ACC, PAC-12, and BIG alliance / conference realignment

[KaiserUEO]

1980 was the last UNC ACC championship in football. But 1981 was a team that in some ways was better, even with 2 losses. One was because turf issues meant that we were short 5 or 6 starters (GT easily had the worst turf in ACC history). The other was by 2 to eventual National Champ Clemson. Danny Ford and a number of Clemson players said after the season that their toughest game al year was not UGA with Herschel Walker nor Big 8 champ Nebraska but UNC.

I think the doing less with more begins to apply in late 1983 and then takes over the rest of Crum's tenure. It may have peaked in Mack Brown's first 2 seasons: 1-10 and 1-10. It has never gone away.

1980 u say…..

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[HtownOrange]

Why they cannopt look to the pofessional leagues and realize that they, as one large, very large, group can command the maximum dollar, share equally, and then crown a real champion. Further, as it is CFB (and CBB and other sports) the content can be flexible to focus on the hot teams. What a concept! The pros have been doing this for decades, premiering the top games as much as possible.

The P4 still need more teams or the G6 conferences to puff up their own images and avoid the NFL-lite image. When a conference is down, they are not pushed out, recall the destruction of the PAC. We could even reorganize to the natural, regional conferences, they way rivalries are truly built, making even more premium games for TV.

 

[TexanMark]

Somewhere between 64 and 80 teams at the highest level under a Commissioner seems right.

I actually liked the proposal in concept with 7 ten team division plus one relegation group of 10 teams.