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Post by PantherU on Nov 12, 2010 0:03:39 GMT -6
If Auburn and Oregon go undefeated there is no way in hell TCU or Boise St should be in the National Championship game. The weekly grind in the SEC and Pac-10 is a hell of a lot harder to withstand than the WAC and MWC. Agreed, but should only one of Auburn and Oregon go undefeated, or none, and Boise State or TCU goes undefeated, you just can't keep them out. I should have put that qualifier in there.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Nov 12, 2010 8:57:40 GMT -6
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Post by ghostofdylan on Nov 29, 2010 9:50:34 GMT -6
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Post by PantherU on Nov 29, 2010 10:04:36 GMT -6
In the words of Liz Lemon...whack?
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Rawls
Junior
Everyone's Entitled To My Opinion
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Post by Rawls on Nov 29, 2010 10:34:47 GMT -6
Good for TCU. The Big East might not be any better than the MWC, but it's AQ and in the ass backwards world of college football, that's all that matters.
Sucks for Boise (not to mention the others in the MWC) who were set to join a formidable Conference with BYU, Utah and TCU. MWC in 2012 will be no better than the WAC in 2010. Could've been awesome.
...and the basketball conference will now have 17 members. Yup.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Nov 29, 2010 11:25:32 GMT -6
Good for football, not good for basketball.
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dutchpthr
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ain't much if it ain't dutch
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Post by dutchpthr on Nov 29, 2010 11:31:35 GMT -6
Sucks for Boise (not to mention the others in the MWC) who were set to join a formidable Conference with BYU, Utah and TCU. not to nit pick but BYU & Utah are not staying in the MWC tho, and they were already set to leave before Boise St. joins i believe so now the move for Boise St. becomes a lateral move almost from the WAC to the MWC
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Post by PantherU on Nov 29, 2010 12:00:10 GMT -6
Sucks for Boise (not to mention the others in the MWC) who were set to join a formidable Conference with BYU, Utah and TCU. not to nit pick but BYU & Utah are not staying in the MWC tho, and they were already set to leave before Boise St. joins i believe so now the move for Boise St. becomes a lateral move almost from the WAC to the MWC Won't be lateral when you consider the future WAC. I fear that we'll remember the Mountain West as the Conference that Coulda Been. Had current membership stayed with the addition of BSU, Nevada and Fresno State, they would have been pretty close to usurping the Pac 10 as the dominant conference in both football and basketball. Hell, they WOULD have usurped them.
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dutchpthr
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ain't much if it ain't dutch
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Post by dutchpthr on Nov 29, 2010 12:26:29 GMT -6
not to nit pick but BYU & Utah are not staying in the MWC tho, and they were already set to leave before Boise St. joins i believe so now the move for Boise St. becomes a lateral move almost from the WAC to the MWC Won't be lateral when you consider the future WAC. I fear that we'll remember the Mountain West as the Conference that Coulda Been. Had current membership stayed with the addition of BSU, Nevada and Fresno State, they would have been pretty close to usurping the Pac 10 as the dominant conference in both football and basketball. Hell, they WOULD have usurped them. That is what i mean, with the loss of BYU, Utah, and TCU the MWC becomes the current WAC, which would in football be a lateral move for Boise St i think
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Post by gman2 on Nov 29, 2010 12:40:11 GMT -6
In an interview I read recently TCU's AD was asked about a move to the Big East. He essentially said they had to find a way to help pay for the $120M renovation to the football stadium. This move was done for the football program which has put TCU on the map. All other TCU teams will suffer with higher travel and recruiting costs.
If the Big East goes after another football school to get to ten football schools, they may have to consider dumping non-football schools to get a manageable basketball schedule. I have to imagine Marquette and De Paul might be the ones to get booted.
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dutchpthr
Junior
ain't much if it ain't dutch
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Post by dutchpthr on Nov 29, 2010 12:58:30 GMT -6
If the Big East goes after another football school to get to ten football schools, they may have to consider dumping non-football schools to get a manageable basketball schedule. I have to imagine Marquette and De Paul might be the ones to get booted. It sounds like they are putting the pressure on Villinova to move up from 1-AA to 1-A and be the 10th football school in the conference so they might not need to do too much for basketball at this time but that is one big ass conference for basketball tho!
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Post by BBFran on Nov 29, 2010 13:32:51 GMT -6
How can a 17 team league have a meaningful regular season? Presumably you either play a 16 game conference schedule with one game against each other team, and the conference title almost assuredly being decided every year by which contender is lucky enough to get the other contenders at home, or you stay with an 18 game schedule that's even screwier. I predict they'll go with 16 because it has the illusion of fairness. And then the Syracuses and Marquettes and such will have to find two more bunny rabbits to play at home every year in the non-con. Oh how pleased the ticket buying fans will be.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Nov 29, 2010 16:47:48 GMT -6
Boy, I'm sure glad this conference re-structuring has abated like some on here projected.
What's next? Central Florida to the Big 10/11/12/13? Let the merry-go-round continue.
And yes, I think the Big East/Southwest (sounds like a Hitchc*** film) will have to adopt the 16-game format proposed by Fran.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Nov 30, 2010 23:19:27 GMT -6
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Mar 25, 2011 14:42:27 GMT -6
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