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Message: [QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4349846, member: 4173"] It’s an interesting exercise to take the list of schools on this link, which are basically the top revenue producing schools and combine them into one new league. This would be the alternative to combining a couple of existing leagues like the much discussed potential merger of the Pac12 and the Big12. Merging leagues perpetuates the problem of having big revenue producers watch their $$$ produced go to league members who generate less revenue. Combining the top 16 teams on this list into a new league conveniently breaks down into sensible East-West divisions. Here’s what these 8-team divisions would look like with their ranking on the total list as linked: EAST 3 - Notre Dame 19 - Florida State 22 - North Carolina 25 - Miami 30 - North Carolina State 32 - Virginia 35 - VA Tech 46 - Pitt WEST 15 - Washington 17 - Stanford 22 - Oregon 25 - Oklahoma State 30 - Arizona State 35 - Utah 37 - TCU 40 - BYU This might allow for the formation of a 4th league, more focused on maximizing basketball revenues even more so than football revenues: 44 - Baylor 48 - West Virginia 50 - Duke 51 - Texas Tech 54 - Georgia Tech 55 - Louisville 60 - Syracuse 66 - Cincinnati 68 - Kansas 69 - Houston ?? - UConn I did not include anyone on the basketball-centric list who has not been to at least one Final Four in the past 30 years nor did I include anyone west of the Rockies for the travel problems it presents. An 11-member league allows for a full round-robin schedule. If there were an interest in expanding the league even further, there are others on the list which I did not include, starting with #30 Arizona and #44 Wake Forest. [/QUOTE]

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