[jayasena]

I'm with Jeff. I used to think the old Pac-10 was perfect -- every team plays every other team in the conference. One could make an organizational argument for 12 teams, I guess, but beyond that it's just too unwieldy. I have to imagine there are diminishing returns for growth beyond 12 teams even from a financial point of view (modulo a few exceptions like Texas and Notre Dame). And not having a uniform conference structure for all sports is ridiculous (I realize some other conferences are already used to this but it's such a hack).

At this rate the entire country will be a single conference by 2020 or so. On the bright side, that'll put an end to the "my conference is bigger better  than your conference" arguments!  :D

[jayasena]

I'm with Jeff. I used to think the old Pac-10 was perfect -- every team plays every other team in the conference. One could make an organizational argument for 12 teams, I guess, but beyond that it's just too unwieldy. I have to imagine there are diminishing returns for growth beyond 12 teams even from a financial point of view (modulo a few exceptions like Texas and Notre Dame). And not having a uniform conference structure for all sports is ridiculous (I realize some other conferences are already used to this but it's such a hack).

At this rate the entire country will be a single conference by 2020 or so. On the bright side, that'll put an end to the "my conference is bigger better  than your conference" arguments!  :D