A Memo from Mr. College Football.......

Mr. Barnhart's article appears in its entirety here. We found this excerpt particularly compelling:

"Here are the facts, folks, and I hope my friends in the ACC are reading this down in Amelia Island. If the Big Ten goes to 16 teams, the Big East is going to be out of the football business. The SEC and the Big Ten dominate the marketplace. They will get their money while the Pac-10, Big 12, and ACC are going to be scrambling for what’s left.

If those three conferences don’t already have contingency plans in place, they had better put them together—and fast. I know that Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has said his expansion plans are still in a 12-18 month window. I don’t believe that and there are some very smart people who work in this business who don’t believe it either.

Because once the Big Ten makes its move, this thing is going to move very quickly. It’s going to be like a high-stakes game of musical chairs and somebody may get left without a quality seat, financially speaking, at the college football’s Big Boy table. And that could be our friends at the ACC."

We hope they are reading this also, Tony. We couldn't have said it any better ourselves. But with a conference commissioner who doubles as a circus clown, our faith in something good happening on Amelia Island this week isn't exactly high. Time for Senor Swofford & the ACC to get their collective asses in gear & have some type of plan that doesn't resemble Napolean at Waterloo.......