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Apparently WVU is about to be able to leave the Big East next season. That means the Big East will have 7 teams next year and, should everyone stay put for at least another year without the ACC getting their duo...

.....we're getting Syracuse-Rutgers twice next season :blink:

I have a feeling the Big East will elevate someone to move into the conference for 2012. Most likely not Boise, but maybe Memphis.

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Possible Division I FBS in 2015:

ACC (14)

Atlantic: Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Maryland, N.C. State, Syracuse, Wake Forest

Coastal: Duke, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Miami, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Virginia Tech

Big 12 (12)

North: BYU, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Louisville, West Virginia

South: Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech

Big East (12)

Eastern: Army, Navy, Central Florida, Connecticut, Rutgers, South Florida,

Western: Boise State, Cincinnati, Houston, Memphis, San Diego State, SMU

Big Ten (12)

Leaders: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin

Legends: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern

Conference USA (12)

East: Alabama-Birmingham, East Carolina, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Southern Miss, Tulane

West: North Texas, Rice, Texas-El Paso, Texas-San Antonio, Texas State, Tulsa

Independent (1)

Notre Dame

MAC (14)

East: Akron, Buffalo, Kent State, Massachusetts, Miami (OH), Ohio, Temple

West: Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, Toledo, Western Michigan

MWC (12)

Mountain: Air Force, Colorado State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Utah State, Wyoming

West: Fresno State, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, San Jose State, UNLV

Pac-12 (12)

North: California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington, Washington State

South: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, UCLA, USC, Utah

SEC (14)

East: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

West: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Texas A&M

Sun Belt (9)

Arkansas State, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Middle Tennessee State, South Alabama, Troy, Western Kentucky

Note: I could also see UMass and Temple joining the Big East to replace Rutgers and UConn after they eventually bounce to better conferences

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Just curious. Would Temple be the type of school the ACC would take in?

No, as long as Notre Dame is there for the taking.

Yes, but how realistic is Notre Dame, unless they are forced to join a conference?

Temple to Big East probably wont happen as well, not just because the BE booted them years ago, but because Villanova will band allies against it.

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Just curious. Would Temple be the type of school the ACC would take in?

No, as long as Notre Dame is there for the taking.

Yes, but how realistic is Notre Dame, unless they are forced to join a conference?

Temple to Big East probably wont happen as well, not just because the BE booted them years ago, but because Villanova will band allies against it.

I think if Notre Dame were forced to join a conference, they'd jump shimp to the B1G Ten if they could find an expansion partner. I'm not sold on the new Big East staying power, especially with UConn at one point showing an interesting in leaving to join the ACC. Atleast joining the B1G would make geographic sense for, and they would be able to continue their rivalry with Michigan.

It's no secret that Villanova will block Temple joining the Big East to the death. But I honestly don't know what other schools would the ACC would consider taking. I guess in my mind it seems like they'd be a good fit. Major TV market, football team plays in an NFL stadium (just like Pitt and Miami), possibility of rivarlies with Pitt and Maryland, and as far as I know the school has good academics.

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Just curious. Would Temple be the type of school the ACC would take in?

No, as long as Notre Dame is there for the taking.

Yes, because what the ACC really needs is another football school that isn't any good at football.

Yeah, yeah, I know, money, name ecognition, money, blah blah blah.

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So which Conference is more deserving of the title "The Conference that will Mount the Orange Bowl"? New Big East or Mountain Merger USA?

On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said:
You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
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It's happening.

Mountain West and Conference USA to become one.

Teams included are

UNLV, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado State and Air Force, Hawaii (in football only) | Southern Miss, Tulsa, Marshall, Rice, UTEP, UAB, Tulane and East Carolina.

I think you forgot Nevada and Fresno State, unless they decided to go elsewhere.

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So which Conference is more deserving of the title "The Conference that will Mount the Orange Bowl"? New Big East or Mountain Merger USA?

Supposedly, there's going to be some sort of discussion about the BCS this coming May down in Miami.

From folks in the know, the consensus is that there's not going to be "AQ status" for any conference, which could begin as early as either this season or 2013. The champions of the SEC, ACC, Big XII, Big Ten, and Pac-12 wil retain their spots in their respective BCS bowl games, with the other three slots essentially becoming "at-large" spots for any team from any conference (contingent on qualifying rules, of course), with no limits on conference representation in these four bowl games.

There's also a lot of smoke about using these bowls as a sort-of semifinal round for a national championship game to be played a week later, although the biggest hurdle will come from the Rose Bowl, since they don't want to become some sort of relegation or inferior game to a championship game being played a week later.

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So which Conference is more deserving of the title "The Conference that will Mount the Orange Bowl"? New Big East or Mountain Merger USA?

Supposedly, there's going to be some sort of discussion about the BCS this coming May down in Miami.

From folks in the know, the consensus is that there's not going to be "AQ status" for any conference, which could begin as early as either this season or 2013. The champions of the SEC, ACC, Big XII, Big Ten, and Pac-12 wil retain their spots in their respective BCS bowl games, with the other three slots essentially becoming "at-large" spots for any team from any conference (contingent on qualifying rules, of course), with no limits on conference representation in these four bowl games.

There's also a lot of smoke about using these bowls as a sort-of semifinal round for a national championship game to be played a week later, although the biggest hurdle will come from the Rose Bowl, since they don't want to become some sort of relegation or inferior game to a championship game being played a week later.

Some of the discussion will start next week as the BCS ADs (plus Notre Dame) have meetings in Dallas.

Remember, they claim that there are "dozens" of proposals for reform.

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I'm predicting BYU and/or Louisville as the next school to join the Big XII, though they'll probably also invite Houston once Texas leaves.

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So it looks like the WAC is on it's last leg.

The WAC commissioner Karl Benson just announced yesterday that he is leaving the WAC and becoming the Sun Belt commissioner starting April 1st.

So what now for the WAC? As a big Idaho Vandals fan (I'm originally from Moscow, Idaho and grew up watching the Vandal football and basketball games) I don't like how this looks for the UofI. I sure hope we get a new commissioner soon who can turn this thing around and expand the WAC (Big Sky schools like Montana maybe?) or we get an invite from the new MWC/CUSA conference.

Or what if the Sun Belt and WAC followed the MWC and CUSA in creating their own merged league? I could maybe see that working if they could get some more western schools.

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So it looks like the WAC is on it's last leg.

The WAC commissioner Karl Benson just announced yesterday that he is leaving the WAC and becoming the Sun Belt commissioner starting April 1st.

So what now for the WAC? As a big Idaho Vandals fan (I'm originally from Moscow, Idaho and grew up watching the Vandal football and basketball games) I don't like how this looks for the UofI. I sure hope we get a new commissioner soon who can turn this thing around and expand the WAC (Big Sky schools like Montana maybe?) or we get an invite from the new MWC/CUSA conference.

Or what if the Sun Belt and WAC followed the MWC and CUSA in creating their own merged league? I could maybe see that working if they could get some more western schools.

Karl Benson will hurt the Sun Belt than help it.

It would be more cost effective for the Sun Belt to partner with the MAC. All in all, it is clear that the MWC/C-USA merger and the remaining conferences currently seen as "non-AQ" are essentially a group of teams sandwiched in between the FCS and FBS.

For the past two years, Big Sky schools realize that the additional cost in providing football scholarships (and salaries for staff at a FBS level) is not worth the effort and process in moving up.

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And so, after months of humiliation, losing 3 of its football schools, facing national ridicule for adding a bunch of Texas schools fulltime despite likely basketball incompetence, Memphis despite massive football incompetence, a Florida school despite likely everything incompetence, a pair of football only programs who strain directional definitions past the breaking point, a service academy so far down the road they might as well not be joining, oh and the AQ for which this farce came about is sooooo gone and Louisville is glancing at the exit sign....

The Big East tells Villanova to piss up a rope and actually adds a team that makes sense to add, Temple.

On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said:
You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said:
Today, we are all otaku.

"The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert

POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010

The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy)

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