Let's speculate a future with 4 super conferences

I don't really get this great concern about academics wrt to sports conferences, unless you're talking about the Ivy League. It seems unrelated. Nebraska doesn't have a great academic rep but has a bunch of academic all-americans (and some guys who probably never stayed awake for a whole class). FSU isn't really known for academics yet started a Rhodes Scholar. Texas does have the rep but I'd love to see Vince Young's transcripts. Schools like Vandy, Duke, Northwestern, Rice and Stanford don't seem to mind being in conferences with some good and some not-so-good public schools.

I guess the Big 10 actually does some kind of sharing academically. I never saw or heard anything like that in the Big 8 or Big 12. Schools in the same state system will share, but whether they are in the same conference has no bearing on that.

It sounds to me like it is just some posturing by school presidents to pretend that major sports teams aren't essentially separate entities from the school.

 
jayhawk said:
What I would lke is not really relevant, so I will go with what I think we would end up with if the 4 16 team superconferences happened.... I am not sure they will, I rather think it may not be so neat and tidy. I am also not sure what would happen if ND stays out of them...

Key points...

I will say ND goes into one IF we went to 4 superconferences. I don't think they go now. I think the Big 10 may have to go to 14, let more chips fall, and give the Irish one more chance.

I think Texas and OU don't want to go to the SEC. Too much Talent, too likely to take an extra loss, they like to run the roost ad that makes it hard to do...

I pulled sme of these moves out of my posterior, like Okie State onits own to the SEC, because I think OU, UT and A&M won't, and if the PAC 10 onl are taking 16 teams and the SEC wants new markets, that may happen...

I think Rutgers to the Big 10 due to real TV viewership is a JOKE. I am from the midwest and now live in the NY metro area. local College Football is NOT ON THE RADAR. It is not gonna be, either. Sure there are a lot of people, and at times Rutgers may draw some attention, but for how mny people there are, not many local CFB fans. There are a decent number of college football fans who root for teams nowhere near here, bcause they went there an picked up the love, but that ain't Rutgers...

Big 10

Nebraska

Mizzou

Iowa

Illinois

Minnesota

Wisconsin

Northwestern

Indiana

Michigan State

Michigan

Notre Dame

Purdue

Ohio State

Penn State

Syracuse

Rutgers
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I would say that Nebraska would maybe be in the weakest of the divisions here most years. But the landscape could change drastically if all these changes were to take place. I would love to see 4 super conferences that would lead to a play off. Of course Congress is not going to like it, and will threaten the set up since there will be half the schools presently in Division I that would be left out, and they will be putting pressure on their senators and congressmen to somehow get them included.

 
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