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Texas A&M to SEC trickle down effect

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NAUGUY6615

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I know it's a long shot, but if the Big 12 eventually breaks up and the WAC and Mtn West suddenly have some decent FBS teams to pick from, does this put to bed any chance the Griz move up?
 
NAUGUY6615 said:
I know it's a long shot, but if the Big 12 eventually breaks up and the WAC and Mtn West suddenly have some decent FBS teams to pick from, does this put to bed any chance the Griz move up?
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Yes, along with there finally being an elite division, and all the rest. All the rest consisting of good FCS programs, and the left out programs from BCS. As to how Title 9 and scholarship limits will work by combining, that will be the hard part to implement.

So years later, what the WAC/MWC had done before splitting up is now the trend. Looks like they had it right the 1st time. Again, greed and pride got in the way. How much further ahead would all those programs be today, had they only stuck together to begin with?

Sometime between 2015 and 2020, college football finally have gone through its transition. That should be good for 10 to 20 years.

Seriously, who did not see this coming about 3 to 5 years back? It looks to be a pretty obvious outcome to me. Then again, with the economy being so bad, there might not be as many programs playing.
 
NAUGUY6615 said:
I know it's a long shot, but if the Big 12 eventually breaks up and the WAC and Mtn West suddenly have some decent FBS teams to pick from, does this put to bed any chance the Griz move up?
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While the death of the Big 12 obviously will affect the Mountain West and WAC, neither of those conferences figure to pick up anything but the scraps like Iowa State and Baylor. If the Big 12 dissolves, the first thing that will happen is that the Pac-12 will follow through with their not-so-secret plan of going to 16 by adding 4 schools from the Big 12. Texas would clearly be at the top of the list (if they're somehow willing to give up the Longhorn Network), followed by Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and either Kansas or Texas Tech. That would make a Pac-16 with two divisions, one consisting of the classic Pac-8, and the other of eight schools in the mountain and central time zones. Missouri will join up with either the Big Ten or SEC because they would deliver the St. Louis and Kansas City markets with them. After that, no one really knows what the orphaned Big 12 schools would do. Their best hope would be to form a western division in the Big East, as ridiculous as that sounds. The problem there is that no one knows how much longer the Big East has as a BCS conference, since further expansions by the Big Ten or ACC could deplete it's membership. In the worst-case scenario for Iowa State, Kansas State, Baylor, and Kansas/Texas Tech, they would be forced to join an expanded Conference-USA or Mountain West. All of this isn't my opinion, it's what I've been reading in the news from people who have a handle on the business of college athletics. I can only assume that any membership changes in C-USA or the Mountain West would affect the alignment of the Big Sky, but we would have to wait for all kinds of FBS schools that make their moves first before we can get any idea where UM is headed.
 
Sounds like the SEC wants to expand by two at a time, but they're waiting because the current schools haven't reached a consensus on which other one to add. This thing is far from over.
 
This is the best summary of the situation yet:
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