(12-16-2017 05:45 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  2 Confederations of 4 Conferences Each of 10 Schools Each

Western Confederation
PAC: Washington, Washington St, Oregon, Oregon St, California, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona St
X: Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa St, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas St, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, Texas, Texas Tech
B1G: Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan St, Ohio St
MWC: San Diego St, UNLV, Boise St, Utah, Colorado St, New Mexico, Baylor, TCU, SMU, Tulsa

Eastern Confederation
SEC: LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi St, Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Florida
ACC: Florida St, Georgia Tech, Clemson, North Carolina, North Carolina St, Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia, Maryland, Penn St
Great 10: Texas A&M, Arkansas, Miami, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Boston College
Metro: Houston, Tulane, Memphis, Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida, Central Florida, East Carolina, Temple, Connecticut

I think the notion of whether we move toward 60 members in the upper tier (down 5) or to 72 (up 7) is a viable debate. Conference structure however is not a viable debate. The existing conferences could move to 16 or 18 or even 20. If it's the latter we shed 5 programs and round out at 60. If it is either 18 or 16 we will likely remain with 4 conferences.

Absolutely nothing will happen that requires radical and comprehensive movement. If leagues are formed they will be formed using existing conferences.

At this juncture nobody is going to risk the social rejection that massive shifts in alignments would cause. The networks, conferences and schools would be against it.

Trading around schools even in the simplest ways isn't even remotely likely.

The title of this thread is "If the SEC did expand again and did so from the Big 12 who should we take and why?". While it has deviated slightly from that in 136 pages of shifting speculation, that remains the OP. And when the speculation has shifted it has usually been with the speculation of where enough of the other schools might go for it to be able to happen sooner than the expiration of the GOR and while those reasons are now moot, they were germane at the time they were posted.

At times the thread has speculated about how both the Big 12 and possibly the ACC might be divided if we moved to 3 conferences of 20.

As of late due to the Network purchase speculation about how the PAC might be included has led to some larger speculation than the moves the SEC might make.

That's all okay. What I don't want the thread to become is one where every imaginable re-division of all of FBS football is created, which is frequently the case on the main board. Since this is the SEC board as long as the speculation involves the schools the SEC might "gain" it is allowable. What it is not is a thread about is how to redivide the SEC.