Another Boring Article About Conference Realignment and Notre Dame

The football conference talk is reaching feeding frenzy proportions. What possibly can be left for the sports media to write, discuss and debate? Are things that slow in the office? World Cup that boring?  Tiger playing that badly?  Obviously, everyone is waiting for the Big Ten (11) to make its move. It appears that both the Big East and the Big-12 are going to be raided and sooner rather than later. The Big Ten (11) has started something they cannot stop and if they do not act soon, the Pac-10 will act first instead.


The $$$ just appears too easy to pass up. The Big Ten network has to be fed and increasing the number of teams and presenting a conference championship game is proving too hard to ignore any longer.

Here at SAS we pulled the old sheet off our vintage Univac computer, plugged it in and held our breath. It started to hum which amazed everyone. Good ole IBM sure knew how to make them. The staff had been punching IBM cards for over a week and the stack was impressive. The boss finally gave the approval and the cards were hand-fed into the machine. We crossed our fingers and here are the results.

The Big Ten (11) will:

Once again, invite Notre Dame to join the conference.  ND will decline and dodge the first bullet.

Take Syracuse from the Big East and snub Rutgers. The Big East will invite Marshall from Conference USA to maintain eight teams playing football and keep their conference BCS bid. Notre Dame manages to dodge a second bullet and will continue to compete in all other sports within the Big East.

The Big Ten (11) now has penetrated the Eastern TV market.

Invite Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and Texas A&M to join the now Big Sixteen. Texas Tech. will be left out in the cold.  Many Texans will be angered by the raid the nose thumbing of Texas Tech.  But come on, who wants Texas Tech?  Calls to remember the Alamo will be made and heard, but to no avail. The $$$ is just too sweet and nice.

The Big Ten (11) will have penetrated the South and Western Plain States TV market.

The Pac-10 will:

Take Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech from the Big-12 and become the Pac-14.  Texans are happy and so are the Red Raiders.

The Mountain West, Conference USA, and recently raped Big-12 will:

Realign to ensure a BCS spot for each conference.

The Results:

A bullet, which Notre Dame could not dodge, was its out-year schedule.  Purdue and Michigan State will be forced to cancel their contracts with Notre Dame to increase playing time in the Big-Sixteen.  The Michigan rivalry is too big and fat for the conference network to pass on.

The thirty-odd bowl games will see their lock-ins with certain conferences change.  This will open up opportunities for Notre Dame.

The ACC and SEC will continue along without any changes in their memberships or TV contracts.

The Pac-14 will negotiate a conference network and make tons of $$$.

Notre Dame will dump the 7-4-1 schedule and bury that dumb idea deep under the south goal post.

The Texas-Oklahoma rivalry will be played across conference boundaries.

New teams will have the opportunity to play in the Rose Bowl.

Recruiting will take on more of a national level, which will hurt Notre Dame in the long run.

NBC will renegotiate it's contract with Notre Dame, and both will make even more $$$.


Well the sheet is back on the Univac and yet another article written about the conference realignment talk.