All Coasts Conference 2030

[Sean Miller Fan]

Atlantic
BC
UConn
Syracuse
Pitt
WVU
Cincy
Lou
VT
NC St
Duke
Wake
GT
St. John's (non-football)
Villanova (non-football)
Georgetown (non-football)

Gulf
USF
UCF
Memphis
Houston
TCU
SMU
TT
Baylor
OK St
Kansas
Kansas St
Iowa St

Pacific
Washington St
Oregon St
Cal
Stanford
San Diego St
Arizona
Arizona St
Utah
BYU
Colorado
UNLV
Boise State
Gonzaga (non-football)

Football only plays games within their division. 3 division champs and 1 wildcard advance to conference semifinals.

Basketball is chartered as 3 different conferences for conference tournament and auto bid purposes. Play 2-4 games per year vs the other divisions.

ACC Atlantic Conference Tournament at MSG

ACC Gulf Conference Tournament in KC

ACC Pacific Conference Tournament in Vegas.

 

[ChiefJusticeMarshall]

North Coast
U Buffalo
Gannon
Oakland
Cleve State
Toledo
Marquette
Wisconsin Green Bay
Minn Duluth
Northern Michigan

Let's Friggin GO!!!!

 

[Richard A]

Atlantic
BC
UConn
Syracuse
Pitt
WVU
Cincy
Lou
VT
NC St
Duke
Wake
GT
St. John's (non-football)
Villanova (non-football)
Georgetown (non-football)

Gulf
USF
UCF
Memphis
Houston
TCU
SMU
TT
Baylor
OK St
Kansas
Kansas St
Iowa St

Pacific
Washington St
Oregon St
Cal
Stanford
San Diego St
Arizona
Arizona St
Utah
BYU
Colorado
UNLV
Boise State
Gonzaga (non-football)

Football only plays games within their division. 3 division champs and 1 wildcard advance to conference semifinals.

Basketball is chartered as 3 different conferences for conference tournament and auto bid purposes. Play 2-4 games per year vs the other divisions.

ACC Atlantic Conference Tournament at MSG

ACC Gulf Conference Tournament in KC

ACC Pacific Conference Tournament in Vegas.

I’m assuming that you didn’t include Miami, Clemson, FSU, and N. Carolina because they will be in the SEC or the Big. One thing I will state is the SEC is not interested in Clemson and the 2 Florida schools. The SEC is already in S. Carolina and Florida and those 3 schools will not add any value to the SEC. Carolina might have interest from the Big.
There has been talk in the SEC about expanding north to compete with the Big tv market. Since CFB is changing every day the SEC may look to adding Pitt to infiltrate the Pa tv market. Might sound crazy but 10 years ago did ever think that free agency would hit college sports? So nothing is off the table.
So you might have to add the 3 above mentioned teams to the Atlantic Coast division.
Just saying

 

[happjack]

I’m assuming that you didn’t include Miami, Clemson, FSU, and N. Carolina because they will be in the SEC or the Big. One thing I will state is the SEC is not interested in Clemson and the 2 Florida schools. The SEC is already in S. Carolina and Florida and those 3 schools will not add any value to the SEC. Carolina might have interest from the Big.
There has been talk in the SEC about expanding north to compete with the Big tv market. Since CFB is changing every day the SEC may look to adding Pitt to infiltrate the Pa tv market. Might sound crazy but 10 years ago did ever think that free agency would hit college sports? So nothing is off the table.
So you might have to add the 3 above mentioned teams to the Atlantic Coast division.
Just saying

When the B1G expands south Clemson will be part of it, It'll most likely be Virginia, UNC, Clemson & Miami, with Duke & Georgia Tech maybe getting added at a discounted rate like Washington & Oregon were. Miami gets the nod over FSU mainly due to location, there's a bunch of old fart B1G alumni in South & Central Florida and barely any in the panhandle which is basically Alabama.

The SEC would most likely grab NC State and VT to get the entire south covered, then go west and take Kansas for basketball, then call it a day. If Pitt and Cincinnati were consistently top 15 teams, competing and winning conference championships the SEC would be kicking their tires, but they're not and will be in the leftover conference.

The best situation for the leftovers is for the public schools going to one conference and the privates to another.

 

[Richard A]

When the B1G expands south Clemson will be part of it, It'll most likely be Virginia, UNC, Clemson & Miami, with Duke & Georgia Tech maybe getting added at a discounted rate like Washington & Oregon were. Miami gets the nod over FSU mainly due to location, there's a bunch of old fart B1G alumni in South & Central Florida and barely any in the panhandle which is basically Alabama.

The SEC would most likely grab NC State and VT to get the entire south covered, then go west and take Kansas for basketball, then call it a day. If Pitt and Cincinnati were consistently top 15 teams, competing and winning conference championships the SEC would be kicking their tires, but they're not and will be in the leftover conference.

The best situation for the leftovers is for the public schools going to one conference and the privates to another.

There are so many scenarios in the ever changing conference realignment who knows where it’s going to go. Pitt has to make sure that they’re sitting at the right table when it all ends.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

I’m assuming that you didn’t include Miami, Clemson, FSU, and N. Carolina because they will be in the SEC or the Big. One thing I will state is the SEC is not interested in Clemson and the 2 Florida schools. The SEC is already in S. Carolina and Florida and those 3 schools will not add any value to the SEC. Carolina might have interest from the Big.
There has been talk in the SEC about expanding north to compete with the Big tv market. Since CFB is changing every day the SEC may look to adding Pitt to infiltrate the Pa tv market. Might sound crazy but 10 years ago did ever think that free agency would hit college sports? So nothing is off the table.
So you might have to add the 3 above mentioned teams to the Atlantic Coast division.
Just saying

The SEC doesn't want FSU, Clem, and Miami but is going to take them to keep the B10 locked out of the south.

 

[happjack]

The SEC doesn't want FSU, Clem, and Miami but is going to take them to keep the B10 locked out of the south.

Clemson, Miami and FSU aren't going to jump at the first offer, they have some leverage and can try to get the best deal for themselves, the SEC can make a preemptive move with an offer, but the B1G has deeper pockets so they'll take who they want.

 

[Burgh15]

That's not a conference, that's a B-league playing behind the big boys with a different set of NIL/pay-for-play rules.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Clemson, Miami and FSU aren't going to jump at the first offer, they have some leverage and can try to get the best deal for themselves, the SEC can make a preemptive move with an offer, but the B1G has deeper pockets so they'll take who they want.

FSU and Clemson desperately want the SEC. They'd probably even take a couple million less to be in it. You don't understand what the SEC is in the South.

 

[Richard A]

FSU and Clemson desperately want the SEC. They'd probably even take a couple million less to be in it. You don't understand what the SEC is in the South.

Since SEC tv covers the entire South, FSU and Clemson and even Miami don’t really add any more value to the SEC tv coverage or not enough viewers.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Since SEC tv covers the entire South, FSU and Clemson and even Miami don’t really add any more value to the SEC tv coverage or not enough viewers.

Correct. They don't add much value and that's why the SEC doesn't want them. But the SEC is going to take them to lock the B10 out of the south. I could potentially see Miami ending up in the B10 but not FSU & Clemson.

 

[happjack]

FSU and Clemson desperately want the SEC. They'd probably even take a couple million less to be in it. You don't understand what the SEC is in the South.

They don't desperately want to be in the SEC, they desperately want more money, the B1G will offer the most and they'll go there.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

They don't desperately want to be in the SEC, they desperately want more money, the B1G will offer the most and they'll go there.

They prefer the SEC and will take a little less to go there. They aren't going to the B10 for an extra $5 million/year and then spend an extra $5 million in travel costs flying their teams to Seattle, Omaha, and Newark instead of bussing across the southland.

If they end up in the B10, it will ONLY be because the SEC didn't invite them.

 

[happjack]

They prefer the SEC and will take a little less to go there. They aren't going to the B10 for an extra $5 million/year and then spend an extra $5 million in travel costs flying their teams to Seattle, Omaha, and Newark instead of bussing across the southland.

If they end up in the B10, it will ONLY be because the SEC didn't invite them.

They'll go to the B1G for only an extra million a year, it's all about the dollars.

 

[pafootballguy]

They prefer the SEC and will take a little less to go there. They aren't going to the B10 for an extra $5 million/year and then spend an extra $5 million in travel costs flying their teams to Seattle, Omaha, and Newark instead of bussing across the southland.

If they end up in the B10, it will ONLY be because the SEC didn't invite them.

You have no idea what they prefer and without receipts, you are just blowing smoke.

 

[TIGER-PAUL]

My guess is they'd 100% prefer SEC. And also suspect B10/SEC/Networks collude (or mostly already have) to decide who goes where vs all out bidding war against each other.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

They'll go to the B1G for only an extra million a year, it's all about the dollars.

So according to you, let's say the BT pays them an extra $1 million per year but their research shows it would add $2 million in travel costs vs SEC, you still think they choose the BT?

 

[ChiefJusticeMarshall]

That's not a conference, that's a B-league playing behind the big boys with a different set of NIL/pay-for-play rules.

Pitt is a B List program.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

That's not a conference, that's a B-league playing behind the big boys with a different set of NIL/pay-for-play rules.

Well, the ACC and B12 leftovers are going to be in a B league after 2030 whether the leagues combine or stay separate. This idea to form a true national conference would be to able to sell to networks the fact that you have so many big markets. You aren't going to get close to P2 money but you'll get enough to be competitive. Again, TV money does not prevent FSU, Clemson, Pitt, or WVU from winning a NC. You need players and to get those players, you need boosters to pay them well. If David Tepper decided he wanted to establish a $25 million/year player payroll fund on top of what Pitt directly pays them (due to House settlement), we would have a NC caliber program. It just takes donor money.