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Please let this happen!
is what 247 is reporting.
Lets see if this year it's true
Please let this happen!
Yep. Hearing Texas, Tech, OU and OSU to PAC. Still uncertain about LHN, some think PAC might let Texas keep it fully intact.
Also hearing A&M and West Virginia to SEC.
love it...
Probably the best option, given what's there. But travel will be hard, and you basically kiss east coast media markets goodbye at least half the games because they are on PST.
This is the second time you've posted something about the time zone. Do you know how a pod system will work? And what? Can people on the East Coast not watch football at 3:00 in the afternoon?
Ut to the pac with the others makes much more logistical sense than anything else.
I'm sure they can work out something regarding the lhn.
LHN will be phased out gradually. I think first year is full, second half, third dully integrated into Pac's profit-sharing system (or something like this).
This is what a Pac Insider in know is saying:
Eventually everyone plays everyone equally and all profits are shared equally, and it will happen sooner than later.ESPN will likely get an expanded stream of games in its first tier rights and a guarantee of Texas in a certain amount of telecasts. Also, the league will help absorb some of LHN's startup costs as they fold it into the Pac 16 Network. So basically, the league allows UT to save face, ESPN gets probably more UT football than the LHN would have been able to provide and the Pac gets to re-up first tier rights fees with both ESPN and FOX while getting even more premium content for its own networks.
Also, for football it will be four 4-team pods, with a schedule that guarantees everyone plays in California every year, which is crucial for everyone.
The budding Conference Championship Playoffs will likely be as follows:
- Once the LA NFL Arena is built, go between it and Jerry World, with the divisional games at one and the le at the other in a rotating schedule. Until the new LA NFL arena is built, this may stay true, only as the Rose Bowl.
Here's the rumored pods
- Northwest -
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
- Pacific -
Cal
Stanford
UCLA
USC
- Mountain -
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
Utah
- Plains -
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas Tech
Problem is this creates two super division and two largely mediocre divisions. Not really balanced. Plus, this doesn't work well to fit within the soon-to-be-voted-upon parameters of everybody playing one game in California every year. Talk is people would like to do the same in the new region (we'll call it mid-west, even though it's not really).
I wouldn't mind seeing something like below:
(bolded teams the division headliner)
(Italicized teams main challenger)
USC - Arizona State - Washington - Tech
UCLA - Arizona - Oregon - Oklahoma State
Cal - Utah - Washington St - Texas
Stanford - Colorado - Oregon State - Oklahoma
The schedule could be:
- Each team plays their pod every year (3 games) and two from every other pod (6 games) with a +1 for geographical rival (1 game) in years you're not scheduled to play them already. Within this a team would have nine conference games guaranteed, with an occasional 10th for the geographic rival game. In these seasons the non-conference games are cut from three to two to fit within the 12-game season (pre playoffs).
Not sure this works beyond the basics, but it ensures a game in California and Midwest every year, which is what everyone would want.
If an Arizona-ASU-Utah-Colorado pod happens, the great recruiting pipeline to California we have in basketball and football vanishes like a fart in the wind.
Espn bottomline says deal will allow texas to keep LHN.
For football, not for basketball, as it only takes playing San Diego State and St. Mary's in an alternating home-n-home series, and a "neutral" site game vs. Gonzaga or St. John's (rumored) in Anaheim to gain the needed exposure.
But I'm hearing the pods may be for football only.
Oregon would absolutely destroy that "pod"
The former big12 pod would immediately be the best one lol
How would pod scheduling work? So the conference would have 4 divisions?
Interesting. Maybe keep the network but share the proceeds (which is what everyone in the Pac does).
Agree, which is why they need to go the balanced pods I discussed after.Oregon would absolutely destroy that "pod"
The former big12 pod would immediately be the best one lol
Basically.
It doesn't make sense why fans/students of less powerful schools like Arizona want a Pac-16 superconference so badly. If OU and Texas are added, the chances at Arizona ever making a Rose Bowl go from 2% to 0.00002% and it can only hurt their basketball program. I don't see anything good that can come of it for Arizona. Everyone I know wants it and is so excited for it, as if getting pooped on by UT and OU every year is something to look forward to.
Well hopefully all these superconferences eventually create some sort of playoff system in the BCS. An 8 team playoff would be awesome with some bowls after that and would seem necessary with so many good teams in these conferences.
If there's gonna be a playoff system it seems like the most sensible solution is four 16-team superconferences (just for hypothetical sake the Pac-12, SEC, ACC, and Big-10 becoming 16 team conferences) where there's a 4 team BCS playoffs involving the winner of each conference.
That makes sense. You would most likely get teams with 2 or even 3 losses in those games as well. So it would eliminate virtually having to run the table like you do now.
I don't think it holds any real undercutting potential for basketball for reasons I said above for California, plus it adds exposure in Texas, which is a hotbed Arizona once had strong pull in.
Technically Arizona could have a CA game every year with even that original pod structure so long as the schedule has a home-n-home series vs. your pod (6 games) and 2 from remaining three pods (6x2=12 games). That's 18 games, same as now. So if the CA has it's own pod, UA would play HnH vs. USC and Stanford one year and UCLA and Cal next, ensuring a conference game in both southern and northern California every year.
What about starting a HnH with UT and dipping your hand in Texas. It would definitely help recruiting this state a little easier as well.
I hope Pitt and Syracuse create a domino effect in the Big East falling apart and we no longer have to deal with that ty, stained and overrated conference getting easy seeding and biased officiating during March madness.
Basketball in the ACC will be unreal. Adding Pitt and Cuse lol
Big East will dissolve into the ACC (Pitt and Syracuse, maybe UConn) and SEC (West Virginia, maybe TCU or Louisville) and the rest will become scraps for Conference USA (Rugters, St. John's, Cincinnati, Notre Dame, Marquette, etc) or worse (South Florida).
All the Big East's best going to the ACC with Duke and UNC only means ACCSPN will be even worse.
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