Maryland Lawsuit

[TouchdownHusky]

This would make for a real good Court Order: Give a panel of average college football fans (no connections with ESPN or any other network), give them one 8 hour block of time in a closed setting, and mandate that they come up with 8 ten team conferences. That would necessitate a nine game round robin for conference members with each of their breathren, plus 3 OOC's of their choosing. The conference winner is the only team that participates in an end of season tournament (1v8, 2v7 and so forth).

Eight Power Conferences, 72 schools, geographically rationale, your regular season champion versus ours and no separate TV deals (Notre Dame forced into a conference. About time).

Conference Northeast: Penn State, Syracuse, Pitt, West Virginia, Boston College UConn, Rutgers, Maryland, Navy and Army.
Conference South Central: UNC, NC State, Wake, Duke, East Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Virginia and VT
Conference Southeast: Georgia, Florida, Miami, Central Florida, South Florida, Florida State, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vandy and ??
Conference Gulf Coast: Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss State, LSU, Texas, Texas A&M, Houston, Southern Miss and ??
Conference North Central: Michigan, Ohio State, Mich State, Purdue, Indiana, Cincinnati, Illinois, Northwestern, ND and Memphis
Conference Great Plains: Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa State, Tex Tech, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Kansas State ,Colorado and Air Force
Conference Southwest: Arizona, Arizona State Texas, Oklahoma, Baylor, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, BYU, SMU and TCU
Conference Pacific: USC, UCLA, Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Boise State,Utah, Cal and Stanford.

Couple of wildcard openings where I ran out of ideas (sure I left someone out). Not perfect but better than the current state of college football. Oh and ESPN gets one Northeast game (12 noon), one North Central game (3:30 pm) and one Pacific game (7:30 pm). ESPN 2 follows suit same conferences, same time slots. Other networks get other conferences at similar timeslots.

Keep it simple, keep it intelligent, keep it fair and keep television out of the decision making. Note to TV . . . these are the games available take your pick. Don't like what you see . . . there's always Australian Rule Football or Ship Shape.

 

[whaler11]

Television owns the NCAA not the other way around. But keep posting your Penthouse Forum fantasies - Slash conferences never get old.

 

[TerryD]

This would make for a real good Court Order: Give a panel of average college football fans (no connections with ESPN or any other network), give them one 8 hour block of time in a closed setting, and mandate that they come up with 8 ten team conferences. That would necessitate a nine game round robin for conference members with each of their breathren, plus 3 OOC's of their choosing. The conference winner is the only team that participates in an end of season tournament (1v8, 2v7 and so forth).

Eight Power Conferences, 72 schools, geographically rationale, your regular season champion versus ours and no separate TV deals (Notre Dame forced into a conference. About time).

Conference Northeast: Penn State, Syracuse, Pitt, West Virginia, Boston College UConn, Rutgers, Maryland, Navy and Army.
Conference South Central: UNC, NC State, Wake, Duke, East Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Virginia and VT
Conference Southeast: Georgia, Florida, Miami, Central Florida, South Florida, Florida State, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vandy and ??
Conference Gulf Coast: Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss State, LSU, Texas, Texas A&M, Houston, Southern Miss and ??
Conference North Central: Michigan, Ohio State, Mich State, Purdue, Indiana, Cincinnati, Illinois, Northwestern, ND and Memphis
Conference Great Plains: Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa State, Tex Tech, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Kansas State ,Colorado and Air Force
Conference Southwest: Arizona, Arizona State Texas, Oklahoma, Baylor, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, BYU, SMU and TCU
Conference Pacific: USC, UCLA, Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Boise State,Utah, Cal and Stanford.

Couple of wildcard openings where I ran out of ideas (sure I left someone out). Not perfect but better than the current state of college football. Oh and ESPN gets one Northeast game (12 noon), one North Central game (3:30 pm) and one Pacific game (7:30 pm). ESPN 2 follows suit same conferences, same time slots. Other networks get other conferences at similar timeslots.

Keep it simple, keep it intelligent, keep it fair and keep television out of the decision making. Note to TV . . . these are the games available take your pick. Don't like what you see . . . there's always Australian Rule Football or Ship Shape.

No thanks........

 

[specialisthusky]

BUMP!

credit to huskiesnyc in Key Tweets thread.

Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt17m
Maryland files a $157 million counterclaim vs. ACC. Alleges Wake Forest/Pittsburgh officials tried to recruit unnamed B1G schools to leave.

Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt15m
This counterclaim was filed in North Carolina, because the Maryland issues have been stayed until the N.C. court resolves matters there.

Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt12m
Alleges that b/c of "counsel and direction...received from ESPN," the ACC has tried to lure other schools "to extract more lucrative terms."

Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt9m
From the Maryland AG office: "We allege the ACC is confiscating NCAA monies that belong to Maryland when it has no right to do so."

Alex Prewitt ‏@alex_prewitt5m
Office of the Attorney General spokesman says "The Big Ten schools involved must remain confidential until trial or discovery." Darn.

 

[UConn Dan]

Sh...t about to get cray!

 

[huskypantz]

Has to be Penn State. Is there another possibility?