<p>Notre Dame should just join the SEC and get clobbered every year and then maybe sports guys on TV would shut up about Notre Dame. </p>
<p>Actually, wait, no, they’d attribute all of Notre Dame’s losses to ‘playing in a tough conference’ and then consistently talk about how Notre Dame is among the best teams in the sport. It’s a no-win situation.</p>
<p>Here we go again!</p>
<p>Texas probably won’t join another conference without at least Oklahoma coming along.</p>
<p>In a 16-team conference, each school would play against only half the members in the conference. It’d not be that difficult to have multiple teams at the top with same records without them facing each other during the regular season. It’s hard to tell which is really the top team within the conference. Mathematically, the conference will have much better chance to have more unbeaten teams, compared to conferences with less members.</p>
<p>these 16 team conferences are going to be bad for college football…as a big fan, I’m disappointed but I guess money always wins…</p>
<p>I too am no fan of the 16-team conference, but I do not agree with SamLee. A conference with OSU, PSU, Wisconsin and theoretically Notre Dame on one side and Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa and theoretically Texas on the other side, with the winner of each side meeting in a conference championship game will most likely not leave many teams undefeated.</p>
<p>Good background reading:</p>
<p>[Texas</a>’ Longhorn Network sparks debate in college athletics - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/big12/2011-08-11-texas-longhorn-network-debate_n.htm]Texas”>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/big12/2011-08-11-texas-longhorn-network-debate_n.htm)</p>
<p>Either Oklahoma, Florida State or Clemson will bolt for SEC along with Texas A&M. However, the latest has SEC expanding to 14 not 16 teams. So, BIG TEN can certainly add ND & Rutgers (with Pitt as backup) to go to 14 as well IF the conference decides to follow. This leaves Texas as the Snow White with the Seven Dwarfs for the BIG XII with Houston as the possible expansion candidate or Texas along with BYU could simply join the PAC-12 for long term stability. But I doubt Texas would succumb to the PAC-12, unless TLN (aka The Longhorn Network) somehow backfires in the future. I do however see that Texas would ultimately join ND as an Independent after all that’s being said and done! ;p </p>
<p>[So</a> far, B1G staying out of expansion buzz - College Football Nation Blog - ESPN](<a href=“http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/44867/so-far-b1g-staying-out-of-expansion-buzz]So”>So far, B1G staying out of expansion buzz - ESPN - College Football Nation Blog- ESPN)</p>
<p>The Godfather has spoken…</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think Clemson will leave for the SEC. Personally, I hope the ACC stays together.</p>
<p>16 team conferences will likely have two BCS bowl bids.</p>
<p>Alexandre,</p>
<p>What I really meant was the more teams you got, the better chance more teams will finish with fewer losses. When teams can avoid half the members, it means teams don’t beat each other up within their own conference as much as, say, the former Pac-10. There is also a better chance that you have more lucky teams avoiding certain teams on their schedule. Their records can look pretty and they get into BCS bowls while beating nobody.</p>
<p>Former Texas A&M football coach Jackie Sherrill said the Aggies proposed move to the Southeastern Conference is going to play out and identified the SEC as one of four 20-team super-conferences that eventually will dot the college football landscape.</p>
<p>Sherrill, who did not include the Big 12 among the four surviving leagues, shared his views today on KZNE radio station in College Station.</p>
<p>Sherrill told the station that he considers the Pac-12 the primary driver in the move to 20-team leagues, with the Big Ten willing to follow suit.</p>
<p>With 20-team conferences, theres only room for four, Sherrill said. So who are the four conferences? Thats going to be the Big Ten, Pac-10 (now the Pac-12), SEC and ACC, for sure. I dont know of anybody (else), the Big East, the Big 12, Conference USA or any of the other conferences will ever get strong enough to bounce those teams out.</p>
<p>Read more: [College</a> Confidential: Jackie Sherrill predicts A&M-SEC move will “play out” and questions Big 12’s long-term survival in radio interview](<a href=“http://sportsblogs.star-telegram.com/colleges/2011/08/jackie-sherrill-predcits-am-sec-move-will-play-out-and-questions-big-12s-long-term-survival-in-radio.html#ixzz1VuEwMZ76]College”>http://sportsblogs.star-telegram.com/colleges/2011/08/jackie-sherrill-predcits-am-sec-move-will-play-out-and-questions-big-12s-long-term-survival-in-radio.html#ixzz1VuEwMZ76)</p>
<p>^ Hmmm… I’m happy with the Pac-12 as is. We just added 2 members this year and hadn’t done anything since 1978. We have our TV contract. I think we let this digest a bit before we expand to 14…16…20. The ball is in the SEC’s court.</p>
<p>Anybody ever hear of Vanderbilt wanting to go to the ACC? It would fit in there much better than it does in the SEC. If Clemson or FSU go to the SEC, it would seem to be a good time for Vandy to make the switch.</p>
<p>How about Georgetown? Any talk there of upgrading football and joining the ACC? If the ACC got Vandy and Georgetown and lost Clemson and FSU, it would easily be the top conference for blending sports and academics.</p>
<p>ACC, SEC, PAC and B1G all have 12 members. SEC will make a move to add 4 teams that add additional TV market value so they can renegotiate their TV contract. Some of the ACC and SEC markets overlap, so there is really no sense in switching among these big conferences. Once SEC makes a move and destabilizes other smaller conferences their will be a quick round of musical chairs. But I doubt Vandy, Clemson, or FSU jump ship. Just wild speculation at this point.</p>
<p>I highly doubt that Clemson leaves the ACC to be honest.</p>
<p>All our alumni want us to leave but I want us to stay put. We can’t win in the ACC so why go to the SEC? I mean we’re getting screwed by the ACC commissioner (Ron Cherry, Duke/UNC basketball, no tournaments in South Carolina aka all in Tarheel country) but it’s still a good conference.</p>
<p>Didn’t I read that the SEC athletic directors and hierachy have said that expansion will not include teams from any state where the league already has a footprint? That would exclude Clemson AND Florida State from consideration. Doesn’t leave much left, does it? Besides Texas A&M I can’t think of any other border state candidate who could bring much to table except U of Missouri. Or maybe another Texas school such as Baylor or Rice (hard to ignore the Houston TV market). Looks like TCU moved to the Big East too soon.</p>
<p>ND will (most likely) succumb to the Super Conferences!! lol</p>
<p>Listen to ND Coach Brian Kelly starting at 8:10 of the video clip!!</p>
<p>[ND’s</a> Kelly won’t rule out move to conference](<a href=“http://www.csnchicago.com/08/24/11/NDs-Kelly-wont-rule-out-move-to-conferen/landing_ncaa_v3.html?blockID=553586&feedID=3126]ND’s”>http://www.csnchicago.com/08/24/11/NDs-Kelly-wont-rule-out-move-to-conferen/landing_ncaa_v3.html?blockID=553586&feedID=3126)</p>
<p>Reality: Checked</p>
<p>P.S. “Looks like TCU moved to the Big East too soon.” Agreed!!</p>
<p>[SMU</a> wants to join the Big 12 - The Early Lead - The Washington Post](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/post/smu-wants-to-join-the-big-12/2011/08/25/gIQA8dyhdJ_blog.html]SMU”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/post/smu-wants-to-join-the-big-12/2011/08/25/gIQA8dyhdJ_blog.html)</p>
<p>[Hance</a> says Big 12 expansion targets might be “bigger story than Aggies leaving” | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal](<a href=“http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2011-08-27/hance-says-big-12-expansion-targets-might-be-bigger-story-aggies-leaving]Hance”>Hance says Big 12 expansion targets might be 'bigger story than Aggies leaving')</p>
<p>It’s certainly not impossible as Notre Dame will be rewarded with lion’s share of $$$ as the head honcho of BIG 12 North vs Texas of BIG 12 South which is probably a better deal than the equal distribution of BIG TEN/BTN deal. Know that under BIG 12 system, both Texas and Notre Dame are allowed to broadcast its own network, independent of other members in the conference = sole profitability.</p>
<p>[SECession</a> continues as A&M notifies Big 12 its intent to leave | CollegeFootballTalk](<a href=“http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/31/secession-continues-as-am-notifies-big-12-its-intent-to-leave/related/]SECession”>http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/31/secession-continues-as-am-notifies-big-12-its-intent-to-leave/related/)</p>
<p>Here we go…</p>
<p>After endorsing the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s entrance into the Big Ten Conference – in part because of its academic strength – leaders at the universities of Wisconsin and Michigan apparently helped oust UNL from an elite academic group, according to documents reviewed by the Journal Star.</p>
<p>Nebraska failed to garner the 21 votes it needed last April to remain in the Association of American Universities, a confederation of more than 60 top research institutions that collectively nets more than half of all federal research funds and awards more than half of the doctoral degrees in the nation. It was confirmed that UNL fell three votes short.
Emails and letters obtained by the Journal Star after a series of open-records requests indicate that Wisconsin and Michigan did not support UNL during its turbulent and unsuccessful AAU membership review earlier this year.</p>
<p>Read more: <a href=“http://journalstar.c…l#ixzz1X0WNJLwT%5B/url%5D”>http://journalstar.c…l#ixzz1X0WNJLwT</a></p>
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<p>The Husker Fans are calling it an “Act of Treason” and “Instant New Rivals” in the B1G. ;p</p>