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Tercules

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No one except Texas has a guaranteed home


Going beyond 14 hinders cross-divisional play and is really the point where it's bloated enough to be considered 2 different conferences. Yes there's pods and rotating membership ideas but they're really clunky solutions to problems of their own creation. 14 is already problematic enough for playing all teams in a league.

Someone would make room for Texas. Maybe the PAC or B1G would take Texas and OU. Maybe the PAC or someone else would cut a ND-esque deal for independent Texas until the LHN runs out, leaving OU in the cold.

The SEC isn't going to expand just because OU is available. They're doing just fine with 14.

So I don't see any "lining up of homes" for more than 2 teams, especially when conferences can simply say they're going to wait and see what the landscape looks like 6 or 7 years out when the B12 contract expires.

(In response to this post by daveinop)

Posted: 08/01/2016 at 12:48PM



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