Cornell-Yale football

[Trotsky]

When there are 1,000 channels there'll be an Ivy League channel, maybe with the Patriot League and Univ. of Chicago.

Case Western Reserve and the Carlisle Indians will round out the broadcast schedule.

[Cornell95]

The ACC is weak at present for football... but based on the moves so far I think they will be one of the conferences left standing and at the table when the 64 BCS really solidifies (likely Pac-10, Big 10, SEC and ACC each with 16 teams).

It seems the SEC is way ahead in football right now, I dont think the ACC is that far behind the Big10 and Pac10 presently and depending on where the rest of the chips land (Notre Dame and Pittsburgh for example) they could be in a much stronger position not only in terms of top talent but the ability to improve the top to bottom strength.

[billhoward]

If those four conferences keep the other - how many, another 64 or so? - teams with aspirations to the big time from ever reaching the big time, it's restraint of trade, or un-American, or something. Better it's done like British soccer where the bottom couple teams drop down to a B-division and somebody else takes their place. Boise State was on no one's radar 15 years ago, was it?

Maybe the group of 64 should pay the players, allow them to carry 8 credits to stay eligible, replace the cheerleaders with lap dancers in the luxury boxes, sell alcohol, have an American Idol segment at halftime, and reverse reporting lines so the president or chancellor reports to the football coach, or if Coach is busy, they report to the athletic director. Show big time college football's true colors in the vein of the joke where the punchline goes: "What, you think I'm a whore?" "We already establishd that and now we need to establish the price." I don't think those schools have issues with the webcasts fading out.

[Trotsky]

Maybe the group of 64 should pay the players, allow them to carry 8 credits to stay eligible, replace the cheerleaders with lap dancers in the luxury boxes, sell alcohol, have an American Idol segment at halftime, and reverse reporting lines so the president or chancellor reports to the football coach, or if Coach is busy, they report to the athletic director.

I don't think the SEC would be willing to replace cocaine with alcohol.