They’d have somewhere to go. The MWC or AAC. Or whatever the “PAC-12” looks like in that situation.
ASU
UT
SDSU
BSU
UNLV
cal
Stanford
New Mexico
Oregon St
Washington St
Something like that.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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They’d have somewhere to go. The MWC or AAC. Or whatever the “PAC-12” looks like in that situation.
ASU
UT
SDSU
BSU
UNLV
cal
Stanford
New Mexico
Oregon St
Washington St
Something like that.
20 teams (football)
Two divisions. A premier division and a second division.
Everyone in each division plays round robin.
Championship weekend has three games (Oh, think of the media frenzy)
One game with the top two in the premier division to get the auto bid to the playoffs.
One game with the bottom two in the premier division - loser moves down a division.
One game with the top two in the second division to move up.
Premier division has better money.
Finishing bottom two in second division for five years could lead to expulsion.
Did not know this:
"The Bacardi Bowl was also played in Havana, Cuba, periodically over the previous century."
I like this a lot. But I don't think you can have the money too different as you don't want to destroy the second division competition level.
No reason to segregate teams based on top/bottom teams. Sometimes elite teams come from nowhere. TCU wasn't predicted to be a top Big12 team last year. Even KSU overachieved. I would say the same for ISU Brock's junior year.
I realize people like to criticize pods/divisions because of Big10 West weakness. But the solution is easy with a 16-20 team conference: have a 4 team CCG playoff. More money and if a team like Iowa or Purdue can win 2 straight against the like of MSU, OSU, PSU or UM- they deserve to be conference champ.
Logistically, have the CCG playoff be the last week of the regular season. The teams that are not top 4 in the conference play a flex schedule.
Relegation is a terrible idea IMO. I hate the idea of classes within the field. We should move towards more even competition not segregating it.
This seems like a pretty good idea to me. It also would have some really interesting dynamics for some teams trying to make a bowl game in the middle to low end of the conference too.
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This would be creating more competition. It avoids the top team playing the bottom teams that end up in beat downs.
But again, just as long as the financial differences are minimal to avoid the lower tier falling behind.
Relegation will never happen because every team is getting an equal payout.
It makes no sense. Why would we want to go back to an uneven pay model. All it did was create insane problems before.
Most of the time it was a Cuban team against an American team. Only once was it two NCAA schools against each other.
In Europe it's relegation- continuation of their colonialism, caste systems and kings&queens.
In the the US it's realignment- capitalism at its best. The elite create their monopolies, buy up smaller successful competitors and banish the rest to mom & pop status.
Not sure realignment is any different than relegation if we end up with a Big 2.
No more honor.In Europe it's relegation- continuation of their colonialism, caste systems and kings&queens.
In the the US it's realignment- capitalism at its best. The elite create their monopolies, buy up smaller successful competitors and banish the rest to mom & pop status.
Not sure realignment is any different than relegation if we end up with a Big 2.
The Hoks have made a nice living avoiding playing top teams. It's truly incredible how easy their schedules are on a regular basis.
Not as amazing as all but about 6 SEC teams who schedule nothing but patsies in the non-con and can rely on the circle jerkfest of overrating teams, overrating the teams that beat those overrated teams, and massively overrating the strength of the conference. It truly is an unbelievable phenomenon.
Nothing like getting credit for beating a trainwreck like Tamu early in the season but hey, they recruited well, right?
