re: TAMU and Va Tech per ESPN radio

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A&M brings you more of the Houston, Dallas, and SA markets.

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If you want Houston.... Add Rice

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UT is going to the Pac-10.

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Not without A&M.

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Not necessarily true. I think this was what that closed door meeting was about today. The state government didn't want Texas to leave A&M in a dysfunctional Big XII. But if A&M gets in the SEC, then Texas to the PAC-42 isn't a big deal.

You're trying to hard on this one, my man.

VT is not a national program and doesn't bring much, if anything, academically

TAMU brings solid academics and a huge fanbase/endowment

the markets TAMU brings are markets who watch football, so i'll give you that too

but we have to ensure we have MAJOR increases in the ESPN/CBS deals before making any expansion talk or we risk fricking ourselves

VT/TAMU, regional programs with almost no national following and a mediocre football existence are not worth that

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but we have to ensure we have MAJOR increases in the ESPN/CBS deals before making any expansion talk or we risk fricking ourselves

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Agreed.

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odds are the pac10 goes the cable route, where they force the channel on millions of non-CFB fans

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which increases the pressure on ESPN/CBS to pony up more to lock up teams

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they can offer 3 games every saturday night covering 3 separate time zones

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It's going to be FOX.

They've been waiting for an opportunity to get back into major coverage of college football since being awarded the BCS.

FOX will nationally televise three Pac-42 games a weekend, ABC will hang on to the Big North-32, and CBS and ESPN will have the SEC.

The interesting thing will be how Disney handles the ABC v. ESPN dynamic.

Texas to the PAC 10 does not make much sense. The whole idea favors the current PAC 10 schools except Arizona and Arizona State. So USC just has to beat out Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, CAL, Stanford and UCLA and if they play three non-conference games they would only play two schools from basically the Big 12 at most. Then the PAC 10 still does not want a title game. So they would not have to play the big football schools for the PAC 10 title. Then they want two BCS bids which could make it is an undefeated Texas versus an undefeated USC because neither plays each other in the conference? That makes no sense for college football. It would actually knock the BCS system down a peg and I did not think that was possible.

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VT is not a national program and doesn't bring much, if anything, academically

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You're just talking out of your arse now. VT is one of the most respected engineering schools in the country. Particularly in the northeast. It's probably the northern most ag school and it has a great reputation. (NOTE: I don't want to get in the pissing contest over which engineering school is best -- I don't care -- but to say VT doesn't bring anything academically is just painfully false)

And OF COURSE schools are regional brands. If you care about brininging in markets, you care about its regional appeal. the national appeal is from the SEC brand.