Conference Realignment

[CEB]

PAC-12 loses autonomy status

According to this article, the PAC-12 lost its autonomy status. After a little digging, I learned that autonomy status is an official NCAA term that dates to 2014. They get to make some of their own rules around things like 4-year scholarships, etc.

Was this due to falling below the threshold for membership? I couldn’t read the article.

 

[g0lftime]

8 makes way too much sense… if they’d do it the right way.

Cats out of the bag with 12. I just can't see them reducing it to 8 even though that makes the most sense to me.

 

[forensicbuzz]

Was this due to falling below the threshold for membership? I couldn’t read the article.

I think it had to do with the schools that were in the conference. They lost their Top12 revenue teams from the conference.

 

[UgaBlows]

Math??? 2-4-8-16-32. You have to get to one of those numbers in a single elimination tournament.

This is why I went to West GA instead of Tech… just go with 32 then i reckon

 

[CEB]

I think it had to do with the schools that were in the conference. They lost their Top12 revenue teams from the conference.

I was under the impression that there was a minimum number of schools required to have a conference. There is a grace period (2-3 years?) to remedy if you fall below. I assume that’s what’s happening here but there could certainly be more to it.

 

[awbuzz]

They had a bye. That was an advantage. Winning a Conference Championship should matter more than 12 people sitting in a room deciding who is better.

Agree, winning your conference gets the "bonus" of a bye in first round or a higher seeding. Kind of like what the NFL does where? If you win your division, you get home field advantage against any team that was a wild card team, regardless of their one loss record.