jhans203 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I know that these BCS Realignment/Reorganization topics can and are overplayed. I absolutely love college football and while the BCS is definitely better than naming Co-Champions, it still has it flaws and biases that really should be addressed. I think the fairest thing is that in order to receive an automatic bid a BCS system. Whether that's an eight team playoff or eight team BCS Bowl system. That's (always) up for debate.But, I believe that there should be a requirement(s) for a conference to garner an automatic bid and namely that would be that they hold a Conference Championship game, which would require that the conference has 12 teams. This would force current BCS Conferences, the Pac-10, Big Ten and Big East to expand and current BCS hopefuls the Mountain West and the WAC to expand as well in hopes to get an automatic bid.With that requirement I came up with my own realignment and would love to hear others' ideas on BCS realignment or the BCS system in general. In this expansion I would actually dissolve the WAC into the Mountain West and Conference USA. PAC-10 --> PAC-12Northern DivisionWashingtonWashington StateOregon Oregon StateUtahBoise StateSouthern DivisionCaliforniaStanfordUCLAUSCArizonaArizona StateBig TenWestern DivisionIllinoisNorthwesternWisconsinMinnesotaIowaIowa StateEastern DivisionPenn StateOhio StateMichiganMichigan StateIndianaPurdueBig East ConferenceNorthern DivisionConnecticutSyracuseRutgersPittsburghCincinnatiLouisvilleSouthern DivisionWest VirginiaEastern CarolinaSouthern FloridaMarshallCentral FloridaMemphisBig 12Northern DivisionNebraskaKansasKansas StateMissouriColoradoBrigham YoungSouthern DivisionOklahomaOklahoma StateTexasTexas A&MTexas TechTexas ChristianMountain West ConferencePacific DivisionSan Diego StateUNLVNew MexicoFresno StateNevadaUtah StateMountain DivisionWyomingColorado StateAir ForceTulsaUTEPBaylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 If the Pac 10 took Utah they'd also take BYU. No way would they screw up the continuity of regional rivalries that they have now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 You're ignoring a lot of politics, academics, and bad blood here. To begin with, Tulsa would not rejoin many of their old WAC brethren after they bolted on the WAC to form the MWC. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 It is apparent that you fail to realize that colleges and universities are centers of education first, and that intercollegiate athletics are a part of the university, not THE ONLY part. Baylor got into the Big XII with help from the Texas Legislature, they will have a say in your moving them out. You do not have many "travel partners" with these new arrangements too. Your Pac 10 additions are pure homer-ism as both do not even sniff the Pac 10 schools academically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 It is apparent that you fail to realize that colleges and universities are centers of education first, and that intercollegiate athletics are a part of the university, not THE ONLY part. LOL.(at least at the undergrad level) On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEW.ERA Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Best thing in my mind is move Boise State and Fresno State to the MWC and send New Mexico and SDSU to the WAC that would almost encourage the NCAA for MWC to become a BCS Conference. JETS|PACK|JAYS|NUFC|BAMA|BOMBERS|RAPS|ORANJE| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 It is apparent that you fail to realize that colleges and universities are centers of education first, and that intercollegiate athletics are a part of the university, not THE ONLY part. LOL.(at least at the undergrad level)And looking at this again, this plan basically makes the remaining C-USA and WAC schools FCS participants. The following schools (examples) are SOL, yet Utah State get to move up?HoustonHawaiiLet's see that new 22 team MAC work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Interesting timing, as today the Big Ten officially declared their interest in adding a 12th team.The first school that usually comes to mind with Big Ten expansion is Notre Dame, but on the Gopher basketball pregame radio show tonight they speculated that Missouri might actually be more interested in a move at this point (they claimed Mizzou was sore about getting passed over by the New Year's Day bowls in favor of inferior but more glamorous Big 12 rivals). They also floated Syracuse and even Rutgers as possibilities.And if Missouri did bolt for the Big Ten, my guess is that BYU would be the Big 12's first choice for a replacement (they would be competitive almost right away, and geographically they would fit right into the North division). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 ECU should be in red to for the Big East. They're currently CUSA. Athletic Director: KTU Blue Grassers Football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEW.ERA Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Interesting timing, as today the Big Ten officially declared their interest in adding a 12th team.The first school that usually comes to mind with Big Ten expansion is Notre Dame, but on the Gopher basketball pregame radio show tonight they speculated that Missouri might actually be more interested in a move at this point (they claimed Mizzou was sore about getting passed over by the New Year's Day bowls in favor of inferior but more glamorous Big 12 rivals). They also floated Syracuse and even Rutgers as possibilities.And if Missouri did bolt for the Big Ten, my guess is that BYU would be the Big 12's first choice for a replacement (they would be competitive almost right away, and geographically they would fit right into the North division).I'd be down with Mizzou moving to the Big Ten not as hard as the Big 12 haha. As for BYU to the Big 12 you can't split them up from Utah they could put TCU in the Big 12 North but that kinda messes up the Regional aspect. JETS|PACK|JAYS|NUFC|BAMA|BOMBERS|RAPS|ORANJE| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Interesting timing, as today the Big Ten officially declared their interest in adding a 12th team.The first school that usually comes to mind with Big Ten expansion is Notre Dame, but on the Gopher basketball pregame radio show tonight they speculated that Missouri might actually be more interested in a move at this point (they claimed Mizzou was sore about getting passed over by the New Year's Day bowls in favor of inferior but more glamorous Big 12 rivals). They also floated Syracuse and even Rutgers as possibilities.And if Missouri did bolt for the Big Ten, my guess is that BYU would be the Big 12's first choice for a replacement (they would be competitive almost right away, and geographically they would fit right into the North division).I'd be down with Mizzou moving to the Big Ten not as hard as the Big 12 haha. As for BYU to the Big 12 you can't split them up from Utah they could put TCU in the Big 12 North but that kinda messes up the Regional aspect.Dude...your Tigers would miss the good ol' days of the Big XII North in fairly short order. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infrared41 Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 It is apparent that you fail to realize that colleges and universities are centers of education first, and that intercollegiate athletics are a part of the university, not THE ONLY part. LOL.(at least at the undergrad level)While that comment was certainly funny, if you ask me, the real "LOL" moment came from this...Baylor got into the Big XII with help from the Texas Legislature, they will have a say in your moving them out. I love how dfwabel addressed it as if this realignment was just a dotted I and a crossed T from being reality.But we can always use another realignment thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 All I know is this has been reported numerous times:The Decision to Take BaylorNow the fact that TCU was less than 10 years off a probation which was supposedly just below SMU, could also be a factor as I about six TCU players of that were paid like the SMU guys were, but heck, it seems that Miami was paying too a that time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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