BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

[DanOregon]

This would be a good play for Texas A&M, they'll always be Texas' little brother and going to the SEC would actually give them something to offer in-state recruits. Of course, they'll still get crushed by Bama, LSU and Arkansas.

 

[mb]

Kinda neat: Map of colleges, color coded by conference

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Cfdia.PNG

 

[Stitch]

Kinda neat: Map of colleges, color coded by conference

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Cfdia.PNG

I'd like to see the data on college football fan's TV habits. Who is watching what game and where are they from?

 

[slappy4428]

Kinda neat: Map of colleges, color coded by conference

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Cfdia.PNG

I'd like to see the data on college football fan's TV habits. Who is watching what game and where are they from?

Not entirely fair. I'd watch Big Ten games if they were allowed to be shown in Mike Slime's backyard... Charter won't carry the BTN here. So I watch whatever football is on -- usually the $EC

 

[Stitch]

Thanks goodness for DirecTV, because the local cable company doesn't carry the Big Ten network, MLB Network, NBA TV. It just added the local Fox Sports channel in HD right before opening day.

 

[Irishcheesehead]

When I lived in the SEC area, my cable provider at the time ran SEC games of the week (Florida/The Citadel, Tennessee/Tenn.Chattanooga, etc.) instead of the Notre Dame game on the NBC channel. GGGRRR.

What is the feeling here -- Any chance ND joins the Big Ten?

 

[mb]

I'm in SEC country and there are plenty of Big Ten games on ESPN, ESPN 2, ABC, and so on and so forth.

 

[Mark2010]

SEC on CBS games blacked out here. Good riddance!

And this whole thing is the biggest clusterfork since BP started drilling in the Gulf of Mexico!

 

[Crash]

OK, so the Pac 10 definitely isn't standing pat after adding Colorado, and Chip Brown, who has been right almost all along so far, says Texas, OU, OSU and Tech are simply waiting for Nebraska to make its announcement formal before they announce that they'll go to the Pac 10.

But now Brown reports that A&M is seriously considering a jump to the SEC, which (if true) puts the SEC at 13 teams. There's no way the SEC stands pat at 13, because that'd be ludicrous. But without A&M there's another Pac 10 slot open in the 16-team scenario.

Either this is a big pile of shirt, or fits about to really hit the shan.

And as bad as I think it is for college football, I'm enjoying the heck out of it.

 

[Mark2010]

Maybe the Detroit Lions will join the CFL.

 

[Sandoval]

The elephant in the room is that the mega-conferences split from the NCAA and create their own system whether it be bowls or a playoff.

That would really be Armageddon for collegiate sports as we know it if the mega-conference schools cut themselves off from the schools left out. Any school not in one of the mega-conferences would have trouble sustaining football at all, and along with it, several other sports.

Some will say, "fork 'em", but there's no way that what's good for college sports is only good for the self-annointed elite.

I've wondered about this for a while. I don't see how it makes any financial sense for the "elite" teams to stay in the NCAA. They could go it on their own, only play each other, get rid of whatever NCAA academic or eligibility rules they don't want, and probably retain a huge proportion of the TV money for basketball, which now gets spread among the 320 or so DI teams. Plus, they wouldn't have to field the minimum 13 teams that the NCAA requires for DI membership. They would still have to stay within Title IX, but I could see schools like Texas and Oklahoma have just football, basketball and baseball on the men's side, plus a few women's teams and call it good. They'd make a crapload more money, which is probably just about the only thing that matters to them.

It's why I think the NCAA doesn't really go after the powerhouse teams on compliance violations, for fear that the big guys would say screw you, take their ball home and start their own association. Only when everybody in the world knows there's cheating going on does it seem like one of the elites gets busted.

 

[Second Thoughts]

Kinda neat: Map of colleges, color coded by conference

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Cfdia.PNG

Cool. That helps picture some scenarios.