I always said many Sports Lawyers and Business Media Consultants told me, the Power Conferences should go to Four 18 to 20 Teams Each with Two Divisions. However, down the Road they can and will form a For Profit League based on Geography, Costs Savings, Favorable Mutual Attendance whereby Larger Universities Fans Sell Out Smaller Universities, and form its own NCAA Organization that will pay, subsidize, and reduced Rosters very similar to how the NFL Reorganized with AFC-NFC Mergers.
This would be the next step but it may not go like Osborne predicts. SEC is still the Best, Smartest, and won't stand by watching Big Ten grow without countering, PAC-12 is still in need of Central Time Zone Start Time Teams and Media Partners, and Notre Dame will not sit by either and will be active suitors to increase the ACC if it has to join a Conference to keep it's Income go Higher.
This may be the Spark that ignites responses and moves this Proposal that is a natural out growth of making more Revenues as well as Reducing Costs. As well as, confront the replacement of NCAA Hypocrisy and adjustment of Title IX impacts on the Student Athlete, Rosters, and do it to modernize University Non-Profits by recognizing the need to make Football programs more profitable for the Institutions.
Athletic Directors will tell you the best way to set up Scheduling is 9 Team Two Division in an 18 Team Conference whereby all 9 Teams play each other with 2 Inter-Conference Teams, 2 OOC!
Texas will decide its future and SEC, PAC-12 and ACC will be just as active, along with Disney,Verizon, Comcasts, National Amusements, Silicon Valley, impacting on ESPN, ABC, FOX, CBS, ABC, and NBC.
Once again, everyone said no Expansion until 2024, but 2018 was always the year when rumors turn into action and movement made the most sense, and that will include changes in CFB Invitational Championship Committee number of Invites too, and possible removal of NCAA Basketball Relationship with CBS as well to bring more Value to all Conference Networks.
However, here is the Quote That Counts:
“I think so far it’s worked well, and of course financially, it’s probably an improvement for Nebraska. I just wish we could win a few more championships. That would be helpful.”
Osborne has come to know, just joining a Conference to make more money is not the Goal of any Once Top 10 Winning Program, Osborne wants the ability to insure more National Championships and he did that his way buy adopting 200 Players Rosters, with 85 NCAA Scholarships but with Nebraskan County Scholarship Walk-Ons Programs and left Big-12 because the Big Ten allowed Unlimited NCAA Non-Qualifiers! (Posted It Many Times)!
Texas would not agree to it and NU left for Big-10 followed by UMD & RU, CU-Pac-12 added Utah, SEC added A&M that helped caused Big-12 demise due to Texas too, and Missouri waited and waited on Big-10 Invite but never came so SEC Invite accepted.
OU may be the Catalyst but Texas is the Decider and Texas is the Richest College Football Program everybody wants badly. The Big Ten Delany sneaky as ever wants to bolster Basketball as well and Kansas won't be a threat to the Big Two in Football just like NU & PSU proved and UMD & RU are not a threat either, just markets.
However, unlike Penn State and Nebraska whose Winning has gone down since joining the Big Ten and those are proven Facts...........OU and Texas care more about Football Winning Conference & National Championships too, not just making money, same with Notre Dame. SEC makes that tougher, Big Ten Two too, but PAC-12 only has USC, and ACC FSU & Clemson and ND is pledge to the ACC, and Texas will look at West Coast and Atlantic Coast on that aspect. Why go north when winning will be easier West and East? OU will think hard on that too, but NU Renewal and losing UT is not exactly a fair Trade so may go together?
This is Osborne's Last Swan Song and he knows Nebraska is having real trouble Winning Conference Divisions let alone National Championships, this really upsets him and Big Red Boosters and Fans too. OU's President (Former Senator) Boren like (Former Congressman) Osborne another Former Washington Insiders wants a bigger Big-12 and would preferred OU help rule over it with just Texas, but Osborne wants NU to win more and bring more Texas recruits back to NU like it was when in Big Eight and Big-12.
