BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

"Two for me, one for you. Three for me, one for you."

 

I think it might happen in reverse. The SEC and Big 10 tell the other schools adios and maybe expand a bit more. The two conferences could have an eight team tournament. This year the eight teams would have been Michigan, Washington, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon and Missouri.

If the other schools had an eight team tournament the schools would have been Florida State, Louisville, Arizona, NC State, Oregon State, Oklahoma State, Notre Dame and Liberty. I think this package of games is worth a lot less to Fox/ESPN than the Big 10/SEC playoff.

The Big 10 and the SEC can use this threat to leverage a really piece of the pie.

 

Hell just put everyone in a weekly tournament starting with Week 1 and those that get eliminated can just schedule games against each other the ensuing weeks

 

If it’s so expensive to run a football program, why don’t they cut the number of scholarship athletes? With NIL, the big boys can stilll target who they want, but maybe it would help the smaller schools compete.

 

Operating principle in these matters ... they don't give a fuck about the smaller schools.

If anything? Scholarship limits will be eliminated and we'll be back to the 70s when talent was stockpiled at the powerhouse schools and the gulf in quality widens.

 

I dunno. How many of these collectives are going to be eager to absorb another 20-plus salary slots?

 

That's untenable. The players have much more power now and won't sit for three years waiting to play.

 

I'm still waiting for an AD to say he's taking a portion of next year's massive football revenue and preparing for the day -- very soon -- when schools will be required to pay the players.

 

They'd be in the portal so fast...

 

No way. In 2030 the football playoff will have more teams than the basketball tournament.

 

If they want their own tournament, that’s fine, so long as they understand their men’s and women’s basketball teams won’t be part of March Madness anymore.

 

That's a future tournament, this past year it would've been Michigan, Oho State, Penn State, Iowa, Alabama, Georgia, Missouri and Ole Miss since Oregon, Washington and Texas weren't in the Big 10 or the SEC.

And the other schools would have been: Washington, Oregon, Florida State, Notre Dame, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma and let's toss in SMU to finish this out.

Those tournaments would have been kind of fun.

Personally I'm going to get some popcorn and see how the SEC/B10 invitational featuring Clemson works out for all parties involved.