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The Big Ten is the Best Candidate for Open League Play

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By Trent Fasnacht     In my opinion, the Big Ten Conference is the best positioned for open league play where teams are promoted and relegated at the end of each season.      The main characteristic that makes the Big Ten ideally positioned for an open league arrangement pertains to branding.  Despite the fact that the conference has had more than ten member schools since 1990, the number ten is still integral to the conference's stellar name. Instead of being an eccentric anomaly, in my envisioned restructuring, the number ten would have noteworthy significance that the league could build and grow around, and even more importantly, profit from.        The conference added the Pac 12's  University of Southern California and UCLA last June and then just brought in Oregon and Washington last week. My suggestion would work with a Big Ten of eighteen, but would be built for the addition of ACC defectors like Clemson, Florida State,...
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The Big 12 Should Become College Sports First Open League

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    In my opinion, the Big 12 Conference should blossom into a super conference.    With the addition of Colorado to the Big 12 in 2024, the conference will have thirteen schools. Rather than stopping with the addition of one more, either a Four Corners school like Utah or one of the Arizonas, I'd like them to keep going, to push towards building a revolutionary open league.         I've been intrigued with the concept of sports leagues that promote and relegate teams that are on the fence, and promotion and relegation are the key to this suggestion for the Big 12. With my proposal, the top performing programs would be in the upper tier with the best twelve teams from the previous season. The schools that round out the rest of this uber conference would battle it out in the contender tier with the top two schools moving up with the best, taking the spots of the teams finishing in eleventh and twelfth place. Of course, those progra...
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It's Time for the NFL to Realign

    The good citizens of these United States struggle mightily with the subject of geography, and for decades, unscientific speculation has just about proven that the NFL is at the root of this deficiency.  U.S. Students Are Terrible at Geography (usnews.com)       No one seems to know for sure when this decline began, but more than a few non-scholars have pinpointed Tampa Bay's placement in the NFC Central as the beginning of this downward slide into geographic ineptitude in the classroom.      "Something must be done!" a hallucinated source exclaimed before adding, "For the children!" The source declined to confirm if they were a mother or father, earthling or ET, but their passion regarding this subject matter was undeniable. They ran away in tears.     Florida is on the southeast coast, but the Buccaneers were put in the Northernmost division... with the cold weather teams —Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit, a...
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