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If automatic P5 bids are a big deal, then breaking up a conference is less

likely. Or, put another way, making a conference bigger makes it more difficult for an individual member of said conference to get an auto bid.

If they are throwing out the 12 number to get 8 in the end, I get it. The SEC wants multiple bids, and they will get it with 8 or 12. Notre Dame also gets what it wants with 8 or 12. Pac12 also gets what it wants with 8 or 12.

The ACC should be pushing for 12--if the status quo remains, multiple bids won't happen for the ACC at 8. It might not happen with 12 either, but I digress.

1. I am not a negotiator.
2. I am not an expansion expert, if there even is such a thing.
3. I'm just a Will Rogers: "all I know is what I read in the newspapers." I put two and two together afterward.

That being said, you seem to dismiss this as a smokescreen. Yet, several days ago, you posted a 2017 article as evidence that Texas to the ACC was a real possibility. Maybe you could share your wisdom with the board on which articles are gospel and which are red herrings.

[Post edited by Maroon Baboon at 06/08/2021 8:38PM]

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Welp. It was nice knowin' ya, Notre Dame. (CFP expansion coming soon) -- Maroon Baboon 06/08/2021 8:44PM

I was a lawyer for over 32 years -- TerryD 06/09/2021 01:39AM

Yep throw out a high number so the number you want to get feels reasonable. -- Stech 06/09/2021 06:22AM

Not there yet, automatic bids to Power Conferences Campions is a big deal, -- Stech 06/08/2021 7:12PM

If automatic P5 bids are a big deal, then breaking up a conference is less -- Maroon Baboon 06/08/2021 8:38PM

My article had direct quotes from the then Texas AD you don’t believe that? -- Stech 06/08/2021 11:56PM

So you think we are staying at 4 then? -- Maroon Baboon 06/09/2021 01:46AM

I think we are headed to 8, but not sure if now or later. ** -- Stech 06/09/2021 05:46AM

There should 8 P5 conferences of 11 teams each. Play 10 conference games, 2 -- NokieHokie 06/08/2021 8:22PM

I would love that. -- Maroon Baboon 06/08/2021 8:27PM

That works too. Could have P7 conferences with the champs and one at large ** -- NokieHokie 06/08/2021 8:28PM

Could you imagine New Years? 🔥🔥🔥 -- Maroon Baboon 06/08/2021 8:35PM

Good plan. ** -- RJHokie 06/08/2021 8:24PM

I'd add that they could bring back round robin play and get rid of -- Maroon Baboon 06/08/2021 9:06PM

There should be no independents in the picture either..... -- RJHokie 06/08/2021 8:09PM

Agree, you are in a conference and qualify or you don't qualify, period. -- FLKEYSHOKIE 06/09/2021 9:17PM

Why? ** -- TerryD 06/09/2021 01:36AM

Because no single school should be treated like, ... -- Atlee Hokie 06/09/2021 02:50AM

Its not. Any school can be an independent. Some still are. -- TerryD 06/09/2021 07:57AM

Welp, since ND is heading the committee, I doubt that happens. -- Maroon Baboon 06/09/2021 01:57AM

Just believe that conferences are the better route to go. ** -- RJHokie 06/08/2021 8:19PM

That "opinion" is not a practical or legal reason to exclude schools ** -- TerryD 06/09/2021 01:40AM

Whatever...... -- RJHokie 06/09/2021 10:02AM

ND is never going to be excluded as an indy -- TerryD 06/09/2021 4:13PM

Never is a long time...... -- RJHokie 06/09/2021 4:54PM

Yep, so has the last 100 years -- TerryD 06/09/2021 8:10PM

But, times might be just a "changing". Past history doesn't "guarantee" -- FLKEYSHOKIE 06/09/2021 9:44PM

Things change as people pass on. ** -- RJHokie 06/09/2021 8:20PM

Yep. ** -- EDGEMAN 06/08/2021 5:57PM