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Simple. Each game would be simulcast on an over-the-air station (aside from CBS affiliates) in markets in which the participating teams are of interest. State flagship schools could be seen over the air throughout the entire state, while other schools might be limited to the TV market they are...

The NBA and NHL have decided to start their next seasons in December. Both want to play 82 games between December and April. However, there are major issues with those plans. Players would be forced to work harder, and potentially play at least 3-4 days in a row. Basketball and hockey are...

FBS schools in practice do not schedule games against non-scholarship FCS teams because a win over them doesn't count towards bowl eligibility. Several FBS teams canceled games against Presbyterian after they announced a move to non-scholarship football.

St. Thomas gets approval from NCAA to go Division I And so it begins. With the Tommies making the leap, it won't be long before other successful D-III schools start questioning their commitment to the D-III policy. These schools would likely end up in D-II though since St. Thomas had...

Air Force plays at Army tonight. I'd like to see Air Force join the Patriot League for non-football sports (football would be an FBS independent) in order to share a conference with Army and Navy. The geographical considerations would be offset by Air Force (and by extension, the federal...

Wichita State among others proved that conference realignment isn't entirely about football. The ACC will see that, and offer spots to UConn and Cincy based on their basketball prowess.

Big East Basketball Thread For the reasons listed here I think UConn will be in the ACC by the end of the next decade.

I consider this to be a stopgap measure until UConn can finally get an ACC invite. 1. This isn't the Big East that UConn fans had grown to love. They would be the only public school in the conference. 2. The ACC will expand again in the next decade to help the growth of their cable network...

The NBA could learn from the MIAC. If the Warriors win another title the NBA could throw them out.

I've proposed a split of the DII Northern Sun Conference along state lines. 6 of the 7 non-Minnesota schools in the conference (all of them except D1-bound Augustana) would leave to form a new conference, adding Dakota State, Dickinson State, Central (IA), Peru State and UW-Whitewater from lower...

A huge amount of NCAA tourney games are airing on cable networks now. Starting next year, the cable games should be made available to over-the-air stations in markets interested in the teams playing in them. Like Saint Mary's - Villanova would air on broadcast stations in the Bay Area and...

Saint Mary's - Nova is interesting because it matches representatives of the two most prominent private school-only conferences in CBB (WCC and Big East)

Since you're not in the Big 12 title game maybe WVU can make up the lost date with NC State by scheduling UNC or Southern Miss next Saturday

Who wants to bet that Ole Miss had a losing season on purpose to stick it to the NCAA?

It's looking more and more like the Ole Miss bowl ban will be irrelevant. Just like how it didn't matter when Idaho got a postseason ban for APR violations a few years back but still lost 10 games.

That's how I see it. But they're wasting their time playing non-scholarship athletics when they've probably accomplished pretty much everything possible in D3. D2 is where it's at. Mount Union can convince the other private schools at that level in Ohio with football to form a league with...

The organizing body that runs the public universities in Kansas should know that this is enough of a problem to fire the people at KU who refuse to schedule Mizzou and replace them with people more willing to do it (which would cost Bill Self his job as the men's hoops coach, maybe a mid-major...

In Conference USA UAB is the leader in the West Division. The "death penalty" (in this case imposed for financial reasons) was the best thing that happened to UAB football. Before it happened UAB was struggling every year. Their first year back after the "death penalty" they make a bowl. Now...

The Browns just fired Hue Jackson, third coach since 1999 fired without beating the Steelers. Strengthens the argument for separating the Browns and Steelers

Before the Modell move, the Browns had never fired a coach that never beat the Steelers. Since the Modell move, they have fired three. That is a sign that Browns-Steelers is no longer a rivalry (and hasn't been for years) and that the two need to be separated. I have proposed a realignment of...

I propose an alignment in which no teams switch conferences, but a number of teams switch divisions to make them more geographically correct: AFC: E: BUF, NE, NYJ, PIT N: CIN, CLE, IND, KC S: BAL, JAX, MIA, TEN W: DEN, HOU, LAC, OAK->LV NFC: E: CAR, NYG, PHI, WAS N: CHI, DET, GB, MIN S: ATL...

The idea behind having so many division games is to: A. Make division rivalries more meaningful than they are now. Right now NBA teams play more intraconference non-division games than they do division games (36 to 16), as a matter of fact, less than 20% of an NBA team's schedule is division...

Big East should start a challenge with the WCC since those conferences have similar makeups

The NBA has been at 30 teams for 15 seasons now. There is increasing sentiment towards bringing the league back to Seattle a decade after the SuperSonics left, and the fact that KeyArena is being renovated (in part to bring the NHL in) is helping, though I highly suspect this is a stopgap...

In 2023 the NFL will start its new broadcast deals. I expect Sunday afternoon and Monday night to remain unchanged without a hitch. NBC however, could split with the league if Sunday Ticket doesn't lose its DirecTV exclusive status in 2023. The Sunday night broadcaster is owned by Comcast...