Interesting article about dynamic between Slive and Delaney and impact on playoff...

[HokieNC]

negotiations....

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...-espn-magazine

[PadrosWindup]

negotiations....

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...-espn-magazine

Sounds like the most Swofford can due is facilitate the negotiations - Slive and Swofford will be making the decisions.

[Atlee Hokie]

Sounds like the most Swofford can due is facilitate the negotiations - Slive and Swofford will be making the decisions.

We have two alpha males in the commissioner negotiations. Slive & Delaney.

We have two lesser dogs following those two.

Then we have all the pups, and yes ACC is one of the pups.

[reestuart]

We have two alpha males in the commissioner negotiations. Slive & Delaney.

We have two lesser dogs following those two.

Then we have all the pups, and yes ACC is one of the pups.

If anything, Scott will be a big advantage over the Big XII guy.

[133193Hokie]

Agreed on the pups comment. At best the ACC is 5th.

[Suffhokian]

negotiations....

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...-espn-magazine

If I read this correctly, it looks like the 4 conferences may be at a grid lock (PAC12/B1G vs. SEC/Big XII), with the ACC deciding which side to join. I would not be surprised if Slive pulls a favor for the ACC in the coming days to make us join their side in the debate. Hmmm.... maybe an SEC vs. ACC challenge?

[Captain Terrific]

If I read this correctly, it looks like the 4 conferences may be at a grid lock (PAC12/B1G vs. SEC/Big XII), with the ACC deciding which side to join. I would not be surprised if Slive pulls a favor for the ACC in the coming days to make us join their side in the debate. Hmmm.... maybe an SEC vs. ACC challenge?

If the SEC thinks it's in their best interests to have a foothold in the mid Atlantic region, then nothing will stop Slive from getting two ACC teams.

ACC will get no rescue from the SEC.

[DarylS]

I'm sure Swofford will play an important role, ordering lunch, making sure everybody got what they ordered, and arranging dinner reservations. Maybe they will even give him an 1/2 hour about the benefits of basketball and how it can help fill the early Spring void after football season.

He can also tell the other commissioners what it is like to see your conference members get pounded on an annual basis in big games and how Miami and FSU are back.

Sounds like the most Swofford can due is facilitate the negotiations - Slive and Swofford will be making the decisions.

[gern]

4 conferences simply won't work for an infinite pot of reasons starting with geography

Say you want to get to 4 mega conferences, you need each conference to carry 16-20 teams. How on earth will you achieve that?

P10 adds TT, tu, OU, Okie St
B10 adds Iowa St, KSU, KU, ND
SEC adds Miami, FSU, CU, + GT
ACC adds Lewisville, Cincy, UConn, + SUNJ
(B12 most likely to implode because it touches 3 conf, if you want to get rid of ACC - we'd slide to B10/SEC and then B12 gets more BE leftovers)

Aside from the absurdity of B10 ading Iowa St + KSU (and ACC's additions), you now get to fill in the rest of the schools (TCU, WVU, and whatever midmajors/BE schools you want). You'll end up with a lot of these conferences adding schools they have nothing in common with aside from a football team.

Keep the conferences as they sit today. If you want the playoff to happen, make it a *REAL* playoff... top 16 BCS teams get it. Rewrite bylaws to include practice/gms in Jan and you're done. Oh, and pay the players so the farce that has become "student athletes" at big time university programmes can finally be stopped.

[PadrosWindup]

Agreed on the pups comment. At best the ACC is 5th.

Still not sure if the ACC is the weakest BCS conference, or the strongest non-BCS conference.