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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We don't want them in the Pac 10. Sorry.
Ping. I don’t want to play in the PAC 10. I enjoy beating it up too much...
Agreed.
/src on/Too bad Ann Richards is not governor of Texas so she can force Baylor to be included too./src off/
I have idea based on the Premier League in soccer.
You have the biggest 13 programs (USC, Florida, Ohio State, etc.) break off and create their own Super Conference.
Each team plays each other. That makes 12 regular season games. At the end you take the top 4 teams and they would play the semi-finals and the national championship.
Here’s the kicker, the three bottom teams drop out for next season, and the three best teams outside of the conference would take their place the next season.
The schools could negotiate their own TV contracts outside of the NCAA. Every week you would have six huge games between the best teams.
Invite some real programs from west of the Rockies and make an actual competitive geographical conference.
Add Boise State, Utah, BYU, SD State, TCU (not west of the Rockies, but probably eager to get into a BCS conference so they won’t get screwed out of title shots anymore), and Air Force (just astride the Rockies). Each of those schools has had more success and/or more NFL players than Colorado in the past 20 years.
Great idea. I guess the whole debate would be which teams to promote.
Hawaii too.
Looks as if the Big 12 will be split between the Pac 10 and Big 10.
You could base it on rankings just like now.
But imagine if those schools could now negotiate their own contract, how much money they could get for the broadcasting rights.
I think the Pac-10 is very wary of inviting those teams because of academic standards and/or small media markets.
Missouri & Nebraska going to the Big 10 would be a great fit.
Do you really use the term “academic standards” with Oklahoma in the same thread?
Shouldn’t Iowa State be in the Big 10 along with Iowa?
Iowa State (is that a 4 year program ?) might well consider the Missouri Valley...
Why would we want to move to a lesser conference with a inferior school like Iowa?
I guess on the other side playing in a weaker conference would give us more wins.
(sorry for Big 10 bashing; that normally belongs on a sports message board!! It's just too tempting!)
On a serious note; I am concerned as a Iowa State alum. We could be in a bad place with some of these scenarios being proposed.
Well it certainly would make the Big Ten Wrestling tournament more interesting.
Basically Iowa State is being kicked to the curb. Hope you like playing games against Rice and SMU.
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