takes out-of-conference scheduling out of the hands of AD's.
''Klatt would love a nationalized scheduling system that takes out-of-conference scheduling out of the hands of individual athletic directors. That way more power conference teams would play fun intersectional games in their non-conference schedules. He wants the ACC and SEC to play nine conference games like everyone else. (A number of SEC ADs agree because that would sell more tickets, but the league has understandably cooled on that idea because Disney/ESPN hasn’t offered more money for the extra conference games while Big Ten schools have been paid gobs of money by Fox, NBC and CBS for a comparable product.)''
''Klatt would love a nationalized scheduling system that takes out-of-conference scheduling out of the hands of individual athletic directors. That way more power conference teams would play fun intersectional games in their non-conference schedules. He wants the ACC and SEC to play nine conference games like everyone else. (A number of SEC ADs agree because that would sell more tickets, but the league has understandably cooled on that idea because Disney/ESPN hasn’t offered more money for the extra conference games while Big Ten schools have been paid gobs of money by Fox, NBC and CBS for a comparable product.)''
Joel Klatt's radical conference championship change to increase marquee games
Fox analyst Joel Klatt has an intriguing suggestion for a 14-team playoff that would create more objective criteria for entry.
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