ESPN Bubble columns

[SB Shock]

Let's do away with conference affiliation (at least for scheduling purposes) and go with a tiered system instead. The tiers change each year based on your prior year performance in the regular season and ncaa tournament. Each team plays a certain number of teams from each tier so that everyone gets a chance for good wins and bad losses.

In a perfect world and for those schools on the outside looking in, this would be a great solution. Not so, however, for those with the power on the inside, looking out.

Witness Egypt. We need a revolution.

I wouldn't use Egypt as a case study - It was not a revolution. Only thing that happened was the military stopped Mubarak from handing over reigns to his son. The Military still retains control as they have for a half century.

[calfan]

Uconn beat WSU by 4 and Kentucky by 17 the same week.

If WSU were in the Big East, they would probably at least be .500 in conference and ranked in the top 25.

There woudn't be any talk about WSU being on the bubble and Jay Bilas would be touting WSU big time.

[ABC]

Those are probably right for this year's team.

The problem with this question, like the KU and KSU fans that wonder where WSU would finish in the Big 12, is that is doesn't account for what better players we'd get if we were in the Big 12 for example.