GP1 Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 CUSA and Mountain West Merge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 Well that changes the whole mid-major landscape... So is the MAC screwed? If it wants to form a superconference, what's that leave? The WAC,and the Sunbelt. That's a spread out mess. Not much chance of anyone getting poached from thpse two conferences, maybe Nevada by the C-USA/MW to replace whoever gets poached by a legacy conference. Here's who we're looking at, with Sagarin rankings: SUN BELT 71 Louisiana-Lafayette 80 Arkansas State 86 Fla. International 93 Troy 124 North Texas 146 Middle Tennessee 151 Louisiana-Monroe 167 Florida Atlantic 172 Western Kentucky WESTERN ATHLETIC 48 Nevada 70 Hawaii 84 Utah State 94 Fresno State 101 Louisiana Tech 110 San Jose State 135 Idaho 142 New Mexico State Then there's the MAC. Would those two even seek to include the midwestern MAC? MID-AMERICAN 49 Temple (to the Big Easy? ACC?) 50 Western Michigan 56 Toledo 77 Ohio University 85 Northern Illinois 107 Bowling Green 111 Central Michigan 112 Ball State 117 Buffalo 132 Eastern Michigan 138 Miami-Ohio 139 Can't State 182 Akron On the other hand, wasn't Middle Tennessee our rival in the OVC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted October 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 So is the MAC screwed? It depends on what the MAC wants out of itself. I'm not a fan of trying to break worlds records (jumping around on a pogo stick for 24 hours isn't my idea of a good time); however, in the "growing" world of college athletics, it seems to be an important goal to those working in athletics. Great miinds they are not. There are lots of ways to make a bigger pile of crap. Our distinguished colleague from Green may tell us that in order to create a Guinness Book of Worlds Records pile of crap, all possibilities must be explored and we would need a carefully thought out plan with great execution. There is no right way or wrong way. What I don't want to see is to add to the pile incrementally. I would set out to develop a plan that would maximize the time spent "growing" the pile of crap into the best and hugest pile of crap ever seen....or smelled for that matter. Probably the best way to create the "D-1A Super Crapference" would be to merge CUSA, MW, SB and MAC into one conference and pretend that conference is like the SEC or (insert BCS level conference here). Without those numbers of teams and the pretense it is something it isn't, I don't see how records can be set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 I think this actually benefits the MAC. Instead of being the 3rd best non-BCS conference, they're now the 2nd best. And if some of the top teams leave for the Big East, the average ratings change so that the MAC actualy becomes the top non-BCS conference. Remember that not only does this merger combine the best of the MWC and C-USA, but also the worst of them. As a result you have something like 16 horrible teams dragging down 6 decent-but-not-great teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted October 15, 2011 Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 ..... There are lots of ways to make a bigger pile of crap. Our distinguished colleague from Green may tell us that in order to create a Guinness Book of Worlds Records pile of crap, all possibilities must be explored and we would need a carefully thought out plan with great execution. There is no right way or wrong way. What I don't want to see is to add to the pile incrementally. I would set out to develop a plan that would maximize the time spent "growing" the pile of crap into the best and hugest pile of crap ever seen....or smelled for that matter. Probably the best way to create the "D-1A Super Crapference" would be to merge CUSA, MW, SB and MAC into one conference and pretend that conference is like the SEC or (insert BCS level conference here). Without those numbers of teams and the pretense it is something it isn't, I don't see how records can be set. I believe that building bigger, smellier piles of crap is one area where The Great GP1 doesn't really need any input from DiG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 But wait ..... it gets even bigger and smellier. How about a Global Conference that would include more than a quarter of all FBS schools?MWC/CUSA behind Global Conference proposal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted October 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 But wait ..... it gets even bigger and smellier. How about a Global Conference that would include more than a quarter of all FBS schools?MWC/CUSA behind Global Conference proposalThere is still a chance for a D-1A Super Crapference. This Global Conference will get demoted, like Pluto, when the D-1A Super Crapference is created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 I think we have a new contender for the title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted June 24, 2012 Report Share Posted June 24, 2012 I think we have a new contender for the title. That is one cool video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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