(02-03-2014 10:51 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(02-03-2014 09:46 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(02-03-2014 12:22 AM)JRsec Wrote:  The only really reasonable solution to realignment will never happen. It would be for the 4 California schools, Colorado, and Washington to move to the Big 10. That would free the rest to add enough Western schools plus part of the Big 12 to form a 20 team Western conference. But, apparently the PAC will remain schyzophrenic with half of them being typical Western schools trying to meet the needs of their states and the other half although very strong academically pretending to be as exclusionary as the Ivy League.

While this is an amazing and out of the box solution, the PAC is worthless w/o the California schools.

You didn't read enough of earlier exchanges (Last Post Page 40). The New PAC would be something like this:
North: Boise State, Fresno State, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State
West: Arizona, Arizona State, Nevada, San Diego State, Hawaii
South: Brigham Young, New Mexico, Texas Tech, Utah, Wyoming
East: Baylor, Colorado State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, T.C.U.

Without the academic snobbery the West opens up to other possibilities.

Then the Eastern schools could consolidate a bit further with Iowa State, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Add Connecticut, Cincinnati, South or Central Florida, Temple, Tulane, Rice and perhaps East Carolina and you would have enough for the SEC and ACC to expand out of as the Big 10 would be done at 20. That is the only way to a 4 x 20 model that would make some sense. It's still not my favorite solution but it sure opens up many more potentialities.

A question for the SEC guys. Sorry if it was discussed earlier, but it is a pretty long thread so I read the most recent 5 pages or so. Would the SEC consider being the first conference to 20 schools? The B1G has talked openly about 16 not being a barrier and that 20 might be their endgame. The SEC seems more close lipped. Most talk I hear about the SEC always centers on adding 2 more schools and stopping; whereas, I see a lot of speculation about the B1G at 20. Seems to me if your rival wants to try to grab all the best properties you would want to beat them to the punch. The PAC almost pulled this off in 2010 by being the first to 16, but failed. Would the SEC go to 20 if they had a shot at the trio of UT, OU, and KU (maybe WVU as well) and say another 2-3 schools from the ACC? Or is 16 the stopping point unless someone else goes beyond it first?