re: SEC Expansion

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No, but if they were to leave the Big 12 I think it would be to the Big Ten for many reasons including an additional 15 million per year in TV revenue, millions more per year in research money for the academic side and more academic prestige. I realize Texas is the most profitable athletic department in the NCAA but moving to the Big Ten would only increase that

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Exactly...being in Dallas/St.Louis/Chicago/Detroit/Milwaukee areas for texas means millions for tv revenue...Oklahoma and texas would be crazy not to jump ship and brand out..

I would love to see the Horns go to the SEC, but the academic argument will not go away. If Texas goes anywhere, I see them going to the PAC 10.

I would like to see the most profitable program in the country pull a Notre Dame and claim its independence from any conference.

Keep OU and a&m as permanent opponents.

Here's what I think is really going on in Big-10 country. Delaney wants Notre Dame. If the Big East dissolves, Notre Dame would almost be forced into the Big-10.

Apart from the big boys, the Big-12 is not stable. The smaller programs (i.e. everyone but UT and OU) are not making the $$$ because bowl money is not shared the way it is in the SEC. The Big-10 expansion will force Pac-10 expansion, and the Pac-10 will cut into the Big-12, and they will do it in such a way as to force it to dissolve, allowing them to get UT and A&M. The leftovers of the Big East and Big-12 will then join the SEC and ACC.

1. Big-10 adds Rutgers, UConn and Syracuse
2. Big East Dissolves
3. Big-10 adds Notre Dame and Missouri
(*the Big-10 is now done and renames itself the Big-10 plus 6 weasels*)
4. Pac-10 adds Utah, Colorado, TCU and Baylor
(*note the Big-12 has lost 3 schools and the most likely replacement school in TCU, and is faced with the realization that without adding 7 schools to reach 16 they won't be relevant*)
5. Pac-10 adds UT and A&M
6. Big-12 Dissolves
7. SEC adds OU, Nebraska, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State
8. ACC adds Pitt, WV, Louisville, and Cincinnati
9. Kansas, Kansas State, BYU, San Diego State, Colorado State, UNLV, and Wyoming join the WAC.
(*creating a fifth 16 team conference and throwing a wrench into the works)
10. 8 FCS teams jump into Div I-A and the smaller conferences realign into 3 more 16 team conferences.
11. An ugly meeting takes place, where the small conferences push for an 8 team playoff. The 4 super conferences push for a 4 team playoff (completely ignoring the smaller conferences). A compromise is reached on a 12 team playoff, where the 4 super conference winners get a "bye" in the first round and the smaller conferences play in the opening round against 4 at-large selections (one from each super conference).

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Deals are made with the Cotton, Capital One, Chick-Fil-A, and Holiday Bowls to host the first round of the playoffs.

Deals are made with the Rose, Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta to host the second round of the playoffs.

The final three game sites are determined by bid to maximize profits.

I'M ALL FOR MORE GAMES!!!! PER YEAR OF COURSE

That would leave only 5 football teams in the Big East, not enough to sustain a BCS conference when there will be 16-team conferences out there. The Big East might continue to exist as a basketball conference.

The Big East can't sustain itself as a basketball conference. Do you think West Virginia, Cincinnati, etc. are just going to quit playing football? No... All the football schools will go find a conference for football and leave the Big East. Once all the football schools are gone, so is the Big East.

What we have learned over the years in all this talk is that a playoff or something resembling a playoff in CF will have two elements in it:

1. The bowl system will remain and will remain as producing a National Champ or the 2 teams that would play for the NC

2. The selections for 4, 6, 8 teams to move onto a "tournament" will be produced through the Conferences.

That said, the only logical conclusion we can make is that the 4 super conferences with 16 teams each makes some sense. The four conference winners would go play-off in two rotating bowls (Fiesta, Orange, Rose, Sugar) to produce the two NC teams to play a week later.

The Bleacher Report is intriguing to me. That one has Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma St. joining the SEC for one of the 4 super conferences.

If that would happen, the alignhment would be:

WEST

Texas
Texas A & M
Oklahoma
Oklahoma St.
Arkansas
LSU
Ole Miss
Miss St.

EAST

Kentucky
Vanderbilt
Tennessee
Alabama
Auburn
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida

For those who are throwing out Rice, and Troy, and other mid-majors as joining a power conference I think it unlikely because the push seems to be to get the 6 currently existing conferences plus maybe a hanful of Boise's and Notre Dame, etc. to form that 64 team pool.

You might be right, but it's still intriguing.

While the Big 10 is a perfect fit academically for Texas, do you really think the big Texas alums want to travel to Michigan, Wisconsin, Minn., Columbus Ohio etc for football games in nov and dec? I doubt the big money alums will stand for it.

I agree Texas will not join the SEC as is for academics. However, the SEC may be willing to do away with prop athletes(all other BCS conferences do not allow props) to get Texas. That was the price OU and the Huskers pais to get Texas to join the Big 12.

If the SEC will not budge an inch, and the big 10 and sec go to 16 teams, Texas would reluctantly go to the Pac 10 with colo. That is my guess.