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Big 5 conference money disparity could lead to a shake up with the Big 12

Just listened to a long Jackie Sherrill interview on College Sirius with Jack Arute. Jackie thinks a soon to be realignment is coming and a pulling away from the NCAA is do from the Power 5 into what he thinks & hears will be 4 power conferences of 16 or 20 total teams. They will pull away and form their own league and have their own tournaments and not have the NCAA involved in anything. They all have been agreeing that the NCAA is good for DII, DIII & NAIA stuff but no longer are they any good for the purposes of what conferences like the SEC, ACC, Big 10 & Pac-12 need. And the Big-12 is going to get swallowed up with possibly a few teams added to make the 20 each. [BYU, ND, Cincinnati, UConn are just a few that come to mind]
 
http://espn.go.com/college-football...rch-shows-expansion-necessary-boost-cfp-hopes

"Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said the analytics firm the league recently hired, Navigate Research, revealed that a 12-team league with an eight-game conference schedule and a championship game was the best model for putting a team in the CFP."

The Big 12 is the worst about deliberating and not making moves but now Bowlsby says they have it figured out--hopefully. This analytics firm supposedly came up with 40,000 scenarios according to what was said on College Sirius this morning and they said a 12 team conference with a championship game is what is best--DUH!
If they don't make a move soon he said, in 12 years they will be $20 million behind the top conferences--and that is not for the conference but Per Team payout.

Now all the speculation rests as to who to draft into their conference? Cincinnati seems like a best bet but who else? Houston with the Texas market. Temple with a hopeful new campus stadium and the Philly market. SMU, UCF, BYU--do they go to 14 or 16? Lots of options in preparing for the future mega-conferences and TV deals coming.
 
Tim Brando tweeted that his sources are saying an ACC Network will happen sooner than people think.
 
So a few months before when hell freezes over?
 
WakeForestRanger said:
Tim Brando tweeted that his sources are saying an ACC Network will happen sooner than people think.
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I hope this happens soon as Raycom on the WB and MyTV is really shitty. Small mid-major conferences like the Colonial and Southern Conferences have better quality broadcasts than the non-ESPN ACC games.
 
Brando says his info on the ACC Network is from Swofford. That seems significant. Definitely a change from Swofford's previous stance that the ACC was "studying" the issue.
 
Bring back Doc Walker! Cyborg! Tarantula! Werewolf! Tight ends!
 
WakeForestRanger said:
Brando says his info on the ACC Network is from Swofford. That seems significant. Definitely a change from Swofford's previous stance that the ACC was "studying" the issue.
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We need it $$$-wise because real soon the Big 10 & SEC will be at $40 mill per school and we are sitting right now at $31. That is why the Big 12 has to strike real soon or get swallowed up, and that might still happen given that we all might have to live with 4 Super's with whatever the number. The Pac is not going anywhere given they are the only game in town for the Left Coast. The middle can be divvied up by the Big 10 & SEC for all I care & leave the ACC to take ND and 1 other and off we go.
 
I wish ESPN could get the Pac-12 rights. An ACC/Pac-12 network would be much more sustainable than either alone.
 
"On Wednesday, the league’s athletic directors, who first learned a little bit about these numbers in March, and the football coaches, who knew very little about them, were given a prolonged look at the research. What they learned was the Big XII was between 10 and 15 percent more likely to get into the playoff if it adds two teams, cuts its conference schedule from nine games to eight and then plays a title game. Now you’re looking at four and maybe six more CFP teams in 10 years."

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/sports/20160504/mike-casazza-wvu-ad-lyons-ponders-big-12s-future
 
Unrelated to the Big 12, but related to expansion, Notre Dame has joined the Big 10 as hockey member number 7. Arizona State is potential hockey member number 8. ACC agreement with ND ends in 2025, I think.
 
Big 10 turned down Arizona State for hockey. NCHC is a better fit geographically it seems as well.
 
Johns Hopkins is a member of the Big 10 in Lacrosse.

Kind of strange that Syracuse doesn't have a strong hockey program. They are close to Canada, and there are a number of good hockey programs in upstate NY.
 
Spot the Wonder said:
Unrelated to the Big 12, but related to expansion, Notre Dame has joined the Big 10 as hockey member number 7. Arizona State is potential hockey member number 8. ACC agreement with ND ends in 2025, I think.
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There are no ACC hockey programs, right? Nothing to be concerned about.
 
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