Clemson coach Dabo Swinney met with the media as part of South Carolina Coaches for Charity event Tuesday evening and he was asked a plethora of questions.
One of the most intriguing answers given by Dabo Swinney, though, had to do with his thoughts on conference realignment.
Swinney said he believed at some point down the road that there would likely be some time of a 60-team league that has its own commissioner and an expanded playoff.
Dabo Swinney on conference realignment: "Somewhere down the road ... there probably will be some type of 60-team league that has it's own commissioner and playoff." pic.twitter.com/5VNYoYKgpd
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Dabo Swinney just gave away the SEC’s entire plan for conference expansion and realignment
This is what ESPN’s Mark Schlabach wrote about the SEC’s plan moving forward for conference realignment:
"Industry sources have indicated to ESPN that this might be only the first step in the SEC’s grand plan to create a true superconference, which a source said might include as many as 60 teams or as few as 32. If it’s a bigger number of schools, then the sport’s upper echelon would include four superconferences, and the ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC would remain as stand-alone entities."
Talk about similarities? It’s almost as if Swinney knows the entire plan for the future of College Football.
Perhaps this is too conspiracy theorist and maybe Swinney has just been reading up on everything as we all have, but there’s still a part of this that make us believe he has at least had some behind-the-scenes conversations about the future of the sport. There are rumblings happening all across the nation from industry insiders and it would seem that we are getting an idea about what the plan is for the future.
The SEC is set to add Oklahoma and Texas, but it doesn’t seem the conference is content with just having 16 teams. The ‘master plan’ is to create a league that is almost considered the ‘minor league system’ to the NFL and there’s no doubt we are in for many changes to the sport in terms of the coming months and years.
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens 5-10 years down the line with College Football, but it seems that Dabo Swinney is already giving us a glimpse into what we should expect.