CL82
NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champions - Again!
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This makes me feel like the dismantling of the ACC will be like the NBA draft. Picture Emmert getting up in front of a room of rowdies and getting booed as he announces: "The Big 10 has the next pick and chooses...Virginia. Big 12 you are on the clock." I suspect that there is a lot of due diligence by the B1g, the SEC and the Big 12 to decide which are the tastiest morsels left to pick from the carcass under various scenarios.My opinion: Big12 does not move until the big10 strikes again. Bowlsby indicated they need to be prepared if "something were to happen." I think that means the B1G has to further destabilize the ACC before the Big 12 would be able to engage. As a result the big12 is doing two key pieces of due dilligence. They are assessing the most valuable schools and they are testing the rigidity of the championship game rule.
For me the equation = If The B1G takes 2 and if we cannot get a championship game at 10 and if adding schools can be proven profitable than we will expand.
I'm also particularly intrigued by the concept of the size of the conference and its ability to create a pathway to the NC game. Anyone have further insights on the impact of conference size on this process?