Comprehensive Conference Realignment Thread

[PawDawg]

If Tulane got in and started to win like Baylor...it could get interesting. They would always need to rely on bandwagon fans, but south Louisiana has a crap load of those.

Baylor had/has a great base to draw from all over the state of Texas. Tulane does not. Tulane will be lucky to ever fill the new stadium.

[Dawg06]

Is this good logic? Officials don't want to split scarce resources any further, but since they're going to be low anyway, he thinks we should split them?

I guess he goes on to try to make the case for expanding to reduce travel expenses, and I guess at some point that will out-weigh the splitting of the pie but I'm skeptical that you can save enough no matter who you add.

I thought the same thing you did. Also, the "expand to develop rivalries" angle is laughable. JMU would only be a rival for ODU, and Georgia State wouldn't be anybody's rival.

The first thing C-USA would need to accomplish before expanding is to get the CFB Playoff to remove the cap that limits the $1MM/team distribution to 12 teams max. With conference championship deregulation, C-USA might be able to accomplish that with the help of the Big Ten, Big 12, and maybe others.

The next thing C-USA would need to do is find out how much the TV partners would be willing to increase their payouts with the additions of Georgia State, JMU, or others.

[Dawg06]

If anybody's curious about the ACC Network... http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/col...g-delay/npBsW/

[Dawg06]

And speaking of JMU... new $88 million basketball arena in the works... http://jmuconvo.com/

[TYLERTECHSAS]

If Tulane got in and started to win like Baylor...it could get interesting. They would always need to rely on bandwagon fans, but Louisiana period, has a crap load of those.

I changed it for you.

[inudesu]

I thought the same thing you did. Also, the "expand to develop rivalries" angle is laughable. JMU would only be a rival for ODU, and Georgia State wouldn't be anybody's rival.

The first thing C-USA would need to accomplish before expanding is to get the CFB Playoff to remove the cap that limits the $1MM/team distribution to 12 teams max. With conference championship deregulation, C-USA might be able to accomplish that with the help of the Big Ten, Big 12, and maybe others.

The next thing C-USA would need to do is find out how much the TV partners would be willing to increase their payouts with the additions of Georgia State, JMU, or others.

That whole article was written like a message board fan post. "The conference should do this and that big step because it will help my team." I've read a million of these through our time in the WAC and even in the last year in CUSA (with all the UAB uncertainty). Heck, we do it around here all the time. All my thoughts about realignment filter through my Tech viewpoint. But it's odd reading it that way from an actual journalist.

To really make a logical case, he'd have to do what you said, give some real numbers for the whole conference - savings on travel vs. tv deal changes. Instead it's just generalities about ODU's travel being expensive. And while it makes sense that they'd save money if they traded a game with the western division for JMU and GSU, that doesn't prove that we'd all be better off (not to mention the philosophical issues I have with "conferences" where teams never actually play one another).

[Dawg06]

Wichita State's President tweeted out this pic a couple days ago...

[Dwayne From Minden]

Koch brothers must want the pigskin back

[dawg80]

And speaking of JMU... new $88 million basketball arena in the works... http://jmuconvo.com/

I-81 goes straight thru JMU's campus. They have a nice football stadium. Well, never been in it, but it looks nice buzzing by at 80mph.

[DawgFaninHous]

Koch brothers must want the pigskin back

We know they want the White House back!!😎

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Koch brothers must want the pigskin back

We know they want the White House back!!

Well they have to take it back from George Soros and his current democrat puppets in power if we are to survive as a free republic.
Otherwise it will be "off with their (our) heads" when they finally let all of their muslim buddies past our borders.

[Dawg06]

Belch to determine fate of NMSU and Idaho.
http://www.abqjournal.com/725771/spo...-sun-belt.html

[inudesu]

Yikes. If I'm Idaho or NMSU, I really sweating that vote.

I just listened to a podcast this week where a journalist mentioned in passing that off the record the other SB schools will tell you that they aren't crazy about those additions (which makes sense - they were somewhat helpful as CUSA was raiding schools, but now the Belt has stabilized).

Sounds like NMSU is at least being realistic about their chances.

[Dawg06]

Idaho's plea to remain in the Belch...
http://www.idahostatesman.com/sports...e%20Sun%20Belt

[sportdawg]

Idaho's plea to remain in the Belch...
http://www.idahostatesman.com/sports...o the Sun Belt

I love page 5! We're not the worst Sun Belt member!