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Shatel: Could the future hold one conference structure for football, another for other sports?
"The future is a blank canvas. Here, let me grab my brush.
Let’s put Nebraska and Oklahoma in the same Big Ten West Division, the Ohio State-Michigan on the left coast of the Midwest football conglomerate.
Let’s throw Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk in the Big Ten, while we’re at it. Miss those trips to Lawrence, right?
How about Gonzaga joining the Big East? Yeah, the Zags are about as East Coast as, well, Omaha. Doesn’t matter.
Speaking of Creighton, I love what Athletic Director Bruce Rasmussen is doing with his imagination.
Call it the Rasmussen Plan. Call it brilliant, for a world without boundaries.
“Let’s have four 16-team regions for football,” Rasmussen said.
“You’ve got a Southeast region, Midwest, South and West. You have two eight-team divisions in each region. Have the networks bid on that 64-team setup, or the individual regions. The four regions have a playoff. It can be an eight-team playoff. All of the 64 teams share the money.”
What about basketball and the other sports?
“Now go back and have conference realignment, the way it was, before football money changed everything. Base the conferences on region, where your alums are, like missions, etc., for every sport.”"
"The future is a blank canvas. Here, let me grab my brush.
Let’s put Nebraska and Oklahoma in the same Big Ten West Division, the Ohio State-Michigan on the left coast of the Midwest football conglomerate.
Let’s throw Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk in the Big Ten, while we’re at it. Miss those trips to Lawrence, right?
How about Gonzaga joining the Big East? Yeah, the Zags are about as East Coast as, well, Omaha. Doesn’t matter.
Speaking of Creighton, I love what Athletic Director Bruce Rasmussen is doing with his imagination.
Call it the Rasmussen Plan. Call it brilliant, for a world without boundaries.
“Let’s have four 16-team regions for football,” Rasmussen said.
“You’ve got a Southeast region, Midwest, South and West. You have two eight-team divisions in each region. Have the networks bid on that 64-team setup, or the individual regions. The four regions have a playoff. It can be an eight-team playoff. All of the 64 teams share the money.”
What about basketball and the other sports?
“Now go back and have conference realignment, the way it was, before football money changed everything. Base the conferences on region, where your alums are, like missions, etc., for every sport.”"