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I have a pointless realignment dream idea. How about a revival of the Metro Conference (but as a football-sponsoring all-sports league)?
Version A: North/South:
Metro North:
Cincinnati
Louisville
Memphis
UNC-Charlotte
South Carolina
Virginia Tech
Metro South:
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Southern Mississippi
South Florida
Tulane
UAB
Version B: East/West:
Metro East:
Florida State
Georgia Tech
UNC-Charlotte
South Carolina
South Florida
Virginia Tech
Metro West:
Cincinnati
Louisville
Memphis
Southern Mississippi
Tulane
UAB
Summary: This fan-based dream conference is based on like MOST of the old union of C-USA back in 95-96 (Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Southern Mississippi and Tulane), but with Florida State, Georgia Tech and South Carolina (from the ACC and SEC respectively), UAB, South Florida and UNC-Charlotte once former non-football schools who were also part of that old union and eventually started sponsoring football, and Virginia Tech a former football affiliate of an FBS conference while belonging to a non-football conference for other sports. -
Any of you board members a fan of NCAA D-I FBS college football? Just wanna say the following:
Prior to 1991, ALL FBS (Div. I-A) conferences had a maximum number of upto at least 9-10 schools, plus tens of Indy schools along the way, and NEITHER didn't have a conference championship game (or in short, CCG).
In the 1991-92 season, the SEC became the first conference to establish one with the additions of Arkansas (former SWC full member) and South Carolina (former Metro non-football full member with Indy football).
In the 1996-97 season, the Big 12 (then the Big 8) started to have their CCG with the merged additions of the "top leftovers" of the defunct SWC (making references to the 4 Texas schools); while the "mid-major leftovers" (Rice, SMU and TCU) joined the WAC, who also made their own CCG (which it was short-lived because most of the longtime WAC schools parted ways to create their own conference); and leaving Houston to join C-USA.
In the 1997-98 season, the MAC also started a CCG after re-adding Northern Illinois and Marshall.
Almost a decade had passed, and due to conference realignment changes on the 2005-06 season, the ACC and C-USA also sponsored their first CCG's respectively.
Recently on this decade, specifically in 2011, the Big 12 CCG came to an end when Nebraska joined the Big TEN and Colorado (along with Utah from the MW) joined the Pac-10 (now as the Pac-12), leading both of these conferences to respectively have their own CCG's.
But presently, other conferences have started to plan their own CCG's in the future as long as they get the requirement when it comes to expansion, which the key number is 12. For instance, the MW recently started their own CCG (with fb-affiliate Hawaii, after the additions of San Jose State and Utah State). However, the conference in question for a CCG at this moment are the Sun Belt and The American (or AAC).
But all aside, my point is that the "Power 5" conferences are getting more power-hungry when it comes to have like over 14 members. The key question is: "When those conferences reach over 14 to 16 to 18 members, will there be possible splits to bring small conferences; just like what happened to the WAC after the 1998-99 season, resulting the creation of the MW?" You be the judge! -
Now sure if this board has a thread or topic that discusses about conference realignment concepts made by and based by the fans
Look up at the top.
Where? I tried searching it before making this thread and there was nothing related.
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Now sure if this board has a thread or topic that discusses about conference realignment concepts made by and based by the fans; you know, dream conferences. But here's a start:
Here's my sample of a dream conference based from the defunct Metro Conference:
i.) - Charter members
Cincinnati (75-76 to 90-91)
Louisville (75-76 to 94-95)
Memphis (75-76 to 90-91)
Tulane (75-76 to 94-95)
Georgia Tech (75-76 to 78-79)
Florida State (76-77 to 90-91)
Virginia Tech (79-80 to 94-95)
Southern Mississippi (82-83 to 94-95)
South Carolina (83-84 to 90-91)
ii.) - Possible expansion candidates:
South Florida (91-92 to 94-95)
North Carolina-Charlotte (91-92 to 94-95)
Alabama-Birmingham
Central Florida
Houston
Lemme know your opinions or thoughts or ideas. Feel free to share them.
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Love your idea monkeypower. Obviously, Kootenay is a team from the B.C. area. But it would be more well-balanced if two expansion teams would join in to have a total of 24 in the WHL. Maybe one team from Alberta to replace Kootenay's previous spot and another one from the U.S. Pacific Northwest.