Comments on: Conference Realignment

By: Tim MightyTim Robbins

Tim MightyTim Robbins — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:36:00 +0000

They may not survive. One of their largest rivalries is already dead, Appalachian State and Western Carolina, in the name of football and with Davidson headed out it could be the end. The CAA is looking to replace members and many of the Southern Conference teams are targets. Western Carolina is one of them and Elon is another. Unless the CAA takes a northern route and brings in some of their football schools, i.e. Maine and New Hampshire, but that seems unlikely at this point, the southern conference could take a final blow. I think the instability of the southern conference will cause the other schools in the Big South to stay put and if the Southern Conference is to survive, they might have to try and get some of the non scholarship football schools to change their stance and expand in that manner.

By: Nathan Brice

Nathan Brice — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:44:00 +0000

The SoCon could also lose more schools to the Sun Belt and Conference USA. They will need to get members from the Big South to survive.

By: Tim MightyTim Robbins

Tim MightyTim Robbins — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:22:00 +0000

Davidson to A10 in 2014. Looks like the Southern Conference is dying after nearly 80 years. With Elon almost in the CAA the Southern Conference could end a la the WAC football. Expansion is going to continue until there are less conferences and less berths to the NCAA tournament. Things are still not finished and the Atlantic 10 is going to become the best of the lower conferences by taking their best and moving forward. I wonder where Wichita State will end up in all of this and how St. Louis and Dayton will respond.

By: Tim MightyTim Robbins

Tim MightyTim Robbins — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:04:00 +0000

With the Oakland move will this open the door for North Dakota to join the Summit and reunite all the Dakota schools? Or are they happy in the Big Sky? The geography is nice for either conference, but to continue the rivalry in the Great Plains States would be fun for them all. Although playing the Montana schools is nice they could still stay part of the Big Sky football. If they move what will the Big Sky do to balance the conference back to 12? Will another school leave to bring them back to 10? With Idaho coming aboard they are at 12, but for how long?

By: Big12Luvver

Big12Luvver — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:50:00 +0000

NIU busted the BCS, and is on the Chicago TV market. I think I would like to see NIU in the Big12, we could really use a top 3 media market for our TVnetwork…

By: NC-VA

NC-VA — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:03:00 +0000

Liberty is in talks with the Sun Belt according to media reports.

By: mozilla

mozilla — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:15:00 +0000

Sun Belt looking into Liberty and James Madison to replace the spot opened by WKU leaving.
MVC shopping, as well.

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By: BigDave74

BigDave74 — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:50:00 +0000

Please add maps for the Big Sky and the Mid-American Conferences.

By: mozilla

mozilla — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:40:00 +0000

Try the conference map page. It contains every map, together or individually.