Expansion
What’s Going On With Conference Realignment?
So a few things have changed since last we addressed conference realignment. It looks like the Big East is trying to court TCU and Villanova. Memphis and UCF are the back ups. The WAC is making a splash by being the first step for a lot of little guys into the big time. Who are [...]
The Big East Is Expanding To 10 Football Teams
It’s official: the Big East athletic directors, school presidents and everyone else involved in the conference have agreed that it is in the conference’s best interests to move from 8 to 10 teams in football. Or, in their own words: “Today, our Board of Directors affirmed a set of key strategic initiatives, including expansion, designed [...]
Will The FBS Be 4 Mega Conferences?
Expansion talk has died down now that actual games are being played. I’ll leave the game analysis for another post. I just had a thought that I can truly see play out that could be good or bad for college football, depending on how you look at it. And it has to do with the [...]
Mountain West and Conference USA merger?
Bleacher report just published a story about a possible merger between the MWC and Conference USA. If the MWC can pick off a few quality teams from Conference USA, then it becomes a mid-major superpower, and can really challenge the BCS conferences for sooner addmission into AQ status, and BYU really would have to rethink [...]
BYU’s dillemma
My how things have changed in the last few hours. Somehow the incompetent Craig Thompson, commissioner of the MWC seems to have made it nearly impossible for BYU to leave without injury to it’s non-football sports by raiding the WAC of Nevada and Fresno State. This move changes things in a two important ways. First, [...]
