BePcr07
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RE: The Twitterati speaketh
(02-15-2018 12:00 PM)JRsec Wrote: (02-15-2018 11:03 AM)BePcr07 Wrote: (02-15-2018 10:45 AM)JRsec Wrote: I wasn't making a business statement here Vandiver, but the interest has been there, it's just that those two are tied down by more strings than a GOR. I was making a personal statement. I would like for the SEC to be Southeastern. There's too much dilution of passion, tradition, and the family feel of the conference when we continue to push the boundaries outward.
The bolded part above is my single largest personal issue with realignment. I cringe that Missouri is in the SEC, that Rutgers and Maryland are in the B1G, that Colorado is in the PAC, that West Virginia is in the XII, etc.
I would love to see literal regional conferences no matter the size. The PAC staying "West Coast" (not just West), the B1G staying Great Lakes and Midwest, the SEC being Southeast, the ACC being both Atlantic and Coastal, a power Northeast conference, the Southwest Conference returning, and whatever else along those lines.
The problem is that until the business end earns more, or at least spends way less to stay regional then we will keep pushing things outward. It is unnatural. But it is a matter of Network priorities trumping Conference ones. You could argue that in some cases conferences should fail and in other cases they should have been preserved. Nobody is competing with the PAC for the West Coast so their boundary is natural. The Southwest is a much different animal and probably should have been preserved along with Colorado and the Kansas and Oklahoma schools and probably inclusive of the two Utah schools But the Big 8 and ACC might best have been divided between the Big East and the SEC and SWC and the Big 10. What if there were 5 conferences but they looked like this:
PAC:
Arizona, Arizona State, California, Cal Los Angeles, Southern Cal
Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State
SWC:
Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Christian, Texas Tech
Air Force, Brigham Young, Colorado, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Utah
Big 10:
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue
Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin
Big East:
Army, Boston College, Connecticut, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse
Cincinnati, Louisville, Maryland, Navy, Penn State, Temple, West Virginia
SEC:
Clemson, Duke, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, North Carolina, N.C. State, Virginia, Virginia Tech
Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, Kentucky, L.S.U., Miami, Mississippi, Miss State, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
That's 5 conferences, not necessarily of equal size, but very regional in nature and more naturally divided.
I like that a lot better than what we have today.
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