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What's wrong with BYU? Now if BYU told the Big XII "Piss off Laddie", then there'd be trouble.

Florida State and Maryland also talked the ACC's raised buyout fee from $34 million down to $20 million. Make of that what you will.

They did. Oklahoma then went and joined the ACC.

But what about Texas football? I thought it was special Baylor.

No they wouldn't.

Welp, a prophet am I.

It's not like Michigan's coaching staff knows SDSU's every tendency from personal exper-OH WAIT THEY DO! That kind of throws a monkey wrench into any upset attempt.

Because one team defines a conference. C-USA is a fairly solid mid major league even if they haven't been able to haul out the one elite team. Yes, The middle to bottom of both conferences are very comparable. the Top part of it is where they are worlds apart. So, who is C-USA's great white hope this season for a non-BCS birth buster?? Or is that dream dead already?..HaaHaha Very top. For this year the Mountain West has Boise and TCU. And they're losing TCU. Now please go back to ESPN before I start making Mormon jokes.

Because one team defines a conference. C-USA is a fairly solid mid major league even if they haven't been able to haul out the one elite team.

Good point. Maybe TCU would stay in the new Big USA, but I suspect they'd jump to the Big XII and either Memphis or Southern Miss would stay in B*USA. No idea how you could set up divisions that would make sense that way, though. Big XII would take TCU over SMU or Southern Miss. Not necessarily. Baylor would love to lord being an AQ team over TCU and there are indications Texas would rather not add a strong Texas-based program to the Big XII

Let me explain why the NCAA doesn't do more. 1. NCAA really puts foot down 2. AQ conferences say "toodles" and bail out to form their own organization and take their most substantial contribution to NCAA revenues with them. 3. NCAA implodes.

Also Louisville would fight to the last ditch to keep Memphis out of AQ glory. That's why Memphis didn't come over in the Big East's raid of Conference USA.

The Big East could do far worse than East Carolina. They are all-in-all a pretty solid program that has done passably well in the past and has picked off in the last few years NC State, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, and North Carolina. Honestly the Big East is going to have to reach to the minors to bolster its numbers and ECU's one of the best available that reasonably fits in the Conference footprint.

Yes! Yes! Think of the prestige that comes from losing a million dollars playing in front of 10,000 shivering people in the MagicJack Who Gives A Bowl in Random Southern Crumbling Stadiumsburg, USA. Playing in the FCS National Championship game is much better? FBS is always better than FCS, even if you have to deal with playing in the Champs Sports Bowl or whatever for a decade or more. What I mean by national profile is this: Virtually no one outside of the east coast knows what or where ODU is currently. Playing at the FBS level could put the school on national TV, giving the school a chance to make a name of itself through advertising both its athletics and academics. It'd let people all across the country know who they are. This is the reason why some FCS schools are hot to trot to make it to the FBS level (ie, Charlotte, Georgia State, UTSA, etc.). Most people don't really differentiate between random Conference USA/MAC/Sun Belt team and certainly cannot specifically identify them as such. As for Bowls, seriously, those things cost schools serious jack. Shoot, Connecticut lost a couple of million dollars for playing IN A BCS BOWL. Is this really worth it?

Yes! Yes! Think of the prestige that comes from losing a million dollars playing in front of 10,000 shivering people in the MagicJack Who Gives A Bowl in Random Southern Crumbling Stadiumsburg, USA.

Yeah, I don't see the Oklahomas being keen on sticking around in that scenario.

ACC should swap Duke with them.

The Big East? TLN isn't part of basic cable, is it? If not, it'll probably end up like The Mtn. - unwatched and irrelevant, and more trouble than it's worth. Hopefully, for the sake of college athletics as a whole, Texas cuts its losses sooner rather than later. Unintentional puns, HURRAH! In all seriousness, I would like to see OU, Ok St, TT, and Houston to join. That would not only make the conference much more competitive, but it would also expand the market a bit. The only other option other than Houston would be Nevada or UNLV, and we've discussed that to death. Any combination of those teams would get Colorado steamed for bringing in schools that would divide the conference into east and west (even if it is in four-school segments - it would still be NE/NW/SE/SW). Pod system I saw kicked around was round robin against your pod and 2 games against the other 3 pods. That guarantees every "east" school two trips to the West Coast per season. Only two? Colorado has at least three trips to the west coast guaranteed - four if they don't play at Utah - every season with the deal they have in place now. It's entirely possible with the addition of OU, Okie State, TTech, and ____ that they play a conference schedule in football one season without ever setting foot in the state of California. Not under the pod system. All of the California schools would be in a pod, which means one guaranteed trip to California for everyone.

Does K-State have the academics to go to the Big 10? Does a $2 billion ANNUAL Federal Bioterror Research facility sound appealing to you?

Y'alls knew this was coming. /Nevada's broke and Houston has reputation issues. So once again, UNLV, right? I mean, if Texas and Oklahoma split, and Kansas and K-State go to the B1G, which they almost certainly will, who will be the 16th Pac-16 team? Or will they just make it a Pac-15, like the MAC having 13 teams? UNLV has this tiny problem called "Las Vegas is broke"

The Big East kicked Temple out the last time it was on its deathbed.

The Big East? TLN isn't part of basic cable, is it? If not, it'll probably end up like The Mtn. - unwatched and irrelevant, and more trouble than it's worth. Hopefully, for the sake of college athletics as a whole, Texas cuts its losses sooner rather than later. Unintentional puns, HURRAH! In all seriousness, I would like to see OU, Ok St, TT, and Houston to join. That would not only make the conference much more competitive, but it would also expand the market a bit. The only other option other than Houston would be Nevada or UNLV, and we've discussed that to death. Any combination of those teams would get Colorado steamed for bringing in schools that would divide the conference into east and west (even if it is in four-school segments - it would still be NE/NW/SE/SW). Pod system I saw kicked around was round robin against your pod and 2 games against the other 3 pods. That guarantees every "east" school two trips to the West Coast per season.

Y'alls knew this was coming. /Nevada's broke and Houston has reputation issues.

Once again ensuring future generations of the ability to watch a completely undeserving B1G team play in a BCS bowl against a much superior Pac-12 opponent, a la Illinois/USC 2007. It's not the Big Ten's fault that they keep sending the Conference runner up against a USC team that once again the bed against a crappy conference foe and therefore got knocked out of the national title hunt. Maybe if USC actually played to its potential the entire season some of those Rose Bowls would be more competitive.

Maybe West Virginia was too crazy for the SEC.