OT: Which 2 Teams Should B12 Add to Become Eligible for CCG

I'd like to see them get the SWC (mostly) back together by welcoming back Rice, Houston and SMU, although Rice and Houston being in the same TV market makes that problematic. I've also heard UT doesn't want any more Texas teams added to dilute their P5 market and recruiting.

If I was the B12 commish I'd go with

1. Try to get Nebraska back
2. Cincinnati no-brainer for both parties, get into Ohio market and recruiting
3. Take a flyer at Miami (YTM) to get into Florida market and recruiting, otherwise go with UCF.

Wasn't Boise St set to move to the Big East until everything else happened with reallignment? Seems like they would still have interest in a move, and it would make more sense geographically.

 

As far as team 2...perhaps a Conference USA team looking to jump ship now that their conference has been impacted by UAB's departure.

Honestly, Nebraska, Colorado, or Mizzou...but, since that is unlikely to happen, the pickings are pretty slim. It may be just as likely the conference further implodes than the conference adds more teams.

 

Can you imagine the meltdown the B1G offices would have?

Please put the Big Ten back to how it was or make the West challenging with MSU.

Boise, BYU, Cincinnati, and Colorado State. Overall they're better football programs that Iowa State and Kansas.

BYU and....

 

NIU

"expand the footprint" - Jim Delany

Rutgers and Maryland.  I won't mind

there is nobody left but BYU. the big xii was too stupid and waited on Pitt and Louisville to their detriment

Don't do anything.  Watering down the conference to get a championship game won't help.  They already play 9 conference games (the same number as a Big Ten champion).  Get their conference members to play better competiition in the non-conference and have their conference declare a "true" champion for playoff consideration purposes.  If Baylor beats a Nebraska this year, which they would have, they're in.  If the Big 12 declared Baylor the champion this year, which they were, they're in.  It's stupid to make the conference weaker, make conference mates less money, just to solve a one-year problem that they could address through other means.

But it would be great to add army and navy.

The one invariable rule of conference expansion, is that no one expands to lose money. The available options for the Big XII are pedestrian, small-market teams that don't bring in much new money, but would give the league two more mouths to feed. The best candidate is BYU, but the Cougars have declined the Big XII's overtures in the past.

There's another big problem. The Texas schools want to play each other every year, and the remaining teams want two road games in Texas every year. If they expand, then some teams will have to accept a considerably worse schedule than they have now.

Coming up with balanced divisions is a problem for the Big XII. Oklahoma and Texas do not want to give up their annual game (the Red River Rivalry), but the league is horribly unbalanced if Oklahoma and Texas are in the same division, assuming the Longhorns return to respectability (which, with their resources, they are exceedingly likely to do). The old Big XII was at least able to balance it somewhat, by having Nebraska in the opposite division to Oklahoma and Texas, but Nebraska is gone.

So, to make a long story short, I think the Big XII is highly unlikely to expand based on getting screwed once in the CFB playoff. A four-team playoff with five power conferences is always going to screw somebody. There's no evidence yet that it'll always be the Big XII.

From a natural rivalry standpoint, I think adding SMU and Houston would be interesting.  SMU will likely never ever happen because well you know that history in the 80s.

From a strategic standpoint, I would try to add Cincinnati to open up Ohio recruiting grounds and increase east of the Mississippi exposure.  They also improve hoops presence.  Then I would say its either Boise/Colorado St both being equal in what they bring recruiting/exposure wise.  Boise probably being the more attractive of the two.  

BYU would be an outlier.  I'm just not sure how Morman religion would align with relatively conservative midwestern values - also not sure how the Morman sabatical (I know that's not what its called would fit in).  They just seem like a oval peg for a round hole.

No one stands out. How about NCAA eliminate 12 team minimum for championship so the B12 gets another game.

There's been talk about a "waiver" so the Big 12 can stage a CCG. Waiver from who? The NCAA? The BCS? We're in Power 5 CoFoPo Land now, can't everyone do whatever the fuck they want?

They should send four teams to the PAC 12 and the rest combine with the SEC and ACC to make two conferences of 16 each. 64 teams in four power conferences.

I think Boise State and Colorado State would be the most likely teams. And I think they should also ass North Dakota State anf Memphis. I feel NDS is ready for the big time sports and it would be good for a rural area have a major sport team.

Didn't anybody learn anything from the recent conference expansion. BYU and Boise State have the best football programs, but I guarantee you the other schools and the higher-ups in the conference don't give a crap about who's won 10 games every once in a while over the past couple of years.

The only thing that matters is "brand visibility", "television market share", and "program resources". The Big 10 added Rutgers and Maryland to get the BTN into New York and DC. That's it.

If you're looking for programs in major to decent television markets, plentiful resources, and some success in either basketball/football, then the two obvious choices are Cincinnati and Memphis. The geographic proximity to WVU is a bonus so the Big XII can say they're the conference of Texas, the Plains, and the Ohio Valley. Ohio and Tennessee are fertile recruiting grounds.

Not one of those schools will want to make the trip to Boise, ID once every couple of years.