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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 776093, member: 628"]
Sure they had a vision.  Those conference commissioners are paid to have a vision, just like ADs are paid to always maintain a list of potential head coach replacements.

That vision has been playing out for a lot longer than a decade though, and it was always a [I]fluid [/I]vision.  You can trace it meaningfully all the way back to the early 90s when the SEC was told by the NCAA that they had to have a 12th team to hold a conference championship game.

Personally I was, and continue to be skeptical of 4X16 because it involves far too much planning and cooperation amongst the power players.  One too many conferences would be destroyed, and a few too many programs would be left out.  This isn't the pros, where realignment happens regularly for the greater good of the game.  This is college, a collection of insanely self-interested parties who would sooner step on their grandmother's neck for an extra few million dollars than do anything that benefits the whole at their own expense.

Where we are now is how that "vision" had to be executed -- that being in a haphazard, chaotic, selfish, and piecemeal manner.
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