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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5040912, member: 1145"] I think you have described well what the most wealthy football programs in BT and SEC want long term. They at heart are no longer college athletics department programs: they are almost independent pirates whose morals system is that if you can get away with it, it then is right to have been done. The only way to fight those two leagues from making this any worse is for the rest of us to ally. It is only us who need to think in terms of forging an alliance that will have a relegation system to prop up 2 leagues, with states bordering the Mississippi as the basic dividing line (thus, Memphis ands Southern Miss and Tulane would be assigned West while UAB, Troy, and South AL would be assigned East. Our leagues will then have the novelty of relegation to help draw ever new interests. It could not match what the BT and SEC have but it would keep the better programs still alive and kicking and not forced inBT or SEC, thereby helping a large number compete. And to start something like that, the ACC, for example, probably has to do its part by agreeing that while it will be the 'Eastern' of the pair, it will have BC and Wake start in the league below and thus have to earn their way back u. And each Major conference would need two beneath it. Each year, the bottom 4 of, say, ACC go down, while the top 2 of each feeder league in the East go into the ACC. Same pattern in the West. The only other option worth exploring is to get the top athletics departments in terms of revenue and potential success in the 2 revenue sports in the Big 12 to become part of a greatly expanded ACC, which would then be the 3rd and final league of a Top Tier. For that to happen, either the ACC must be freed from ESPN or else ESPN allows a partner (say Amazon Prime) to buy into ESPN and also serve as the main showcase for this new super sized ACC of up to 24. And there is no way that that ACC could stat with all 17 we now have as members. I see no way, for example, how Wake and BC can remain in anything designated Major or Power for more than a couple more years. [/QUOTE]

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