The fact is, the bigger these conferences get, the more they will look like clusters of a bunch of Independents grouped together. It takes more than a title to make a league, and when you only play about half your conference, is it really a conference anymore? More like....a bunch of...
the final shakedown of where all this will fall is far from complete. I have a feeling that a few years from now, the cfb landsape will look much different from now
People thrive when they have boundaries and know where they are. Right now, the sport has no boundaries, and has no grown-ups in the room willing to set any
This is actually what he may be trying to do, or what it's inevitable end game is. Break off those power schools and simply form another professional league and drop the collegiate pretense.
The issue eventually will be.....does your school's team/league more resemble the NFL (or CFL/USFL, etc) than it does the rest of FBS (and even FCS)? At the rate it is going, with no leadership in the process, about 25-30 colleges appear to be steering towards a new pro league, and the schools...