ScottyBuff
Well-Known Member
The goal: a 16-team "flagship" conference of western collegiate superpowers, that would dominate the media markets, academic research, and fields of play west of the Mississippi.
Due to academic criteria or market appeal, the following moves would have to be made:
Pac-10 drops Washington State and Oregon State.
Big 12 drops Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Baylor, and Texas Tech.
The remaining teams merge into a new conference and also add University of Utah.
While Oklahoma, Utah, and Arizona State aren't quite up to the standards of the other schools academically, they are invited due to access to large media markets, and athletic performance.
For divisions, the "Pac-10" schools would go in one division, the "Big 12" teams + Utah in the other.
The athletics, academics, and market share of this league would be superior, or on par, with any other league. Basically it retains the current conference alignment so tradition isn't significantly lost, and travel costs are contained.
The football championship game could be held in Phoenix or Dallas (or rotating); basketball could be in either or Las Vegas.
Voting issues can be approved by a 10-member majority vote, thus preventing a small block of teams from holding the rest of the team hostage.
Adding the two huge recruiting markets of Texas and California would monopolize the talent in the west.
Packaging the Los Angeles, Bay Area, Sacramento, San Deigo, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin television markets would allow all teams to rival the SEC/Big Ten in contracted revenue payouts through a national deal or the formation of a conference network.
The academics would most likely be overjoyed to have an "elite" group of flagship research institutions and form a conference wide research consortium.
Football bowl games would include the championship BCS bid in the Rose Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, the Alamo Bowl, the Holiday Bowl. A 2nd BCS bid under the current criteria would almost be guaranteed every year.
BigPac Conference
West Division
Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
Pacific Division
Arizona State
Arizona
USC
UCLA
California
Stanford
Oregon
Washington
Due to academic criteria or market appeal, the following moves would have to be made:
Pac-10 drops Washington State and Oregon State.
Big 12 drops Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Baylor, and Texas Tech.
The remaining teams merge into a new conference and also add University of Utah.
While Oklahoma, Utah, and Arizona State aren't quite up to the standards of the other schools academically, they are invited due to access to large media markets, and athletic performance.
For divisions, the "Pac-10" schools would go in one division, the "Big 12" teams + Utah in the other.
The athletics, academics, and market share of this league would be superior, or on par, with any other league. Basically it retains the current conference alignment so tradition isn't significantly lost, and travel costs are contained.
The football championship game could be held in Phoenix or Dallas (or rotating); basketball could be in either or Las Vegas.
Voting issues can be approved by a 10-member majority vote, thus preventing a small block of teams from holding the rest of the team hostage.
Adding the two huge recruiting markets of Texas and California would monopolize the talent in the west.
Packaging the Los Angeles, Bay Area, Sacramento, San Deigo, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin television markets would allow all teams to rival the SEC/Big Ten in contracted revenue payouts through a national deal or the formation of a conference network.
The academics would most likely be overjoyed to have an "elite" group of flagship research institutions and form a conference wide research consortium.
Football bowl games would include the championship BCS bid in the Rose Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, the Alamo Bowl, the Holiday Bowl. A 2nd BCS bid under the current criteria would almost be guaranteed every year.
BigPac Conference
West Division
Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
Pacific Division
Arizona State
Arizona
USC
UCLA
California
Stanford
Oregon
Washington