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I liked the '90s Knicks uniforms with the wide side panels.

Those silver Mavs jerseys looked so cool on the court... they almost looked chromed out. BTW, that Mavericks wordmark needs to go on their home jerseys.

Agreed. I also loved these: What can I say? I'm a sucker for the '90s aesthetic.

Fixed that for you.

Don't blame the schools, blame the BCS. Boise State, et al. would like to not get screwed over every year come bowl season. In the Big East, you can lose three games and back in to a BCS bowl bid. Plus, the money is better and so is the television exposure. The Mtn. Network is a huge joke that hardly anyone gets.

This was the best Warriors uniform set and color scheme:

That's Albertus.

I also liked aspects of the old look, but the overreliance on black and gray ruined it. I think if there was more blue in the uniforms, blue caps, and blue alternate jerseys, people wouldn't have hated it so much.

The handwringing over the Big East picking up these non-AQ's just cracks me up. Firstly, after years and years of the SOS argument and cries of "join a REAL conference", it's very telling that many big conference fans are now complaining because those schools are going AQ. What, did they expect those schools to not jump at the chance to put that lame argument to rest? Second of all, even the Big East comes with a lot more money and access than a non-AQ conference. You don't have to be absolutely perfect and still hope for other teams to drop games they shouldn't just to make the Fiesta or Sugar. You don't have to slum it on CBS College Sports, the MTN, West Bumblecrap Cable Access, and other boondock channels nobody gets. You can finally think about upgrading your small stadiums and less-than-stellar facilities. Moving to the Big East provides a real growth opportunity to these mid-majors, and crapping on that in the name of tradition is so myopic.

They're still going to have more money and more TV exposure than any mid-major conference, which still makes them a better option for Boise, Houston, SMU, etc. even in that scenario.

Yes we would. It's simple - if you keep beating everyone in your way and make it to the title game, you are one of the top two teams in the country that year.

Why? At that point, there's really no point to the BCS. And once again, I'd like to point out that without a playoff system, we'll never know if the top two teams are really the two best teams.

You're the guy! Oh, you already knew that I'm that guy. Current scheme = terrific. Germanic unis > all other Brewers unis.

What can I say? It ain't a rivalry without some liberties taken. What they did have was more of a potential fanbase. In 1990 (the last count taken at the time), Boise had 125,738 people, while Moscow had 18,398. That's a lot more TV sets in Boise State's market, and that's not even counting the greater Boise metropolitan area (population of 295,851 in 1990). Is that a huge market? No, but certainly far bigger than what Idaho had to work with. Of course, BSU has maximized that and much more by now. That's debatable. Idaho made the 1-AA playoffs two more times than Boise did, but Boise won a national title at that level in 1980 and made another title game in '94, losing to Jim Tressell and Youngstown State. (This isn't even counting BSU's 1958 NJCAA national title.) I'd say the championship would give BSU the advantage in prestige, but then again, I'm biased. Or if your program isn't winning. Boise's facilities aren't exactly world-class, but recruits still want to go there because BSU has built up cachet and created a winning tradition. Idaho hasn't, so they can't really convince a 3-star recruit who has both BSU and UI on their list to come to Moscow over Boise. Exactly. And they can compete from Day 1 in the Big Sky. The fans can finally enjoy winning on a regular basis and having a program that they can be proud of.

Isn't that what we said about Robb Akey and Idaho just a couple years ago? I wasn't saying that a couple years ago, but then again, I hate dislike now no longer care about the Vandals.

On the field, Idaho was better than Boise head-to-head (although, BSU was no slouch in 1-AA, they won a national title and appeared in another title game). But BSU already had a larger market and a larger stadium, and they were called crazy at the time for trying to move up. You can imagine what the chances of Idaho, in tiny Moscow with their 16,000-seat stadium, moving up on their own would have been - slim to none.

Don't look now, but Eastern Michigan is actually one win away from being bowl eligible for the first time since 1987. It looks like Ron English is turning that program around.

Speaking of the Big Sky, what are the chances of Idaho admitting defeat and moving back down there? Let's face it, other than two trips to the Humanitarian Bowl spaced over a decade apart, they've been completely outmatched in FBS football. Their stadium is a dump and way too small, and their appeal is hyperlocal at best. They're only in the FBS because they begged the Idaho State BoE to be allowed to move up along with Boise State. There's no shame in Idaho moving back down to a level where they can have success and be competitive - to the contrary, there's more shame in staying in the FBS and getting boatraced pretty much every year.

Just goes to show how much bigger football is than the other college sports.

So it's looking like BYU will join the Big East. This likely clinches Boise's departure to the BE as well. According to the rumors, the divisions will look something like this: West: BYU Boise State Houston SMU Air Force UCF(!) East: UConn Rutgers USF Louisville Cincinnati Navy No, I you not - UCF would likely end up in the West division. Why? Because Louisville and Cincy have already flat-out refused to go to the West and get smashed by BYU, BSU, Houston, SMU, and AFA every year. Can't say I blame them, but the geography sticklers will be whining even more.

Any of these uniforms are infinitely better than the crap Virginia Tech wears now: Miami looks better in green jerseys: The Gators' ProCombat from last year is the best uniform they've worn:

Best BYU uniforms:

You mean the same junior hockey system that has gone through a child-molestation scandal of its own and has been described as a hockey sweatshop, where drug use and mistreatment are common? That junior hockey system?

Yeahhhhh, no. Not with that awful TV contract, the clown-college nature of the MWC/CUSA merger, and the inequitable share of money come BCS season.

There are no clearly published, transparent guidelines from the BCS for losing AQ status. It'll either be that the Big East keeps their AQ status with minimal fuss, or there will be a huge mess complete with threats of legal action. I think it's a moot point anyway, because the BCS has already come out and said they need six AQ conferences to function, and if all those schools join, the Big East is clearly still at very least the sixth-best conference in America.