could it happen?

http://tinyurl.com/yyvpmvw

i would call them :
"The Big East"
"The Big South"
"The Mighty Midwest"
and
"The Power West"

4/15/2010 6:36:35 PM

oh, is that what you'd call them...

4/15/2010 6:48:04 PM

Those names suck. They would keep their old names.

I'd prefer if all conferences expanded to 12 teams, the Big East was stripped of their BCS conference status, and the Mountain West (already probalby the 2nd best conference) added Boise State and 2 other schools and became a BCS conference.

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM. Reason : ]

4/15/2010 6:56:54 PM

worst fucking idea ever

4/15/2010 8:14:31 PM

no, but the ncaa seems to be moving away from logical decisions, so I could see it happening.

lol @ mighty midwest

4/15/2010 8:15:55 PM

Did HOOPS MALONE come up with those names?

4/15/2010 11:02:29 PM

Quote :

"and the Mountain West (already probalby the 2nd best conference)"

Are we basing this on complete and utter delusion?

4/15/2010 11:41:03 PM

4-1 in bowl games.

4/15/2010 11:49:30 PM

Good call. Big East and MWC are the two best football conferences. If we're basing this all on bowl game results the last two years.

Fuck a SEC.

4/16/2010 12:02:37 AM

^^ Because they play a bunch of hard teams in the bowls Seriously dude you have to take in account who these teams were matching up against. Outside of the Utah/Boise State wins in the BCS games, most of the MWC opponents in bowl games are not very good due to the weak bowl alliances the conference has.

4/16/2010 8:05:23 AM

playoffs?

4/16/2010 10:08:05 AM

Fuck an SEC

4/16/2010 10:10:25 AM

Quote :

"The Power West"

MORE LIKE THE POWER BOTTOM AMIRITE

4/16/2010 10:11:33 AM

i just hope other conferences see what a bad decision expansion has been for the ACC and decide not to do it. it hasn't been a success in providing a better product on the field, and it hasn't brought in additional revenue off of it. blah, i could rant about this for days

4/16/2010 10:13:19 AM

would the POWER PACK back the BIG SOUTH? lol yawl ngas postin in a troll thread.

4/16/2010 11:00:27 AM

PLAYOFFS?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3-eavMSBnk&feature=related

4/18/2010 9:17:26 PM

btt

6/3/2010 4:58:56 PM

^ good bump

6/4/2010 3:03:49 PM

PLAYOFFS!?

You're asking about PLAYOFFS!?

6/4/2010 3:48:50 PM

I can see 5 mega conferences, not necessarily all with 16 teams though

Pac-16:
Stanford
Cal
USC
UCLA
Wash
Wash St
Oregon
Oregon St
Ariz
Ariz St
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Oklahoma
Ok State
Colorodo

SEC (14 or 16 teams):
Florida
Georgia
Miss
Miss St
LSU
Auburn
Alabama
Tenn
Kentucky
Vandy
Arkansas
South Carolina
Florida State
Miami
Louisville(?)
WVU(?)

Big-14:
Ohio St
Mich St
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Perdue
Penn St
NWestern
Wisconsin
Notre Dame
Nebraska
Missouri

ACC (14 teams):
NC State
UNC
Duke
Wake
Maryland
GT
Clemson
Virginia
VT
Boston College
Pitt
UConn
Syracuse
Rutgers

Mountain West (16 teams):
BYU
Utah
Air Force
UNLV
New Mexico
SDSU
TCU
Wyoming
Colorodo State
Boise St
Fresno St
Nevada
Kansas
Kansas St
Iowa St
Baylor

[Edited on June 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM. Reason : Leftover Big East teams join Conf USA if they have football teams, A10 if not]

6/4/2010 4:13:48 PM

East
South
Central
West

6/4/2010 4:19:13 PM

Four 16-team BCS conferences (ACC, SEC, Pac16, Big1160)
16-team Conference USA East (Conference USA + Big East leftovers)
16-team Conference USA West (Mountain West + Big12 leftovers + new additions like Boise)

Conference USA membership would be dynamic promotion and relegation system, like soccer's Premier League.

Football playoff:
4 BCS conference champs
2 BCS at-large bids
2 Conference USA champs
Champs ranked 1 through 4, by BCS ranking
Rest ranked 5 though 8, by BCS ranking
Paired up 1vs8, 2vs7, etc.
Home field to higher rank
Semi's and Finals played at rotating BCS Bowl locations

Basketball 64 team tournament:
24 - 6 automatic bids for each BCS conference
24 - 1 automatic bids for each minor conference (actually only 23)
6 - 3 automatic bids for each Conference USA (East & West)
10 true "at-large" bids based on RPI

Automatic bid rankings determined by average of conf. regular season and conf. tournament finish.



[Edited on June 4, 2010 at 5:01 PM. Reason : .]

6/4/2010 5:00:47 PM

^that is a profoundly stupid idea

6/4/2010 5:08:08 PM

stuff happening:

http://www.backingthepack.com/2010/6/6/1504403/pac-10-expansion-moving-forward

6/7/2010 11:57:38 AM

The SEC will not expand unless it can land Texas. Texas is the only school that improves all sports, expands into a new, large tekevision market, and would increase revenue from media.

6/7/2010 12:11:20 PM

don't like this at all, four conferences remaining might be optimistic at this point, if the big 12 can get owned so easily then I worry about us against the SEC and I definitely don't want my conference dominated by all those rabid rednecks in the deep south, and the big east? no way they're fucked

6/7/2010 8:46:38 PM

lets just have 1 supermega converence. and call it the ncaa

6/8/2010 1:38:37 AM

The ACC's new TV deal might help.

It's not as big as the SEC's, but it's big enough to give some leverage probably to schools who wouldn't leave unless money was an issue.

6/8/2010 1:53:06 AM

i hope the acc is unchanged by all of this. when we expanded to 12 teams our level of competition went down in basketball for a few years (i know it was for football that we did it... but i dont want more of that shit)

6/8/2010 4:46:36 PM

Tom Osborne has informed his staff @ Nebraska that they will join the big 10, per ESPN

6/9/2010 5:12:34 PM

so now the ACC/BigTen(12) Challenge will have the last-place ACC team playing

6/9/2010 5:33:11 PM

so long dental plan Big XII!

6/9/2010 5:34:06 PM

wow ... guy on sportscenter Chip Brown says: Texas, Tx A&M, OU, Ok St, TTech, Colorado all going to leave for the Pac-10 ... effective 2012

6/9/2010 6:05:05 PM

6/9/2010 7:49:28 PM

Quote :

"so now the ACC/BigTen(12) Challenge will have the last-place ACC team playing"

I hope not. I wouldn't want to open up the possibility of a tie.

6/9/2010 8:05:21 PM

So does the Big 10 become the Big 12

6/9/2010 8:17:24 PM

Super basketball conference will end up being Big east and ACC

6/9/2010 9:05:57 PM

I cant decide if I like this or not, its hard to fathom there not being a Big XII conference anymore. This feels like some shit I would do in a video game to make for some crazy games, etc. The Pac10 is especially nuts if they wind up getting Texas, Oklahoma, OkState, Texas Tech, etc. etc.

6/9/2010 9:14:40 PM

hopefully the big XII picks up colorado state or utah and calls it a day

6/9/2010 9:21:55 PM

big 12 = dead. i cant imagine them trying to survive after losing everyhting they will

6/9/2010 9:25:57 PM

big xii only has 5 teams now ... i wonder who picks up KU and KSU

6/9/2010 9:33:55 PM

yeah the feeling I got from all the analysts on espn today was that the big12 is done

6/9/2010 9:34:33 PM

6/9/2010 9:35:36 PM

everything i have read still says that texas/tt/ok/osu etc still hope to keep the big 12 alive and will be joining the pac 10 only as a second option

course that could just be public pr bullshit

6/9/2010 9:41:28 PM

Big 12 is dead.

All of them to the Pac 10. Baylor, Kansas, Kansas St, Iowa St, are all left to join mid major conferences.

[Edited on June 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM. Reason : fgh]

6/9/2010 9:59:10 PM

yeah i bet KU and KSU go mid-major

6/9/2010 10:04:29 PM

The big 12 is gone.

Where they going to go?

Mountain West will absorb some of them.

ACC needs to take what the Big 10 doesnt from the Big east

6/9/2010 10:12:44 PM

i imagine KU and KSU might go big ten, with their network i dont think they'll mind getting a couple more teams

6/9/2010 10:14:20 PM

^right. If this is true of the big 12, then the next to move will have to be big 10.

then the acc/bigLeast skakeups HAVE to happen....

6/9/2010 10:23:22 PM

Adding UConn, Syracuse, Pitt & one of WVa, Louisville, Rutgers would add value in terms of new markets and would make the ACC the hands down top basketball conference...

6/10/2010 7:01:57 AM