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Do they think they're more prestigious than those programs?Originally Posted by dio
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"Right now Alec Burks is using and abusing this Texas defense"
But I'm sure have absolutely no idea that Texass and Oklahoma might feel the same way about the idea that they think they're going to join the Big XII.
Only Texass an OU have every right to feel that way...
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You have to give the Mtn. Weenie their due. They win the "keep your marginal conference alive by duct tape, bailing wire and spit" contest with the WAC. Adding USU and SJSU definitely raise the level of the conference prestige to new levels. The SunBelt conference is envious.
i actually think USU and SJSU are decent moves for the conference. USU is tough in hoops and have had some national moments in football playing both Oklahoma and Auburn to the wire in OOC. should have beat Auburn.
let's not forget Stew Morrill left CSU for USU....so, Rammies?
lipstick on a pig
oh sure. no denying that....i took the pig part as the original premise. not a great trend to go from arguing (not convincingly) for an AQ BCS bid with Utah and TCU a couple years ago...to San Jose and USU...but, that's life as a middling conference.
granted the Pac has washed away the scenario but i used to like to argue for the Mick Mountain Zone conference with a strong Utah, BYU, CU, AFA, and adding the Zona schools in a kind of regional pod in a playoff section type deal. that would have been a legit AQ conf (if the Big East ever was). i thought that would be fun and legit.....was also my solution to get out of the Texas schools shadow.
but, turns out this nowtime Pac thing is better.
Last edited by Mick Ronson; 05-09-2012 at 02:33 PM.
Isn't it still scheduled for the home stadium of the highest rated team?
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I think Nik is referring to the PAC-12 basketball tourney
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Looks like Boise State is having second thoughts: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...about-big-east
If Boise State and SDSU come back to the league I will have to hand it to Craig Thompson. The MWC would be a solid 12-team regional western league with a conference championship game and would be firmly entrenched with the Big East in the "next cut" of conferences. Frankly a conference configured like this to me looks far more stable than what the Big East is currently attempting to do:
Boise State
San Diego State
Fresno State
San Jose State
Hawaii
Utah State
Air Force
Colorado State
Wyoming
New Mexico
UNLV
Nevada
Set up the conference so that each school maintains control over its 3rd tier television rights and you might even be able to entice BYU back into the fold with UTEP to get to 14. Killing the WAC could turn out to be a sound move on the part of the MWC.
This group of teams:
Air Force
Colorado State
Wyoming
New Mexico
UNLV
Nevada
sucks.
Certainly the weaker of two divisions if you structure it that way. However, if you somehow snag BYU and UTEP to get to 14 you could even things up pretty quickly. Plus you would probably create a 3-5 bid basketball league every year.
Boise State
San Diego State
Fresno State
San Jose State
Hawaii
New Mexico
UTEP
BYU
Utah State
Air Force
Colorado State
Wyoming
UNLV
Nevada
Last edited by CsquaredCC; 05-11-2012 at 07:12 PM.
You could call the conference championship game the Bronco/Cougar Bowl.
And the championship trophy the Bronco Cup...
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