Posted on 06/04/2010 6:39:38 AM PDT by C19fan
With realignment seemingly on the way to major college football, there seems to be a new and intriguing alignment thrown out daily.
The latest came Thursday in the form of a report from Orangebloods.com (a Rivals.com member), which said the Pac-10 is prepared to offer membership to six Big 12 schools to form a mega 16-team conference that would cover the western half of the country and break into seven of the nation's top 20 television markets.
According to the report, the Pac-10 is all but ready to extend invitations to Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Colorado by the conclusion of its spring meetings slated to take place this weekend in San Francisco.
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It is the mid and lower major conferences that will suffer the most. Meanwhile, the power conferences will resemble pro sport developmental leagues even more than they are now.
How many schools are in the Big East these days? 26?
Might as well, this kind of thing is only really important for Football. The rest don’t get nearly as many viewers.
The parallel is what happened with English soccer in the 1990s.
The big teams weren’t happy with the contract the English FA negotiated, so they decided to create their own league, The Premier League, and negotiated a huge TV contract.
I see it eventually happening where all of the huge programs, regardless of geography get together and create their own “Mega-Conference” and negotiate their own TV contract.
There is an easy solution. Have one big mega conference consisting of all the teams in the NCAA. That will avoid any current conference being raided and no one will be left out. ;O)
Having the NCAA set up the conferences based solely on geography would be interesting. Break them all down in sets of 12 so there are divisions and championship games everywhere.
I would like to see how many traditional rivalries it would break. Probably not that many considering how many are rivalries based on being by each other.
Kansas, Kansas State, and Iowa State and Baylor is left might go to the SEC if the SEC wants them or be forced to drop down to a lesser conference like the MAC or Missouri Valley. However, I think Kansas is different than the other schools left after the PAC and Big 10 raid the the big 12. Kansas is a Basketball powerhouse. It doesn’t belong in mid-conference. I am sure the SEC might add them as soon as the big 12 ends. As for the other teams left not sure. This whole alignment has to do with Football. Yes Kansas State was good in Football a few years and yes the basketball is back, but not sure it is enough. Not a power house in either sport. Iowa State is in the same situation. Baylor would go to the SEC I am sure of it if the Pac don’t want them. For all purposes the big 12 is dead.
Only hope is for the Big 12 is to do enough to keep Oklahoma and Texas. That might keep them and a few other schools, but doubtful. Big 12 will get a hit just losing a few teams and would need to quickly get new ones like TCU maybe.
But ti seems to me that the Big 12 might end or reform and change name if it is around.
PAc-10 fans are bitching because they realize that outside of USC (when they get off probation) would be the only original pac-10 team that would ever get a sniff of the Conference Championship again.
According to yahoo sports a fight for Texas has emerged. Both Pac 10 and Big Ten are aiming to get them. I’ve been a long time fan of the big 12 and its sad to see other the conference being picked apart.
Heck I still miss the Southwest Conference.
Sorry I just had to ping this to you...
In the e-mail obtained by The Associated Press, Gee writes that Powers would welcome a call to say they have a “Tech” problem.
That does that mean?
We don't want to be in the Pac 10 ... no need to apologize.
They claim it would double the payouts to individual schools but, I woud think the extra travel expense would eat into that profit.
It means Tech is luggage for Texas and that the legislature will likely force Texas to take them along. The problem with Tech is that they are a Tier 3 academic school and both the Pac 10 and Big Ten will not likely accept them based on that alone. Most people don’t realize this but not all conferences are simply athletic in nature.
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