Florida State to the Big Ten?

Why not? Conferences barely mean anything going forward. Go for it.

I think that the BT would welcome UVA and UNC and F$U in a heartbeat.  Notre Dame is the big fish.  

@tsr86free posted:

Why not? Conferences barely mean anything going forward. Go for it.

Very true.  I think we are headed down a path in college football where its basically going to be the BIG and the SEC.  Two huge mega conferences and even ND is going to have to join one because even with their own TV contract the $$ that could be offered would be insane. 

That being said it is weird to me to have schools from California and potentially Florida being in the Big Ten.

@The Heckler posted:

Very true.  I think we are headed down a path in college football where its basically going to be the BIG and the SEC.  Two huge mega conferences and even ND is going to have to join one because even with their own TV contract the $$ that could be offered would be insane.

That being said it is weird to me to have schools from California and potentially Florida being in the Big Ten.

And I think football will eventually just be split off from the other sports.

As of now, there are volleyball (and other non-revenue generating) teams that are potentially going to be traveling from Rutgers or Maryland to play games in Seattle, Corvallis, or LA. Unlike the football teams who travel in charters on Thursday or Friday nights, those other kids will be flying commercial in economy for cross-country flights during the school week regularly.

Let football do it's thing, and let the volleyball, cross country, track, swimming, softball, etc. teams go back to traveling shorter distances by bus to play their sports.

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

And I think football will eventually just be split off from the other sports.

As of now, there are volleyball (and other non-revenue generating) teams that are potentially going to be traveling from Rutgers or Maryland to play games in Seattle, Corvallis, or LA. Unlike the football teams who travel in charters on Thursday or Friday nights, those other kids will be flying commercial in economy for cross-country flights during the school week regularly.

Let football do it's thing, and let the volleyball, cross country, track, swimming, softball, etc. teams go back to traveling shorter distances by bus to play their sports.

Michigan, I agree there will eventually be a split off of football from the NCAA and they will start their own league and be completely separate from other sports.  I don't know how it would work but if the football teams are under a different body do they still have to fund the rest of the athletic department?  I would imagine it would still be the case but it makes me wonder.   

I think it was Herbstreit (and I could be wrong) said kind of the same thing.  Football will split from the NCAA and start its own league with a commissioner running their sport instead of the NCAA. 

One does have to wonder what happens to the lesser level football teams in the future for teams like those in the MAC.  I wonder if eventually they will just fold up the football programs.