Ok, I am bored and got to thinking. What if there was a way to build your own conference using only teams you have played with as a conference mate in the past? What is your proverbial All-Star Conference? Limit it to ten and post next to the team you chose the conference you shared at one time. Distance and travel are not factors

Pilot's Great American Conference

1. Mississippi Southern (SIAA, Gulf South Conference & CUSA)
2. Boise State (WAC)
3. Fresno State (WAC)
4. Rice (WAC & CUSA)
5. SMU (WAC)
6. Hawaii (WAC
7. Memphis State (Southern Intercollegiate Athletics Association)
8. Miami (FLA) (SIAA)
9. Nevada (Big West & WAC)
10. Marshall (CUSA)

G5 schools:

1. Boise State
2. Southern Miss
3. Marshall
4. Rice
5. UTEP
6. UTSA
7. Fresno State
8. Utah State
9. Nevada
10. Hawaii
11. Louisiana Tech

Arizona (WAC)
Arizona St (WAC)
Utah (WAC)
BYU (WAC)
Boise St (WAC)
San Diego St (WAC)
Colorado St (WAC)
Houston (CUSA)
TCU (WAC)
UTEP (CUSA)

It's sad to think that at one time we played against those schools in the same conference. Now they have all moved on to bigger and better things.

This is going to get ugly. Count me in.

1) Louisville (Metro & CUSA)
2) Cincinnati (CUSA)
3) Virginia Tech (Metro)
4) Memphis (CUSA)
5) ECU (CUSA)
6) UAB (Sun Belt & CUSA)
7) ODU (Sun Belt & CUSA)
8) WKU (Sun Belt & CUSA)
9) Marshall (CUSA)
10) Southern Miss (Metro & CUSA)

I passed up TCU (CUSA) and Houston (CUSA) because I actually would like to have a more regional conference, but they would have been good choices otherwise.

(07-01-2016 04:21 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  This is going to get ugly. Count me in.

1) Louisville (Metro & CUSA)
2) Cincinnati (CUSA)
3) Virginia Tech (Metro)
4) Memphis (CUSA)
5) ECU (CUSA)
6) UAB (Sun Belt & CUSA)
7) ODU (Sun Belt & CUSA)
8) WKU (Sun Belt & CUSA)
9) Marshall (CUSA)
10) Southern Miss (Metro & CUSA)

I passed up TCU (CUSA) and Houston (CUSA) because I actually would like to have a more regional conference, but they would have been good choices otherwise.

Tech never played with TCU and Houston, but as an old SWC fan, they would have made my top ten easy.

1) Florida St. (Metro)
2) Louisville (Metro/CUSA)
3) Cincinnati (Metro/CUSA)
4) Houston (CUSA)
5) South Carolina ( METRO)
6) Tulane ( METRO/CUSA)
7) Memphis ( METRO/CUSA)
8) TCU (CUSA)
9) Marshall (CUSA)
10) East Carolina (CUSA)

1) Texas - SWC
2) Texas A&M -SWC
3) Arkansas - SWC
4) Oklahoma - SWC until 1925
5) Oklahoma A&M - SWC until 1925
6) TCU - SWC/WAC
7) Texas Tech - SWC
8) Boise State - WAC
9) SMU - SWC/WAC/CUSA
10) Baylor - SWC

ODU would be very difficult to do because most of its ex-conference mates are FCS or non-football. Anyhow

Basketball:

VCU (Sun Belt/CAA)
Richmond (CAA)
JMU (CAA)
George Mason (CAA)
Charlotte (Sun Belt)
UAB (Sun Belt)
Western Kentucky (Sun Belt)
William & Mary (CAA)
UNC Wilmington (CAA)
Tulsa (CUSA)
Jacksonville (Sun Belt)

Football (fudging the rules to include teams that shared all-sports conference affiliations with ODU while ODU didn't field football):

Charlotte
UAB
Western Kentucky
Tulsa
East Carolina (CAA/CUSA)
Navy (ECAC South)
South Florida (Sun Belt)
Massachusetts (CAA)
Georgia State (CAA)
South Alabama (Sun Belt)
Tulane (CUSA)

1 USM CUSA 9 MTSU CUSA
2 Marshall CUSA 10 Memphis CUSA
3 La Tech CUSA Others:
4 ECU CUSA GaSt, ODU,
5 UCF CUSA. This would be good for
6 USF Sun Belt CUSA Football and othe sports.
7 Charlotte Sun Belt CUSA Basketball improving
8 WKU Sun Belt CUSA

ECU
USM
App
UCF
LaTech
WKU
Ohio
GaSou
MTSU
Marshall

Marshall
ECU
UCF
Ohio
So Miss
Memphis
WKU
Toledo
UAB
ODU

It was easy for me until UAB and ODU. The top 7 are mostly schools I love to hate.

(07-01-2016 04:51 PM)southernbirds67 Wrote:  1) Florida St. (Metro)
2) Louisville (Metro/CUSA)
3) Cincinnati (Metro/CUSA)
4) Houston (CUSA)
5) South Carolina ( METRO)
6) Tulane ( METRO/CUSA)
7) Memphis ( METRO/CUSA)
8) TCU (CUSA)
9) Marshall (CUSA)
10) East Carolina (CUSA)

Can't argue with your selection but would add Virginia Tech (Metro) to get 11 and we make 12

South- Houston, TCU, Tulane, USM, Memphis, FSU
North - Louisville, Cincy, Marshall, ECU, Va Tech, South Carolina

(07-01-2016 09:27 PM)usm99 Wrote:  

(07-01-2016 04:51 PM)southernbirds67 Wrote:  1) Florida St. (Metro)
2) Louisville (Metro/CUSA)
3) Cincinnati (Metro/CUSA)
4) Houston (CUSA)
5) South Carolina ( METRO)
6) Tulane ( METRO/CUSA)
7) Memphis ( METRO/CUSA)
8) TCU (CUSA)
9) Marshall (CUSA)
10) East Carolina (CUSA)

Can't argue with your selection but would add Virginia Tech (Metro) to get 11 and we make 12

South- Houston, TCU, Tulane, USM, Memphis, FSU
North - Louisville, Cincy, Marshall, ECU, Va Tech, South Carolina

Looks good. Sign me up! Though would like to work SMU in somehow...don't know why just always liked them.

Louisville
Memphis
Marquette
St Louis
Cinci
TCU
Houston
ODU
WKU
Southern Miss

Yeah two basketball schools in there.

UTEP
BYU
Utah
TCU
New Mexico
San Diegio State
UNLV
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado State

North
Louisville (Metro/CUSA)
Cincinnati (Metro/CUSA)
South Carolina (METRO)
East Carolina (CUSA)
Virginia Tech (METRO)
Marshall (CUSA)

South
Florida St. (METRO)
Miami (The "U") (SIAA)
Louisiana Tech (CUSA)
Memphis ( METRO/CUSA)
Houston (CUSA)
Southern Miss

Never share a conference with Louisville. Rule of thumb.

Small sidenote: How different would this conference be right now if we'd grabbed Boise St in 2005 instead of say SMU or UTEP (love the miners don't hate)? We likely would have lost them in 2012 anyway, but we also might have convinced everyone to stay together when the Big East thing backfired, or have been taken more seriously from a competitive standpoint before the realignment crap hit the fan.

Seeing that the former WAC teams played with Boise just made me think of that. Sorry for the derailment.

(07-02-2016 03:41 AM)MUther Wrote:  Small sidenote: How different would this conference be right now if we'd grabbed Boise St in 2005 instead of say SMU or UTEP (love the miners don't hate)? We likely would have lost them in 2012 anyway, but we also might have convinced everyone to stay together when the Big East thing backfired, or have been taken more seriously from a competitive standpoint before the realignment crap hit the fan.

Seeing that the former WAC teams played with Boise just made me think of that. Sorry for the derailment.

Or if the idea of merging C-USA of back then with the MWC. Would have been far flung but interesting and a lot of fun. UTEP admin thought it was a done deal for a while and the thought of UTEP having conference members east and west and in Texas too? Too much. The Big East screwed it all up.

(07-02-2016 03:41 AM)MUther Wrote:  Small sidenote: How different would this conference be right now if we'd grabbed Boise St in 2005 instead of say SMU or UTEP (love the miners don't hate)? We likely would have lost them in 2012 anyway, but we also might have convinced everyone to stay together when the Big East thing backfired, or have been taken more seriously from a competitive standpoint before the realignment crap hit the fan.

Seeing that the former WAC teams played with Boise just made me think of that. Sorry for the derailment.

Or.... maybe Boise loses an extra game or two per season and never play their way into the BCS games. They would have been good but the travel alone would have made it much tougher for those Boise State teams.