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1 day 6 hours ago I think it speaks more to the

I think it speaks more to the lack of quality receivers around the conference.
2 days 3 hours ago Maybe "worthy" wasn't the

Maybe "worthy" wasn't the right word.  What I mean is, if a conference was considering adding those schools today, would they think that the school brings enough to the table to pay for themselves and add value to the conference?  For the schools I listed, I either think conferences wouldn't add them, or it would be close.  And I wasn't leaving out schools based solely on winning percentage, it was more about Alumni Base, media footprint, etc.  Private schools (that don't have history like USC/ND or ridiculous endowments like Stanford), and second schools in smallish states don't bring a lot to the table in pure terms of expansion desireability.  That's just the way it is.  Those are the schools that if their conference fell apart don't bring anything of interest to one of the other conferences and would be left out, which is why you don't come to 64 total schools if "super-conferences" form.

Why does the majority of NCAA institutions have to go along?  The NCAA has very little to do with FBS football when it comes to conference affiliation and national championship structure.  If the four conferences divised a system to automatically close out the rest of FBS from a national championship system or from TV, then maybe there would be a problem, but otherwise its simply schools deciding for themselves who to associate with.  

And really, if getting the rest of the NCAA to go along actually was an issue, there's always the nuclear option (or threat of said optioin) whereby the super-conferences break off from the NCAA and form their own organization.  
2 days 4 hours ago There may be 63 schools

There may be 63 schools currently in the big five conferences (+ notre dame), but you and I know that many of them wouldn't be super conference worthy if not for the fact that they weren't already in one of those conferences.  Each conference has them: Big Ten - Northwestern, Purdue (?); ACC - Wake Forrest, Boston College, Duke (?), Syracuse(?), Pitt(?); SEC: Vanderbilt, Mississippi State; Big 12: Kansas, Kansas State, Baylor, TCU (?); Pac 12: Washington State, Oregon State(?), Stanford (?).  

I think we agree on the larger point, super conferences will kill off one of the existing conferences, and the only schools from that dead conference that get picked up will have something to offer.
2 days 5 hours ago You're not approaching it

You're not approaching it from the conferences' perspective.  Can you or I sit down with a full list of FBS schools and put together a structure that splits the schools into appropriate conferences in a new first division of college football?  Absolutely.  Will anyone allow that to happen?  No chance in hell.  

Schools exist to fill out 4-16 team super conferences.  But there aren't 16 independent schools whereby the SEC would be happy with two of them, the Big 12 with six of them, the Big Ten with four of them and the Pac 12 with four of them.  It just doesn't work.  Seriously, give it a try.  Maybe you could reasonably fill up the three eastern most conferences, but you can't do anything for the Pac 12, especially with BYU and Boise being no-gos.  
2 days 5 hours ago It's more of a fan's dream

It's more of a fan's dream than anything else.  Fans like symmetry.  But in reality, there are not 16 more schools to cram into the Big Ten, Pac-12, Big 12 and SEC.  They just don't exist.  There may be four "super-conferences", but they won't be of 16 teams.  Maybe the SEC and Big 12 go up to 16, those conferences seem like they act before thinking.  But the Big Ten won't go up unless it's worth it.  And the Pac 12 has nobody reasonably in their footprint to add.  If they can't pull in Texas, it's not happening out west.
2 days 11 hours ago There are exceptions (Jeremy

There are exceptions (Jeremy Lin), but generally it's hard to get better at skills you need as a PG without seeing more PT than he's been getting.  And even Lin has, in my opinion, merely done the things he was already good at, so he may not be a great counter example.  

Morris needs a situation where he can play, whether it's in the D-league or as a backup.  Being the last guy off the bench is the absolute worst place he can be.
6 days 4 hours ago I just don't think you can

I just don't think you can say "nobody would agree."  It doesn't seem like we even pushed, despite there being parties that should theoretically favor at least rotating semifinal sites out of the current four locations.  For a good portion of the ACC, none of the bowl sites are really a drive.  For the Pacific Northwest schools of the Pac 12, once you leave LA, it's all pretty much the same.  The Big 12 base would love to occasionally have a game in Dallas.  To me, it seems like it's pretty much just the SEC and the southern portion of the Pac 12 that would have incentive to really fight for the traditional bowl sites.  

If the ADs/Commissioners didn't care about protecting the existing bowls, I am sure an agreement could have been made where each conference gets to designate a "host" site if that conference's representative is 1 or 2.  
6 days 4 hours ago I saw somewhere that Deloss

I saw somewhere that Deloss Dodds favors neutral site playoff games outside the traditional bowl structure, thus the Big 12 does as well (Texas = Big 12).  That's one group on our side.  The ACC souldn't mind having a game in Atlanta or Charlotte.  I don't see why they would be opposed.  The Big East .... hahaha, just kidding, they don't matter.  

If it wasn't for the Big Ten's insistence on maintaining the Rose Bowl, there would be only two conferences supportive of bowl sites only.  Once you get to neutral sites, they can be anywhere.  It's inexcusable that the Big Tem ceded this point so easily. 
6 days 4 hours ago It's not better than a

It's not better than a rotation of NFL stadiums that includes Indy/St. Louis/Minneapolis/Detroit.    If those sites can host a Super Bowl or a final four, there's zero reason why the can't also host college football playoff games.  There hasn't been a remotely compelling reason why it couldn't work other than the SEC/Pac-12 not wanting to give up their natural advantage.
1 week 1 day ago It already is a consolation

It already is a consolation game.  
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