SportsAndLady;861372 wrote:By the way..what's the difference in people bringing up missou and the St Louis market and people bringing up Rutgers and the NY market? I mean St Louis doesn't scream college city, and Missouri hasn't had much more success than Rutgers has

lhslep134;861663 wrote:I can't see ND joining a conference unless they get a sweeter TV deal than their current NBC one

lhslep134;861667 wrote:NY TV market with Big 10 network becomes very valuable.

karen lotz;861671 wrote:I guess NBC/Comcast is going to air a few ND games on Versus before changing that channel over to the NBC Sports Channel or something of that sorts. Probably just a couple of lower tier games to build a demand of that channel before the expand it further. If that channel takes off, Notre Dame will probably use that as part of their "Notre Dame Network" which will also include a lot of online content. Could be very profitable for both ND and NBC with the contract set to expire in 2015 IIRC.

Tobias Fünke;861672 wrote:Notre Dame has told the Big Ten that they would join if Texas did.

Personally I hate the idea of superconferences. I think it will hurt the game big time.

sleeper;861688 wrote:So basically the entire season minus Stanford?

karen lotz;861677 wrote:I think Notre Dame would be a bigger draw in the NY market that either Rutgers or Syracuse.

Little Danny;861691 wrote:I agree with this sentiment. One thing's for certain, it is going to be very rare for a team going undefeated with superconferences. We could see two 9-4 teams playing in the national championship game.

lhslep134;861703 wrote:Absolutely. But getting ND, imo, seems a lot harder than getting Rutgers.

dazedconfused;861730 wrote:florida st and clemson really do nothing for the sec. if i were them, i'd go after maryland and west virginia to fill the eastern void. gives the conference in-roads into the dc and western pa recruiting hotbeds.

pac 12 should definitely go after the two oklahoma schools, one of texas tech/baylor, and a fourth team (either convince texas or go get a boise or byu) and create an eastern division with the arizona schools as well as colorado and utah

i think the big 10's "dream" 4 additions would be missouri, nd, syracuse and rutgers but that might catch a snag if mizzou bolts to the sec before the big 10 can snatch them up

Little Danny;861741 wrote:P12 would never take Baylor, BYU or Boise. A major reason teams form a conference is that the member conference have similar cultures, missions and academics. BYU and Baylor are religious schools. They would never fit in with the cultures of Stanford, Cal, Oregon and the others on the Left Coast. As for Boise State, they've made nice strides as a football program, but they are not a far cry from a JUCO as far as academics go. Say what you want about the P12 but their academics are top notch, they'd never let BSU in.

Little Danny;861691 wrote:I agree with this sentiment. One thing's for certain, it is going to be very rare for a team going undefeated with superconferences. We could see two 9-4 teams playing in the national championship game.

Tobias Fünke;861672 wrote:Notre Dame has told the Big Ten that they would join if Texas did.

Personally I hate the idea of superconferences. I think it will hurt the game big time.

Tobias Fünke;861769 wrote:So what. You completely destroy the regular season in the process. No good OOC regular season match ups. The schedules become the same year after year. When it's only 48 teams, the university presidents will destroy the system because it's minority now with 48/~120.

the_system;861762 wrote:I like it just because I think setting up four (16 team superconferences) is necessary to get everyone on the same idea of playoffs.

the_system;861762 wrote:I like it just because I think setting up four (16 team superconferences) is necessary to get everyone on the same idea of playoffs.

dazedconfused;861792 wrote:on one hand, i really like the thought of the 4 superconference theory for playoff purposes. on the other hand, i'm really not digging the one "superconference" - aka the one not named sec, big 10 or pac 12(16).

for hypothetical purposes, let's say a&m, missouri, maryland and west virginia form the 16 team sec. the big ten follows up by notching nd, rutgers, syracuse and pitt. the pac 12 then nets oklahoma, texas, oklahoma st and texas tech. so now we have three 16 team superconferences and whole lot of uncertainty about the other conference. basically you have 11 members of the acc, about four members of the big east and big 12 as well as byu and boise fighting for 16 spots in that fourth conference. just doesn't really do anything for me