What’s the point of making the SEC into a magaconference with 3 times as many teams as it started out with? Is there really a benefit into dividing all the major college football teams into 3 giant conferences?
Why does college football have to change for people who don’t like college football. If you need a playoff and hate bowl games, you probably don’t like college football. It’s bad enough Roger Goodell is trying to ruin the NFL. Now they are trying to ruin college football.
The SEC would most certainly not take FSU and Clemson. They would take UNC and maybe either UVa or VaTech. However, VaTch and UVa may be joined at the hip by the state legislature there.
The purpose of college is to educate promising young intellects, not to prepare functional illiterates for multimillion dollar paydays for their gladiatorial efforts ... oh wait, I am distracting you all from the incredibly effective efforts of the Investment Bank Party (ie REPUBLICRATS) to distract you from the outright gutting of what it took 200 years for this country to build ... sincerest apologies
Duke is liking their chances to win an ACC football title more and more
Conference realignment is being driven by the TV market.
The old College football model, 8 regular season games, and possibly a bowl game, was perfect for weekenders. Four times a year, you’d drive to the game, even if some distance. Then, when your team was invited to a bowl, you’d travel to it, after Chirstmas.
This model has been changed big time. College teams now play 12 regular season games, sometimes there are conference championship games, and just about every bowl-eligible team is in some kind of bowl.
I, for one, like the 8-team playoff idea, and I think it could be worked into the current bowl set-up (with the elimination of conference championships).
As for mega-conferences: the continuing evolution of the college game will never stop. Allowing the well-established conferences to incrementally change, by adding members, is good. The Big East, Mountain West and C-USA serve a useful purpose in being stepping stone conferences.
The ACC is stronger in football than the Big East, and now with the switch of Syracuse and Pittsburgh, it’s also stronger in basketball. But, it isn’t the Southeast Conference.
Nor does the ACC have the markets that would make it attractive to TV networks.
In a strange way, the Big East, by being forced to go nationwide, is well-positioned for TV (assuming the conference could field a credible product). The Big East is represented by full members in Florida and Texas, and by football-only members in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast regions.
The very idea of “football-only members” is terrific. It allows a conference to have a discernible footprint, for basketball, the Olympic sports, and so forth, and at the same time assemble markets attractive to a network.
Plus, by poaching the Mountain West and C-USA of their better teams, the Big East keeps itself as the best of the stepping stone conferences. But, I’ll just tell you, it has been like walking on ice.
Besides what I’ve said above, in this football-dominated world, the ACC and the Big East, which have been the best basketball conferences for the past several decades, are a bit left out.
This article is four days old and its source for ALL of its information is a WVU guy who supposedly knows another WVU guy who supposedly has ties to the OSU president who supposedly gets ALL of this information from who the heck knows where.
Rumors abound. Folks from WVU, the Big Whatever and the BiG(Sic) certainly want to destabilize the ACC. The ACC with member schools up and down the east coast certainly does have potential to put together a big media deal so I'm not sure how the article can claim that the ACC doesn't have any markets.
Anyway a Grant of Rights would have to be signed off by all of the schools. We will see what happens this week.
The ACC could become something pretty big, or it may disappear. And if the ACC does become something big, it's WVU that will be hurt the most by this. And that's where the unnamed source of all of the info in this article comes from.