If you subscribe to the 2 league theory, I would suggest that an intermediate move to 4 would be likely.
Perhaps the idea of grabbing more has clouded our perception, and since we find the SEC, B1G and ACC already at 14........consider that number to be the stopping point.
The logical conclusion might be to create another 14 team league out of the 22 teams that comprise the Big 12 and the PAC.
If you are going to start culling the herd, you don't want it to look like a massacre......it's not good for business.
Why would the "networks" finance such a move? They (the networks) aren't stupid and "divide and conquer" has worked since Julius Caesar.

Washington, Oregon, Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah
Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State

If one can't fit a square peg in a round hole, perhaps the most expedient solution is to round off the corners of the peg. Something to ponder.

(02-12-2020 06:12 AM)XLance Wrote:  If you subscribe to the 2 league theory, I would suggest that an intermediate move to 4 would be likely.
Perhaps the idea of grabbing more has clouded our perception, and since we find the SEC, B1G and ACC already at 14........consider that number to be the stopping point.
The logical conclusion might be to create another 14 team league out of the 22 teams that comprise the Big 12 and the PAC.
If you are going to start culling the herd, you don't want it to look like a massacre......it's not good for business.
Why would the "networks" finance such a move? They (the networks) aren't stupid and "divide and conquer" has worked since Julius Caesar.

Washington, Oregon, Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah
Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State

If one can't fit a square peg in a round hole, perhaps the most expedient solution is to round off the corners of the peg. Something to ponder.

That's why I pointed out that the likeliest outcome is for the SEC and Big 10 to raid the Big 12 in their self interest and for the formation of two leagues based on revenue production is the much more likely than a group of presidents waking up and organizing a league to keep peer institutions of historic relationships together.

But I covered this 8 years ago when said this was a hostile takeover that would experience product placement. And nothing has changed that trajectory and the dangled carrot of revenue still has the COLA hungry administrations of these so called academic institutions drooling for the chance to take the bait.

Still the picture is humorous. The academic brain trust committing he same mistakes over and over again while the businessmen get what they want with the same trick every time. The truth is X that our alma maters established themselves as whores for cash a long time ago and when you give your body over to greed or passion you quit thinking.