(06-16-2016 06:37 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  The SBC is fine at 10 FB schools to meet the 10 million base payout by the CFP. All bonus pool money is split 10 ways.

It's CUSA that has the problem at 14 schools and USM forced into playing out West because of geography.

What might make some sense however is if MTSU, WKU, Marshall, ODU, Charlotte, FAU, FIU split from CUSA and added UMass to its membership.

I: UMass, ODU, Charlotte, FIU
II: MTSU, WKU, Marshall, FAU

8 schools for 8 million. 8 schools splitting the NCAA autobids 8 ways. It might be attractive enough arrangement to attract UMass to go all in.

Then the other half of CUSA adds USA, ULL and AState

I: UTEP, UTSA, Rice, UNT, LaTech
II: AState, ULL, USM, UAB, USA

Finally the SBC adds New Mexico St to get back to 8

I: NMSU, TXST, ULM, Troy
II: GSU, GaSouthern, Coastal, ASU

This way everyone gets a better cut of CFP money, better access to an NCAA bid and improved geography. Between CUSA/SBC and UMass/NMSU you've got 26 schools enough for 3 conferences.

I know these are all for 'fun' and hypothetical, but that won't work.
1. You won't get each new conference to be approved for autobids. At the minimum they would have to start over and miss out for a few years and hope for at large bids for everything.

2. They would have to renegotiate every deal. TV, Bowls, sponsors, etc...

3. No way are the P5's going to agree to add another conference to the money split. They would just tell you to piss off. And since these are new conferences they are likely going to lose their status in the CFP. It would likely result in the P5 pulling more money out of the payouts and screwing the now G6 schools even more.

4. Those conferences are way too small and would lead to even more move ups from FCS because of the risk of losing potential members. These are also going to force schools to find another OOC games (some may like that idea) Because you'd be playing only 7 conference games. And the Sun belt and others would increase travel costs, so you would lose money.

Why should SBC teams part to form these 3 crappy conferences. Dumb idea is dumb.