Wednesday, September 14, 2011

An interesting read from our friends at Zen College Life

Hey everybody, I know that there is a lot of talk flying around about the potential realignment upcoming in college football.

From my personal point of view, well frankly, I am not sure what I think about it.  On the upside, big conferences may lead to an easier transition to a tournament-type of situation.  After all, if you have to win your conference title game to be considered for the National Title, that's kind of like an elite 8...ish

But the other side of me just looks at this as a way for the "have's" to extend the power difference.

I'll have more to come on this, but had an interesting POV shared from our friends over at Zen College Life.  Forget what is good for college football for a few minutes, or what is good for your personal POV.....their approach was What is good for the teams?

This is likely a good way to look at it because it's how the teams/schools are going to look at it.

A fairly quick read, but there are a couple of intersting points.  One thing I noticed was that the PAC-N didn't get much attention in there, and that makes a lot of sense.  Teams that are not west of the Central Time Zone are going to get killed in regards to TV dollars if they join the PAC-10 and their games are scheduled for Prime Time out west.  We don't like to think about TV paying for sports, but let's be real, that's what all this is about.  What conference pays the best?  That money is coming from their TV contracts in a big way, and these teams in the Central Time Zone (Big 12) have one big advantage.  Their games are scheduled so that they can potentially be watched nation wide.  If a team like OU or Texas joins the PAC-10, their games are going to scheduled later in the day and they are going to lose the East Coast and there is no way that they will get the same dollars as if they were available nationwide.

Any way, take a read, and come see us again.

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