(10-23-2017 03:45 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  

(10-23-2017 10:49 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-23-2017 08:59 AM)BePcr07 Wrote:  

(10-22-2017 08:28 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  If we're breaking GORs then maybe this...

SEC takes Florida State, Miami, Georgia Tech, Clemson, NC State, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, and TCU (24)

PAC takes Texas, Texas Tech, Houston, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas State, and Iowa State (20)

B1G takes Notre Dame, Syracuse, Boston College, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke (20)

Who else do you have for the SEC? Those schools only make it 23. Were you thinking Louisville or Cincinnati or Wake Forest or U_F?

Nobody is moving to 24. The scheduling complications get too severe. And the play between conferences, that the networks like, is too limited. I think 20 will be considered to be very very large.

This year more than any in the past we have a dearth of top quality teams. Mediocrity of play has hurt the NFL in recent years and its starting to impact the college game as well. What we need are fewer top tier schools to split fewer top tier players, not more. I question the long term viability of the numbers in Division II & III. I think the football pipeline is going to shrink from the bottom tiers up. But then demographics tell us higher education as a whole is going to shrink.

So the clustering in the G5 and P5 ranks are the moves of those seeking to survive both the coming consolidation in higher education as well as constriction of the talent drain in football.

I think 60 is more likely than any number over 64. Now I've played around with 72 and even looked at 80, but when you crunch the numbers on revenue there truly is significant drop off between 60 and the next 5 and again after 73. But then there is also a significant break in the 20's and again in the 40's. But you really can't have schools making 190 million competing fairly with those who are making less than 40.

Well, it depends on how many the PAC is willing to take. If they're willing to take 8 Big 12 schools and break that GOR then the B1G and SEC are free to divide up the ACC and no one has to go beyond 20.

SEC takes Florida State, Georgia Tech, Clemson, NC State, Virginia Tech, and Pittsburgh

B1G takes Notre Dame, Syracuse, Boston College, Virginia, North Carolina, and Duke

PAC takes Texas, Texas Tech, TCU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas State, and Iowa State


Then you could do something like this with the American...

North: UMass, UConn, Temple, West Virginia, Louisville, Cincinnati

East: Old Dominion, Wake Forest, East Carolina, UCF, USF, Miami

South: Houston, SMU, Baylor, Tulsa, Memphis, Tulane

West: San Diego State, UNLV, BYU, Boise State, Colorado State, New Mexico

Army, Navy, and Air Force could be affiliate members so they can maintain P5 rivalries, engage in a more national schedule for recruiting purposes, and not have to worry about having their dates limited by a conference schedule.