billybobby777
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-13-2016 06:54 PM)ArQ Wrote: (07-29-2016 03:53 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:07 PM)ArQ Wrote: When Big 12 takes Cincinnati and Houston from AAC, UConn should take charge in building its own conference. I think Big North Conference including all state flagships in the north will suit UConn's need:
East Division:
Maine
UConn
UMass
Buffalo
Delaware
Temple
West Division:
Ohio
Northern Illinois
North Dakota
South Dakota
one directional Michigan school
Iowa State or Marquette
The map will look awesome and the oil money in Dakota will help the conference. UConn should also consider North Dakota State and South Dakota State to make 14 member conference because they are also Bowl Championship Series heavyweight.
Wow a fan of city state school Louisville is going to insult UCONN and be that obvious about it? You must have balls hanging down to your ankles. I wouldn't even call that a troll post....way too hateful.
Cheers!
I am not rooting for any particular school these days. Like to watch all good basketball games no matter who are playing. UConn and Louisville play the best games these days IMO. So I hope something good happen to UConn. Also, football is just an extra for me. So although I really don't care much about the football field. I know it is the force driving conference alignment.
That being said, I think UConn has to think my Big North idea after AAC lose 2 members.
Ok...so let me get this straight:
1. AAC loses Cincy and Houston
2. In response UCONN leaves the AAC and starts up a new "Big North" Conference
3. UCONN convinces Temple to leave AAC to join the brand new Big North.
4. 4 MAC schools join including an unnamed "directional school" from Michigan.
5. UMASS joins the new Big North Conference.
6. 4 FCS schools move up to FBS to join the Big North
7. Marquette leaves Big East and starts up FBS football to join the Big North
8. Iowa St leaves P5 status to join 6 G5 schools & 5 FCS schools in the Big North
Did I get the basic idea?
Cheers!
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RE: Big North idea.
(07-28-2016 07:33 PM)ValleyBoy Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:21 PM)ArQ Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:09 PM)uconnwhaler Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:07 PM)ArQ Wrote: When Big 12 takes Cincinnati and Houston from AAC, UConn should take charge in building its own conference. I think Big North Conference including all state flagships in the north will suit UConn's need:
East Division:
Maine
UConn
UMass
Buffalo
Delaware
Temple
West Division:
Ohio
Northern Illinois
North Dakota
South Dakota
one directional Michigan school
Iowa State or Marquette
The map will look awesome and the oil money in Dakota will help the conference. UConn should also consider North Dakota State and South Dakota State to make 14 member conference because they are also Bowl Championship Series heavyweight.
Louisville fans are an odd bunch, simultaneously pointing out our irrelevance while obsessing over us. Quite odd.
Trust me. UConn has our respect. Both teams try to climb the ladder by improving ourselves. Louisville gets admitted to ACC solely on our own strength, not by the legacy built in the past. But the music chair has stopped. UConn should find a creative way to stay relevant.
An why would, UConn, Buffalo, Temple, Ohio, Northern Illinois, one of the directional Michigan schools want to join a new start up conference that WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY FOOTBALL PLAYOFF MONEY FOR MANY YEARS. No way CUSA, Sun Belt, MAC, MWC, or what is left of AAC would vote to include this new conference in a share of the above money. And why would a member of a P5 conference may the above move.
You could create new bowl games which is money for the conferences.
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RE: Big North idea.
(07-28-2016 07:31 PM)ArQ Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:21 PM)CyclonePower Wrote: What does UConn gain from this?? I think it looks worse than the AAC even after the big 12 picks it's bones.
Both divisions have small footprint to minimize the travel cost inside the division while the covered area of the whole conference are pretty big.
How does a division of Ohio/Central Michigan/South Dakota/North Dakota/Milwaukee/Northern Illinois do anything to "minimize" travel cost?
Every single school is a plane trip to all the others except NIU to Milwuakee.
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-14-2016 02:58 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:31 PM)ArQ Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:21 PM)CyclonePower Wrote: What does UConn gain from this?? I think it looks worse than the AAC even after the big 12 picks it's bones.
Both divisions have small footprint to minimize the travel cost inside the division while the covered area of the whole conference are pretty big.
How does a division of Ohio/Central Michigan/South Dakota/North Dakota/Milwaukee/Northern Illinois do anything to "minimize" travel cost?
Every single school is a plane trip to all the others except NIU to Milwuakee.
I think there should be a Big North East Conference and a Big Plains Athletic Conference or BPAC.
Put New Hampshire, URI, Stony Brook, Towson and some others in the Big NorthEast Conference.
BPAC:
Montana
Montana State
Northern Colorado
North Dakota
North Dakota State
South Dakota
South Dakota State
Missouri State
Northern Iowa
Northern Illinois
Wichita State
Omaha restarts football, or Mankato State upgrades to D1.
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DogPoundNorth
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-14-2016 06:40 AM)DavidSt Wrote: (08-14-2016 02:58 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:31 PM)ArQ Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:21 PM)CyclonePower Wrote: What does UConn gain from this?? I think it looks worse than the AAC even after the big 12 picks it's bones.
Both divisions have small footprint to minimize the travel cost inside the division while the covered area of the whole conference are pretty big.
How does a division of Ohio/Central Michigan/South Dakota/North Dakota/Milwaukee/Northern Illinois do anything to "minimize" travel cost?
Every single school is a plane trip to all the others except NIU to Milwuakee.
I think there should be a Big North East Conference and a Big Plains Athletic Conference or BPAC.
Put New Hampshire, URI, Stony Brook, Towson and some others in the Big NorthEast Conference.
BPAC:
Montana
Montana State
Northern Colorado
North Dakota
North Dakota State
South Dakota
South Dakota State
Missouri State
Northern Iowa
Northern Illinois
Wichita State
Omaha restarts football, or Mankato State upgrades to D1.
NIU wouldn't join this conference in a billion years hahahahaha.
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08-14-2016 08:16 AM |
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RE: Big North idea.
Quote:You could create new bowl games which is money for the conferences.
Conferences don't create bowls. Bowls are agreements between chambers of commerce in cities and sponsors. A city creates a bowl and the gets the best possible conference affiliation. You *might* get some desperate tier 3.5 bowl to take the winner of that mess, but that's it, and the payout would probably no more the break even with travel costs.
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08-14-2016 11:28 AM |
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-13-2016 07:14 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote: Just go with a eastern G5 conference made up of:
North:
UConn
UMass
Buffalo
Army
Navy
Temple
South:
Deleware
ODU
Marshall
ECU
USF
UCF
Play the CCG in DC.
If you're going to call up an FCS for that southern division, it should be JMU. Otherwise, replace Delaware with either Charlotte or App State, or go to 14 by pushing Delaware north and adding two of Charlotte, App, Ga So, or JMU to the south.
Call it the I-95 Conference?
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08-14-2016 11:31 AM |
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-14-2016 11:31 AM)madizoned-level2004 Wrote: (08-13-2016 07:14 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote: Just go with a eastern G5 conference made up of:
North:
UConn
UMass
Buffalo
Army
Navy
Temple
South:
Deleware
ODU
Marshall
ECU
USF
UCF
Play the CCG in DC.
If you're going to call up an FCS for that southern division, it should be JMU. Otherwise, replace Delaware with either Charlotte or App State, or go to 14 by pushing Delaware north and adding two of Charlotte, App, Ga So, or JMU to the south.
Call it the I-95 Conference?
Delaware is the most ready FCS school to move up. In fact they probably should have moved up already. Though I did have JMU in and took them out to fit in the florida schools and stay at 12. But yeah if it went to 14 Delaware to the north and JMU and App State in the south.
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-13-2016 07:16 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (08-13-2016 06:54 PM)ArQ Wrote: (07-29-2016 03:53 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:07 PM)ArQ Wrote: When Big 12 takes Cincinnati and Houston from AAC, UConn should take charge in building its own conference. I think Big North Conference including all state flagships in the north will suit UConn's need:
East Division:
Maine
UConn
UMass
Buffalo
Delaware
Temple
West Division:
Ohio
Northern Illinois
North Dakota
South Dakota
one directional Michigan school
Iowa State or Marquette
The map will look awesome and the oil money in Dakota will help the conference. UConn should also consider North Dakota State and South Dakota State to make 14 member conference because they are also Bowl Championship Series heavyweight.
Wow a fan of city state school Louisville is going to insult UCONN and be that obvious about it? You must have balls hanging down to your ankles. I wouldn't even call that a troll post....way too hateful.
Cheers!
I am not rooting for any particular school these days. Like to watch all good basketball games no matter who are playing. UConn and Louisville play the best games these days IMO. So I hope something good happen to UConn. Also, football is just an extra for me. So although I really don't care much about the football field. I know it is the force driving conference alignment.
That being said, I think UConn has to think my Big North idea after AAC lose 2 members.
Ok...so let me get this straight:
1. AAC loses Cincy and Houston
2. In response UCONN leaves the AAC and starts up a new "Big North" Conference
The point is that UConn should take their own destiny on their own hands and begin a new conference they can control. Also bet on oil in Dakota combined with Wall Street money will make a few winners in the group. Hope
UConn takes out Rutgers
UMass takes out Boston College
Buffalo takes out Syracuse
Delaware takes out Carolina schools and Maryland
North Dakota and South Dakota take out most of B1G schools, especially those weak ones.
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HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine
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RE: Big North idea.
No one is watching or paying for an annual Temple-NIU conference championship game.
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08-14-2016 10:09 PM |
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-14-2016 10:09 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote: No one is watching or paying for an annual Temple-NIU conference championship game.
=) thanks for the vote of confidence on us making an AAC championship game early on!
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08-14-2016 10:30 PM |
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-14-2016 08:16 AM)DogPoundNorth Wrote: (08-14-2016 06:40 AM)DavidSt Wrote: (08-14-2016 02:58 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:31 PM)ArQ Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:21 PM)CyclonePower Wrote: What does UConn gain from this?? I think it looks worse than the AAC even after the big 12 picks it's bones.
Both divisions have small footprint to minimize the travel cost inside the division while the covered area of the whole conference are pretty big.
How does a division of Ohio/Central Michigan/South Dakota/North Dakota/Milwaukee/Northern Illinois do anything to "minimize" travel cost?
Every single school is a plane trip to all the others except NIU to Milwuakee.
I think there should be a Big North East Conference and a Big Plains Athletic Conference or BPAC.
Put New Hampshire, URI, Stony Brook, Towson and some others in the Big NorthEast Conference.
BPAC:
Montana
Montana State
Northern Colorado
North Dakota
North Dakota State
South Dakota
South Dakota State
Missouri State
Northern Iowa
Northern Illinois
Wichita State
Omaha restarts football, or Mankato State upgrades to D1.
NIU wouldn't join this conference in a billion years hahahahaha.
Montanas, the Dakotas Northern Iowa and Mankato State are strong at footba.
North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Northern Iowa, Wichita State, Missouri State and Northern Colorado at times have good basketball teams. This could get a multi-bid to the tournament which is better than the MAC, MVC and Summit.
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-15-2016 06:17 AM)DavidSt Wrote: (08-14-2016 08:16 AM)DogPoundNorth Wrote: (08-14-2016 06:40 AM)DavidSt Wrote: (08-14-2016 02:58 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (07-28-2016 07:31 PM)ArQ Wrote: Both divisions have small footprint to minimize the travel cost inside the division while the covered area of the whole conference are pretty big.
How does a division of Ohio/Central Michigan/South Dakota/North Dakota/Milwaukee/Northern Illinois do anything to "minimize" travel cost?
Every single school is a plane trip to all the others except NIU to Milwuakee.
I think there should be a Big North East Conference and a Big Plains Athletic Conference or BPAC.
Put New Hampshire, URI, Stony Brook, Towson and some others in the Big NorthEast Conference.
BPAC:
Montana
Montana State
Northern Colorado
North Dakota
North Dakota State
South Dakota
South Dakota State
Missouri State
Northern Iowa
Northern Illinois
Wichita State
Omaha restarts football, or Mankato State upgrades to D1.
NIU wouldn't join this conference in a billion years hahahahaha.
Montanas, the Dakotas Northern Iowa and Mankato State are strong at footba.
North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Northern Iowa, Wichita State, Missouri State and Northern Colorado at times have good basketball teams. This could get a multi-bid to the tournament which is better than the MAC, MVC and Summit.
Not in a billion years.
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08-15-2016 06:40 AM |
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RE: Big North idea.
The only thing the AAC doesn't have going for it is Their TV contract. If They lose 2 schools soon it won't be a death blow by any means as there are still at least a dozen quality schools to bring up out there. Or a MWC/AAC best of 12-14 merger could happen if it means a lot better TV contract available.
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08-15-2016 07:14 AM |
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RE: Big North idea.
(08-13-2016 07:14 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote: Just go with a eastern G5 conference made up of:
North:
UConn
UMass
Buffalo
Army
Navy
Temple
South:
Deleware
ODU
Marshall
ECU
USF
UCF
Play the CCG in DC.
Certainly much better than the one in the OP, but definitely not something that would happen.
Personally I would be quite pleased with that Northern group of schools...I'd like to see UMass play all of them on a semi-regular basis regardless of conference affiliation.
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