(01-01-2016 10:19 AM)Artifice Wrote:  The Metro name is available, as in legally available

Would have been fun to combine the urban/suburban schools from the old Big East and CUSA 1.0. Let BC,UConn, WVU & Va Tech go to ACC. Would have been a fun league.

UAB
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Houston
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Pittsburgh
USF
Syracuse (or Tulsa)
Temple
TCU

Would have been a lot of fun in hoops and football. What a pity it'll never happen.

USF, Syracuse, Temple and TCU are not named after cities. They can't fit.

Cal.-Los Angeles is a hyphened school.

Some schools already dropped the state from their name.

Little Rock
Chattanooga
Milwaukee

I could see some drop as well like Mankato State, Pueblo State, Martin, San Antonio, El Paso and so forth.

Cal-Davis is an AAU school and is in the schools with UCLA.

Cal-Poly, SLO or Cal-Tech, SLO is something to look at.

A lot of people outside of California don't use Cal. State schools that way. We always will call them Fresno State, Sacramento State, Fullerton State, San Diego State and so forth to make them different from each other.

It is like New York. People rather call them Buffalo, Stony Brook, Albany and all that. It makes them different from each other calling them that way instead of SUNY.

UAB could be called University of Birmingham.

(01-01-2016 10:19 AM)Artifice Wrote:  The Metro name is available, as in legally available

It is not available. The trademarks and intellectual property of the metro Conference belong to the University of Louisville.

(01-01-2016 06:27 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 10:19 AM)Artifice Wrote:  The Metro name is available, as in legally available

It is not available. The trademarks and intellectual property of the metro Conference belong to the University of Louisville.

Why is that? Because thanks to schmelenberger we never made it a football conference. The irony....

When the conference dissolved, Louisville retained the assets. It's a source of anger for Virginia tech and VCU, because it shafted them of retained NCAA credits, among other things.

(01-01-2016 06:12 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 10:19 AM)Artifice Wrote:  The Metro name is available, as in legally available

Would have been fun to combine the urban/suburban schools from the old Big East and CUSA 1.0. Let BC,UConn, WVU & Va Tech go to ACC. Would have been a fun league.

UAB
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Houston
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Pittsburgh
USF
Syracuse (or Tulsa)
Temple
TCU

Would have been a lot of fun in hoops and football. What a pity it'll never happen.

USF, Syracuse, Temple and TCU are not named after cities. They can't fit.

Cal.-Los Angeles is a hyphened school.

Some schools already dropped the state from their name.

Little Rock
Chattanooga
Milwaukee

I could see some drop as well like Mankato State, Pueblo State, Martin, San Antonio, El Paso and so forth.

Cal-Davis is an AAU school and is in the schools with UCLA.

Cal-Poly, SLO or Cal-Tech, SLO is something to look at.

A lot of people outside of California don't use Cal. State schools that way. We always will call them Fresno State, Sacramento State, Fullerton State, San Diego State and so forth to make them different from each other.

It is like New York. People rather call them Buffalo, Stony Brook, Albany and all that. It makes them different from each other calling them that way instead of SUNY.

UAB could be called University of Birmingham.

So David what is Syracuse named after then? This ought to be good.

(01-01-2016 07:16 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 06:12 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 10:19 AM)Artifice Wrote:  The Metro name is available, as in legally available

Would have been fun to combine the urban/suburban schools from the old Big East and CUSA 1.0. Let BC,UConn, WVU & Va Tech go to ACC. Would have been a fun league.

UAB
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Houston
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Pittsburgh
USF
Syracuse (or Tulsa)
Temple
TCU

Would have been a lot of fun in hoops and football. What a pity it'll never happen.

USF, Syracuse, Temple and TCU are not named after cities. They can't fit.

Cal.-Los Angeles is a hyphened school.

Some schools already dropped the state from their name.

Little Rock
Chattanooga
Milwaukee

I could see some drop as well like Mankato State, Pueblo State, Martin, San Antonio, El Paso and so forth.

Cal-Davis is an AAU school and is in the schools with UCLA.

Cal-Poly, SLO or Cal-Tech, SLO is something to look at.

A lot of people outside of California don't use Cal. State schools that way. We always will call them Fresno State, Sacramento State, Fullerton State, San Diego State and so forth to make them different from each other.

It is like New York. People rather call them Buffalo, Stony Brook, Albany and all that. It makes them different from each other calling them that way instead of SUNY.

UAB could be called University of Birmingham.

So David what is Syracuse named after then? This ought to be good.

Syracuse is an HBCU named after its founder John Humperdink Syracuse III, the inventor or the molly bolt and the slap 'n chop.

The original big east football conference was primarily a city school conference: Miami, Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College, Temple. Later on they added 2 more Cincinatti and Louisville and a directional school South Florida. Still can't believe the other BCS schools allowed them into their club. I couldn't believe it then actually. One cheating Independent gimmicky school with no basketball team, no football stadium etc. added to 7 mostly city state schools does not make a power conference. Cheers!

(01-01-2016 08:21 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  The original big east football conference was primarily a city school conference: Miami, Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College, Temple. Later on they added 2 more Cincinatti and Louisville and a directional school South Florida. Still can't believe the other BCS schools allowed them into their club. I couldn't believe it then actually. One cheating Independent gimmicky school with no basketball team, no football stadium etc. added to 7 mostly city state schools does not make a power conference. Cheers!

DUDE...so much wrong in that post...are you talking pre or post 2005?

(01-01-2016 06:12 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 10:19 AM)Artifice Wrote:  The Metro name is available, as in legally available

Would have been fun to combine the urban/suburban schools from the old Big East and CUSA 1.0. Let BC,UConn, WVU & Va Tech go to ACC. Would have been a fun league.

UAB
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Houston
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Pittsburgh
USF
Syracuse (or Tulsa)
Temple
TCU

Would have been a lot of fun in hoops and football. What a pity it'll never happen.

USF, Syracuse, Temple and TCU are not named after cities. They can't fit.

Cal.-Los Angeles is a hyphened school.

Some schools already dropped the state from their name.

Little Rock
Chattanooga
Milwaukee

I could see some drop as well like Mankato State, Pueblo State, Martin, San Antonio, El Paso and so forth.

Cal-Davis is an AAU school and is in the schools with UCLA.

Cal-Poly, SLO or Cal-Tech, SLO is something to look at.

A lot of people outside of California don't use Cal. State schools that way. We always will call them Fresno State, Sacramento State, Fullerton State, San Diego State and so forth to make them different from each other.

It is like New York. People rather call them Buffalo, Stony Brook, Albany and all that. It makes them different from each other calling them that way instead of SUNY.

UAB could be called University of Birmingham.

Actually Buffalo is trying to focus more on the State.

(12-31-2015 09:41 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(12-31-2015 05:40 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(12-31-2015 05:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  How about a conference of just the city schools? I know it will never happen but wouldn't be too bad.

East:
Syracuse
Boston College
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Buffalo
Charlotte

West:
Houston
Tulsa
UNLV
UCLA
Fresno St
UTEP
San Diego St
Boise St

Sacramento State, UTSA, UNR, New Orleans if and when they start football, Wichita State could be restarting football and some others missing from your list.

East:
Syracuse
Boston College
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Buffalo
Charlotte
Toledo
Akron
Richmond
Jacksonville State
Dayton
Chattanooga

Central:
Memphis
Houston
Tulsa
Louisville
UTEP
UTSA
La.-Lafayette
La.-Monroe
Wichita State
Milwaukee
Abilene Christian
Colorado State-Pueblo (could be renamed to Pueblo State)/Denver if they add football.
Indianapolis
Houston Baptist

West:
Boise State
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNR
UNLV
Fresno State
UCLA
Portland State
Sacramento State
Cal-Davis
Cal-Poly, SLO.
Long Beach State
Cal-Irvine
Cal-Riverside
Fullerton State
Northridge State
Seattle U. (if they add football.)

I added schools that had news articles about the idea of adding football, and some D2 schools that are named after cities.

Amazing. And somehow skipped the only school in a top 10 DMA to go to the NCAAs and a bowl I. 2015.

(12-31-2015 08:15 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Tulsa is a private school

Memphis is a state university (officially, Tennessee's "other major comprehensive university").

(12-31-2015 09:41 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(12-31-2015 05:40 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(12-31-2015 05:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  How about a conference of just the city schools? I know it will never happen but wouldn't be too bad.

East:
Syracuse
Boston College
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Buffalo
Charlotte

West:
Houston
Tulsa
UNLV
UCLA
Fresno St
UTEP
San Diego St
Boise St

Sacramento State, UTSA, UNR, New Orleans if and when they start football, Wichita State could be restarting football and some others missing from your list.

East:
Syracuse
Boston College
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Buffalo
Charlotte
Toledo
Akron
Richmond
Jacksonville State
Dayton
Chattanooga

Central:
Memphis
Houston
Tulsa
Louisville
UTEP
UTSA
La.-Lafayette
La.-Monroe
Wichita State
Milwaukee
Abilene Christian
Colorado State-Pueblo (could be renamed to Pueblo State)/Denver if they add football.
Indianapolis
Houston Baptist

West:
Boise State
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNR
UNLV
Fresno State
UCLA
Portland State
Sacramento State
Cal-Davis
Cal-Poly, SLO.
Long Beach State
Cal-Irvine
Cal-Riverside
Fullerton State
Northridge State
Seattle U. (if they add football.)

I added schools that had news articles about the idea of adding football, and some D2 schools that are named after cities.

I think your "copy & paste" functions are messed up again.

What about Clemson and Auburn? They're named after cities, just not big ones.

And Saint Louis (just kidding).

(12-31-2015 09:41 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(12-31-2015 05:40 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(12-31-2015 05:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  How about a conference of just the city schools? I know it will never happen but wouldn't be too bad.

East:
Syracuse
Boston College
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Buffalo
Charlotte

West:
Houston
Tulsa
UNLV
UCLA
Fresno St
UTEP
San Diego St
Boise St

Sacramento State, UTSA, UNR, New Orleans if and when they start football, Wichita State could be restarting football and some others missing from your list.

East:
Syracuse
Boston College
Pittsburgh
Memphis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Buffalo
Charlotte
Toledo
Akron
Richmond
Jacksonville State
Dayton
Chattanooga

Central:
Memphis
Houston
Tulsa
Louisville
UTEP
UTSA
La.-Lafayette
La.-Monroe
Wichita State
Milwaukee
Abilene Christian
Colorado State-Pueblo (could be renamed to Pueblo State)/Denver if they add football.
Indianapolis
Houston Baptist

West:
Boise State
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNR
UNLV
Fresno State
UCLA
Portland State
Sacramento State
Cal-Davis
Cal-Poly, SLO.
Long Beach State
Cal-Irvine
Cal-Riverside
Fullerton State
Northridge State
Seattle U. (if they add football.)

I added schools that had news articles about the idea of adding football, and some D2 schools that are named after cities.

You forgot Norfolk State and Hampton.

(12-31-2015 10:01 PM)AppinVA Wrote:  The hyphen schools couldn't be included.

lol, well-played.

Back in the day, before Conference USA, the Missouri Valley had a lot of city named universities: Wichita, St. Louis, Detroit, Louisville, Cincinnati, Tulsa (more than once), Houston.

(12-31-2015 08:15 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Tulsa is a private school

So what?

(01-01-2016 09:50 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 08:21 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  The original big east football conference was primarily a city school conference: Miami, Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College, Temple. Later on they added 2 more Cincinatti and Louisville and a directional school South Florida. Still can't believe the other BCS schools allowed them into their club. I couldn't believe it then actually. One cheating Independent gimmicky school with no basketball team, no football stadium etc. added to 7 mostly city state schools does not make a power conference. Cheers!

DUDE...so much wrong in that post...are you talking pre or post 2005?

No kidding. Almost nothing in that post even approximated being right.

(01-01-2016 07:38 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 07:16 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 06:12 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(01-01-2016 10:19 AM)Artifice Wrote:  The Metro name is available, as in legally available

Would have been fun to combine the urban/suburban schools from the old Big East and CUSA 1.0. Let BC,UConn, WVU & Va Tech go to ACC. Would have been a fun league.

UAB
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Houston
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Pittsburgh
USF
Syracuse (or Tulsa)
Temple
TCU

Would have been a lot of fun in hoops and football. What a pity it'll never happen.

USF, Syracuse, Temple and TCU are not named after cities. They can't fit.

Cal.-Los Angeles is a hyphened school.

Some schools already dropped the state from their name.

Little Rock
Chattanooga
Milwaukee

I could see some drop as well like Mankato State, Pueblo State, Martin, San Antonio, El Paso and so forth.

Cal-Davis is an AAU school and is in the schools with UCLA.

Cal-Poly, SLO or Cal-Tech, SLO is something to look at.

A lot of people outside of California don't use Cal. State schools that way. We always will call them Fresno State, Sacramento State, Fullerton State, San Diego State and so forth to make them different from each other.

It is like New York. People rather call them Buffalo, Stony Brook, Albany and all that. It makes them different from each other calling them that way instead of SUNY.

UAB could be called University of Birmingham.

So David what is Syracuse named after then? This ought to be good.

Syracuse is an HBCU named after its founder John Humperdink Syracuse III, the inventor or the molly bolt and the slap 'n chop.

No. It's named after John Oliver Syracuse, the famed explorer who found Devil's Falls Ontario, which endes up being the origin of much of NYC's drinking water by the mid 1800's. In 1870, the residents of the city felt so indebted to him that they named their newly-founded university after him (Syracuse). The original colors were "Oliver Orange" and "Syracuse Silver," but the silver was later dropped when the school turned private and moved to the Albany area because orange and silver looked too much like the University of Tennessee's orange and white. However, the school still occasionally honors its roots by wearing all silver football and basketball jerseys.