Monday, September 19, 2011

What does it all mean

The natural conclusion to draw from all the realignment moves taking place in college athletics is that we will be left with 4 'Superconferences' made up of the future Pac-16, the Big 10 (will they ever change the name), the SEC and the ACC. The obvious losers in this scenario are the former Big 12 and the Big East. So what happens from there. I'm not sure but I have a sneaky feeling that we could see the end of the NCAA as we now know it. 16 x 4 equals 64 teams. These conferences will now have enough teams to play there own basketball tournament at the end of the year without worrying about who the committee left out. Interestingly enough there are currently 30 bowl games (with 2 more planned). Now I don't think that they would also send every team to a bowl and I don't know why people would go see two bottom of the barrel teams play each other but I do feel that the basketball tournament is a real possibility. There is nothing that would stop these schools from forming a new oversight committee and do away with any NCAA affiliation.  The NCAA only has power because the Universities gave it power and bought into the system, nothing that I am aware of stops them from breaking away from it.

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