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[Vowelguy]

It would be hard for us to miss the 64 team cut. It would also be nice to make that an impossibility by getting serious about football.

Hard? Fairly easy I'd say.
The acc SEC big PAC have 55 schools. Would be easy for big 12 except Iowa st to get the 9 spots.
Or Notre dame. Or Houston. Or UCF usf.
Or given that PAC has most room, some MTN schools like Nevada or Col St.

UConn is not dead, but road ahead most definitely will be hard.

 

[shizzle787]

Hard? Fairly easy I'd say.
The acc SEC big PAC have 55 schools. Would be easy for big 12 except Iowa st to get the 9 spots.
Or Notre dame. Or Houston. Or UCF usf.
Or given that PAC has most room, some MTN schools like Nevada or Col St.

UConn is not dead, but road ahead most definitely will be hard.

Baylor won't sniff a power conference, and TCU probably wouldn't have a home either.

 

[Hoophound]

When there is basically a redo, which a 64 school cartel would sort of constitute, UConn would be safe. There are many schools that conferences would be happy to kick out in favor of us. The Big 12 Schools would not be safe.

 

[crewbear742]

One thing is for sure. The power conferences won't expand just because people want the symmetry of 16*4 = 64. They would each need a financial incentive to expand. Adding teams just to get to 16 doesn't necessarily bring in more money.

There are only a few foreseeable near-term events that could cause another round of expansion. The most likely event is the disintegration of the Big 12, in which case the remaining four conferences would fight over who gets the valuable properties. I think it most likely in such a circumstance that the number of teams in the Power conferences would decrease by 6. There will be no effort by those four conferences to make sure everyone in the Big 12 has a new Power Conference Home.

Of course, as cable networks disintegrate, and ESPN gets ground up under the weight of its overpriced contracts (Quick! Shed a tear! ... Well, somebody has to weep for ESPN) who knows what will happen eight years from now. But it will still be about money. The conferences will only expand if it makes them more money. They won't expand for any other reason, and certainly not just to fulfill some arbitrary desire for 16-team conferences.