Commissioner Slive rolls into the Big XII office and offers two things.
1) "I'll save your Big XII conference for you" (which is afterall their top concern and something that they can not do themselves).
The SEC and the Big XII merge to form a single Super (can we use Super Dooper yet) Alliance, The Southern Alliance , now with 22 teams. The Alliances would retain the name the Southeastern Conference and revive the name the Southwestern Conference, with conferences assuming the roles of divsions. (What is that worth to the networks.)
Interdivisional play would be scheduled, with the consession that all Conference teams would not play each other yearly. (Interdivisonal games mean big T.V. ratings)
2) To maintain balance we pass Arkansas back to the Big XII, so that each division still has 11 teams.
Arkansas would ba all about this as the result would ensure both more money (from the uber T.V. contracts) and they would not have to travel to Lincoln, Nebraska or Boulder, Colorado.
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Two BCS seats are certain with a third reasonable assured as locked in. Further, should this new Alliance hold a "conference" championship game, the winner would all but for certian play for the title. Last year's Title would have been a conference championship game in this arrangement. This increases the odds of a National Title.
Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida are all title winners in the BCS era. What is the arguement that this block should not get at least three BCS bids (only 30% of them all) AND and a seat in the title game?
PAC-10 is stiff-armed, left to salvage and form a even weaker 16-team conference. Big TEN can grab the east coast, but the caliber of football needed to win titles is lost (Where do they recruit?). The ACC is left alone, unthreatening to the SEC, but now placed head-to-head with the Big TEN...where we can't lose either way.
1) "I'll save your Big XII conference for you" (which is afterall their top concern and something that they can not do themselves).
The SEC and the Big XII merge to form a single Super (can we use Super Dooper yet) Alliance, The Southern Alliance , now with 22 teams. The Alliances would retain the name the Southeastern Conference and revive the name the Southwestern Conference, with conferences assuming the roles of divsions. (What is that worth to the networks.)
Interdivisional play would be scheduled, with the consession that all Conference teams would not play each other yearly. (Interdivisonal games mean big T.V. ratings)
2) To maintain balance we pass Arkansas back to the Big XII, so that each division still has 11 teams.
Arkansas would ba all about this as the result would ensure both more money (from the uber T.V. contracts) and they would not have to travel to Lincoln, Nebraska or Boulder, Colorado.
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Two BCS seats are certain with a third reasonable assured as locked in. Further, should this new Alliance hold a "conference" championship game, the winner would all but for certian play for the title. Last year's Title would have been a conference championship game in this arrangement. This increases the odds of a National Title.
Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida are all title winners in the BCS era. What is the arguement that this block should not get at least three BCS bids (only 30% of them all) AND and a seat in the title game?
PAC-10 is stiff-armed, left to salvage and form a even weaker 16-team conference. Big TEN can grab the east coast, but the caliber of football needed to win titles is lost (Where do they recruit?). The ACC is left alone, unthreatening to the SEC, but now placed head-to-head with the Big TEN...where we can't lose either way.
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