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Conference Realignment Thread: New B1G divisions

Between conference realignment and Wake sucking in basketball and football, I think I'm pretty done with college sports. They are just murdering their own product.
 
BillBrasky said:
There's gonna end up being an Eastern conference mesh of some of the current Big East/CUSA/Sun Belt schools, and then a Western conference of CUSA/WAC/Sun Belt schools. That's my guess.
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The Meh East and the Meh West.
 
DieHardDeacon said:
As far as University of Sun & Fun goes, it opens up the Florida market for recruiting and brand growth to schools like Texas and Oklahoma. Same reason SEC wanted into Texas with aTm
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I mean, TAMU is appealing for reasons that aren't entirely dependent on their market too. USF isn't. Maybe the B12 does eventually make a play for them, but it won't be for a few years. They just have no reason to. USF and Cincy will be there for the taking when the B12 is ready to accept them... it just makes way more sense to try to peel off some schools that may be tougher to acquire before picking off the low hanging fruit.

UConn is in worse shape. The only conference that could take them is the ACC and the football schools (and BC) are 100% opposed to them. If the football schools can't salvage a conference out of what they have and some of the commitments they have (or had) then they're going to... the MAC maybe? I just don't see where else makes any sense for them.
 
Yeah UCONN is screwed. They're probably headed to the MAC where they can form a rivalry with newly promoted UMASS. Cincy will end up somewhere, BIG 12 I imagine, and USF will either follow along with the other past CUSA teams or end up in the Big 12 as well.
 
Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN
If/when 7 hoops schools leave, Big East will have lost 17 members since 2005. Even WAC is impressed
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Incredible.
 
BillBrasky said:
Yeah UCONN is screwed. They're probably headed to the MAC where they can form a rivalry with newly promoted UMASS. Cincy will end up somewhere, BIG 12 I imagine, and USF will either follow along with the other past CUSA teams or end up in the Big 12 as well.
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The faculty at UMass is pushing hard for the school to drop back down to the FCS level. With no Big East to aspire to, the faculty very well may win that argument.
 
I'd be very wary of adding basketball only schools to the ACC but a threesome of Georgetown, Villanova and St. Johns is an interesting idea. Almost certainly won't happen though.
 
Looks like there is a strong possibility the 7 BE basketball schools will join several A-10 schools in forming their own league.

Whether a new league featuring DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Villanova would be called the Big East or something else is, like almost everything else, unresolved. But a source told CBSSports.com that those seven schools would target at least three and perhaps five basketball programs to join them, and that Xavier, Dayton, St. Louis, Creighton and Butler would be among the targets.
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Link
 
WakeForestRanger said:
I'd be very wary of adding basketball only schools to the ACC but a threesome of Georgetown, Villanova and St. Johns is an interesting idea. Almost certainly won't happen though.
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Well Villanova (at least in any context that I've heard about) would be contingent on them moving up to FBS. It's something that has been discussed a lot in recent years, especially now that they have a stadium to play in (PPL Park in Chester).
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
Dave Odom was on the radio saying this.
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The funny thing is if the 7 Big East schools took the name and poached Xavier and Dayton to make a nice 9 team conference with a 16 game round robin, that would have been a nice step in the right direction toward restoring college basketball.

Instead they're joining another Frankenstein conference.

Edit: Didn't realize that the move to the A-10 wasn't final.
 
wfumike02 said:
Well Villanova (at least in any context that I've heard about) would be contingent on them moving up to FBS. It's something that has been discussed a lot in recent years, especially now that they have a stadium to play in (PPL Park in Chester).
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Nova has a strong following in football too, my only concern is there stadium is not big...all major games would be played at the Linc, in Philly. They have the same (on campus arena issues that we talk about...football at least.)
 
With only one bullet left in the 16-team gun -- assuming a door is always left open for Notre Dame football -- I can't see the ACC taking any of the Big East basketball-only schools. They've been very careful with the additions so far. Can't see them rushing to scoop up a school with no football revenue.
 
Yeah, if the football schools in the ACC don't want UConn, there's no way in hell they'll want a Villanova program just moving up to FBS status.
 
ArlingtonDeac said:
With only one bullet left in the 16-team gun -- assuming a door is always left open for Notre Dame football -- I can't see the ACC taking any of the Big East basketball-only schools. They've been very careful with the additions so far. Can't see them rushing to scoop up a school with no football revenue.
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It will be interesting to see, because the term Revenue is relevant considering Kentucky football brings in something ridiculous like 5x the amount of revenue as their basketball program. If Nova was allowed to join the ACC with their football program, it would bring in a lot of revenue (just to be clear, I don't know what it takes for a team to jump from Div.III to Div. I). That being said, for those of you that don't know, Villanova is a lot like App State in football. Relatively consistant at putting good teams out there over the past 15 years, but no national coverage due to their division..... 2 cents.
 
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