and will tell them to pound sand.

 

Yes, this is the answer. Look at the directional school-palooza the SEC plays in November. Those games aren't an accident.

 

Heh. Tennessee plays a bowl! team for its out-of-conference November game.


Yeah, it's UConn, but they're a bowl team!

 

Here's a twist.

 

In a world where Wake Forest-Stanford is now a conference matchup …

 

I read the last graf of this post in Ron Swanson voice (in my head, not out loud because I can’t actually do Ron Swanson voice.)

 

Money aside, this is why I was surprised Texas and Oklahoma went to the SEC. This is not the Big 12 where they can go 9-3 and 8-4 no matter what. They have almost always assured victories against Kansas and Iowa State, they have four non-conference wins, and then they scratch out a couple more among Okie St., Texas Tech, TCU and Baylor. That gets them to at the very least 8-4. Tell me who Texas is beating regularly in the SEC West. Maybe Mississippi State? Maybe Ole Miss? Even Arkansas seems on the upswing, and A&M is at best a 50-50 proposition. I get the fans went through a fallow period until Mack Brown arrived and since he left, but they ran off Charlie Strong and Tom Herman for 6-6 seasons. Also, see how stepping up in conferences worked out for Colorado, Nebraska and Mizzou.

 

I like this. Theaters have empty screens. Who goes to movies on Saturday afternoons? You can have a communal experience — that’s what makes watching games great — with other fans without going to some rowdy sports bar that may not have sound for your game. I don’t know how many will go, but the concept is fascinating. The price point has to be reasonable, though — $10 at the very max.

 

Unless the theaters install urinal troughs, halftimes could be interesting.