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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5036880, member: 27"]
A key part of the proposal is to do the 7 10 team divisions for football only.  With other sports either retaining the current setup or preferably, going back to before realignment changed everything.

That part has to be of interest to the B1G.

They could go back to the core B1G team for basketball and all other sports besides football.

Maryland goes back to the ACC for everything but football.  Rutgers goes back to the A10 for everything but football.  The P12 comes back and UW, Oregon, USC and UCLA go back to it for everything but basketball.

Dramatically lover travel costs.  More games against historic rivals.  Far less travel for fans.  Far less travel and stress on athletes.

If this happened, the ACC would go back to how it looked before we joined.  We would almost surely rejoin the New Big East for all sports except football.  As would BC and Pitt.

Even the SEC, which on the surface doesn’t gain much with this, does indeed gain a lot.  I am almost sure the original SEC schools would love to play each other a lot more, and would be happy to get rid of the B12 and SWC teams they have taken on to get more money.  As long as the money stays the same, it would be a great thing for them.  All their big rivalry games would be played every year.

And yes, I think the SWC and the old Big 8 would ideally come back.  Restoration of tons of great rivalries.

West Virginia would come back east and start playing Pitt each year.  Penn State would too.  We would see the Eastern football league (really a division) all fans from this area have dreamed about and lamented was never going to happen.

It would be a tremendous thing for college sports.
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