PartyBear said:BUATX2000 said:bear2be2 said:Franklins said:
That's far from true.
If you really think schools like Missouri and Northwestern are locks while we have no chance then you don't have a clue. We are definitely the underdog, but there's a path.
Good thing for SMU their alums are more optimistic than you are. You better believe they think they're getting in and we were ahead of them by a mile a few years ago. Results talk. Most importantly, money talks.
There is no path. SMU has no path either.
Both Baylor and SMU have hit their conference prestige ceilings, and that's OK.
It's time to water the grass where we're at because we're never hopping that fence. To think that the SEC or Big Ten would have any use for a private school with a small regional following is not only delusional, it's keeping you from appreciating and enjoying the things we do have and have accomplished.
Here is what you don't understand. It's not about the SEC or the Big10. It's about ESPN and Fox and neither of them want two 18 team leagues. What they want is to maximize the value of their product. In order to do so, they will need at least 64 possibly 80 teams to compete for slots in an eventual 16 team playoff.
The big 12 will likely continue to expand to absorb some of the more established G5 teams and the SEC and Big 10 will carve up the ACC.
Some ACC schools will end up in the bi12 as well… think NC state, Georgia Tech, Va tech.
We won't be with the power 2 but we will still have a seat at the table.
As to you first paragraph, that is now the current state, except for the 16 team play off part. So no need for the B10 or SEC to take any ACC teams. Im not sure why it would be more beneficial to have a B2 and a little lesser 1 than it would be to have the B2 and the current little lesser 2.
I'm not disagreeing with you just point ing out that the landscape is currently at the end game as per what ESPN and Fox want, if what you said is accurate and it makes sense that it is.
My point is that ESPN and Fox are not looking to move to a P2 only system. They want the Big12 to be propped up ever so slightly to serve as a charge of the light brigade sacrificial lamb at the altar of the mighty dual deity of the SEC and Big10. They will likely allow the ACC to fall into the abyss and let top tier brands like FSU and Miami to go to the SEC while lesser brands will band together with the big12. We will be at the table but it will be a dinner for schmucks.