(02-15-2014 09:17 AM)10thMountain Wrote:  Exactly XL

Will be huge if that passes

15 would be an interesting number. 3 pods of 5, 3 winners plus one wild card in your tournament. It opens all sorts of interesting possibilities.

It certainly makes it easier to parse those teams out. It would be interesting to look at at the possibilities then. BTW, I agree that if the Big 10 and PAC took the top schools of the Big 12 the ACC and SEC would have no motivation to work with the rest, but the issue remains that Texas and Kansas are two thirds of the top schools and both are under obligation to ESPN for a 15 million and 7 million a year respectively and the Texas obligation runs until the end of June 2031 so I don't think the likelihood of the PAC and Big 10 taking them is very strong at all. And, FWIW the buyouts on West Virgnia and Oklahoma's T3 rights wouldn't be that difficult to do. So we'll see.