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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4018542, member: 833"] There is always a price at which an acquisition makes sense. In certain industries, corporations need to grow or die. Virtually every aspect of school conferences rewards scale, but the conferences, other than the ACC and SEC, are all so slow to act. A 16 team Big 12 with 6 more schools that were 5 years into an upgrade to P5 would be a strong conference even if OU and Texas left. But adding a bunch of MWC and AAC schools now is too late. The programs have gone sideways or declined, and putting them in a league today with the Big 12 leftovers is just too late. This had to be done 5+ years ago. The Big 10 without tOSU, Michigan and PSU is no better off. The Pac 12 is dead league walking if it does not grow. It needs to lock up the west. The Big 10 and Pac 12 are focused on the wrong things. They need more members, and they need a broader footprint. The only question is how much they are the willing to pay, but honestly, in this environment, they can buy cheap. That might not be the case in 5 years. I stick by my theory that this round of realignment was triggered by the Alston Case. The NCAA and its members knew it was going to lose this case for years, and that ruling is an existential threat to the SEC. [/QUOTE]