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<blockquote data-quote="ThatGuy" data-source="post: 982631" data-attributes="member: 3440"><p>Last night I found myself thinking about the new "Power 2" alignment of college football. It made me think, "How does one account for Vandy? And Northwestern? And other "lesser" teams?</p><p></p><p>Then I realized, "if the 'eye test' is what's really important, then you have to show you're going up against the so-called best. So why wouldn't the SEC schedule Bama and uGA and other presumed frontrunners try to arrange it so that they only play each other, and then the 'lesser' teams play each other? Otherwise, the other of the P2 conferences might look like more of a power conference."</p><p></p><p>Which led me to realizing again that, over time, in order to lessen the impact of travel and whatnot the B1G and SEC will basically revert to localized divisions. The conferences are too big to continue with an "everybody plays everybody" approach. Which will of course effectively eliminate the whole reason for consolidation to begin with.</p><p></p><p>Such is the nature of modern CFB.</p><p></p><p>In that instance, I could see Vandy and the other "lesser" SEC teams being put into their own division, and the "premier" teams being in another division. Which would allow the "premier" SEC teams to ultimately split off and take their TV revenue with them.</p><p></p><p>Which brings us to today. Imagine my surprise when I saw this proposal. It almost seems like the NCAA is saying, "hell, let's just skip the 'realizing our conferences are too big to be manageable' moment and move on with the "Kick out anyone who cares about academics" approach.</p><p></p><p>Sheesh. </p><p></p><p>Now I have a headache just thinking about it again.</p><p></p><p>2nd thought: I wonder if they wrote the "enhanced educational benefits" section specifically for UNC... <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face :thinking:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatGuy, post: 982631, member: 3440"] Last night I found myself thinking about the new "Power 2" alignment of college football. It made me think, "How does one account for Vandy? And Northwestern? And other "lesser" teams? Then I realized, "if the 'eye test' is what's really important, then you have to show you're going up against the so-called best. So why wouldn't the SEC schedule Bama and uGA and other presumed frontrunners try to arrange it so that they only play each other, and then the 'lesser' teams play each other? Otherwise, the other of the P2 conferences might look like more of a power conference." Which led me to realizing again that, over time, in order to lessen the impact of travel and whatnot the B1G and SEC will basically revert to localized divisions. The conferences are too big to continue with an "everybody plays everybody" approach. Which will of course effectively eliminate the whole reason for consolidation to begin with. Such is the nature of modern CFB. In that instance, I could see Vandy and the other "lesser" SEC teams being put into their own division, and the "premier" teams being in another division. Which would allow the "premier" SEC teams to ultimately split off and take their TV revenue with them. Which brings us to today. Imagine my surprise when I saw this proposal. It almost seems like the NCAA is saying, "hell, let's just skip the 'realizing our conferences are too big to be manageable' moment and move on with the "Kick out anyone who cares about academics" approach. Sheesh. Now I have a headache just thinking about it again. 2nd thought: I wonder if they wrote the "enhanced educational benefits" section specifically for UNC... 🤔 [/QUOTE]
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