As strong as the SEC already is, I can't imagine that once they've entered expansion mode, that they wouldn't also want to add a Clemson, a Florida State, a Miami or possibly a Georgia Tech -- nor or that some of these schools, especially Clemson and FSU, wouldn't jump at the chance to join them
Those schools add nothing financially to the SEC, which has strong presence in all those states.
stlouie_lipp wrote:My sources (yes I do have college football sources) tells me that the entire D-1 college football landscape will be changing dramatically in the next two years. The number of D-1 teams is going to be cut and there will be a playoff system.
Yeah, I think that is the goal of this whole thing. Force a playoff system and keep all the money among the big schools. I wonder what it means for the teams that are left out. Do the "superconferences" become their own subdivision or will the TCUs and Boises still have a chance to participate?
As strong as the SEC already is, I can't imagine that once they've entered expansion mode, that they wouldn't also want to add a Clemson, a Florida State, a Miami or possibly a Georgia Tech -- nor or that some of these schools, especially Clemson and FSU, wouldn't jump at the chance to join them
Those schools add nothing financially to the SEC, which has strong presence in all those states.
In terms of TV revenue, probably not. Although each super conference could have their own network and those schools have some huge fanbases. Either way, the SEC may not have a choice but to expand to be equal with the other conferences and you could do a lot worse than those schools.
stlouie_lipp wrote:My sources (yes I do have college football sources) tells me that the entire D-1 college football landscape will be changing dramatically in the next two years. The number of D-1 teams is going to be cut and there will be a playoff system.
Yeah, I think that is the goal of this whole thing. Force a playoff system and keep all the money among the big schools. I wonder what it means for the teams that are left out. Do the "superconferences" become their own subdivision or will the TCUs and Boises still have a chance to participate?
From what I am hearing, all the D-1 teams left standing will have a chance to participate.
Notre Dame really should be forced to being part of a conference, in this day and age you shouldn't be able to play major college ball without being in some sort of a conference. You can't have your cake and eat it also. If you don't want to play in a conference then you shouldn't be allowed to automatically get into a BCS bowl game just because you finished 9-2.
Faceman wrote:wow, I guess nobody really knows what Texas is doing.
I'd have to bet on them saving the Big 12. They don't want that PAC 10 commute.
Plus they can boss around the rest of the Big XII even more than they had before. They wouldn't have that in the Pac 10. If the Big XII somehow survives losing Nebraska and Colorado, I still think it's on life support. The remaining institutions in the north surely resent Texas' influence and the grandstanding that's happened in all of this.
And yet, other than joining the B16 Ten, this somehow seems like a best case scenario for Mizzou.
If Texas is staying (and OU, etc.) then I don't really see the problem here. You can replace Nebraska and Colorado with two from Utah, TCU, BYU, Cincy, or Air Force and move on like nothing really happened. The conference won't be as good as it used to be, but it will still be a top 4-5 conference year in and year out.
