ChiefsPlanet - Funny Stuff New Conference re-alignment thread

How come nobody is interested in getting UCF or/and USF to join the Big 12? Those are huge schools in terms of enrollment, and you bring the Big 12 to Florida and the Eastern Market. I would think it is a no brainer. It's not that long of a flight from Texas and they could split Texas and OU into different divisions.

Louisville, BYU, and WVU are all superior (and closer) options. They'd probably also rather have Cinci.

BWillie

10-16-2011 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by alnorth (Post 8000321)

Louisville, BYU, and WVU are all superior (and closer) options. They'd probably also rather have Cinci.

I get that, but why wouldn't they be candidates at least.

Iowa State
Kansas
K-State
Oklahoma
Louisville
BYU
Cincinnati
Oklahoma State

Texas
Texas Tech
Baylor
TCU
West Virginia
South Florida
Central Florida
Memphis? Southern Miss? Boise State? Houston? SMU?

Don't really know a 16th team, and I know this would never happen, but I think it would be cool.

alnorth

10-16-2011 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by BWillie007 (Post 8000349)

I get that, but why wouldn't they be candidates at least.

Candidates? OK, sure, they are candidates. However, unless the Big 12 decides to expand to 14 or 16, or unless a couple of the above better options says no, they will never progress to a serious stage.

Saul Good

10-16-2011 08:52 PM

Teams from Florida, Utah, Iowa, and West Virginia in the same conference sounds cool to you?

Morgantown to Provo is just a shade under a 4000 mile round trip.

BWillie

10-16-2011 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 8000422)

Teams from Florida, Utah, Iowa, and West Virginia in the same conference sounds cool to you?

Morgantown to Provo is just a shade under a 4000 mile round trip.

Yep. That is the way things are heading. NYC to South FLA is pretty far too. W Virginia actually seems a little bit out of the way, but it's a great football program. I know the Big 12 has a different agenda than I do, but I would think that would be a fun conference.

Reerun_KC

10-16-2011 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 8000422)

Teams from Florida, Utah, Iowa, and West Virginia in the same conference sounds cool to you?

Morgantown to Provo is just a shade under a 4000 mile round trip.

Which in a 737 isnt really that bad...

Saul Good

10-16-2011 08:56 PM

How about in a bus?

Saul Good

10-16-2011 09:00 PM

4000 miles is about 70 hours by bus. That's a rough trip for the field hockey team.

tk13	10-16-2011 09:00 PM

That's why the Mountain West/C-USA thing was football only. That could be a real adventure with all the non-revenue sports.

BillSelfsTrophycase

10-16-2011 09:36 PM

Missouri kicks ass

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Saul Good

10-17-2011 08:01 AM

Gabe DeArmond is saying that 2 independent sources have both told him that the SEC move is imminent. Supposedly, there is a BOC meeting this week, and the withdrawl (he called it a conditional withdrawl) would be announced after the meeting.

Said that the timeline has been very carefully orchestrated by yhe SEC and MU for legal purposes. Take it FWIW. He's generally pretty measured, but he said that his source told him for the first time that the move is 100%.

evenfall

10-17-2011 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 8001121)

Oh snap

Hope it's for real this time.

Saul Good

10-17-2011 08:41 AM

Hearing that Louisville expects to join if Mizzou leaves.

eazyb81

10-17-2011 08:48 AM

WE GONE.

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