Feh, try rooting for the Golden Gophers. The first team which deliberately feminized its mascot.
...but it's still better than the days of old (circa 1940):
Cheers!
...how does Wisconsin do it?
Cheers!
Posted on 10/14/2011 8:19:58 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
The Mountain West Conference and Conference USA have agreed to form a merged 22-team football league, hoping the move will help solidify both conferences and improve their chances at obtaining a Bowl Championship Series automatic qualifying bid.
The league will have a two-division alignment and will play a championship game, Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky said during a conference call announcing the move on Friday.
The two leagues would maintain their independent structures in all other sports under the arrangement, which could begin as early as 2012.
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This will kill the Big East for football.
You’re right. Pitt and Syracuse are Going to the ACC. The Big 12 is wooing West Virginia and Louisville. Connecticut has approached the ACC. That would leave Cincinnati, South Florida and Rutgers as the only football schools left in the Big East.
More cupcakes for Boise State to eat.
Watch out for SMU.
Adios, NCAA. Say “howdy” to a new governing body.
SMU has an improved team this year. It took the Mustangs over 20 years to recover from the “death penalty.”
If a team ever deserved the “death penalty,” it’s Miami (FL).
If that were to happen, then we could be united as a nation of college fans instead of divided into fans of so-called "conferences."
This is really getting out of hand, and is not going to make college football more popular. College football fans love tradition. It’s hard to have much tradition when you jump from conference to conference every year, starting and ending rivalries, etc.
Just as tasty as Oklahoma, TCU, Oregon, Oregon State, Georgia, Virginia Tech, etc, etc, etc.
Feh, try rooting for the Golden Gophers. The first team which deliberately feminized its mascot.
...but it's still better than the days of old (circa 1940):
Cheers!
...how does Wisconsin do it?
Cheers!
In a real conference, you'd play a list of teams like that every year, not spread over a decade. It is a lot harder to play teams like that week after week instead of playing 1-2 real games a year and 10-11 scrimmages.
Cincinnati is apparently on the Big XII radar, too.
IIRC, last summer, it was reported that BCS by-laws require a conference to have 6 teams who played together for a certain length of time (3 years?) in order to retain AQ status. It was stated that the "Forgotten Five" of the Big XII could NOT retain AQ status because of that by-law. If this is still in existence, the Big East will lose its AQ status with one more defection.
Even more ominous for the Big East was the recent refusal of the existing members to increase exit fees in order to discourage defections.
You mean a real conference where you have overrated teams like Ohio State, Florida and Michigan?
Let's face it. Many of these teams live on reputation alone. Many teams want nothing to do with putting a Boise State on their schedule. I know as I follow the team.
Only a true playoff system will eliminate the criminal racket that is the BCS.
Or Georgia? I forgot, we're supposed to be impressed by a win over a team who had a losing record last year and might finish in the middle of the pack in the SEC this year.
Many teams want nothing to do with putting a Boise State on their schedule. I know as I follow the team.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and still have lots of connections up there (including several in college athletics). I have several friends who work at Boise State. I have heard Boise State propaganda for decades. First time I saw Boise State play, they were still part of the Big Sky Conference and Tony Knap was still their coach. I have seen them play dozens of times. I have heard the "BJC" chant in stadiums in three different states.
I heard from one official in a Big XII athletic department who stated that Boise State's problem isn't that teams are scared of them but their insistence on home-on-home series. Big schools don't want to travel to Boise to play in that dinky little stadium. Why go to Boise when they can stay home and play in front of 75,000 - 100,000 people? (You know, the same argument that Boise State is using for why it can't make the trip to play in the Kibbie Dome to keep the Governor's Cup going.) He said he wasn't surprised that Washington, Oregon, and BYU would agree to it because of proximity but no big-name school is going to travel far to play in Bronco Stadium.
Only a true playoff system will eliminate the criminal racket that is the BCS.
Whatever. It doesn't change my opinion that there are lots of teams who would run your schedule without any problem.
Wait, isn't the SEC the nearest thing to the NFL in the NCAA? You mean there are sucky teams in that league as well?
Playoff system and all this talk goes away and a TRUE national champion is crowned. As it is, the BIG schools are too greedy to want any upstarts disturbing their cash cow.
The sad thing is that Georgia is probably going to win the SEC East.
The SEC has a couple of sucky teams and rest are decent to great teams. As opposed to the MWC which is all sucky teams except for two. Your two "tests" are run-of-the-mill teams in BCS conferences which a team in those conferences faces 7-8 times a season. Your typical conference foe is a "laugher" for BCS conference teams. BCS teams don't have the luxury of winning two real games and then sitting back and waiting for the other schools to lose when running a gauntlet of real games.
Playoff system and all this talk goes away and a TRUE national champion is crowned. As it is, the BIG schools are too greedy to want any upstarts disturbing their cash cow.
Come up with a workable scheme for a playoff which addresses concerns of all parties involved and it would be considered. The BIG schools (as you call them) have been developing their brands for decades. Why should they cut in the upstarts? Take the Rose Bowl. It was developed by the Pac-12 and Big Ten (and their successor conferences). Under what principle of morality are they required to share this with other schools? Are they greedy for wanting to keep the benefits of what they had developed?
The power of the SEC is clearly in the SEC West. If you paired East#1 vs. West#1, East#2 vs. West#2, etc., I think the West would be 6-0 in those match-ups.
South Carolina with its win over Georgia still has the inside track to winning the SEC East.
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