During the latest B12 snub, it was interesting to learn more about Yormark’s push to close the gap with the B10 and SEC with elite basketball. With the ACC potentially crumbling, why not have the BE reform as a power conference and raid the ACC? I think an improved version of the old BE would be more valuable than the current B12.
Let’s say the B10, B12, and SEC expand to 20 teams each in the next round of realignment (obviously a complete guess): that leaves about 8 seats in the P3 (after FSU and Clemson leave) for the remaining 15 ACC teams. The leverage the BE has now is that we are a better basketball conference than the ACC. Why not get the BE to pouch 9 of the 15 ACC teams left to form a 20-team hoops conference and a 10-team football conference. We could look at adding Army and Navy for football to add some value with regard to rivalries. We could have the best basketball conference in the country (beat the B12 at its own game), and have comperable to better football than the old BE.
Imagine Duke and Carolina in the BE, some of our old BE brethren back (and hopefully revitalized), but also with schools like Marquette and Creighton that were not here in the old BE. Imagine THAT conference at MSG. Imagine 14 schools making the NCAA tourney. With about half of hoops championships over the last 25 years, the BE would be the new conference of champions.
Let’s stop begging, and talk to the BE about this. Here are hypothetical new BE members:
Duke
North Carolina
Pitt
Syracuse
Louisville (if they don’t jump to the B12)
Virginia
NC State
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
***We won’t let BC in, but will let them beg.
I know this is crazy, but this basketball conference would OWN recruiting east of the Mississippi. Recruits would pick MSG in March and much less travel to the coast-to-coast travel of the other power conferences.
If the current B12 deal is $31 million per year, I have to think the reformed BE conference could get at least that with Fox already invested. No, we would not get B10/SEC money, but we could certainly shove the B12 aside as the new third best conference.
I am sick and tired, like everyone on this board, with mediocre schools telling us we don’t add value. Let’s form the only power conference that still has rivalries, and also has less than 2,000 miles of travel for golf. Let’s take back the BE, but make it better! In the new world of realignment, I think the hoops-only schools could get on board with keeping us, and forming such an elite basketball conference. With the uncertainty of who will get the remaining seats at the P3 if the ACC crumbles, I think this could be a win for ACC schools as well.
Let’s say the B10, B12, and SEC expand to 20 teams each in the next round of realignment (obviously a complete guess): that leaves about 8 seats in the P3 (after FSU and Clemson leave) for the remaining 15 ACC teams. The leverage the BE has now is that we are a better basketball conference than the ACC. Why not get the BE to pouch 9 of the 15 ACC teams left to form a 20-team hoops conference and a 10-team football conference. We could look at adding Army and Navy for football to add some value with regard to rivalries. We could have the best basketball conference in the country (beat the B12 at its own game), and have comperable to better football than the old BE.
Imagine Duke and Carolina in the BE, some of our old BE brethren back (and hopefully revitalized), but also with schools like Marquette and Creighton that were not here in the old BE. Imagine THAT conference at MSG. Imagine 14 schools making the NCAA tourney. With about half of hoops championships over the last 25 years, the BE would be the new conference of champions.
Let’s stop begging, and talk to the BE about this. Here are hypothetical new BE members:
Duke
North Carolina
Pitt
Syracuse
Louisville (if they don’t jump to the B12)
Virginia
NC State
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest
***We won’t let BC in, but will let them beg.
I know this is crazy, but this basketball conference would OWN recruiting east of the Mississippi. Recruits would pick MSG in March and much less travel to the coast-to-coast travel of the other power conferences.
If the current B12 deal is $31 million per year, I have to think the reformed BE conference could get at least that with Fox already invested. No, we would not get B10/SEC money, but we could certainly shove the B12 aside as the new third best conference.
I am sick and tired, like everyone on this board, with mediocre schools telling us we don’t add value. Let’s form the only power conference that still has rivalries, and also has less than 2,000 miles of travel for golf. Let’s take back the BE, but make it better! In the new world of realignment, I think the hoops-only schools could get on board with keeping us, and forming such an elite basketball conference. With the uncertainty of who will get the remaining seats at the P3 if the ACC crumbles, I think this could be a win for ACC schools as well.