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The AAC always talk about going out west for teams. What if the MWC came east to get games in the CST and EST time zones?

(09-09-2021 11:34 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote: [ -> ]It would consist of teams near the Appalachian Mountains and could have a scheduling alliance with the MWC.

What teams are near the App Mountains besides the obvious App St and Marshall? Birmingham is located near the southern most reaches of the App Mountains so throw UAB in there. James Madison, Liberty, Buffalo is only 200 miles from the mountains so throw them in there. I think you could get a good conference outta this.

Please don't take this too seriously...lol.

It already exists

WKU is the next county southwest of the yellow region on this map of subregions of Appalachia.

(09-09-2021 11:34 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote: [ -> ]It would consist of teams near the Appalachian Mountains and could have a scheduling alliance with the MWC.

What teams are near the App Mountains besides the obvious App St and Marshall? Birmingham is located near the southern most reaches of the App Mountains so throw UAB in there. James Madison, Liberty, Buffalo is only 200 miles from the mountains so throw them in there. I think you could get a good conference outta this.

Please don't take this too seriously...lol.

A.) There's basically a 46 page thread on basically this same topic not too far back. :)

B.) There is already a Mountain East Conference in Division II. It's members include...

Alderson Broaddus
Concord
Davis & Elkins
Frostburg State
Glenville State
Notre Dame College
University of Charleston
West Liberty
West Virginia State
Wheeling
West Virginia Wesleyan

(09-09-2021 11:37 AM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-09-2021 11:34 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote: [ -> ]It would consist of teams near the Appalachian Mountains and could have a scheduling alliance with the MWC.

What teams are near the App Mountains besides the obvious App St and Marshall? Birmingham is located near the southern most reaches of the App Mountains so throw UAB in there. James Madison, Liberty, Buffalo is only 200 miles from the mountains so throw them in there. I think you could get a good conference outta this.

Please don't take this too seriously...lol.

It already exists

Dang...I knew there was a MEC but I didn't know it was actually called the Mountain East Conference...lol.

What mountains?

(09-09-2021 11:34 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote: [ -> ]It would consist of teams near the Appalachian Mountains and could have a scheduling alliance with the MWC.

What teams are near the App Mountains besides the obvious App St and Marshall? Birmingham is located near the southern most reaches of the App Mountains so throw UAB in there. James Madison, Liberty, Buffalo is only 200 miles from the mountains so throw them in there. I think you could get a good conference outta this.

Please don't take this too seriously...lol.

There already is one https://mountaineast.org/

(09-09-2021 11:48 AM)Johns1124 Wrote: [ -> ]What mountains?

The Appalachian Mountains,[a] often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rocky Mountains before experiencing natural erosion.[4][5] The Appalachian chain is a barrier to east–west travel, as it forms a series of alternating ridgelines and valleys oriented in opposition to most highways and railroads running east–west.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains

As a Kentuckian, albeit a Western Kentuckian, I'll never forget the first time I travelled to DC, as an adult, with a former college buddy from Eastern Kentucky. He asked me what I thought of the mountains. I looked at him in all seriousness after traveling through Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia and said "What mountains? All I saw were some big hills". He was crushed.

(09-09-2021 11:34 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote: [ -> ]It would consist of teams near the Appalachian Mountains and could have a scheduling alliance with the MWC.

What teams are near the App Mountains besides the obvious App St and Marshall? Birmingham is located near the southern most reaches of the App Mountains so throw UAB in there. James Madison, Liberty, Buffalo is only 200 miles from the mountains so throw them in there. I think you could get a good conference outta this.

Please don't take this too seriously...lol.

Mountain East Conference
Alderson Broaddus University
University of Charleston
Concord University
Davis & Elkins College
Fairmont State University
Frostburg State University
Glenville State College
Notre Dame College
West Liberty University
West Virginia State University
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Wheeling University

The MEC is basically what the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVAIC) (1924-2013) was. It's the conference Coach Chris Grassie come from.

(09-09-2021 12:30 PM)GreenBison Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-09-2021 11:48 AM)Johns1124 Wrote: [ -> ]What mountains?

The Appalachian Mountains,[a] often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rocky Mountains before experiencing natural erosion.[4][5] The Appalachian chain is a barrier to east–west travel, as it forms a series of alternating ridgelines and valleys oriented in opposition to most highways and railroads running east–west.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains

Sometimes being first is the hardest journey. I think Spruce Knob in WV at roughly a mile high is the only true mountain left in WV, if you use the 5000 ft rule. But when I lived in Sitka mountains rise out of the water at only 2-4000 ft. Because they come right off sea level and have a low alpine region they look as rugged as anything you see anywhere.

The cruise ships often came into Sitka in the spring and summer. Invariably, the people would get off a BOAT and ask what the elevation was there. We being complete smartasses would say something like "Remember that waterfall your ship went up right before it got here?"

If you get off a boat from the ocean, you're at sea level.

(09-09-2021 01:14 PM)MUther Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-09-2021 12:30 PM)GreenBison Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-09-2021 11:48 AM)Johns1124 Wrote: [ -> ]What mountains?

The Appalachian Mountains,[a] often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rocky Mountains before experiencing natural erosion.[4][5] The Appalachian chain is a barrier to east–west travel, as it forms a series of alternating ridgelines and valleys oriented in opposition to most highways and railroads running east–west.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains

Sometimes being first is the hardest journey. I think Spruce Knob in WV at roughly a mile high is the only true mountain left in WV, if you use the 5000 ft rule. But when I lived in Sitka mountains rise out of the water at only 2-4000 ft. Because they come right off sea level and have a low alpine region they look as rugged as anything you see anywhere.

The cruise ships often came into Sitka in the spring and summer. Invariably, the people would get off a BOAT and ask what the elevation was there. We being complete smartasses would say something like "Remember that waterfall your ship went up right before it got here?"

If you get off a boat from the ocean, you're at sea level.

Did you need the last sentence?

There’s a whole range of issues with this idea.

Eh! What Else You Got To Do Conference (EWEYGTDC)

Short hand: Ewey Gtd! or The Eh?

Isn't the reason the MW was formed was because they didn't want teams in the CST time zone?

(09-09-2021 02:58 PM)JCMiner Wrote: [ -> ]Isn't the reason the MW was formed was because they didn't want teams in the CST time zone?

Possibly. But in today's age of tv viewing it probably helps to play some games when people are awake.

(09-09-2021 02:58 PM)JCMiner Wrote: [ -> ]Isn't the reason the MW was formed was because they didn't want teams in the CST time zone?

No, sir.

The first expansion team they accepted was TCU, beginning in 2005.

I'm revisiting this idea. Just play along for a minute. If the MWC loses AFA and CSU and for some mysterious reason the AAC decides to stay put at 10 teams then I would think the MWC has to get pretty creative to counter the AAC move. Soooooo................

Pacific Division
UNLV
San Jose St
Frenso St
SDSU
Nevada

Mountain Division
Boise St
Wyoming
Utah St.
UTSA
UTEP/UNT

East Division
App St
UAB
Marshall
Liberty
Coastal Carolina

Feel free to interject, replace, or move teams around.

If the MWC loses Air Force and Colorado State, and I'm not convinced it will, then I could definitely see them making a power play into Texas by taking all of the CUSA Texas schools that are left. It's their only option unless they want to ask Montana and North Dakota State to move up to FBS. Both could do it and compete immediately.

They could just do two divisions and move the Texas schools to the East. I don't think the MWC would want to become too Texas centric.