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Post by BleedingOrange on Oct 14, 2011 18:57:02 GMT -5
Latest reports have C-USA and Mountain West merging to form a "super conference" made up of two 9 or 10-team divisions (in football only). Not sure how this is going to happen when there are still teams from both conferences being sought after by bigger leagues, but it's on the interweb so it must be true, right? msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/Mountain-West-and-Conference-USA-to-merge-101411If it does turn out to be true, I also wonder if the commissioners can make that big a call without all the schools agreeing to it. But my huge, burning question remains: What the hell does that do to us as far as basketball is concerned?? Not to be a hater, but I care FAR less about the UTEP football program than I do about the basketball team... |
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Post by Realm on Oct 14, 2011 22:24:05 GMT -5
Bleed... as I read this... this is just for football only.
4 Geographical Divisions(with Boise, Hawaii, UCF, Houston, and SMU noticeably absent):
1. UNLV/SDSU/Fresno/Nevada
2. UTEP/U New Mexico /Colorado State/Wyo
3. Rice/Tulane/Tulsa/So Miss
4. Memphis/Marshall/ECU/UAB
Utep's dream of winning a football conference title just became TWICE as tough to do...
A conference with 16-20 members is why the MEGA-WAC broke up many years ago... and now here we are again.
I'm wondering... is the intention of this football league merger to guarantee access to the BCS bowls??
Realm...  
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Post by BleedingOrange on Oct 15, 2011 12:22:04 GMT -5
I know it's football only, but my primary concern is the basketball schedule. Will this kind of crap start happening in basketball also? Will these football-only moves become all sports? Is our basketball program attractive enough to get an invite to another conference despite our pathetic football teams?
Call me an idiot, but I can't wrap my head around the idea of a school playing in two different conferences for two different sports. I know it's been going on forever, but I think it kinda sucks.
Anyway, now the national pundits are saying this is a joke, and that trying to merge the two conferences will not keep the upper echelon schools from leaving. By the time the merger actually happened (they're talking 2013), we could already have lost seven or eight of the best teams from both conferences.
This is just insanity. Before long we will have five or six "super power" football conferences, and the rest of the rabble will in essence be independent teams just playing each other for no reason other than to play.
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Post by MinerMan2010 on Oct 15, 2011 20:31:49 GMT -5
Meanwhile in basketball, SMU and Houston are going to be playing Georgetown and Villanova in basketball and we're stuck with Rice and Tulsa, great. Assuming SMU and Houston accept their invites.
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Post by mistabinks on Oct 15, 2011 23:48:19 GMT -5
I am not one to cry about travel costs when it comes to college athletics. I have grown very tired of hearing about that at cusabbs. That being said, I do tend to think Big East basketball is slightly too far for us. It would be awesome to play those teams. But you don't do home and home with them. Sure, I would take the opportunity but I am not bummed about it. Dallas and Houston are 1,000 miles closer that we are. Who knows.
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Post by MinerMan2010 on Nov 1, 2011 23:23:41 GMT -5
Wonder how and if this will work when the 5 CUSA/MWC schools leave for the Big East?
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