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  1. If I were younger, SJSU. Ever since I was knee high as a punk hick in small town Hoosier ville, I was fascinated by weather and climate. SJSU has an excellent meteorology program. I got orders in the Navy to transfer from NAS Whidbey Island, WA to NAS Lemoore in early 1993....I got out of the Navy and met my now wife (from Fresno) in 1996 - so back to Hoosierville I did not go. I didn't even pay any attention to the Bulldogs sports until 2001 when David Carr and Coach Pat Hill snagged my attention BIGTIME! (Thanks for spoiling 2001 for us, Broncos. Errrrrrrrrrr!) i'm too old to move and I love Fresno the city and the surrounding area. Now I'm more interested in starting my own business so CSU-Fresno is more than good for that kind of degree. And. The Bulldogs have WAAAAAAAAY better sports.
  2. Much less travel in all sports. Maybe get a little bump in per member tv/internet contract since 24/26 fan bases watching their games.
  3. They'd have no other choice. They'd find a way and PAC 12 would play them a lot more since they'd be the only FBS football team left to schedule in OOC games in the Pac12 foot print.
  4. It would be the same amount of travel they have for olys currently, and, less travel for their football.
  5. 1). MW, and all G5, dissolve because P5 muscles us out next Playoff contract....all G5 drop to FCS (minus BYU lone P5 football independent). Big West expands.... BigWest FCS football (9)... Hawaii San Jose St UC Davis Sac St Fresno St Cal Poly SUDS Nevada UNLV BigWest Non-Football members (8 for 17 total, and suds basketball wish for 16 game basketball conference schedule)... UC Santa Barbara CS Northridge CS Bakersfield UC Riverside LBSU CS Fullerton UC Irvine Grand Canyon If the worst should happen, I'd be cool with this. Tight geography, many close away games to go to, low travel expense, keep our California, Hawaii and Las Vegas recruits out of mountain states for the most part....tap into Phoenix high school basketball recruits too.
  6. MAC, for whatever reason, is the most stable between them, CUSA and Sunbelt. Probably because their olys are more geographically condensed. CUSA and Sunbelt with 24 FBS teams total - 26 basketball/olys total - would do good with an FF super Conference model. football West div: UTEP / Texas St / UTSA / UNT / Rice / ULL / ULM / LaTech South div: Southern Miss / UAB / USA / Troy / Ga St / Ga Southern / FIU / FAU North div: Marshall / ODU / Charlotte / Appy St / CCU / WKU / MTSU / Arky St olys West div 13: UTEP / Texas St / UTSA / UNT / UTA / Rice / ULL / ULM / LaTech / Arky St / UALR / southern miss / USA East div 13: Marshall / ODU / Charlotte / Appy / CCU / WKU / MTSU / UAB / Troy / GSU / GA southern / FIU / FAU
  7. TV revenue always helps performance issues by allowing better built facilities, keeping better coaches, recruiting budget, and buying more and bigger home and home OOC games. Maybe AAC and MW don't need to merge or break themselves into smaller conferences. Maybe we keep who we each have, maybe each add a couple more members or so, and form a tv alliance with a new, deep pocketed content player looking for their 'what the original big east was to the birth of espn' but without adding a bunch of non-football members (except maybe a key one or two each, if necessary). It would be interesting if fed regulators allow at&t to acquire Time Warner. Maybe at&t-TW could use AAC and MW as their starter conferences to build a sports network like espn used the birth of the Big East....at&t could sell some AAC and MW games to espn on a season to season basis, also.AT&T is buying Time Warner for "content". Like, and to keep up with, the Comcast/NBC-Universal deal. Surely a coast to coast college sports line up of AAC and MW games would be a great college sports content foundation for an 'att-TW Sports Network(s)', including an online digital sports network to rival WatchESPN.If att wants to get into the college sports content game, I think their best bet is to pay AAC and MW a decent tv contract. Not current P5 numbers, but enough to allow a big monied corporation to move two conferences with good potential - who need just OldBE tv revenue amounts to get AAC and MW to realize their potential - and force a P7 in 4 to 7 years.
  8. Beats nothing. I like the CBI. It obviously is a step or several down from NIT or NCAAT, but I think the exposure is good on espn network and it beats the CIT, IMO.
  9. Actually, that's a good point. But even better would be USU in the Pacific, and BSU/BYU rotating between Pacific and Mountain divisions every 2 years in football....this keeps UTEP and UTSA with front range schools, and allows BSU/BYU to mix up California and Texas play every two years each. Or, BYU, BSU and USU will each rotate every two years between 2 Pacific spots and 1 Mountain spot....this way, BSU and BYU can be in the same division at least 2 out of 6 years. But can also play each other in inter-division games and/or conference football semi-finals the 4 years they aren't in the same division.....they'll be in the same basketball division every year, regardless.
  10. I will say this, tho. Of all my super Conference ideas, the only one that still sounds good to me is the one SJSU doesn't make....mainly because of their lack of fans at their games. Thee American-24 (+4 football-only) < * = football-only> Pacific Div: *Hawaii, Fresno, SDSU, UNLV, Nevada, Boise, BYU Mountain Div: USU, Wyoming, Thee CSU, AirForce, UNM, UTEP, *UTSA Central Div: Tulsa, SMU, Houston, Tulane, Memphis, *Navy, Wichita (w/ football) Eastern Div: *Army, uconn, Temple, Cincy, ECU, UCF, USF For non-football sports, there will be 2 12-team divisions....east and west....and maybe add non-football members Gonzaga, St Mary's and LMU to the west, and, VCU, Saint Louis and Dayton to the east for 15 each division....each division will play single round robin within their division (14 games), and an in-house "(home and home) bracket boosters" (2 games) between divisions (1west vs 1 east, 2 west vs 2 east, etc...), for a total of 16 conference games (like sdsu wants). These "bracket booster" inter division games will boost the rpi's of each division's top teams each season.
  11. This season, AFA and UNLV. Laugh at Spartan record prior to this season all you want. They aren't the bottom anymore. Point is, a newer Airport Conference won't be better than the current Airport-formed MW. It may have been a good idea the end of last century, but that was a different situation as the top teams left for greener pastures since.
  12. LOL, which 7 are the best out of the 12 to join with say, BYU, in forming another conference? Take your pick, BYU. Either way it's the same green grass as the side left behind. Many of us laughed and/or scoffed at SJSU and USU being added.....turns out neither of the two are the bottom of the two money making sports in this conference. Airport daze are over.
  13. "Works"? Welllllllll, not sure it will work. But if we do expand, I'd think it has to do with the other topic I've seen lately about Hair (from members' presidents' gripes) knocking tv schedules and throwing out the threat of going all digital next tv contract. If that's the case, and we don't want defections (to AAC) or another airport meeting, I'd try for the biggest guns.... Wichita State (if they do resurrect their football program) UTEP and UTSA (larger fan bases. I think UTSA in the city of San Antonio would be a great football add since no NFL in that city) Rice (Houston market (for recruiting, not eyeballs), great academics, and bigger name than Dallas market's North Texas - we like city-state schools, not directional schools, here UNT.....sorry) There isn't any great football adds as far as football strength out there, so these 4 will fit in fine, especially since they aren't any worse or better than the 12 football teams we have currently ("on average", that is). West: Hawaii (football only) / SJSJ / Fresno / SUDS / UNLV / Nevada / Boise / USU Mtn: Wyo / CSU-FC / AFA / New Mexico / UTEP / UTSA / Rice / Wichita This MW-16 is geographically balanced, unlike the old WAC-16, and keeps traditional rivalries in tact.
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