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Message: [QUOTE="Miasta, post: 293947, member: 1227"] I would love it if some of the adults in charge would call a conference expansion 'cease fire' and step back and take a look at what makes college football so great. Local and regional rivalries, round-robin scheduling, equal treatment of members, passionate fanbases...and then realize they could make WAY more money by promoting and preserving the quality of the product (rather than by treating it like a series of corporate mergers and acquisitions) by implementing a real playoff that included all of the conference champions plus the best 4 or so teams that failed to win their conference. If they did, there would be plenty of 'inventory' to go around for the major TV players, and the best conferences would still get the most TV money from ESPN and Fox and so forth. Here is what I imagine would be a great conference breakdown for the northern and eastern parts of the country. I like 10 team conferences. The NCAA could be persuaded at this time, as opposed to in the past, to allow conference championship games for 10 team conferences if conferences wanted them. Also, as a lifelong ACC fan, I always had respect for the old Big East. Had it been done correctly, with better/stronger leadership, the Big East could have been a fine stable conference for its football members as well as its basketball only schools. Unfortunately, the below will never happen, though it would be awesome, IMO - [B]Big East:[/B] BC Syracuse UConn Rutgers ND Navy* (football only) Penn St Pitt WVA Miami [I]Providence[/I] [I]Seton Hall[/I] [I]Georgetown[/I] [I]St. Johns[/I] [I]Villanova[/I] [B]Atlantic Coast Conference:[/B] VT UVA MD UNC Duke NC State Wake Clemson GA Tech Fla St. [B]"USA East:"[/B] Memphis Louisville Cincy Temple Marshall ECU App St. Charlotte UCF USF The above Big East conference would be formidable, and would take a backseat to no other conference. The ACC would be able to maintain all the things that made it so strong and appealing for all those years, while holding on to several potential football powerhouses. The remaining larger Div. I football playing schools would have a nice enough package to be bid on. It could work, and the quality of the 'product' (college football) would be preserved and strengthened. Too bad those in charge refuse to think along the same lines. [/QUOTE]

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