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re: Clemson joins FSU in ACC Lawsuit
Posted on 3/20/24 at 3:48 pm to twk
Posted on 3/20/24 at 3:48 pm to twk
quote:Yeah, my badquote:
The SEC will grow to 20-24 conferences, and then split into 10-12 sub-conferences... maybe 3 groups if you get to 24 or more.
Big 10 will do the same.
I assume you mean grow to 20-24 members
Once you do that, you are no longer a conference, but rather, just a confederation of sorts. Unless we increase the number of games played, there is a limit to how big a conference can get and still function like a conference. If you get the SEC up to 24 teams, and try to split it into groups, you'd end up with something like A&M, Texas, OU, Aransas, and Missouri being lumped together, and 1 other school being forced to join a 6-team pod (yes, pod scheduling would be the likely end result) that looks more like the Big XII than the SEC. I'm sure LSU would love that.
In my opinion, the SEC is working towards 24+ MEMBERS.
And what will occur, is as you call it, pods... or spin-off conferences under the umbrella, or whatever. 24 teams give you the option of 3 groups of 8; 7 game round-robin for that group, then say 2 from each of the others, then 1 random true OOC for the actual "must have" rivalries in other conferences (or if you still want to play down). Or maybe 2 from one group, and 1 from the other, and rotate back and forth.
That isolates/concentrates the SEC games, and squeezes the other conferences out.
It's not current business as usual with the scheduling, but the current model will go away.
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