Breathing easier about the Big East's future

[njustus7]

Actually I can see the aggies instigating all this without consideration of a 14th member.

Me too, I actually see the SEC stopping for now at 13 and the B12-3 just staying at 9 - lame, but probably what will happen.

 

[Nick Danger]

If the ACC were to lose one school, it has been suggested in a Sporting News article that they would stick with the remaining 11 schools and just drop their current Divisional format, which has not worked out well at all for them (the resulting Championship Game has been especially dissapointing). That would also allow them to re-divide the financial pie into slightly bigger pieces.


Don't know how solid that speculation is but it is a possibility.

 

[macaroni]

Yes, my hope is that the ACC is completely locked into their tv deal so expansion makes less sense for them at this time. The worst thing that could happen is for the ACC to decide to shoot for 16 and finish off the BE.

 

[HG73]

This could be big for us. No matter what happens, Comcast still wants college football. If the remains of the ACC try to poach some BigEast teams, Comcast will whisper into the BigEast's ear "We can't negotiate right now but we're willing make your TV deal big enough to poach some ACC teams" . ESPN might offer more to the ACC and we have a bidding war between Comcast and ESPN. Could really help the TV deals of both leagues. There will be a BigEast left standing, Comcast needs the programming. BE may be a little smaller or a little bigger, but it will survive.

IMO we wont see 16 team Superconferences just yet. This will all stop with Aggy plus one team to be named later.

 

[HUT-Frog]

This is just silly. The SEC will find a 14th team. The egg on A&M's face has nothing to do with any sort of hypothetical "if they find someone" conditional approval (which won't happen--they'll straight up admit them).

Guess NOT!!!!!

 

[HUT-Frog]

Actually I can see the aggies instigating all this without consideration of a 14th member.

And that is exactly what happened.

 

[asleep003]

Actually I can see the aggies instigating all this without consideration of a 14th member.

The 14th team is not their concern... it's the SEC's, if they want A&M. SEC does not have to announce both schools the same day... where did the idea, that that ever had to happen!

Cheers!