Comments on: Conference Realignment Dominoes Continue To Line Up…Ready To Fall

By: Conference Realignment for NCAA Football | Fathead Blog

Conference Realignment for NCAA Football | Fathead Blog — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:02:09 +0000

[...] recent news about the Big 12 potentially losing Texas A&M and other member schools, NCAA conference realignment got back into the news this past week in a big way. In case you’re not up to speed, the ten-team [...]

By: Matt Peloquin

Matt Peloquin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:15:13 +0000

I agree. Umass and Temple are just used to accentuate the position the ACC is in: I they are not proactive they risk have such horrible options. When you have to look as far west as Kansas and KSU as your top options, you are in trouble. Meanwhile, you can invite Rutgers, Syracuse, Uconn and Pitt today and increase the chances that those schools and all ACC schools would reject other conference overtures if you build something strong at 16. Remember, joining the ACC would also boost those programs to a higher level than they are now. Florida St visiting Rutgers does more for a program than a USF or Cincy visit.

By: Peter Hunt

Peter Hunt — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:09:51 +0000

Wow, I am a little suprised by your ACC 16. I would of expected you to put KSU instead of UMASS. Because you have Kansas in their already. I guess I never thought of UMASS as ACC Superconference material. Here’s my Superconferences pretty much the same as yours except I have 5:

B10
Boston College
Maryland
Syracuse
Penn St.
Ohio St.
Notre Dame
Michigan
Michigan St.

Indiana
Purdue
Illinois
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska

SEC, PAC 16 the same as yours

ACC 16

UCONN
ARMY
NAVY
RUGTERS
SYRACUSE
VIRGINIA
PITTSBURGH
WVU

UNC
NC STATE
DUKE
WAKE FOREST
GEORGIA TECH
CLEMSON
MIAMI
LOUISVILLE

BIG AMERICA 16
Cincy
USF
UCF
MEMPHIS
ISU
KANSAS
KSU
ECU

HOUSTON
TCU
Baylor
BYU
BOISE ST
SMU
AIR FORCE
Colorado State

By: David C. Moore

David C. Moore — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:05:02 +0000

The BYU situation is something of interest to some fans in this scenario. The affiliation of BYU with the smaller West Coast Conference schools for basketball and other sports is something administration officials and many in the hierarchy of the LDS Church have come to appreciate since they share such similar values. There are those in the senior hierarchy of the LDS Church (although they are a small minority) who do wish to drop the football program, and this super-conference evolution leaving BYU out could possibly result in such a decision to gain some additional traction. BYU does not want to be left independent if Notre Dame is forced to join the Big Ten. Eleven years ago when Rick’s Jr. College became BYU-Idaho the decision was made very abruptly to drop athletics, and aside from the cost factors to upgrade to division 1/FCS, the feeling of having something that overly competed with and diminished from the mission of state schools (most notably Idaho State University and Utah State University), was not in the best interests of LDS Church owned and operated schools. There continues to be that debate within the top LDS Church hierarchy about the future academic role of BYU staying as a major teaching university as opposed to becoming a major post graduate research institution.