rams80

There is not a true national conference, but the Big Ten is trying to be that in terms of TV audiences. That is why they may name their divisions as "Stars" and "Stripes" as opposed to regional names or even on former football coaches (Hayes and Schembechler) as those names will draw ire from many, like Penn State. LOL WUT.

Not gonna happen -- not as long as Hawkins is still at CU. Dude currently has a career record of 19?38. I hope that assclown never sees the Pac-12! I don't care who's coaching at Colorado... Hell, it can be Ralphie for all I care for, I just want to see those hicks from Wazzu get an asswhipping. Dude, it'll be the Biggest Cripple fight in the Conference this side of the Apple Cup.

The football oriented conference would probably opt for a 12th team due to the whole NCAA "Championship Game Rule" idea.

In what universe does adding Army and Navy, even if only for football, seem like a good idea? Army and Navy aren't exactly in college sports for the money, but rather for the promotional value. Also, while Navy and Army are slightly more competitive as of late, both would simply be akin to a return to Temple for the Big East. The Big XII ain't expanding. Texas is content to have a 10 team Conference with a well-established power structure of Texas > Everyone else and won't upset that.

Villanova already has been: http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/110210aac.html 1. Philly will actually have a solid FBS program (they'll have priority for the Linc, so where will Temple go?) 2. I hope they get to play Notre Dame and Boston College every season...the Catholic Cup deserves to remain! Temple will stay at the Linc, and Villanova will play at the Philadelphia Union Stadium (for awhile anyway)

You'd think that, but you are wrong. There's not enough " the Blackhawks" sentiment in the city to make a second team a truly viable option. At least at the NHL level. Perhaps. Mostly I just want the Sun Belt NHL teams to disappear. Wisconsin could use an NHL team too. Oh, you're one of those guys.

You'd think that, but you are wrong. There's not enough " the Blackhawks" sentiment in the city to make a second team a truly viable option. At least at the NHL level.

It will only change the year Washington State gets the game. Granted that will never happen, so *shrugs*.

I don't think they will blow up so much as quietly disband and take up something more to their speed. Shuffleboard looks promising.

Yea... I was gonna say, it's 15,000. Playing at Union Park (I don't know or care what the shill name is) is a smart move for Nova... especially if they can pack the place, which shouldn't be all that hard. Temple's probably kicking themselves as to why they didn't think of it sooner. In fact, why does Temple even still play football... has Bill Cosby threatened to stop funneling money to the school or something? It's the best reminder the school exists post John Chaney and the football team actually hasn't been craptacular the last year and a half, winning 9 games last year.

I know the Big East is desperate for attention in Football, but I suggest you guys should just stick with trying to bring Villanova up, OK? Where would a DI FBS 'nova play at? Are they going to share Lincoln Financial Field with Temple? I think they were punting around using the Philadelphia Union Stadium, at least in the interim.

Club Sports Teams are different from National All Star Teams. Both have their own competition restrictions in general, and therefore can be World Champions. The NHL, NBA, MLB, and NFL are the highest level of club sports competition in the world for their sports.

Please identify the club baseball and basketball teams that could take a 7 game series from the MLB and NBA champions, or the club American football team that could win a game against the Super Bowl champions. You can't, can you? /Just think of them as the World Club champions in their respective sports.

Wouldn't Oakland be part of the Charter Circuit as they started as the Philadelphia A's I think the admiral's making some nods to geography and rivalries. The Giants and Dodgers are also in the Expansion Circuit.

And the Appalachian rules I-AA as God Emperor, correct?

Viva the most one-sided trophy rivalry in the Conference!!!

Not really. Outside of Nebraska vs Wisconsin it's a straight North/South split. East/West really is only a necessity if you have a league playing in 3 or 4 time zones, not 1 or 2. For your second point, you should see the Michigan fans complain. They are convinced they are in the harder division. Of course if we went straight East/West like they seem to be pining for. For point 4, rumor has it that will be the protected rivalry, but I wouldn't be surprised if the "price" for getting a protected rivalry with Nebraska was being in a separate division from Iowa and Minnesota. For Point 5, for all we know, Indiana asked to be in a division with Wisconsin for the same reason.

I dunno. Tennessee and Alabama, Georgia and Auburn, Miami and Florida State, North Carolina and NC State, and Maryland and Virginia seem to hate each other as much as always and they aren't in the same division. So long as the game is played annually, the rivalry should remain. /Why are protected rivalry games such a hard concept to grasp?

1. Logistics-both play at 100,000 plus capacity stadia with fanbases that travel well. It works a lot better to have the game on a weekend rather than a weekday. 2. Your TV numbers are going to be down because, guess what, folks have to work the next day and therefore can't stay up to watch a football game. 3. The "world" watches the game in its Saturday time slot anyway. 4. People (reading Michigan and OSU fans) have been pissed off about screwing with tradition by first the thought of splitting OSU and Michigan up, then possibly moving the game to October. I can only assume the response to moving the OSU-Michigan game to the ACC/Big East "Hey we're still relevant GUYZ!" time slot will be volcanic.

Oh that's just going to piss people the off right there, and throw a monkey wrench into any hope for productivity in Ohio or Michigan that week.

Current Rumored Big Ten Divisions. Division names mine. Big Ten North-ish Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Northwestern Iowa Nebraska Big Ten South-ish Illinois Indiana Purdue Ohio State Penn State Wisconsin EDIT I suspect the annual rivalry games in this setup would be Ohio State-Michigan Wisconsin-Nebraska (Wisky traded Minny and Iowa for this, presumably) Illinoia-Northwestern Penn State-Michigan State Purdue-Iowa Indiana-Minnesota

Except the Mountain West has done even better bid-wise historically.

Which one gets Minnesota? I've also heard they are thinking about putting Michigan and Ohio State in seperate divisions for the payoff of the Big Ten Championship Which makes me think they may be going with a North South Alignment I think splitting up Iowa and Wisconsin is more indicative that they're going for the ACC draw teams out of a hat alignment.

Which one gets Minnesota?

In the last decade, Nebraska has played non-Conference series with Virginia Tech, USC, Pitt, Penn State, and Notre Dame. This year, they begin a home and home with Washington, as have future home and homes with UCLA, Miami, and Tennessee. Also, it's kind of hard to schedule tough when it is reported that the independence deal includes 4-6 games against WAC teams. But then, college football has never been one of your strong suits.