[fullmetal]

I'm sure the AD/BoT has talked to Shaw and Taylor in private, probably more so Shaw.  They need to get Oliver Luck's perspective as well.  Maybe even Bowlsby.

I don't see a super league forming.  Rankings mean everything for the playoffs, and a super league means no bottomdwellers to pad the stats.  If a super league does form, it will be due to market forces (e.g. network contract revenue pressure), not due to the wishes of top programs/coaches.

Almost nothing about the past two years of realignment has been about the wishes of top programs and coaches. Why would that change going forward?

Perspective on bargaining power, alignment with conference commissioner (who is a lame duck now), perspectives from other conferences, feasibility of travel burdens for different options, etc.  Hopefully Stanford is actually trying to gather data rather than just watching the house of cards collapse around them.

[fullmetal]

I'm sure the AD/BoT has talked to Shaw and Taylor in private, probably more so Shaw.  They need to get Oliver Luck's perspective as well.  Maybe even Bowlsby.

I don't see a super league forming.  Rankings mean everything for the playoffs, and a super league means no bottomdwellers to pad the stats.  If a super league does form, it will be due to market forces (e.g. network contract revenue pressure), not due to the wishes of top programs/coaches.

Almost nothing about the past two years of realignment has been about the wishes of top programs and coaches. Why would that change going forward?

Perspective on bargaining power, alignment with conference commissioner (who is a lame duck now), perspectives from other conferences, feasibility of travel burdens for different options, etc.  Hopefully Stanford is actually trying to gather data rather than just watching the house of cards collapse around them.