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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 129500152" data-attributes="member: 1428007">Comprehensive action is necessary because the things are related.It doesn't make sense to create a championship game with 10 teams.&nbsp; That leaves you at a disadvantage with guaranteed rematches, plus you are negotiating for a rate for a conference with 10 teams.&nbsp; If you decide to expand later you then have a 10 team rate for more teams.In order to have the championship game work to benefit the conference, you need at least 12 teams which means expansion, but in order to make expansion worthwhile for everyone beyond just better access to playoffs, you need to also start a conference network so there is more financial benefit to expansion (and finances are primarily why conferences expand in the first place).But, in order to have a conference network, you need to have the LHN rolled into it.They've got to work on all of these things at the same time.Lots of research has already been done, they've worked on these things with advisors for well over a year.&nbsp; It's a matter of everyone deciding on the path forward and a course of action to implement these things. Edit:&nbsp; Apparently not much of the information has been distributed throughout the membership and much research into these things is ongoing based on Bowlsby's comments from the winter 2016 meetings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 129500152, member: 1428007"] Comprehensive action is necessary because the things are related. It doesn't make sense to create a championship game with 10 teams. That leaves you at a disadvantage with guaranteed rematches, plus you are negotiating for a rate for a conference with 10 teams. If you decide to expand later you then have a 10 team rate for more teams. In order to have the championship game work to benefit the conference, you need at least 12 teams which means expansion, but in order to make expansion worthwhile for everyone beyond just better access to playoffs, you need to also start a conference network so there is more financial benefit to expansion (and finances are primarily why conferences expand in the first place). But, in order to have a conference network, you need to have the LHN rolled into it. They've got to work on all of these things at the same time. Lots of research has already been done, they've worked on these things with advisors for well over a year. It's a matter of everyone deciding on the path forward and a course of action to implement these things. Edit: Apparently not much of the information has been distributed throughout the membership and much research into these things is ongoing based on Bowlsby's comments from the winter 2016 meetings. [/QUOTE]

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