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<blockquote data-quote="Charleston Mountie" data-source="post: 129564860" data-attributes="member: 1427666"><p>You kind of have me here.</p><p></p><p>I think there is no doubt that the best way to determine a conference champion is playing every team in the conference but that is not the trend and we have to move from it.</p><p></p><p>The nine game conference model is a trend even in those conferences that do not need to do it but it is money and not competition that drives that decision. An OOC game requires one of three possible outcomes:</p><p></p><p>The deal is a One-and-done where the visiting rent-a-win is paid a pretty high fee for showing up to slaughter. The SOS usually takes a hit from these opponents.</p><p></p><p>The Two-for-1 deal has the same SOS hit and nearly the same high cost to rent-the-win if the university follows through on it.</p><p></p><p>If the return visit of the Two-for-one is bought out that adds to the cost to the program and a replacement on the schedule must be found, which is often a new opponent on a Two-for-one, that will later be bought out.</p><p></p><p>But, the reason the Big-12 had to go to a nine game format was because with such a small pool of teams we needed a total number of conference games to base the TV-package. If we add more games to the pool we can all play fewer times each season. At present the Big-12 plays 45 total games and has to provide marketability for 23 of them. If we expand by 2 and drop to 8 conference games we end up with 48 total games and can thus meet our current requirement for 23 marketable games.</p><p></p><p>The problem for ticket sales is no surprise, familiarity breeds contempt. Seeing the same teams in your stadium year-after-year lessens the drawing power the match up has and over time your ticket sales suffer. It also reduces the likelihood of a rematch in the CCG which is also heavily dependent on good ticket sales.</p><p></p><p>The one thing I would like to see the Big-12 do, is to not have a fixed site for the CCG, but instead to let it be set at the home field of the highest ranked team in the match up. A CCG following this format is always going to be sold out. I am sure we can recall all of the ACC-CCG where we all pointed and laughed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charleston Mountie, post: 129564860, member: 1427666"] You kind of have me here. I think there is no doubt that the best way to determine a conference champion is playing every team in the conference but that is not the trend and we have to move from it. The nine game conference model is a trend even in those conferences that do not need to do it but it is money and not competition that drives that decision. An OOC game requires one of three possible outcomes: The deal is a One-and-done where the visiting rent-a-win is paid a pretty high fee for showing up to slaughter. The SOS usually takes a hit from these opponents. The Two-for-1 deal has the same SOS hit and nearly the same high cost to rent-the-win if the university follows through on it. If the return visit of the Two-for-one is bought out that adds to the cost to the program and a replacement on the schedule must be found, which is often a new opponent on a Two-for-one, that will later be bought out. But, the reason the Big-12 had to go to a nine game format was because with such a small pool of teams we needed a total number of conference games to base the TV-package. If we add more games to the pool we can all play fewer times each season. At present the Big-12 plays 45 total games and has to provide marketability for 23 of them. If we expand by 2 and drop to 8 conference games we end up with 48 total games and can thus meet our current requirement for 23 marketable games. The problem for ticket sales is no surprise, familiarity breeds contempt. Seeing the same teams in your stadium year-after-year lessens the drawing power the match up has and over time your ticket sales suffer. It also reduces the likelihood of a rematch in the CCG which is also heavily dependent on good ticket sales. The one thing I would like to see the Big-12 do, is to not have a fixed site for the CCG, but instead to let it be set at the home field of the highest ranked team in the match up. A CCG following this format is always going to be sold out. I am sure we can recall all of the ACC-CCG where we all pointed and laughed. [/QUOTE]
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