(07-04-2023 11:40 AM)ghostofclt! Wrote: (07-04-2023 09:50 AM)Memphis Yankee Wrote: (07-04-2023 09:19 AM)rook360 Wrote: (07-04-2023 08:01 AM)BIGDTiger Wrote: Could you get behind this conference? I don’t know all the intricacies of how the Olympic sports would play into this. But I do know I’ve seen SEC schools Olympic sports in lower tier leagues like the Sun Belt and CUSA. Not sure I’d relish having the military basketball teams. So backfill them with the Zags, Saint Mary’s, VCU, St. Louis and the shockers. This league would be a hell of a Conference in my opinion with a lot of upside. The games would be fun. It would be a merger of sorts of the best schools that are left from the MWC and AAC. You accomplish the coast to coast in every time zone that the Big12 wants. You also snatch up some teams that both leagues would want. In any given year this conference would be as good or better than the PAC 12 or Big 12
Sit still as a league and wait for other schools to demonstrate long term success and commitment. No knee jerk additions like the ones that are coming into the AAC now.
Football Side
Eastern Division
Memphis
USF
SMU
Tulane
Navy
Army
Western Division
Air Force
Boise State
Colorado State
UNLV
San Diego State
Utah State
Basketball Side
Eastern Division
Memphis
Wichita State
SMU
South Florida
Tulane
St. Louis
VCU
Western Division
Gonzaga
Saint Mary’s
Boise State
Colorado State
UNLV
San Diego State
Utah State
So where's UTSA, UAB, FAU, UNT, Rice, and CLT?
Ooooh, they were left out of this mock league like Memphis was left out the Big 12.
You're missing the whole premise of his point. He's picking teams that have been mentioned/rumored for expansion to the PAC and the B12 to force those conference's hand.
Has UTSA, UAB, FAU, UNT, Rice, and CLT been mentioned for those two conferences since 2016?
I would have added ECU in there, but when you've got that many teams listed it's easy to miss a team or two.
clt says Charlotte was mentioned for the SEC a few years ago, but not the pac or big
How do you guys get dressed in the morning? The Pac and the Big 12 are rumored to be adding teams. that's what the OP of this thread is about.
Memphis could have been in the SEC in the 60's. Either they turned it down or whatever, I don't know. I'll let the Memphis historians chime in if they want to. I didn't grow up there. Point is, I'm sure all of us have had opportunities.
This thread is about what's going on now and how to push this round of expansion forward.
Join the best of the Mountain West with the best of the AAC into a conference. Joining us into one group doesn't matter as far as accomplishing that imo. Both the Pac and the B12 can poach whoever they want from the G5 whenever they want. It would however be a better situation for the best of both conferences to build a new conference, as well as add some additional teams.
Can we not have that conversation?
What do we know at this time? Yormark has stated the B12 wants to add 4 teams. Logical thinking is he wants the 4 corner states. Does he get all 4? Does he get two? three? none?
There's a chess game going on. My personal opinion is the Pac stays in tact and adds SDSU and SMU. The big 12 adds two G5's. Yormark would need to save face. He can't walk away empty. Not on his first try. It would make him look weak.
He recently walked back expanding by 4 teams saying he'd be happy at 14 teams total for now. That means he'd add two. Does he already know the Pac is staying together?
I think if he adds two it will be Memphis and UConn. Memphis has been knocking on the door and UConn just won their fifth ncaa championship. Yormark has stated he wants to be the best basketball confernce. UConn and Memphis are both branded basketball schools. Ironically they're 8-8 all time against each other.
Yormark visited two schools the past month or so. Memphis and UConn. That wasn't by accident. I don't think he wants either. I think the B12 is having trouble imagining themeselves with Memphis. UConn has a terrible football program. I think Yormark believes those two teams in the end though are the best choice right now.
Fire away.