RE: If a new division only had 48 schools ....
I don't care much for the decisions that have to be made in order to keep 4 conferences in which two remain competitively weaker than the other two. I would rather divide the 48 this way.
Big 10:
California, Cal Los Angeles, Oregon, Southern Cal, Stanford, Washington
Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Northwestern
Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Purdue, Wisconsin
Maryland, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Penn State, Rutgers, Syracuse
SEC:
Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech
Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, South Carolina
Alabama, Auburn, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas A&M
Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech
but with 8 more you can do things a bit differently
Big 10:
Arizona, California, Cal Los Angeles, Oregon, Southern Cal, Stanford, Washington
Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern
Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue, Syracuse, Wisconsin
Boston College, Connecticut, Maryland, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers
SEC:
Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, N.C.State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech
Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, South Carolina
Alabama, Baylor, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Arkansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech
The casualties now by revenue, goegraphy and academics are: Arizona State, Oregon State, Washington State, Utah from the PAC. Wake Forest, Miami, Louisville from the ACC. T.C.U. , Iowa State and West Virginia from Big 12.
So the issue becomes this:
Doable: 12/15 from the ACC is enough to dissolve a GOR and the Conference.
Doable: 7/10 from the Big 12 is not enough to dissolve a GOR and the Conference.
Problem: While 8/12 is enough to dissolve the PAC three of the 4 schools left behind are little brothers.
This unfortunately is why we need a 64 team model now. And if you are going to have that then 4 conferences of 16 make some sense. The only way to accomplish this with fewer is to have 3 conferences of 20 in which the PAC takes 8 Big 12 programs (enough to dissolve the GOR and Big 12) and for the Big 10 and SEC to take 6 each of the ACC schools (enough to dissolve the GOR and ACC). Then you could cut the number of teams in an upper tier to 60. Fewer than that is not legally practical at this time. It could be in about a decade and a half.
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2014 04:01 PM by JRsec.)
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