Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC

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The big ten is supposedly talking to the PAC also. If those three hooked together and refused playing them in non con and worked new bowl alliances to avoid SEC, they could possibly put some leverage on them. Get the ACC to join in and you can throw the SEC on an island although I don’t think ESPN would allow that.

I like this line of thought overall. I hope the landscape sees ESPN's moves here and conferences shy away from them in the future.

Regarding the bold, since the ACC media rights are owned by ESPN, I don't think they'd be able to do it.
 
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The big ten is supposedly talking to the PAC also. If those three hooked together and refused playing them in non con and worked new bowl alliances to avoid SEC, they could possibly put some leverage on them. Get the ACC to join in and you can throw the SEC on an island although I don’t think ESPN would allow that.
Unfortunately the ACC will listen to ESPN and would schedule the sec.
 

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I've long said an alliance, not a merger, but an alliance in football and mbb only coupled with bringing the Pac12 Network east to the plains makes so much sense for both conferences.
I couldn't disagree more. The best case scenario for any of the angry 8 would be a full membership merger. An alliance feels way too short term.
 

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I like this line of thought overall. I hope the landscape sees ESPN's moves here and conferences shy away from them in the future.

Regarding the bold, since the ACC media rights are owned by ESPN, I don't think they'd be able to do it.
I still think some if not all ACC schools are in the mix for whatever plan the SEC has for football. If ND is part of that then I wonder what Ohio State, Penn St, and Michigan want to do.
 

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So after years of lurking I decided to join.
Here’s what I’ve said for a few years that I wish would happen, and possibly will happen. 30 or so teams break away from the NCAA and form their own league. No requirement to go to school, can pay the players whatever. This gets the cheaters out of there and the fake title of “student athletes”. The rest of us can go back to a normal college football life. Conferences that make sense, etc. sure we might not have all the flashy buildings and pay our coaches more than NFL guys but at least it will still be college…
A lot missing from that. Do the 'amateurs' have a chance to go back to college on scholarship? Is the 'amateur' league allowed to poach players. Do those same universities have other athletic programs? Who governs the amateur league (eg salary cap, draft, etc)? Have you considered the impact on the athlete's high school education? Are they allowed to leave high school early? Are they required to pay for living expenses? Are other amateur league teams allowed to poach? Is there free agency? .... this is just scratching the surface.
 

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Big 12 and Pac-12 merger could be pretty cool if the leagues were willing to get creative.

Four 5-school pods that rotate pairings to form 10-school divisions. You play your full division each season; you'd play every school every 3 years (annually for those in your pod), and you'd host every school in the conference every 6 years (in your pod, every other year).

Pod A
Washington
Washington State
Oregon
Oregon State
Colorado

Pod B
Cal
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Utah

Pod C
Texas Tech
TCU
Baylor
Arizona
Arizona State

Pod D
West Virginia
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma State

And you pair the pods to form divisions. Year 1, Pods A/D are a division; year 2, pods A/C, year 3, pods A/B. CCG in Vegas at the Raiders stadium or in LA at the Rams/Chargers one.

20-game hoops schedule; play everyone once with one home-and-home; maybe every other year it's a rival (like KU vs. K-State) and then it rotates to try to be a splashy money game, like a KU vs. UCLA home and home.

Sign a big fat GOR to keep the Big Ten away. I'm sure WVU would want to triple check that the ACC isn't interested before signing on to the GOR.
 
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