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RE: What Major Bowl Would The Big East Get In the Future?
(11-25-2011 08:57 AM)Cubanbull Wrote: (11-24-2011 11:47 AM)quo vadis Wrote: (11-23-2011 11:59 PM)Maize Wrote: (11-23-2011 09:39 PM)quo vadis Wrote: (11-23-2011 02:01 PM)Cubanbull Wrote: Well if we go back to the old arrangements the Rose is out for ND and if they joined ACC or BigTen it would be orange or rose so by doing that arrangement with big east they would have more flexibility in bowl choices
Notre Dame has no incentive to tie their BCS bowl chances to the Big East's or anyone else's. They maintain maximum flexibility by staying independent. That way, only the Rose is off limits.
Here is the problem they could be facing:
Sugar Bowl is going to be SEC, who is to say the Number 2 Big 1G also has a tie in with the Sugar Bowl.
There's no incentive for the Sugar or Orange or Fiesta to tie themselves in to the #2s from any particular conference, as that limits their options. They are better off leaving a slot open to attract a top-flight team from any conference, or a Notre Dame.
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You are wrong on this ,while prestige wise they might want to stay open for those opportunities, here is reality.
The orange bowl needs people to travel, they have a bad hand with ACC because they don't travel well for the most part. A highly ranked team from pac12 does nothing for them and unless the big12 school is Texas or Oklahoma the interest and fan travel will not be enough. So then you have to look at BigTen and sec.
For years, the Orange's automatic tie-in was with the Big 8 champ, and that worked extremely well for them. They only seek to avoid the ACC and especially the Big East.
But no major bowl wants to be TIED down to any conference's #2, not even the B1G or SEC. Why? Because in any given year they can always get those anyway (e.g., last year the Sugar got SEC #2 Arkansas), and yet without a tie-in they still keep their options open for something better, like a good Notre Dame team.
Ironically, on a per-team basis, the BCS has worked best for the one conference least-desired by either TV or the bowls, the 2004-2012 Big East, because we've only had to split our BCS money 8 ways. USF has gotten more BCS money most years than has USC, since the Pac12 usually doesn't get two teams in the BCS.
But that's all likely coming to an end, and the New Big East champ will probably end up in the Champs bowl.
(This post was last modified: 11-25-2011 11:11 AM by quo vadis.)
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