Realignment: The ACC enters the Suck Zone

I prefer my 72-team “Power 3” and 96-team “Group of 8” set up much more.

 

So Army and Air Force are being left out entirely? Ouch.

 

Now negotiate all the TV deals under one banner and do equal revenue sharing, direct pay to players, salary caps, etc. If we're going to NFL lite this thing, let's do it.

 

Best I’ve seen so far was your work

 

I kind of did some napkin math on it yesterday while I should have been working and there is no way to split to 8 team divisions without a few people getting butthurt. It’s DOA.

 

Why would the college football decision makers (B1G/SEC) sign off on anything that devalues their current system?

Anything that doesn't make them more money is fan fiction.

 

We must appease the fallout pussy like Texas Tech and Kansas State!

 

It’s always the T-shirt fans who bark the loudest

 

we're not including BC and ND and Navy "just cause", fuck off. BC to Mid-East, WVU comes to East (none of WVU, MD, UVA, and VT like each other at all) and Navy goes G5 where it belongs. ND gets to be a special snowflake forever, we're not magically granting them the ability to join a conference for the sake of symmetry.

 

Thanks for reading. I wear gameday polos

 

That sounds incredibly classy

 

Just looking at the Great Lakes/Midwest split tells me that this list was made by an Ohio State fan and therefore, I reject it.

 

Getting the NWA back together

 

And just like that comes the suggestion of unequal rev share in the sec and the b1g( from probably the most prominent current or recent ad in either conference)

 

Something along these lines has been inevitable for close to a decade now. Hell, this message board has been discussing a similar concept throughout that time period

 

breakaway for better TV inventory + 1 single TV deal was inevitable

but I dont see the need to give up an equity stake in the sport so a PE firm of maga lunatics can arrange it for you...just give some Mckinsey consultants an outrageous fee and then do it on your own.

 

"The model offers a variety of ways to determine how to tier schools: the previous season’s results, perhaps, or an aggregate of results over a stretch of seasons. The model also features a relegation and promotion system to pave a way for schools to move up and down the tiers. However, one proposed model suggests having eight “permanent” members of Tier 1, a move presumably to placate the biggest brands in the sport."

that would be some truly incredible content

 

Going to need a #bluebloods fan of @mods

 

and those 8 tier 1 programs would obviously be in the playoffs automatically

 

I presume the eight would be

nortre dame
Bama
Buck Tech
Georgia
Texas
Wolf’s
OU
USC

 

i think we lock in those top 6 then have open bidding on the last 2 just for fun

 

Oregon and A&M would spend a shitload to be at that table

 

let em all play each other twice

 

oh 100% that would be the end result. but there would be a lot of really hilarious attempts to get one of those slots, and not just from fsu.

 

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The easiest way is to go backwards one year at a time until you get 8 schools that have won National Championships recently. Whichever schools those are will be the Elite 8 and the other schools will need to get bootstraps.

 

8 permanent members?

Ohio State
Michigan
Notre Dame
USC
Alabama
Texas
Oklahoma
Georgia

???

 

It was 8 permanent tier 1 schools which get paid the most money by far.

I don’t see why USC would or should get one of those spots. But having permanent tier 1 is dumb anyway.

 

for those who didn't read the article, this particular proposal had 3 tiers. 16 in tier 1, 22 in 2, 32 in 3. promotion/relegation with 8 permanent in tier 1.

i've seen worse ideas.

 

The meltdown from Oklahoma being left out of permanent Tier 1 would be an all-timer.

 

Excellent plan. We need to get this wrapped up soon. Hopefully before the next 2 playoffs.

 

Pretty sure I'd have more fun watching UNC in The Championship

 

oh so now we aren't recognizing the ucf title?

 

Tough way to learn that coward HotMic has me on ignore

 

I imagine it’ll be LSU over one of OU/SC, no?

 

I understand it would take unequal revenue at first to get this thing going, permanent status for anyone is a terrible idea.

“Families are always rising and falling in America”

 

Feels like those two are more influential in decision making rooms even if lesser progrums

 

Heres how this unequal rev share is going go, sec schools are going start melting down in a few years because the b1g is making more money. Top sec schools are going to threaten to create a super league or join the b1g. Other sec schools will give in and unequal rev share will happen. Then a few years later the b1g deal comes up and the top b1g schools are going start saying why can’t we do what the sec is doing.

 

And by that time the tv model will be completely insolvent and espn and fox will say well shit we aren’t making money on this anymore yall should start a new network

 

It's pretty difficult to take anything Dellenger says or reports seriously. Feel like he's always saying the most extreme thing out of a number of possible options will happen. Plus, the unabashed LSU homerism (despite being a State grad) is just unbecoming for a national reporter. Like most people from coastal Mississippi, he wants so badly to be from Louisiana.

 

People can be annoyed by the permanent 8 but they’ll have to do it to get something like this off the ground. No chance those schools sign off on it otherwise.

 

Ten year running average of attendance, crootin rankings, and win % to determine the top 8. Who says no?