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New Idea to Replace Conferences
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:51 pm
Let's face it... conferences are a waste of money and resources. Each conference office is getting a huge cut of the tv revenue while the conference commissioners all make well over $1 million/year. It's not necessary.
The Top 40 programs should breakaway and as a group have one administrative body rather than five... that saves 80% of the money that is currently doled out to each of the Power 5 conference offices. It also creates much better games because the Big Leagues could then ditch the weak links who aren't bringing in any $$$ (Rutgers, Wake Forest, etc.).
As a group, they could sign a massive TV deal so that every game is nationally televised. You could have a 16-team playoff at the end of the season which would be huge for TV Ratings. Therefore, with the extended post-season, shrink the regular season down to just 11 games.
First, here are the programs that do NOT make the cut:
From the SEC: Vandy and Kentucky. Sorry Kentucky. Yuu had a good year but you've been struggling for the last 50+ years and there just isn't room.
From the BIG12: Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State
From the BIG10: Rutgers, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Maryland, Northwestern
From the ACC: Wake Forest, Duke, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Boston College, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Syracuse
From the PAC12: Washington St., Oregon St., Cal, Stanford
***So with the 40 remaining teams, you could break into Groups of 10. Everyone plays each of the other 9 teams in their division plus one extra annual rival from a different league.... finally the 11th game would be a rotating opponent from a different division that would rotate annually. Here are the divisions:
THE EAST
Clemson
Florida
Florida St.
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Miami
S. Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia Tech
W. Virginia
THE SOUTHEAST
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Baylor
LSU
Miss. St.
Ole Miss
TCU
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
THE MIDWEST
Colorado
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan St.
Missouri
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin
THE WEST
Arizona
Arizona State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Oregon
Texas
UCLA
Utah
Washington
Some of the annual cross-divisional rivalries would include:
Alabama-Tennessee
Georgia-Auburn
Texas-Texas A&M
Florida-LSU
Missouri-Arkansas
Oklahoma-Nebraska
The Top 4 teams from each division would go to the playoff... with 1st and 2nd round games being on campus.
The Top 40 programs should breakaway and as a group have one administrative body rather than five... that saves 80% of the money that is currently doled out to each of the Power 5 conference offices. It also creates much better games because the Big Leagues could then ditch the weak links who aren't bringing in any $$$ (Rutgers, Wake Forest, etc.).
As a group, they could sign a massive TV deal so that every game is nationally televised. You could have a 16-team playoff at the end of the season which would be huge for TV Ratings. Therefore, with the extended post-season, shrink the regular season down to just 11 games.
First, here are the programs that do NOT make the cut:
From the SEC: Vandy and Kentucky. Sorry Kentucky. Yuu had a good year but you've been struggling for the last 50+ years and there just isn't room.
From the BIG12: Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State
From the BIG10: Rutgers, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Maryland, Northwestern
From the ACC: Wake Forest, Duke, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Boston College, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Syracuse
From the PAC12: Washington St., Oregon St., Cal, Stanford
***So with the 40 remaining teams, you could break into Groups of 10. Everyone plays each of the other 9 teams in their division plus one extra annual rival from a different league.... finally the 11th game would be a rotating opponent from a different division that would rotate annually. Here are the divisions:
THE EAST
Clemson
Florida
Florida St.
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Miami
S. Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia Tech
W. Virginia
THE SOUTHEAST
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Baylor
LSU
Miss. St.
Ole Miss
TCU
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
THE MIDWEST
Colorado
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan St.
Missouri
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin
THE WEST
Arizona
Arizona State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Oregon
Texas
UCLA
Utah
Washington
Some of the annual cross-divisional rivalries would include:
Alabama-Tennessee
Georgia-Auburn
Texas-Texas A&M
Florida-LSU
Missouri-Arkansas
Oklahoma-Nebraska
The Top 4 teams from each division would go to the playoff... with 1st and 2nd round games being on campus.
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Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:51 pm to BHMKyle
those look like conferences
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:52 pm to BHMKyle
quote:
The Top 40 programs should breakaway and as a group have one administrative body rather than five
So.... Like the NCAA with conferences but smaller?
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:52 pm to McGregor
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those look like conferences
Nope, divisions. They don't each have a commissioner and an office. Big difference.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:53 pm to BHMKyle
Seems like you want to avoid playing Bama
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:54 pm to theGarnetWay
quote:
So.... Like the NCAA with conferences but smaller?
No, it would be like the NCAA but smaller and no conferences. With one governing body (like the NFL for instance) you could have one main office instead of the current 5 Power league offices.
It could cut the dead weight of freeloading programs like half the ACC.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:56 pm to diddlydawg7
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Seems like you want to avoid playing Bama
Do we play them now during the regular season? I would imagine we'd be seeing them in the postseason kinda like we are now.
For Georgia, we'd keep all of our annual rivals with the exception of Kentucky and Vandy..... we'd still play Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Auburn, and Georgia Tech. Only we'd pick up annual games against Clemson, Florida state, Miami, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia. That sounds like a fun schedule with a good game every week.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 4:59 pm to BHMKyle
This for ALL sports or just fb?
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:01 pm to BHMKyle
UGA/WV = "good game"?
*SMH*
*SMH*
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:01 pm to BHMKyle
USC. #10 in the West.
Edit. Sorry. Eighth position alphabetically in the west ahead of Utah.
Edit. Sorry. Eighth position alphabetically in the west ahead of Utah.
This post was edited on 12/14/18 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:07 pm to southernboisb
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This for ALL sports or just fb?
I mean I'd probably move it over to all sports but allow way more games and more teams to compete in basketball and baseball.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:08 pm to southernboisb
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UGA/WV = "good game"?
*SMH*
I mean that's definitely the worst out of 11.... but it still beats playing teams like Austin Peay each year.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:09 pm to southernboisb
Seems like football only. Can't imagine you would leave Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, UNC out if you do basketball. Basically, advocating for NFL system. I hope college football never forgets where it came from and why it is a great sport.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:13 pm to BHMKyle
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Each conference office is getting a huge cut of the tv revenue while the conference commissioners all make well over $1 million/year. It's not necessary
It's fun to play make believe but the Conferences exist because the University Presidents want them to. It's the same arrangement that the NFL owners have with a "League Office" headed by Roger Goodell. Same reason all the Universities have created and groomed the NCAA into what it is: It's much more profitable to package a region together and share the TV and Bowl revenues AND have an amoral entity located somewhere non-descript (Birmingham, Indianapolis, etc) so that the schools enjoy their spoils while the Commissioners and Conference/NCAA/League office absorb all of the hatred and anger and political and legal backlash.
Conferences exist for a reason and they'll continue to exist for that exact same reason.
This post was edited on 12/14/18 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:15 pm to BHMKyle
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Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:15 pm to rebelrouser
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Seems like football only.
I hope college football never forgets where it came from
"Where it came from" was a time when there were far fewer programs. UAB, Liberty, UCF, USF, Georgia State and the like didn't play Major College Football.
College Football has expanded to far too many teams (130 something now?) to the point its watered down.
Here was Georgia' schedule in 1973:
Pitt
Clemson
NC State
Alabama
Ole Miss
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Tennessee
Florida
Auburn
Georgia Tech
.... every single game was against a "major" program at least as of now.
Fast forward to 2018 and we are now playing Austin Peay, MTSU, and UMass... that's 25% of the regular season and everyone hates those games.
No one likes those games. Fans don't get up for them, no one outside of a UGA fan is ever going to watch those games on TV, and they just end up being glorified scrimmages.
"Where Football came from" was a much smaller league of Big Time football.... nowadays we've let too many programs in and its watered it down, IMO.
This post was edited on 12/14/18 at 5:18 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:16 pm to BHMKyle
This is what Netflix or Amazon will try to do according to that one Amazon source.
Personally I think the leaders of the sport are too stubborn and traditional to do that for any amount of money.
The moment they go this far and exclude the rest of the programs officially (instead of unofficially) then the amateurism argument is toast and they know that. They would rather make less money in conferences than risk that.
Personally I think the leaders of the sport are too stubborn and traditional to do that for any amount of money.
The moment they go this far and exclude the rest of the programs officially (instead of unofficially) then the amateurism argument is toast and they know that. They would rather make less money in conferences than risk that.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:17 pm to BHMKyle
Just kidding
Dumbest thing I’ve ever seen
Dumbest thing I’ve ever seen
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:23 pm to BHMKyle
You should pitch your idea to school presidents.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 5:29 pm to BHMKyle
Gay
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