Said this since Day One: FSU and Clemson were and are going to the SEC. Period.
There's no other ending to this story despite some reporters and "reporters" suggesting or hoping otherwise.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey (with the full cooperation of ESPN) will take who he wants from the ACC: FSU, Clemson, UNC, NC State, UVA, VA Tech, Duke and Georgia Tech.
Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti with the support of FOX and friends (specifically NBC) will land his big fish in Miami and Notre Dame
and bring Stanford and Cal through the back door to
(a) fill out the West Coast wing,
(b) please those academic-obsessed presidents and
(c) give those AD's at mid- and lower-tier Big Ten schools teams they think they can beat on a regular basis.
Miami and the other schools leaving the ACC will give money back for their early exits (i.e. "reduced shares") to compensate the schools that end up in the Big XII, zombie ACC or somewhere else outside the SEC or B1G.
JMO like everything else in this post, but I think this all goes down sooner rather than later
Edited to add: And there will be arguments until the end of time: "Miami turned down the SEC" vs "the SEC didn't want Miami" ...
That makes way too much sense. The B1G could split divisions geographically. I like a 4 division model similar to the NFL where one division will play the same teams in their division and
Said this since Day One: FSU and Clemson were and are going to the SEC. Period.
There's no other ending to this story despite some reporters and "reporters" suggesting or hoping otherwise.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey (with the full cooperation of ESPN) will take who he wants from the ACC: FSU, Clemson, UNC, NC State, UVA, VA Tech, Duke and Georgia Tech.
Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti with the support of FOX and friends (specifically NBC) will land his big fish in Miami and Notre Dame and bring Stanford and Cal through the back door to (a) fill out the West Coast wing, (b) please those academic-obsessed presidents and (c) give those AD's at mid- and lower-tier Big Ten schools teams they think they can beat on a regular basis.
Miami and the other schools leaving the ACC will give money back for their early exits (i.e. "reduced shares") to compensate the schools that end up in the Big XII, zombie ACC or somewhere else outside the SEC or B1G.
JMO like everything else in this post, but I think this all goes down sooner rather than later
Edited to add: And there will be arguments until the end of time: "Miami turned down the SEC" vs "the SEC didn't want Miami" ...
That makes too much sense. I definitely see Miami and ND will definitely go at the same time.
Miami and ND would make 20 teams for the B1G. With 2 divisions, you could have a 9 game conference schedule. If they added 2 more teams, it would make it a 10 game conference schedule leaving only 2 non-conference games.
For that reason, I only see Cal and Stanford if the B1G expands to 24 teams perhaps adding UNC and GT. With 24 teams, you could have 4 divisions of 6 teams.
