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DCDuck

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  1. Ummm....doesn't the SEC already HAVE two teams in Tennessee? To go with the two in Mississippi and the one in Arkansas? I think the SEC pretty much has Memphis covered. Especially now that Calipari is gone. UT is located in Knoxville - a good six-hour drive from Memphis (and in a different time zone). Vandy is located in Nashville, which is three hours away. Fayetteville (Arkansas) is five hours away, at least. Oxford (Ole Miss) is a good seven hours from Memphis, and Starkville (Miss State) is about a three-hour trip. None of those locations "cover" Memphis by any means, and trying to tell recruits that they'd be "close to home" or that their parents would be able to watch them play would be ludicrous. When it comes to college hoops, Memphis exists by itself. They have been yearning for an opportunity to join a conference like the Big East to renew their rivalries with teams like Louisville and Cincinnati. But their football program has been what has been holding them back. Their stadium is by far the worst in D-1 FBS, and the product they put on the field isn't much better. And the fact that they fired the only coach to take them to a bowl since 1971 after one bad season only adds to the perception that they have a Napoleon complex when it comes to football.
  2. This exactly. I feel the same way. WVU is now in a separate conference from each of their rivals (Marshall, Maryland, Pittsburgh). Cuse and Pitt also abandoned their rivals to go to the ACC (which anyone in ACC country will tell you is the Carolina Conference much in the same way that the Big XII is the Texas Conference). Missouri gave up one of the great all-time rivalries in college sports to go chasing dollar signs in the SEC (where they will almost undoubtedly finish in the cellar year after year). I'm not going to heap all the blame on Texas, though they do bear some of the responsibility. But this whole thing is just disappointing. I can't bear to watch college football anymore. Between realignment and the BCS, the whole thing has become a joke.
  3. East Carolina's academics are about as noteworthy as Boise State's, and their footprint among the Carolinas is miniscule.
  4. Memphis would actually make a lot of SEC hoops coaches happy, as it would allow them to have access into one of college hoops' most fertile recruiting grounds. Too bad their football program is an absolute joke.
  5. WVU would never get an invite to the B1G - the one conference that still pretends to have some sort of standard for academics.
  6. WVU to Big XII. http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/29532522/32980106 I can't say I like this move at all.
  7. Well, 12 teams dilutes the value of The Longhorn Network. So it makes sense why Texas is in favor of 10 teams. 12 teams at least give you a legitimate AQ bid for the BCS. 10 teams is pushing it, even if you have Texas and Oklahoma. As long as OU, OkSt, Texas and Texas Tech remain, they're guaranteed to keep their AQ bid, so that's not an issue. If they bring in WVU, Louisville and Cincinnati, then it helps the chances of them keeping the bid if those aformentioned schools do in fact leave. Though if all 4 exit, they'll have to add more and it becomes murky, but I still think they retain the bid. I don't know. If Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State leave... I don't see a conference getting and Automatic Big into the BCS with Kansas State and West Virginia being the "powerhouses," I think even if Texas Tech and Oklahoma State stay, it still may be tough for them to retain the Automatic Bid. No, with Tech and Ok St staying they would definitely keep it. Plus, who else would it go to? The Sun Belt. FIU is such a powerhouse. ... oh wait, they aren't? Could have fooled me...
  8. At what point do we just cave and call it "The Longhorn Conference"?
  9. Memphis isn't going to the Big East as their football program has been nothing short of a farce the past decade and their stadium is absolutely pitiful. This is more evidence that conference realignment doesn't have a damn thing to do with basketball.
  10. Villanova not ponying up their own cash to build a football venue with adequate seating for FBS is part of the reason the Big East is in this situation to begin with. They have no right to complain.
  11. You know that statement one school official made about Mizzou really wanting to be in the B1G but would "settle" for the SEC if there were no other options? It's true. Missouri will "settle" for the SEC if that's what it comes down to, but they're not going to leave the Big XII for the SEC as long as the Big XII has Texas, Oklahoma, and an auto-bid to the BCS. Now if the B1G rang... that would be different. Mizzou would be outta there like a jackrabbit at an Elmer Fudd convention.
  12. They're already sacrificing money to stay independent. The B1G has been making more money per school from the BTN than ND has been making from their NBC deal + Big East olympic sports TV rights for some time.
  13. ... or the Pac-12 stays at 12 because all of those schools either a) carry baggage (Texas and their Failhorn Longhorn Network), b) are traditionally bad at football (Kansas, Baylor), c) are religious schools (BYU, TCU), or d) simply not all that attracive options (Texas Tech, K-State).
  14. And yet one of the most storied programs in college basketball history (Kansas) could very well have been scrambling for a home after last year's realignment chatter. It's simple: Why isn't anyone interested in Kansas? Because basketball is an afterthought in realignment talks. Why isn't anyone in Rice or Tulane? Because academics are irrelevant in realignment talks. mod edit DING! Thank you for bringing the light. Now, everyone, back to the FOOTBALL realignment discussion.
  15. Army asked the Big East not to consider them because they were concerned that they couldn't be competitive in the conference after the C-USA experiment.
  16. Saying you'd rather be in the B1G but would "settle" for the SEC is like a baseball free agent saying he'd rather be with the Yankees but would "settle" for the Red Sawks. I never said that. One person did and it amounted to nothing. Probably just someone running their mouth, making statements on their own personal preference. For the record, that was me. And it was officially reported in an ESPN article from an "anonymous official inside of the University of Missouri". The article didn't say "settle" but it did say that the Big 10 is Missouri's primary, first choice. But it also said that they would be excited to join the SEC, too. I'd call anything that isn't a first choice "settling", wouldn't you? It's not like Mizzou is going independent and will only join a conference if the B1G calls.
  17. Saying you'd rather be in the B1G but would "settle" for the SEC is like a baseball free agent saying he'd rather be with the Yankees but would "settle" for the Red Sawks.
  18. Notre Dame has been invited to join the B1G about 25,000 times. Now every B1G school, even ones like Northwestern who aren't good in football or basketball, gets more revenue from the BTN than Notre Dame does from their NBC deal plus their Big East TV contract. It's not about economics or logistics. Notre Dame's independence at this point is based around arrogance, as though they have some divine birthright to be treated differently than everyone else because they won a bunch of National Championships 60 years ago.
  19. If the B1G wanted Mizzou they would have taken them in 2010 instead of Nebraska.
  20. Idaho's Kibbie Dome is the smallest FBS stadium by seating capacity, at 16,000. Most of the non-AQ stadiums can hold around 25-35,000.
  21. That splits Vanderbilt from Tennessee and Florida. I don't see Vandy approving of that at all. Vandy can go suck eggs as far as the rest of the SEC is concerned. /They'll just become Tennessee's designated rival. No matter how bad their football program is, they still have a vote just like the other 11 12 members.
  22. That splits Vanderbilt from Tennessee and Florida. I don't see Vandy approving of that at all.
  23. OU would still bring up the issues that Alabama has with adding another school in the west and making them have choose between playing Auburn and playing Tennessee on a yearly basis. Not to mention OU and Okie State are pretty much joined at the hip.
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