USF/Big East Realignment Discussion Thread

[GaUSFBull]

Now I'm pulling for TX and OU to stay in the Big 12.

Keeping the Big 12 together (9 – teams) and merging them with the 7 Big East football teams.  Bingo – 16 team super conference and all of the sudden USF has just upgraded its conference.  Playing Texas and Oklahoma would be fun!!  The Big Mess would have 7 teams ranked in the top 25 today.

This x 10000

[Doc]

Be careful what you wish for.  If the TX/OK schools stay, the BXII might just cherry-pick TCU/UC/UL or WVU if available, leaving us in even worse shape.

[Gismo]

If truth to WVU rumors, I'll go with:

East: UC/UL/USF/WVU/RU/UCONN

West: TCU/BU/MU/KU/KSU/ISU

Hold BBall tourney in STL and all invited to stay at my place!

If ACC really wanted RU/UCONN, why didn't they pluck them away with PITT/SU?

One way I think things could unfoldis OU and OSU finish their depature from the BigXII and then no one else moves this year. The ACC just added 2 as a hedge and said they are open to 16, but are waiting to see where things go, so they hold at 14 for now. PAC and Texas can't reach an agreement so Texas stays. Big10 decides they are happy and SEC decides to stay at 13 not seeing the value in going to 14 just for the sake of if, happy with their 13.

leaving 7 teams from the BigXII and 7 from the Big East Which merge under the BigXII and drop the bball schools:

Texas

Texas Tech

Iowa State

Baylor

Kansas State

Kansas

Missouri

+

South Florida

West Virginia

Cincinnati

Louisville

Rutgers

Connecticut

TCU

If the SEC does move to 14 either with and ACC team or WVU or Missouri I think Boise State, BYU or a CUSA team moves in.

This could lead to 5 conferences that look like this and none of the current AQ teams are left out and 1 AQ team is added:

PAC 12  -  14 teams

SEC       - 14 teams

ACC       - 14 teams

BigXII     - 14 teams

B1G       - 12 teams

+ ND

Another scenario is that Texas and Tech do make the move the PAC and we end up with

PAC 12  -  16 teams

SEC       - 14 teams

ACC       - 14 teams

BigXII     - 12 teams (The Big Merge)

B1G       - 12 teams

+ ND

At this point, I think B1G trys to go to 14 leaving The Big Merge at 10 or 11 teams depending if the B1G could get ND or not and The Big Merge adds 1 or 2 more from Boise St, BYU, etc. to get back to 12. I'm not sure there are any teams the SEC finds desirable enough to move from 14 to 16 teams unless they can take ACC teams, otherwise. Without the SEC taking teams from the ACC to get to 16 I think everything stays at 14 teams with the exception of the PAC.  

[Matt]

is this the longest/most viewed thread in board history?

[GaUSFBull]

Be careful what you wish for.  If the TX/OK schools stay, the BXII might just cherry-pick TCU/UC/UL or WVU if available, leaving us in even worse shape.

I believe they are at 10 teams currently, so they could take us all minus TCU, whom they've never really wanted in their conference anyway.  

[BleedGreenAndGold]

is this the longest/most viewed thread in board history?

I would think the only longer one could be a merged coach speculation thread, but that got it's own board.

[Bull Dozer]

The "Tired of Politics" Thread was ridiculously long,  into the hundreds of pages if i remember correctly. 

[BleedGreenAndGold]

UCF drivel et al as well, I think we're talking main board

[Rocky Style]

ATM stands for other things as well:

[ZeroBullChip]

"Rectal Itch"