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

It's more or less been tried, it was called Conference-USA. Heck, the American is similar.

(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.

And I'm referring to the first incarnation of C-USA.

Gotta be a hybrid...throw in Wichita St. and Richmond as BB onlies... ;-)

Actually the league stature wise would be a P5 stature league or P6 in this case.

Miami wasn't mentioned yet?

(12-31-2015 05:40 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  And I'm referring to the first incarnation of C-USA.

Or the Metro. If their football plan had seen the light of day...

(12-31-2015 08:04 PM)rjglassett Wrote:  

(12-31-2015 05:40 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  And I'm referring to the first incarnation of C-USA.

Or the Metro. If their football plan had seen the light of day...

Metro would've had Miami and S Carolina as well, IIRC.

Add Miami in the East and add Wichita St in the West (need to upgrade FB)

Of course Notre Dame will come along with some sort of part time deal as they normally receive

Tulsa is a private school

Fresno, Boise, and UTEP do not belong in a "city" conference. Unless you're also including Texas and Ohio State in the conference.

Georgia Tech, Washington, and Oregon State could be added instead.

(12-31-2015 08:25 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  Fresno, Boise, and UTEP do not belong in a "city" conference. Unless you're also including Texas and Ohio State in the conference.

Georgia Tech, Washington, and Oregon State could be added instead.

Hmmm you are kinda missing the point...

(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.

The hyphen schools couldn't be included.

(12-31-2015 05:40 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  It's more or less been tried, it was called Conference-USA. Heck, the American is similar.

Metro!

Although we had several teams that were decidedly not in large cities. Like half of them.

(12-31-2015 07:53 PM)GE and MTS Wrote:  Miami wasn't mentioned yet?

And there are two of them.

(01-01-2016 05:27 AM)ArQ Wrote:  

(12-31-2015 07:53 PM)GE and MTS Wrote:  Miami wasn't mentioned yet?

And there are two of them.

Miami(FL), yes.
Miami(OH), no(located in Oxford)

Although this thread is for kicks and giggles, you can already look at CUSA and the AAC if you want to see city conferences...

(12-31-2015 07:32 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  Gotta be a hybrid...throw in Wichita St. and Richmond as BB onlies... ;-)

Actually the league stature wise would be a P5 stature league or P6 in this case.

No it doesn't

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.