(06-05-2012 01:14 AM)attackfrog Wrote: Seems like if it doesnt have "big" or "great" somewhere in the conference name, a league just sounds too much like a small time FCS basketball conference. We need to stay with the name we have.
Right, because the Big WEst, Big South, and Great West are setting the world on fire?
(06-05-2012 07:57 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: Good point. I always believed and still do to this day that the name C-USA in itself never gave the the conference a chance to succeed. To most of the country, the name was gimmicky and did not sound like quality athletics.
If Houston, Tulane, Memphis, Louisville, Southern Miss, Cincinatti, East Carolina, UAB and Army had formed the "Big 9" instead of C-USA, it would have gotten about the same lack of respect.
Quote:Even to this day you always hear people make comments about schools being "a C-USA school" or a league being a "glorified C-USA". etc. You rarely hear the same comments being made about other conferences.
There are 2 reasons. One, a Big East meeting can look like a C-USA Classic reunion, with 4 of the 6 charter C-USA football schools and 7 of the 12 charter C-USA basketball schools. Two, it's a way of putting down the Big East. You'd be hearing a lot less about Louisville and Cincinatti (and especially USF) being "C-USA schools" if the Big East hadn't just brought in 4 more C-USA schools, 3 of them charter members.
Theoretically, you could hear people diss the MWC as a warmed-over WAC, with 3 WAC 2010 teams joining 5 MWC teams who used to be WAC teams
1. The MWC started as a revival of a previous WAC, so it doesn't sting.
2. They don't have the WAC's best recent asset, Boise State.
3. Who cares about the MWC anyway?
4. The WAC has had so much turnover that you can't keep them straight anyway.
5. WAC alumni scattered in so many directions.
If the ACC ever takes Rutgers and UConn and maybe, you'll start to hear about the ACC North being a revamped football Big East--BC, Syracuse, UConn, Rutgers, Pitt, Virginia Tech plus Virginia and MAryland.
Quote:WVU and Rutgers were once members of the A-10, but nobody still labels them as such.
Well, in football, they were independents. And in basketball, Jerry West played in the Southern Conference, not the A-10.
Quote:Nobody labels Utah as a MWC school.
When's the last time you saw someone label Utah as anything?
This conference better not even think about doing some name like Big Country, etc. Keep the name Big East.
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