Realignment In D1A Football Is Getting Closer.....

Well, the reason that you don't automaticly qualify every conference as aBCS league is because there are only 4 BCS bowls and 8 BCS slots. If you automaticly qualify every 1A conference, then how do you tell any of the champions of the MAC, WAC, Mountain West, Sunbelt, or CUSA that they don't deserve a spot. Including the Big 6 conferences, that makes a total of 12 Champions for 8 slots. In addition, can you imagine a BCS matchup in the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, or Rose Bowls which includes last years WAC champ, (A)Boise State vs. Oklahoma. how about last years Sunbelt Champ, (B)North Texas Vs. LSU in the Sugar Bowl. How about (C)Akron, Toledo or Marshall from the MAC vs. Southern Cal in the Fiesta? Just telling these podunk teams which are basicly pretenders at the D1A level that they are included will not solve the problem. They are after redistribution of the money. They could care less who plays where. The fact is that these schools want to be funded by the welfare support from
the larger football playing schools. What bowl they are in is not the point. However, it would be a damn tough sell for any of the major bowls to include the "champions" from these so called 1A conferences. What happens when the Sugar, Rose, etc, can't generate the money as a result of a pathetic matchup? After all, TV ratings drive the money generated for the BCS. That is precisely why the smaller conferences weren't included in the 1st place. They never have generated much interest or TV money yet they want the benefits which were achieved by marketing the major BCS schools. It's going to lead to a split in the current D1A and the more you look at it, the more it appears to be coming right around the corner. Otherwise the major conferences are going to have to be dictated to by the ULL's, North Texas's, Boise State's, UTEP's, and Akron's of the football world. That won't happen.

 

Oh, by the way. I realize that there are only 11 Conference Champions in D1A. The reason I said 12 in my post above was Notre Dame already has special consideration as an Independent.
Including Notre Dame it would make 12.

 

What hurt Tulane was leaving the SEC. Same will happen to Vandy if they leave.

I can agree with most of the posts in this thread. But my problem comes when one of these schools go undefeated. I think having an undefeated season should earn you a spot a BCS bowl. If not, then why not break up Div 1A. If going undefeated is not enough to get you into a BCS bowl game, then that stuff does hurt things like support, etc.

I don't know if anyone will remember this, and I still hate thinking about it, but around 15 years ago the idea of a Super 60 was toyed with. My problem with the Super 60, was that LSU was not included . . yet all three of the big Florida schools were. I will try and find some kind of link, but this was big news back then (instead of the Super 60, we got the BCS).

I don't think anyone is trying to say that teams from weak conferences should be forced into major bowls with poor records. It is just that these minor conferences want to know that when they do have a team go undefeated that they get ranked and have a chance to play in a big bowl. If not, why bother competing in the first place, just to give the BCS conferences quaility wins to help their rankings . . . that is not going to fly anymore with the parity we are seeing in the college football.

Oh, and ND should be forced to join a football conference. It's hardly fair to have better SEC, Big 12, and Big 10 teams . . . ranked lower than ND to allow ND into a BCS game. ND is not the football force they once were, and with all the changes we have seen, it would only be fair.

 

These schools (Tulane, Vandy etc.) are just like liberal socialist poloticians (Kennedy, Byrd, Obey). They bring nothing to the table, fan base, TV audience, money and they expect us (LSU, Texas, Bama, ND etc) to share their wealth. Sports socialism, spread the wealth. These welfare athletic departments need to start their own football division, drop to 1AA or drop football.