Mark Emmert offers some common sense talk about conference realignment

[Orangeyes]

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[Timonen]

a 30 day period? that's flat out nuts. all that does is let every booster, politician and school president intervene and muck up the whole process. exit fees are in place. if a school has an option and is willing to pay the fee and abide by the other contractual rules, then let them do what they want. you can't hold universities back from the ability to put their school in a better place (financially, athletically, geographically, etc).

 

[NKR1978]

Ugh. The Big East was unstable the day it was formed. The minute schools with different interests were place together the conference was doomed to fail.

 

[SU2NASA]

a 30 day period? that's flat out nuts. all that does is let every booster, politician and school president intervene and muck up the whole process. exit fees are in place. if a school has an option and is willing to pay the fee and abide by the other contractual rules, then let them do what they want. you can't hold universities back from the ability to put their school in a better place (financially, athletically, geographically, etc).

Does he think that Swofford just got on the phone never having talked to Cantor or Gross and just said "hey, want to come to our party?"

30 days? That discussion had been going on for 7+ years.

 

[Faegan]

a 30 day period? that's flat out nuts. all that does is let every booster, politician and school president intervene and muck up the whole process. exit fees are in place. if a school has an option and is willing to pay the fee and abide by the other contractual rules, then let them do what they want. you can't hold universities back from the ability to put their school in a better place (financially, athletically, geographically, etc).

Exactly... what happened to the ACC the first time around when they went about it "honorably"? And the Big 10? Total circus.

 

[dollarbill44]

Dick Weiss is aptly named.

 

[Scooch]

The NCAA should really just shut up when it comes to conference stuff.

You know who's to blame for all this realignment? The NCAA!

Two reasons:

(1) Two decades ago they enforced the 12-team/2-division model for conferences to have championship games. It was a model originally built for the D-3 level, and when the 11-member SEC asked them to waive that for D-1 the NCAA refused. So what happened? Every conference began raiding others to get to that magical, and entirely arbitrary, threshhold of 12. if the NCAA told the SEC that they can have a conference championship however they see fit, a lot of this may never have happened.

(2) Lack of an NCAA-mandated D-1A playoff. Decades of fans clamoring for a real championship decided on the field led to the Bowl Alliance, and then to the BCS. The AQ $$$ of the BCS led to this schism of have's and have nots, as well as the greed of the AQ conferences wanting 2 bids allowed (and now 3).

There's more reasons of course, but these 2 are big one's, and directly on the doorstep of the NCAA.

 

[Upstate]

Dick Weiss is aptly named.

Dick Weiss has as much sense as a bowling pin.

 

[Orangeyes]

The NCAA should really just shut up when it comes to conference stuff.

You know who's to blame for all this realignment? The NCAA!

Two reasons:

(1) Two decades ago they enforced the 12-team/2-division model for conferences to have championship games. It was a model originally built for the D-3 level, and when the 11-member SEC asked them to waive that for D-1 the NCAA refused. So what happened? Every conference began raiding others to get to that magical, and entirely arbitrary, threshhold of 12. if the NCAA told the SEC that they can have a conference championship however they see fit, a lot of this may never have happened.

(2) Lack of an NCAA-mandated D-1A playoff. Decades of fans clamoring for a real championship decided on the field led to the Bowl Alliance, and then to the BCS. The AQ $$$ of the BCS led to this schism of have's and have nots, as well as the greed of the AQ conferences wanting 2 bids allowed (and now 3).

There's more reasons of course, but these 2 are big one's, and directly on the doorstep of the NCAA.

Very well said and right to the heart of the matter.