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It could. I think you'll end up seeing cities that used to have 3 or 4 teams get narrowed down to 1 or 2 team, just based on population. A city like Cleveland I don't think can FULLY support 3 professional franchises any more. There are only so many dollars in an area. You will still have your major cities like Chicago, LA, NY, Dallas, Boston etc. that have the population and interest to support 3-4 professional teams. That being said, there are other economic factors that go in to it.

All FOUR? No.

What? You reported these guys? How was Griffinmarlins being Homophobic? The entirety of the thread is "REALIGNMENT" not the "pointless" part. That was just someone trying to be funny. You are the one and only one who is derailing this thread with your "pointless" crap that really has no "point" being anywhere in any thread. You make absolutely no sense. You contribute absolutely nothing. And honestly you should be the one reported for being an utter pain in the ass. As I pointed out in a previous post, he continues to make every post just one giant run on sentence. I gotta say... I've said some pretty stupid, sad, mean, dumb, and idiotic things on this forum and I've pissed a lot of people off. But I think getting reported by max for being awesome totally gets me off the hook for all the stupid I've ever posted on here.

But who is taking them? Big12 MAYBE as team 16. I guess it all depends who the B16 TEN poaches and if the SEC gets aggressive enough to add their last 2 teams.

But who is taking them?

Does this kid ever use GD punctuation? Everything is a giant run on with commas everywhere.

It might happen, but the Big XII scooping up Northern Illinois and Tulsa ain't exactly what I'd call a payoff. Now, if they managed to swing the Florida State-Clemson deal, the avalanche will probably start. They wont add six teams unless FSU and Clemson are involved. The four others are buddies for FSU and Clemson. Well no . Of course they are going after Florida State and Clemson. I would expect Cincinatti, Louiville, Clemson, and Florida State. As for the other 2 teams, its intriguing to me. I would assume they would like Georgia Tech and North Carolina. But if this motivates the B16 TEN to speed up their invitations (which it will), I would expect Georgia Tech and North Carolina to go to the B16 TEN, leaving Virginia and Virginia Tech to get an invite from the Big XII. Just think if that would happen... talk about a big F-U to the SEC. Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech all being swept from under their nose. I like it.

Hawaii's not in the Pacific Time Zone. Time Zone... Ocean... is anyone really keeping score at home?

I've actually been working a full college re-landscape, including new conference logos, footprint maps, school location and color maps, and a standard helmet for each school. Now I'm not sure I want to work on it anymore. Please don't stop working on it. I really want to see this. Sounds like a really good idea. I've been piecing it together, little by little. Usually the winter is when our industry gets slow, but that hasn't been the case the last 2 years. I actually have written a narrative to go along with the realignment. I wrote it almost as if someone was doing a comprehensive summary of the shuffling, including time frames and thought process as to why certain schools jumped to different conferences. Once I have time to get moving on helmets, I will. I've been wrestling with helmet designs. I'm debating if I want to a sort of complete classic look where its mostly standard stripes (Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Florida) or basic logos (Iowa, Michigan State) without the crazy new sublimated patterns or newer style stripes (new Mizzou, Rutgers).

I've actually been working a full college re-landscape, including new conference logos, footprint maps, school location and color maps, and a standard helmet for each school. Now I'm not sure I want to work on it anymore.

Dude... seriously. No one here cares about what you are posting. You have brought this thread to a complete stop. This used to be a funny but still legitimate thread. Now its bull because you are a pretentious assclown. We are on a sports forum. No one is coming here to read about the Electoral College. Everyone knows the Electoral College is BS, which makes me think you would be in support of it. Im not trying to be a d!ck, but please can you get lost? You are driving everyone insane.

No one said anything about your damn avatar. Only you did. The only thing anyone's said at all about any of your posts is how they make absolutely no sense and how we're all sick of seeing them. Am I the only other person who thinks Max is on his second semester of college and is trying to show off his new, extensive vocabulary and liberated thought process? I mean it sounds like, he just completed English 1000 and General History 1010 in the Fall. Unfortunatly, Logic 1000 and English 2000 aren't given until next Fall semester. So, putting cohesive and logical arguements together haven't been taught to him yet by the Hippy TA with dread locks yet.

Seriously... STFU and GTFOutta here.

"Pointless" being that its impossible to predict but not void of reason or logic. This kid claims he has reason for his realignments, but he can never articulate what the reasoning or logic is. Even though the title says its pointless, you still have to stay on track. You can't just on the carpet and call it art.

You are some kind of stupid. Yes rivalry exists in sports and it's what makes sports great. But no league, in any sport, at amy level, is stupid enough to construct playoffs and season schedules souly on rivalries. That defeats the whole :censored:ing purpose of having a season and playoffs. It's a complete failure of logic. Seriously. Your poor attempts to be cheeky and coy are failing miserably. You are not being profound in the least. Just give it a rest.

In all honesty, with the the way they NBA playoffs are set up now with 8 teams per conference, a division alignment of 4 teams per division, with 8 divisions might be ideal. It would eliminate all of the issues with the 3 division winner and next highest record getting home court. It would force it to be ONLY division winners.

I could understand if he set them up according to Time Zone, but he doesn't even follow that rigidly. Or even if he put it according to market size/team revenue. He acts like he is so profound (Illuminati), like we are too much of simpletons do understand is moronic divisions. The whole point of the playoffs is to have a large enough sample size to definitevely say you are the best in the division. By organizing a 2 team division and a 7 team division in the same league, its pretty much makes the playoffs pointless, in any league, in any sport. If you are in a 2 team division, all you gotta do is match up well against ONE other opponent. Like when the Warriors beat the Mavericks in the first round. The Mavs were one of the best teams in the ENTIRE league that year, but they had a poor match up against Golden State. Can we just give this guy the boot?

What's sad is that there are SOME divisions that actually make sense. I mean, its rare, but some you kind of look at and ok, OK, sure. But that's usually 1 out of 5 or 6 and the rest are just completely off the reservation. Although I like the Counsin Eddie comparison... I was thinking more of Cousin Eddie if he joined the Illuminati or the Free Masons.

Nevermind. I don't even know what to say anymore.

Wait... so you mean playing in a Division with only 1 other team isn't as good of a gauge, league wide, as playing in a division for 4-6 teams? Only if they're located more than 0.037459274830184637 miles from the primary bathroom of the other team. Well I mean that makes sense.

Wait... so you mean playing in a Division with only 1 other team isn't as good of a gauge, league wide, as playing in a division for 4-6 teams?

Explain what? It's just random data that means nothing. 99.9% of the time you don't even say WHY you're posting this data, you just throw out some cities and numbers as if we all know what you're talking about. It's completely worthless. Studies show that 75% of people will believe anything you write as long as your begin the statement with "Studies show" and throw in a numerical value somewhere.

What is with you and massively unbalanced divisions? It was stupid in the MLB and its stupid with all these ideas. I get the whole beat your neighbor thing, but there is far better criteria that should be and is used when coming up with divisions... first of which is balancing the divisions unless absolutly numerically impossible.

You'd think folks would have learned from the self-destruction of the Big East, but to answer your question, there is no financial benefit that outweighs the structural instability that comes from a football league adding members who don't get this football thing. The Big East was a basketball conference with a couple football members. The B16 TEN is a football conference that has some good basketball. If it were to work with ANY conference, it would be the B16 TEN. The instability of the Big East came from many of the major basketball schools Not having football. That's not the case with the B16 TEN. If the basketball schools want to leave, they can leave. It could actually work. Comparing the Big East to the B16 TEN is pretty naive.

Not much. Remember, all of this movement is largely done for football purposes, so basketball only schools won't be seen as valuable because they have one sport as it's money maker. Even then, what good would it do to add a school for just one sport? Just curious. Since the B16 TEN gets a higher percentage from viewers in a state that contains a school in the conference. I'm sure there is some sort of other stipulation for basketball as well, not just football. The B16 TEN is so money driven, I can't believe they wouldnt have thought about that.