Expansion Thread 2023

[Lobot]

If you’re able to, read this entire thread from Jordan Acker on expansion and the NCAA. Acker is a UMich regent and nails this one.

https://twitter.com/jordanackermi/status/1688240170682769409?s=46

[bearcatbret]

What might happen with the PAC 4. Could Mountain West and Pac-12 merge into a single, 16-team conference? (msn.com)

[bearcatbret]

Here is a summary of the winners and losers. Conference realignment winners, losers: Oregon comes up short in Big Ten move, Arizona fits in Big 12 (msn.com)

[bearcatbret]

This is pretty funny:

Pac-4: Conference of Champions

This is actually very sad (yes it is funny). I just keep thinking how college sports is being destroyed.

[Lobot]

This is pretty funny:

Pac-4: Conference of Champions

That is great. Somebody is either a really fast web designer or had some time on their hands ahead of time.

[swilsonsp4]

This is pretty funny:

Pac-4: Conference of Champions

[JohnFrancis]

Arizona football is slowly but surely on an upward trajectory under HC Jedd Fisch (worked for Rams and Patriots)...recruiting massively improving under Fisch.

[Lobot]

I regret to inform you that the endgame for all this is a single 130 team mega conference……..and Notre Dame. 🤣

[Illuminerdski]

An idea I like for scheduling would be 4 "pods" playing a 9 game season. A teams pod would play yearly as rivals. The team would then play 4 teams from another pod for a 2 year home-away series. After that 2 year cycle, change the pod which guarantees a team plays every team twice every 6 years. The two remaining games would be against a team in each of the remaining pods. This allows a team to play a team from each pod yearly. That is assuming the NCAA does not force the conference into divisions. If so, ignore me. You never saw this.

[GoBearcats31]

Thamel — Sources: The Big 12's presidents and chancellors voted unanimously Friday night to admit Arizona State and Utah. They did the same last night for Arizona. All three at on the way, pending a Board of Trustees vote in Utah to formalize their move.

Big 12 official https://twitter.com/big12conference/...429-7Zsp1zj4Tg

[GoBearcats31]

Thamel — Sources: The Big 12's presidents and chancellors voted unanimously Friday night to admit Arizona State and Utah. They did the same last night for Arizona. All three at on the way, pending a Board of Trustees vote in Utah to formalize their move.

[bearcatbret]

Longtime - Keep your post and repost it in 9 months to see how close you got. I think that this does a lot. It keeps long-time rivalries alive, keeps regional ties. The only concern that I have with these large conferences, a player may play for 4-5 years with the same school and may never play a team from the other division. Say you have 7 division games so that you need 2 games from the other division each year. I guess that you could get all 8 teams in but only half of them at home and play them only once each.

[longtimefan]

So, how does this look?
West
Arizona
Arizona St.
Baylor
BYU
Colorado
TCU
Texas Tech
Utah

East
Central Florida
Cincinnati
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
OK State
West Virginia

[bearcatbret]

McMurphy:
“Arizona, Arizona State & 2-time defending Pac-12 champion Utah joining Big 12 in 2024 pending Big 12 formal approval in next 24 hours, sources told @ActionNetworkHQ. Big 12 will be 3rd league w/at least 16 schools, while Pac-12 down to 4 schools.”

We were in a 16 team BE for basketball, I have no idea how football will work.

For a 16-team league, would football be two 8-team divisions and just play 7 conference games within the division and the winner of each division plays in the conference championship? Or do we go with 4 pods of 4 teams (3 games within the pod) and play two teams from the other three pods each year (6 games) for a total of 9 conference games? If you went with 2 divisions or 4 pods, which teams would be in each?

What will be interesting is to see how the B!G rearranges their schedule because they have already released their 2024 schedule.

[longtimefan]

McMurphy:
“Arizona, Arizona State & 2-time defending Pac-12 champion Utah joining Big 12 in 2024 pending Big 12 formal approval in next 24 hours, sources told @ActionNetworkHQ. Big 12 will be 3rd league w/at least 16 schools, while Pac-12 down to 4 schools.”

We were in a 16 team BE for basketball, I have no idea how football will work.