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CUSA expansion ’
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 [...]
Tags: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, CUSA expansion, Featured News, Mountain West expansion, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, MWC Expansion, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Expansion |
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Oct 12th, 2011 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
The Big East continues to search for it’s new path. They have turned over every rock and on each street pole in Providence all the way into New Jersey, you can see the flyers the Big East has posted reading “LOST: BCS Caliber Football Schools”. And with all the the options (or lack there of) [...]
Tags: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East expansion, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, CUSA expansion, EDITORIAL, Featured News |
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Feb 14th, 2011 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: CAA Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment
There’s been a number of rumors floating around of late to share: Charlotte to CAA (football only) & App St. to CUSA. Note, that these are just rumors. But I’ve heard them and have now seen multiple sites discuss them as well. So here’s the breakdown: Charlotte & CAA Football: The CAA is in an [...]
Tags: CAA expansion, CAA Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, CUSA expansion, Editorial |
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Nov 20th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, WAC Expansion & Realignment
State of the WAC – Part 3: WAC Winners and Losers The WAC realignment over the past few months has been filled with all sorts of drama. We’ve had a huge grab for regional power foiled at the last second by WAC members sabotaging from within. We’ve had recovery momentum build, new schools pledge allegiance [...]
Tags: Big Sky expansion, CUSA expansion, Editorial, Featured News, Mountain West expansion, Southland Expansion, Summit Expansion, Sunbelt expansion, WAC expansion, WAC Expansion & Realignment |
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Sep 2nd, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, WAC Expansion & Realignment
Let’s face it LA Tech fans, being in the WAC now is a liability & not the advantage it was a year ago compared to the Sunbelt. Since 2001, LA Tech has been a member of the WAC. Many have questioned their membership as the conference was comprised of schools as west as Hawaii, San [...]
Tags: CUSA expansion, Featured News, Sunbelt expansion, WAC expansion, WAC Expansion & Realignment |
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Aug 23rd, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
That’s the rumor du jour. According to reports, Temple and another school will join CUSA for the 2011 season. Tom Dienhart of Rivals.com reported it today, as did a Tulane blog over a week ago. What makes this rumor tough to believe right now is that TCU is the other school to be included. Which [...]
Tags: conference realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, CUSA expansion, Featured News, MAC expansion |
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Aug 20th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment
As the rumors continue to spin about a proposed CUSA/MWC merger to 23 schools, there’s been more clarity that instead of this drastic option, that something else could be in the works. Reports say CUSA and Mountain West officials have met to discuss the idea of having the conference football champions meet in a championship [...]
Tags: BCS, conference realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, CUSA expansion, Featured News, Mountain West expansion, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, MWC Expansion |
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Aug 20th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment
All eyes have been on the recent WAC/BYU/MWC shifts that had the WAC ready to add BYU for non-football sports which would have potentially caused Boise St. to stop it’s move from the WAC to the MWC. Utah St. went as far as to reject a MWC invite thinking the 8 WAC schools would remain [...]
Tags: conference realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, CUSA expansion, Featured News, Mountain West expansion, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, MWC Expansion |
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Jun 13th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News
It started with some flirtation by Nebraska and Missouri with the Big Ten. And when step-brother, Nebraska, seemed like they could actually leave the Big 12, big brother Texas started to make some noise…by publicly considering an offer by the Pac-10 to join, a scenario that would allow them to bring their immediate siblings, Texas [...]
Tags: Big 12 expansion, Big 12 Expansion & Realignment, Big East expansion, conference realignment, CUSA expansion, Featured News, Mountain West expansion |
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Aug 1st, 2007 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
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Listen to the interview (mp3): Terry Holland, athletic director at East Carolina, speaks on the future of Conference USA in this radio interview: East Carolina fans will NEVER be able to relate to the Western Division of Conference USA. A 12-team league is dangerous because it takes away from the traditional rivalries. ECU would like [...]
Tags: conference realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, CUSA expansion, Featured News |
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