(01-22-2013 07:24 PM)Love and Honor Wrote: Makes a lot of sense to do it like this, not some half a--ed Legends and Leaders setup like the Big Ten. I personally would've named the West into the Pacific (yeah, I know Nevada isn't on the coast), it seems a little awkward having one geographic and one descriptive name. Still, it's just like how the ACC names it, and it could've been a lot worse.
"mountain" "west" conference = "mountiain" division and "west" division.
seems pretty reasonable to me - and no issue about the nevada schools not being in a state touching the pacific. it also allows expansion, without name changes.
and addressing someone else's post:
the reason the mwc made out better than most of the other gang of 5 conferences is because there were quality football (boise state, fresno state, hawaii, nevada, utah state etc) and basketball (utah state, nevada, etc - and nmsu was available too) programs to pillage from the wac.
the big east had to reach down well below their former level of play to get (mostly poor to average non bcs) cusa (and a mac) football programs (memphis, ucf, smu, tulane, temple) - most of which hurt the basketball side.
and then cusa had to reach down even farther below their level of play (to the sun belt and the fcs) to get replacements.