CONFUSA may as well be dead now.

[EAVdog]

Just lost SMU, Houston, and UCF to the Big East. BE also is going to add Boise State and San Diego State. I really hope they change their name.

Where do our Buzzard friends go from here?

 

[Orpheus]

Just lost SMU, Houston, and UCF to the Big East. BE also is going to add Boise State and San Diego State. I really hope they change their name.

Where do our Buzzard friends go from here?

Mount CUSA. Two 9 team divisions. Remaining CUSA teams in East and remaining MWC teams in West. Done deal. Not exactly earth shaking, but TV money will go up and we are still breathing. It is what it is.

 

[EAVdog]

Sort of weird andvery dispersed. I really think y'all should look at starting a SEC Junior or 2 or whatever you call it. Stick with a similar geographic region, or even exactly the same. Try to grab the same TV markets but different time slots. Maybe work out a deal to be the early Saturday day games and Thursday evening games. Structure the league sharing etc... exactly the way the SEC does. Just because it seems to work.

If I were King of College Sports I'd make Confusa to be like this, assuming all the new defections, adding a couple, dropping a couple.

SEC Jr West:
Memphis, La Tech, Tulane, UTEP, Memphis,USM, Tulsa, Rice

SEC Jr East:
UAB, Troy, East Carolina, Georgia State (big school just starting out FB), Florida International, Middle Tenn, Western Kentucky

Or something along those lines. I think USM would bea leader in that group.

 

[Orpheus]

Here is USM's record against the CUSA teams leaving..

SMU... 3-0
UCF....6-1
Houston... 9-5

It is about the number of tv sets. When the Big East got so desperate as to invite San Diego State, I think that tells you how desperate they are. I don't see the new Big East staying around long.

 

[Rutherford B Hays]

USM could be the AAA club of MSU.
UAB the AAA club of Bama.
Memphis the AAA club of TSUN.

Ship non-producers down to the minors, and call up overachieving young players.
I like it! It'll never happen but its fun the think about.

 

[patdog]

would be a better option than the depleted Big East. I'm going to be very disappointed if the Big East keeps their BCS bid. They need to go to 5 automatic bids plus the highest rated conference champion outside of those 5. There's just been way too many times the Big East champ has sucked and I don't see that changing even with those 5 additions (look for Boise to take a big step backwards next year and never get back to where they've been the past 5-6 years).</p>

 

[Orpheus]

would be a better option than the depleted Big East. I'm going to be very disappointed if the Big East keeps their BCS bid. They need to go to 5 automatic bids plus the highest rated conference champion outside of those 5. There's just been way too many times the Big East champ has sucked and I don't see that changing even with those 5 additions (look for Boise to take a big step backwards next year and never get back to where they've been the past 5-6 years).</p>

I agree.

 

[lxadawg]

Will try to "win" this time!

 

[EAVdog]

I think they're doing away with that.

 

[EAVdog]

There are only going to be more media outlets. More cable, more internet, more web based, etc... and more physical display devices besides TVs. You could be in the stadium watching LSU live and watching Southern and Tulane play on your phone. But what I think is important is the geographic adjacencies, that's what builds rivalries over time. And with the constant scholarship reductions and the increased population shift to the South we're going to have an abundance of football players going forward.

Y'all should call up Slive and get him to take over what's left of the original CONFUSA.

 

[patdog]

The current assignments as an AQ conference are up next year and new assignments will be made. Which is one reason the Big East is scrambling to try to keep its AQ status.</p>