NCAA Armageddon!
by acr on Jun 10, 2010 11:59 AM EDT
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I realize this board is about fantasy sports, but some people play fantasy college football and basketball, so it could be relevant in that regard. Is this the craziest week ever for the NCAA or is it just me? The Big 12 is on the brink of being rationed out the likes of an estate auction on the courthouse steps. Missouri's fate is up in the air. Nebraska will be the twelfth team in the Big 10. Texas and aTm are headed to the Pac 10, maybe. Colorado is supposed to announce they are Pac 10 bound today. OK State and OU are maybe headed to the Pac 10, along with possibly two other schools. Kansas, K-state, Iowa State and Baylor are supposedly all that's going to be left standing of the already old Big 12 by the end of this week.
So it's possible that if all the above comes to fruition and the Pac 10 gets 6 more schools (Texas, aTm, OU, OK State, T-Tech and Colorado) and the Big 10 gets Nebraska and possibly Missouri (gawd I hope not). And four schools are either looking for a conference or starting another. I think Kansas has enough of a basketball following that they may consider just going independent until the right deal comes along. But who knows how this will fall out. What does everyone think?
About the only sensible rumblings about all this is that 1. this is simply all about money and a larger tv audience, kinda what some other conferences have been guilty of in the past. And secondly, the Pac 10 schools have complained in the past about an East coast bias. That may disappear if a good portion of their conference is east of the Rocky Mountains- and includes the likes of Texas and Oklahoma.
I have heard all morning on ESPN how adding six teams to the Pac 10 would suddenly result in a "Super Conference". I think that overstates things somewhat. I haven't seen the numbers but I am thinking the ACC would still cover a larger tv audience, even if the Pac 10 expanded throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado. And Big East basketball has 16 teams already. So such a large number of teams in a conference is not unprecedented. Maybe too big a deal is being made of all this?
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I’ve been trying to follow this, because it seems like the Big 12 is melting before our eyes. I am thinking that the Pac-16 becomes a reality, and I could see a conference like the Mountain West picking up a lot of the pieces. The 4 teams on the outside looking are most likely Iowa St., Kansas, Kansas St. and Baylor, and geographically those 4 make a lot more sense going to the MWC than to the SEC, for example. Although I have to imagine that Kansas is a big prize for any of the conferences in terms of basketball, I’m not sure where they end up landing for this.
I haven’t heard this, but I could see the Big 10 trying to scoop up Kansas (to go with Missouri), but I’m not sure what happens to K-St, Baylor and Iowa St in that situation.
It certainly would seem like the Big 10 would make an invite to KU, even before making an offer to Missouri. Like you say, KU basketball is the real prize left after the Oklahoma and Texas schools are committed elsewhere. I could see a scenario where Kansas, MU, Nebraska, Iowa State and maybe Kansas State are all offered invites to make the Big 10 a “Super 16” conference as well. It’ll all come down to tv viewing audience coverage. I remember a few years back (back when the Big 12 was the Big 8) that some individual east cost schools had a larger tv audience than the entire Big 8 conference. I think Kansas transcends that because of their following, but not Missouri. And, believe it or not, I had a conversation with a Big 8 official back then who said that the long term plan was to have four super conferences so a playoff could happen.
Personally, I would rather just add some schools to what’s left of the Big 12 and keep this conference alive.
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