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Posted 28 November 2012 - 04:53 PM
Middle Tennessee State is moving to C-USA.
https://twitter.com/...824122818162689
Florida Atlantic will move to conference USA in all sports. FAU will try make the transition in 2014.
Edited by mabrowndog, 28 November 2012 - 05:02 PM.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 06:18 PM
UNC and UVA aren't going to be left out in the cold at the end of the day.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 06:50 PM
Edited by jmanny24, 28 November 2012 - 06:57 PM.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 07:59 PM
And the WAC is dead with Western Kentucky, and New Mexico State joining MTSU and FAU in conference USA making them the first super conference (17 hoop schools by 2014) https://twitter.com/...914137246040065
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Despite previous report. MT @brentdougherty: Source confirms to me that WKU not moving to C-USA at this point. WKU wouldn't comment.
Edited by mabrowndog, 28 November 2012 - 09:10 PM.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:03 PM
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With Louisville heading to the ACC, ECU is likely to have their status upgraded to all-sports from FB only
CBS 6 Sports has learned that the CAA will invite all non-football ECU sports to re-join the league
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:05 PM
NMSU's AD is denying that rumor, saying they had no contact with CUSA.
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NMSU AD McKinley Boston: “We have not had contact with Conf. USA. I've never seen anything as volatile as (conf realignment) in long time.”
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:19 PM
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:32 PM
"This is a unique reset moment," said a person with direct knowledge of the move. "Schools that weren't in the mix may come into the mix. Some schools on the sidelines now seem more relevant, especially if we going to start talking about 16."
The loss of Louisville will be crushing to the Big East, as the presence of Louisville and UConn are considered to be holding that league's basketball-only faction together.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:50 PM
Auburn has interviewed Louisville head coach Charlie Strong in one of its first moves to find a replacement for Gene Chizik.
The interview took place in the last two days, al.com has learned, according to someone familiar with the process.
Strong has a 23-15 record the last three seasons at Louisville, including a 9-2 record this season. He was an assistant coach in the SEC for 20 years, including stints as the defensive coordinator at Florida and South Carolina.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:59 PM
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:15 PM
One industry source estimated Big 12 schools will be cashing checks for $30 million-plus in the first year of the playoff beginning in 2014. The total now stands at approximately $20 million per school. Beginning in 2014, the Big 12 will begin taking in $40 million per year from the alignment with the Sugar Bowl (previously Champions Bowl).
There's your opportunity -- as [Big 12 commissioner Bob] Bowlsby put it -- that moves the needle. Expansion in the form of a bowl game split between the Big 12 and SEC.
A conference championship game doesn't make much financial sense. One media consultant says such a game would be worth only $700,000-$1 million a year per school. Not an insignificant amount but worth having to split with two more mouths to feed?
Think of it in Powerball terms. It's easier to make more money if you and nine friends combined to buy tickets for Wednesday's drawing instead of 12.
“I would be laughing,” said a source who has worked closely with the Big 12. “They're in great shape. If the TV deal was lousy, if in two or three years their network deal was coming up [then I could see it]. But right now, the Big 12 has hit the lottery. They've got it perfect. Those guys have it on Easy Street.”
Further reasons the Big 12 is in good shape:
-- Big 12 expansion rests, indirectly, on a perceived gentleman's agreement with the SEC. The league supposedly would not expand to states where there currently are teams. That seemingly takes Florida State, Clemson and Georgia Tech out of the mix.
If the SEC honors that agreement, then the SEC might go after NC State and/or Virginia Tech if Mike Slive feels like he has to respond to the Big Ten's recent moves. In that occurrence, Florida State, Clemson and Georgia Tech would be in play for the Big 12.
Even then industry sources argue whether one or some combination of those schools brings pro rata – at least equal value – to the Big 12.
-- The Big Ten and SEC need inventory for their networks. That's part of what the Big Ten's expansion was about. The SEC has yet to play its hand in further expansion but is launching a lucrative network in approximately 15 months. The league might add a ninth conference game to add inventory for the network.
There is no market for a Big 12 network. ESPN/Fox own all the games except for one (nonconference) game owned by each school. Schools choose how to monetize those contests via streaming, pay-per-view, etc.
“You can't start a network with 10 games,” an industry source said.
Especially with The Longhorn Network basically keeping Texas out of the mix.
-- The Big 12 can't lose any schools in the next 13 years (see below) so a raid by another conference seems unlikely. Think of a law of diminishing returns. The ACC's 14 aren't going to be making as much as the Big 12's 10. The pecking order will remain the same: The Big Ten and SEC will be 1-2 in revenue in some order. The Big 12 and Pac-12 will be 3-4 in some order. The ACC will be the fifth major conference, still most vulnerable to being picked apart by one of the other four.
The superconference carousel might come and go with the Big 12 staying at a nice, tidy 10. It already has a 13-year year contract with ESPN and Fox paying the league more than $1 billion. That coincides with a grant-of-rights that basically keeps any of the teams from leaving. If Texas and/or Oklahoma split for, say, the Pac-12 then the Big 12 would keep its TV rights.
Conclusion: Texas/Oklahoma isn't leaving for the Pac-12.
Further conclusion: Any league that includes those two schools remains worth keeping together.
Edited by mabrowndog, 28 November 2012 - 09:16 PM.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:20 PM
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Jurich said he hopes to keep football series w Cincinnati and especially Kentucky. Said "even if we play 10 conf games, I want UK to be No. 11"
Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:48 PM
Bernie, all due respect, Dave Gavitt would roll over in his grave if his name was associated with a still largely-southern conference. He was a Northeastern basketball guy first and foremost.Back when there was the football BE and the old ACC, I thought that the conferences might merge and have a the East Coast version of the Pac 10. Looks like as of this morning that the merger has finally taken place, absent only Penn State. To make the old guards feel good, I would suggest that they reset the alignment of the divisions and rename them the Dave Gavitt and Gene Corrigan divisions They could look like this:
DG: BC, Miami, Louisville, Va Tech, Syr, Pitt, Clemson;
GC: Ga Tech, UNC, NCST, UVA, FSU, Duke, Wake
They all play each other in their dvsisions with one cross over "rival" and then pick up 1 other every year. You get your 8 games and really it would be like the old BE in one division and the old ACC in the other. I would move the ACCCG to the home field of the highest ranked team, like the Pac 12 does. It keeps traditional rivalries, allows OOC games and maybe it creates a better brand of football and more interest in places like BC and Syracuse.
As for UConn....I think they are the safety choice as was discussed above. If there are any more defections, they come on board. But Christ, what a situatin for them. No super conference really wants them. I don;t really get it to be honest at this point. Is it their location? TV market? NCAA issues with hoops? all of that, none of that??
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 10:20 PM
Louisville's football coach, credited with the current success of the program, doesn't look like he cares to stick around to sustain that success in the ACC.
Rumors also have him interested in the Arkansas gig. Can't blame him for wanting to jump ship, but I have to give props to the Louisville folks for keeping this under wraps until AFTER they were invited to join the ACC. Taking Louisville over UConn will look... short-sided... when a couple years from now Louisville and UConn have the same record and a big football school or two bolt the ACC anyway.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 11:23 PM
Bernie, all due respect, Dave Gavitt would roll over in his grave if his name was associated with a still largely-southern conference. He was a Northeastern basketball guy first and foremost.
The fact that Cuse and Pitt have moved to the ACC would make him vomit. The only reason as a UConn fan I wanted to get into the ACC is because that's where our biggest rivals are. Other than that Fuckem.
Is it me or are UConn fans the only Big East BB/FB fans who wanted everything to stay the way they were? I enjoyed hating on the ACC, I enjoyed our basketball-first rivalries with some football thrown in. I love the BET in Madison Square Garden. Cuse and Pitt gone, but I guess at least UConn, G-town, St Johns and Nova will still give it that NE basketball feeling. Maybe Temple and Providence is on the upswing.
Oh well.
Posted 29 November 2012 - 10:54 AM
Posted 29 November 2012 - 12:19 PM
Great column from Dennis Dodd on why the Big 12 is pumped and jacked to have just 10 teams now and for the foreseeable future:
-- Big 12 expansion rests, indirectly, on a perceived gentleman's agreement with the SEC. The league supposedly would not expand to states where there currently are teams. That seemingly takes Florida State, Clemson and Georgia Tech out of the mix.
-- The Big 12 can't lose any schools in the next 13 years (see below) so a raid by another conference seems unlikely.
Posted 29 November 2012 - 01:19 PM
Edited by Sea Dog, 29 November 2012 - 01:21 PM.
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 05:48 PM
In this article about FAU to CUSA, it mentions the Sun Belt had prelim contact with Ga Southern and App St (and an unnamed 3rd team thought to be Lamar or Sam Houston St) back in September. I would assume the phones are ringing on those campuses now.
http://www.sun-senti...0,3912422.story
Idaho, New Mexico State and Georgia Southern are on the Sun Belt's list of schools to replace Middle Tennessee State and Florida Atlantic, CBSSports.com has learned.
Idaho and New Mexico State are immediately available. Both are exploring playing as independents after the demise of the WAC following this season. Georgia Southern is an emerging FCS program moving up to FBS. The school's students approved a student fee increase in September to finance the move.
Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky has said on three occassions in the past year that the league could possibly expand to 16 teams. He was asked Thursday, why not make the move to 16 now rather than waiting until another possible raid by the Big East.
"We're going to have a process," Banowsky said. "We kind of deal with arrangement of expectations. We focus on what the optimum structure is. Whether Big East moves again, we'll be ready. If they do, that's not really going to influence what we think is the best structure."
Banowsky said he had no idea about rumors that Western Kentucky and New Mexico State would be the next football additions to his conference.
Conference USA currently pays out $2 million-$3 million to members in TV revenue per year. Sun Belt's per-team number is approximately $1 million.
Posted 29 November 2012 - 08:06 PM
Posted 30 November 2012 - 02:55 AM
Great column from Dennis Dodd on why the Big 12 is pumped and jacked to have just 10 teams now and for the foreseeable future:
Posted 30 November 2012 - 12:40 PM
Yeah, with the 'Doesn't add anything' factor, I'm pretty sure Clemson and FSU are bigger names in College FB than anyone left in the Big XII apart from Oklahoma and Texas - those two schools are the only current Big 12 members with higher attendances. I mean, this is a conference with Iowa State in it. The Big 12 isn't the SEC with half its schools regularly drawing over 80,000. In theory, adding just those two would be a great move. But that would probably destabilize the ACC enough to bring about the 16 team superconferences. And in that case, you probably do have to add teams that don't bring that much, depending on whether ND would eventually decide to go 10 or 12. But if the additional four were say, ND, Louisville, GTech and Miami, then you've got a conference which is close to or better than the SEC with VTech and NCSU. Or the Big 12 could invite VTech itself.
What I find really interesting about this notion of four 16-team superconferences is where the Pac goes. BYU, fine, but who are the other three? Air Force? Do they hold their noses and take Boise? Hawaii (is it worth the extra travel costs)? Fresno State or SDSU don't add anything. Maybe Nevada? You're either going to end up with ridiculous geography, or historically shitty western schools getting in over Eastern schools who would seem more deserving in everything but location.
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 12:43 PM
Lot of smoke around GT and x team coming to the B1G
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 12:59 PM
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 02:08 PM
That section of the article was poorly worded; The gentlemen's agreement is not "Big 12 with SEC" but just in the SEC. The conference doesn't want to add schools in states that already have schools, so they aren't adding Florida St, Miami, Clemson, or GT. If the SEC doesn't add them, then their only option is Big 12. Big 10 is too far, and Big East is almost a non-entity at this point.This I don't really get. Is this an agreement that came into place after the SEC poached two schools directly from the Big 12, including one in the Big 12's primary state? And if no schools can leave the Big 12 for thirteen years, then what is the benefit to the Big 12 of any such agreement? Are they really worried about the SEC scooping up Houston or SMU?
In the end, I think the Pac12 sit at 12, scan the landscape, see how the other conferences handle at 14-16. Basically the same thing when everyone went to 12 and the Pac-10 expanded years later. They are going to wait until something good happens; either a team in the Big 12 wants out, or a mid-major in a solid market (UNLV, Nevada, New Mexico) pulls a Utah and establishes itself. UCLA, Stanford and USC already have a big enough presence in SD that SDSU isn't needed. Boise isn't a big enough market, but if they ever make or win an NCG, all bets are off though.If the Pac-12 ever gives up on the high-end schools that Larry Scott is likely targeting (Texas, Oklahoma, Notre Dame), and feels the need to go to 16 without them, I would imagine San Diego State and UNLV are the first two options. They bring huge new TV markets into the league and fit geographically. The California schools won't love it, but they added Utah and I wouldn't have believed that 5 years ago, either. If the home run options aren't there, and they have to expand, those are the two schools I'd bet on.
Edited by Infield Infidel, 30 November 2012 - 02:11 PM.
Posted 30 November 2012 - 03:51 PM
That section of the article was poorly worded; The gentlemen's agreement is not "Big 12 with SEC" but just in the SEC. The conference doesn't want to add schools in states that already have schools, so they aren't adding Florida St, Miami, Clemson, or GT. If the SEC doesn't add them, then their only option is Big 12. Big 10 is too far, and Big East is almost a non-entity at this point.
I'm not sure getting to 16 is as essential for the Big 12 or Pac 12, so I think we'll have four stronger conferences and then a weak ACC.
If there is future movement in this round, I think the cookies crumble this way.
Big 10 adds two of UVa, UNC or Syracuse
SEC adds NCst and VaTech
ACC adds UConn and Cinci, stays at 12
At that point, things will cool down and the Big 12 has all the time in the world to decide if they want to stand pat, or to go to 14 by adding four ACC schools: FSU, GT, Clemson, and either Miami or Pitt.
In the end, I think the Pac12 sit at 12, scan the landscape, see how the other conferences handle at 14-16. Basically the same thing when everyone went to 12 and the Pac-10 expanded years later. They are going to wait until something good happens; either a team in the Big 12 wants out, or a mid-major in a solid market (UNLV, Nevada, New Mexico) pulls a Utah and establishes itself. UCLA, Stanford and USC already have a big enough presence in SD that SDSU isn't needed. Boise isn't a big enough market, but if they ever make or win an NCG, all bets are off though.
BYU is established, but Pac12 already have the Utah market. The only threat with BYU is the Big 12 grabbing them, but I don't think it'll happen. If the Big 12 expands, they are going east, not west.
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 04:18 PM
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Posted 30 November 2012 - 05:34 PM
That section of the article was poorly worded; The gentlemen's agreement is not "Big 12 with SEC" but just in the SEC. The conference doesn't want to add schools in states that already have schools, so they aren't adding Florida St, Miami, Clemson, or GT. If the SEC doesn't add them, then their only option is Big 12. Big 10 is too far, and Big East is almost a non-entity at this point.
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Posted 06 December 2012 - 08:23 PM
Is that ACC thing a joke? Is that on the Onion or something like that? I mean how pathetic looking.
Now if they coupled that with everyone signing a GOR, then that would be a big FU to Delany or even the Big 12. But especially Delany..
I get the feeling the ACC is the wife who just got beat up for the first time by some really strong jealous husband and she's waiting for another beating. Delany is standing over her ready for the next swipe once he found out she was seen laughing at a company holiday party with a leprechaun.
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Posted 06 December 2012 - 09:01 PM
Does that make the Big East the lady that became a lesbian after her husband beat her?Is that ACC thing a joke? Is that on the Onion or something like that? I mean how pathetic looking.
Now if they coupled that with everyone signing a GOR, then that would be a big FU to Delany or even the Big 12. But especially Delany..
I get the feeling the ACC is the wife who just got beat up for the first time by some really strong jealous husband and she's waiting for another beating. Delany is standing over her ready for the next swipe once he found out she was seen laughing at a company holiday party with a leprechaun.
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Posted 06 December 2012 - 09:39 PM
I get the feeling the ACC is the wife who just got beat up for the first time by some really strong jealous husband and she's waiting for another beating. Delany is standing over her ready for the next swipe once he found out she was seen laughing at a company holiday party with a leprechaun.
Does that make the Big East the lady that became a lesbian after her husband beat her?
Posted 06 December 2012 - 09:51 PM
Edited by Williams Head Case, 06 December 2012 - 09:55 PM.
Posted 06 December 2012 - 10:28 PM
Even with UConn still a part of the conference?Take it for what it is worth (almost nothing), but hearing through a friend's source who has a friend in the athletic dept. that Xavier may be involved in some conference realignment. I hate playing telephone, but I heard Big East.
I will not stake my membership/first born/change in my pocket on this, but oh hell this is a message board.
Edit: Further, hearing Big East split between football and basketball schools is happening.
Posted 11 December 2012 - 03:25 PM
The Atlantic 10 has discussed the possibility of a 21-team basketball league in the event that the changing conference landscape makes high-profile Big East schools available, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told ESPN.com Tuesday.
The A-10 has been proactive over the last year, strengthening its brand as a high-profile basketball conference with the additions of Butler and VCU, two programs that were in the 2011 Final Four.
The A-10 currently is a 16-team conference for the 2012-13 season, but Temple and Charlotte are set to leave for the Big East and Conference USA, respectively.
The 21-team model would occur if the A-10 were to add the seven Big East Catholic schools (Marquette, DePaul, Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's and Villanova) that met Sunday in New York with Big East commissioner Mike Aresco to go over their options.
The seven Big East Catholic schools are attempting to secure the best television deal possible and are debating whether to split from the league.
Posted 11 December 2012 - 03:56 PM
Take it for what it is worth (almost nothing), but hearing through a friend's source who has a friend in the athletic dept. that Xavier may be involved in some conference realignment. I hate playing telephone, but I heard Big East.
I will not stake my membership/first born/change in my pocket on this, but oh hell this is a message board.
Edit: Further, hearing Big East split between football and basketball schools is happening.
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Posted 11 December 2012 - 07:05 PM
Wow. i've been saying for a long time that URI was going to get burnt when the Big East Catholic schools came to steal Xavier, Butler, etc... But I hadn't thought about this possibility. Still seems like a long shot to me.
Temple would be hosed in that scenario big time.
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Posted 11 December 2012 - 11:12 PM
So Sandusky bangs little boys in the shower but it's UConn that gets the ultimate death penalty in college sports. If the Catholic schools leave the BE, I mean for crying out loud. You can't script this stuff.
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