I told you they'd find a home...the SBC is in fact, the first Super Conference and the Big will follow and so on and so it goes from here on in
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I told you they'd find a home...the SBC is in fact, the first Super Conference and the Big will follow and so on and so it goes from here on in
South AlabamaQuote:
Originally Posted by ram29jackson
Troy
Western Kentucky
Arkansas at Little Rock (Basketball Only)
Arkansas State
Louisiana Lafayette
Louisiana Monroe
Georgia State
Texas State
University of Texas at Arlington (Basketball Only)
Georgia Southern
Appalachian State
Idaho (Football Only)
New Mexico State (Football Only)
So using my mathematical skills that would be 12 Football Teams and 12 Basketball Teams.
The SEC has 14 teams that play football and basketball. How exactly does that make the Sun Belt the first Super Conference? Even the MAC has more teams at 13.
both humor and ground breaking moves are completely lost on/by you. this is the first rock rolling down the hill( one of the first two if you want to have a hissy fit about it ) that will start the avalanche combined with the SEC etc. This is just the beginning.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Thats all there is to it.
edit- ultimately I mean to say, just stop with the over analyzation dude ,sheesh
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Originally Posted by ram29jackson
http://i.imgur.com/q6r9wmA.gif
Marshall AD insinuates WKU to CUSA a done deal...
http://www.wvgazette.com/Sports/Mars...3280230?page=2
"We haven't been spending much more," Hamrick said. "In football, we bus to non-conference games. We've been flying to four away games. In the MAC you had Western Michigan, Central Michigan, Northern Illinois. Now [in C-USA] we're adding Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee and, in 2015, Charlotte."
Any truth to the rumour that the former BIG EAST will adopt the name AMERICA 12? I saw this on another website talking about realignment but it was the first I have heard of it.
I heard something similar as well. No idea how much truth is in it though but it was basically talked about shortly after it was announced that the Catholic Big East teams are going to be keeping the Big East conference naming rights, leaving the football side of things scrambling to come up with something different.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76
Brett McMurphy @McMurphyESPN
With WKU to C-USA, James Madison & Liberty leading Sun Belt candidates source told @espn
Ahem, get in line.Quote:
Originally Posted by psusnoop
Last I heard, it was one of several names being discussed but it would not be fair to say, at least at the time, that it was the leading candidate.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76
Nice! Since Tiburon seems pretty uninterested and/or opposed to bringing back FCS TEAMS (as you all know, this is now my #1 request...) I guess I will have to wait until JMU joins the FBS.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdj
It's official for Tulsa & Western Kentucky.
Seems like a DUMB move for :Western_Kentucky: They won't be able to compete in football or in basketball where they fairly regularly made the NCAA tourny although I guess they could just be happy receiving :Memphis: basketball money?Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
Memphis is now in Conference America East...Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
We need a road map just for basketball alone with the Catholic 7+3.
Yeah I give up trying to keep up with all of this crap then. Never even heard of "Conference America East" I presume that is the "old" Big East?Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
That's not the official name... just what I call it since it's a rehash of Conference USA and now the "old" Big East.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
Does anyone have a link to the new conferences as they will be in 2013 and 2014? Honestly there have been so many changes that I can't even recall the half of them.
This is the site that does a good job of keeping track of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaymo76
http://www.athlonsports.com/college-...ng-all-changes
Great link. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
And we have a new name. The Big East is now the American Athletic Conference.
Thanks G, my mind like others has teams where they are not and this helps big time haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
I just heard a rumor that Arkansas State is moving to the big 12 in 2015. Anyone confirm?
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I can confirm that you fell victim to a satire site.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deuce
http://www.rockcitytimes.com/arkansa...otball-season/
“It is certainly not the first team I would expect the Big 12 to add, but when you analyze the move it does make a lot of sense,” CBS Sports analyst Bruce Feldman tells us. “They are a program that has began recruiting strongly in SEC regions, it establishes a footprint in the Little Rock, Memphis, and Northern Mississippi markets. It can’t be any worse than adding West Virginia for sure.”
:D
He includes Feldman in the article because he fell for a similar article during our coaching search which said Houston Nutt was going to be our next coach. Feldman went so far as getting a quote from Nutt himself denying it.
RockCityTimes does good work. :D
Dammit Jim!
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Are they going Indy or back down to FCS?
I haven't read any rumors yet, but some are guessing they might go American Conference.Quote:
Originally Posted by souljahbill
That won't work. The ONLY reason you add :U_Mass: is for hoops. They are in the A-10 in hoops which isn't a fbs football conference. They are going to either have to leave the A-10 to join another conference or go back to FCS or stay indy. I just cannot imagine a conference allowing a new school to be in its conference for some sports but not others.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdj
I just don't see a conference jumping over itself to land UMASS. No offense to the people who attend UMASS but I don't think about this school when I think about a powerful athletic programme (outside of the odd year in bball). Personally I think they should stay where they are in all sports.
I think the Atlantic 10 would be a good fit. Maybe stay indy for football if they don't want to move back down.
IIRC, there were rumors a few months ago they might drop back to FCS for football since they are not competitive in the FBS. Maybe that is what is going on here?
I've read some speculation they might go Sun Belt in football to give them 12 teams, but I don't think there's anything behind that (yet).
So, who does the Big 12 approach to add this winter/spring? :D
They need two more teams for a conference championship game.
Cincinnati, Memphis & BYU.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
There has also been mention of UCF. BYU & Cincinnati would be my picks.Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
Problem is they probably won't be able to play til 2016 right? There isn't any way to get them in for next season at this point right?Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
A championship game isn't the problem. The problem is that the second best team in the Big 12 beat the best team and took them out of the mix when they won the conference. Had Baylor lost, Ohio St. would be out and TCU would be in.
Kansas AD: Big 12 discussing league championship game 'right now'
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...game-right-now
Well, yes, TCU going undefeated (which they would have had they beaten Baylor) would have solved everything ;)
EDIT: Just realized you were saying if Baylor had lost to K-State. Not sure that would have gotten TCU in, but certainly the discussion is different then.
Not having a championship game was absolutely part of the problem. Everybody says that TCU and Baylor both win Saturday and don't understand why they dropped (for the record, I would have been just fine with any of the three getting in. I consider it a pleasant surprise). What if TCU and Baylor had been off? Would there be shock then? Because by playing one less game they had an extra bye week. The fact that it wasn't after Thanksgiving doesn't change that fact.
If TCU and Baylor had played again this week, I personally believe that the winner would have been in the playoffs.