Conference USA Expansion & Realignment

Old Dominion Makes it Official – Will Join CUSA

May 17th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: CAA Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

After a couple weeks of speculation, ODU will indeed make the expected move to CUSA. They will join in 2013, remaining in the CAA for 1 more year. They will become the 14th member, joining along with Charlotte. The move gives CUSA a stronger eastern presence to offset some of their recent losses. Marshall, ECU, [...]

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CUSA to Add Charlotte & Old Dominion

May 1st, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Atlantic 10 Expansion & Realignment, CAA Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

Conference USA continues to stockpile schools. It’s hard to imagine that just a few weeks ago, a merger with the Mountain West, combining the 8 MWC schools with the 8 CUSA schools was on the table. CUSA has taken their expansion a step further, going beyond the 12 school total they were set to have [...]

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CUSA to add UTSA & Others

Apr 28th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

Once a idea of a full merger between Conference USA and the Mountain West was put aside in order to preserve NCAA tournament revenues, bids, and conference exit fees, and an economic or even football alliance was favored, it was clear that both CUSA and the Mountain West would need to pull the trigger on [...]

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Breaking Down the CUSA & MWC Discussions

Apr 18th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

If you’ve been following the developments between Conference USA and Mountain West on this site and other sources, it’s easy to be confused. At first, there was a bold statement about the two conferences formally deciding to work together to form some sort of conference alliance or merger. And the idea made sense: since both [...]

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CUSA/Mountain All-Sports Merger on Hold

Mar 26th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

It appeared that a Conference USA and Mountain West merger would come in just a matter of time. Now, it appears to be dead. As it stands, the original plan (to dissolve both conferences and form something new) is off the table. What remains are two options: 1) Remain as 2 separate conferences with a [...]

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Conference Realignment: What’s Up Next?

Feb 17th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: ACC Expansion & Realignment, Big 12 Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Big Ten Expansion & Realignment, College Sports Television News, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Editorial, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, SEC Expansion & Realignment, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, WAC Expansion & Realignment

The Recap: So the ACC struck first by adding Syracuse and Pittsburgh from the Big East. The SEC followed by adding Texas A&M and Missouri from the Big 12. The Big 12 then added TCU and WVU. And things seemed normal. Patterns remained intact. And we waited for the next, seemingly logical move. And then [...]

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CUSA & Mountain West to Form New Conference

Feb 8th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

Update: It is official. CUSA and the Mountain West will both fold their conferences and merge under a yet to be named conference name. Member ship could still grow with schools such as Temple, Utah St., San Jose St. and others as potential candidates. With Memphis no longer in the mix as they head for [...]

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Memphis To Join Big East for All Sports

Feb 7th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big East Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

When the Big East invited CUSA members Houston, UCF and SMU, passing over Memphis, the long-time dreams of getting into the conference for the Tigers seemed dead. And if that wasn’t enough, when the school went to west coast an invited San Diego St. and Boise St. to join for football, it looked like the [...]

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Big East To Add 5: SMU, UCF, Houston (All-Sports) & Boise St., SDSU (football-only)

Dec 6th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big East Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

After months of determining the best expansion plan for the remaining 5 Big East football schools…and months of negotiations, the Big East is finally set to expand. The plan will be to add Houston, SMU and UCF from CUSA for all-sports, bringing that total to 16. Boise St. and San Diego St. will join for [...]

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CUSA & Mountain West Football Partnership Official

Oct 15th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

This has been in the works for sometime now, and it’s finally a go: welcome your first “super” (in volume of schools) “conference”. Over the past year, the Mountain West and CUSA have toyed with the idea of some sort of union. The idea first gained legs when Utah left for the Pac-10 and the [...]

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