The PAC-12 died about 18 months ago

[bobbyinaz]

Interesting concept. To take it a bit further, what would happen if the P5 schools withdraw all sports from the NCAA and form their own organization? Right now, with a few exceptions, you can put money on a P5 school winning that NC in most sports. What do you think?

Including Notre Dame there are only 65 P5 schools.

Unless they plan on having a hoops tournament with everyone but Rutgers there's no way they can do it without including more conferences.

I've already said that they will come for the hoops money and that likely means either creating another division within the NCAA or breaking away. I just think that they will have to bring more conferences/schools with them.

 

[Rufus]

Big East is a power conference for basketball. That would take it up to 75 P6 basketball schools.

 

[CL82]

Big East is a power conference for basketball. That would take it up to 75 P6 basketball schools.

The American brings it to 87, 88 if you include Navy. Add BYU, and Boise St. and you are at 90. (I assume ND was already in the original count.)

 

[dogged1]

You know what will be funny, the NCAA will probably fund the lawsuit that brought by the left behinds in a desperate attempt to keep it together. First time big money flows to a low level school.

It would almost be worth it to watch Emmert's empire crumble around him.

 

[Zissou]

It makes more sense to separate football into its own structure separate from the existing conferences.

I like 16 football conferences of 7 teams each. Always play every team in conference, and rotate on a 4 year schedule to play a different conference each year. This maintains the rivalries that are established, makes the regular season more regional, and eliminates the clumsy conference title games.

12 teams make the playoffs: The 8 winners of the regular season conference match-ups plus 4 at large. The 4 top seeded regular season winners get byes. The 4 lower seeded regular season winners get a home field first round game, hosting the 4 at large entries. The second round gets played as Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls every year with the higher seeds getting their closest venue. Semis get played in Atlanta and Vegas. The Championship game moves around like the Super Bowl.

 

[Zissou]

It makes more sense to separate football into its own structure separate from the existing conferences.

I like 16 football conferences of 7 teams each. Always play every team in conference, and rotate on a 4 year schedule to play a different conference each year. This maintains the rivalries that are established, makes the regular season more regional, and eliminates the clumsy conference title games.

12 teams make the playoffs: The 8 winners of the regular season conference match-ups plus 4 at large. The 4 top seeded regular season winners get byes. The 4 lower seeded regular season winners get a home field first round game, hosting the 4 at large entries. The second round gets played as Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls every year with the higher seeds getting their closest venue. Semis get played in Atlanta and Vegas. The Championship game moves around like the Super Bowl.

For a TV deal, that's 11 games in a single elimination format instead of 3.

Teams that don't make the play-offs can still go to meaningless exhibition bowl games that are poorly attended but made for TV content.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[whaler11]

Some good and some bad in their numbers. The network was actually a little better but Scott is a lunatic and the grift is impressive.

 

[WestHartHusk]

I sure wish UConns death paid $31m/yr.