Time To Realign

NCAA Realignment

Ok, this whole realignment talk is getting a bit out of control, Boise to the Big East??? They have this whole thing wrong, and yes its all money driven so it is going to be hard to fix, every school wants a piece of a very large pie. 

Let’s think hypothetically for a second, and pretend money isn’t the main factor in this saga.  There has been plenty talk of a 4 or 5 super-conference set up, I happen to favor the 5 conference way. You take all the major schools that are “football and basketball” schools and you divide them up regionally.

80 schools would make the cut for the Super-Conferences,  They would than form the Pac16, BIG16, SEC, ACC, and what is today the BigXII, for arguments sake were going to call that the MID16.

Here is how I would realign this mess we call the NCAA: (Bold represents newcomers to conference)

PAC16		BIG16		MID16		SEC		ACC
UCLA		Ohio St.		Oklahoma		Alabama		Duke
USC		Michigan		Oklahoma St.		LSU		North Carolina
Arizona		Michigan St.		Texas		Arkansas		N.C. St.
Arizona St.		Penn St.		Texas AM		Georgia		Wake Forest
Oregon		Wisconsin		Texas Tech		Kentucky		Virginia
Oregon St.		Illinois		TCU		Miss St.		Virginia Tech
Stanford		Indiana		Kansas		Ole Miss		Maryland
Cal		Purdue		Kansas St.		Auburn		Boston College
Washington		Minnesota		Mizzou		Tennesse		S. Carolina
Washington St.		Nebraska		Baylor		Vanderbilt		Pitt
Utah		Iowa		Colorado St.		Florida		Syracuse
Colorado		Northwestern		Houston		Florida St.		West Virginia
Boise St.		Notre Dame		Memphis		Miami		Uconn
BYU		Iowa St.		Rice		Louisville		St. Johns
Nevada		Cincinnati		New Mexico		Georgia Tech		Rutgers
UNLV		Wyoming		New Mexico St.		Clemson		Georgetown

 By doing it this way, we could than eliminate the BCS in football, and take the top 2 teams from each conference and put them in a 10 team playoff format.

If there is one thing that the NCAA does have right, it’s the NCAA Means Bball tourney, I wouldn’t dream of touching that, let the committees still pick the top 68 teams to play, rewarding the conference champs with #1 seeds, and than going about there selection the same way they have been doing it forever

We are a very long way away from fixing these problems, but the solutions they have been coming up with lately is just a hot mess. Can we please think about the sport of competition instead of dollar signs

J