eastisbest said:
What is the upside for the TCL to do that? And what is a scheduling "alliance?"
I don't believe he was talking full fledged conference and the TCL already has a conference.
You appear to be talking about upside for Lima. What does SBC have to do with TCL? For the TCL to lock themselves into something, there would seem to need be some benefit that is going to off-set the obvious increase in cost. It's not going to be ticket revenue, on this we all seem to agree.
To ME, this sounds like discussion from other conferences trying to off-load their problems/guilt trips/whatever on to the TCL. If this were about helping out a far district, the NLL, TRAC and the private schools are better situated to do that. For the TCL teams, Lima is a by individual AD choice OOC option same as any team and vise-versa. Not a conference mandate. Nor should it be. There is no purpose to a legalese "alliance." It would be counter-productive for both the TCL and for Lima.