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TCU’s Fate In Conference Expansion
Lots of people talk about BYU and what they are up to and its impact on the conference expansion talks. But what about the best remaining committed team to the MWC, TCU? They have been to a BCS bowl, had an undefeated season and come from holy recruiting grounds in college football. They should not be taken lightly. Remember that post about Gary Patterson knowing something we don’t know? Let me tell you what it is: TCU to the SEC.
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Preview: Top Quarterbacks in College Football
I know that our readers are savvy connoisseurs of college football, so don’t really need a big introduction into the importance of Quarterbacks in college football, but just know that I think in the vast majority of situations, a team goes as it’s quarterback goes. Exceptions include Alabama who has an average to subpar quarterback but excels because it’s Defense and Running game are so dominant. So unless your school has a defense and running game like Alabama’s, you need a good to great quarterback to carry your team. So without further adieu, here’s my rankings for this upcoming year.
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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 leaving a conference poised to be able to renegociate their agreement with college football as well as a new, more profitable TV deal.
This would solve all of BYU’s reasons for leaving, and make it really kind of stupid to do so. Updates will follow on any more breaking news.
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, if BYU leaves the MWC and uses the WAC for basketball and other sports, they are joining a conference that is significantly weakened, to the point that if one more team leaves it will cease to be a conference. The WAC will have to add FCS (Division IAA) schools or try to raid the MAC or Sunbelt or Conference USA to bolster it back to an acceptable size, but water-down it’s competitiveness even further. That leaves BYU’s other sports the big fish in the microscopic pond. True, Utah State’s basketball team helps, but the resultant RPI for BYU basketball drops to dangerous levels and threatens the success of their basketball program, as well as the quality of opponents that are available for the Cougars football schedule. It becomes much more of a risk to leave the conference because the partner that you were planning on leaning on has now lost a leg, and might not survive.
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BYU is sealing itself for a BCS Bowl
……And you thought realignment talk would cease with the opening of the College football season upon us? Sorry but it is not done. Sloppy Joe and Nellie have already had a take on this basically believing that BYU would be wise in claiming independency and joining the ranks of Notre Dame, Army, and Navy.
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Mike Leach thinks other schools have illiterate AD’s
Considering that the western half of the cafeteria staff is looking at BYU’s departure/non-departure from conference play (and analyzing it better than I could, considering their location) (<-Not sarcasm!) I’ll tackle the return of Mike Leach to college football, albeit at a distance.
Perhaps you’re wondering how I drew the rather brash and accusatory conclusion present in the title. Well, here’s a link: these words right here. Let’s analyze, shall we?
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