My feeling is this: Lenville and I could merge and it would blow everyone away...it is kinda fun to do that...like in Risk

But I think we ought to vote for the original separate teams first...then move into Phase Two of merging and trading teams if we like

I would open it up to the main Conference Realignment Board for all to vote on. Link the vote over here for ACC fans to go vote on the other board.

Have everyone just vote once for their Top League..., close it out Sunday evening and tally the votes. Next week we can do merging/horse-trading.

(09-23-2014 11:18 AM)TexanMark Wrote:  My feeling is this: Lenville and I could merge and it would blow everyone away...it is kinda fun to do that...like in Risk

But I think we ought to vote for the original separate teams first...then move into Phase Two of merging and trading teams if we like

I would open it up to the main Conference Realignment Board for all to vote on. Link the vote over here for ACC fans to go vote on the other board.

Have everyone just vote once for their Top League..., close it out Sunday evening and tally the votes. Next week we can do merging/horse-trading.

My goal was to keep it as simple as possible. I asked for PM voting for mainly 2 reasons; 1) so I wont have scroll through a bunch of posts to count votes & 2) so that no one would be influenced by the voting. If the last people vote they might see that everyone is voting one way & then elect to vote with the majority instead of who they want.

As for merging I think it goes against what this was meant to do so I vote NO for merges. Since it took 5 votes to block a trade I say we vote on merges like we did trades.

LEN- No
Other votes?

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(09-23-2014 10:50 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  

(09-23-2014 09:49 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(09-06-2014 08:47 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  This has been done on another board so I thought that I would bring it here for us to enjoy. It helps bring a new perspective to conference realignment and what better way to have fun with conference realignment than to draft your own conference. For those of you new to this, here are the basics:

* You are the commissioner and you build your conference through a snake draft, like in fantasy football. Our number of participants will determine how many schools are picked for each conference. You select if you want divisions, pods or to go divisionless.

* Ideal conferences are judged in the same way that we judge real conferences: athletic prowess, academic profile, cultural fit, geographical fit, revenue ability, rivalries and other such factors.

* Selections are limited to current FBS schools or schools that have declared to join FBS, like Navy.

* We will break halfway through the draft for realignment period (to make trades). Both schools and remaining draft picks can be traded. When the draft concludes, final realignment (trades) will also take place. Like in fantasy football a trade can be blocked with a unanimous vote from the other commissioners if voting occurs within 24 hours of the trade.



Respond if you want to play! The only requirement is that you stay up with the board over the next week or two to make sure you make picks in a timely manner. We can run two or three drafts if we get enough interested people. Lets give everyone a few days to join & depending on the response we will get started early next week. What do you think?


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There is a 12 team limit?

Yes. Throughout the draft we created our rules. Since there was 9 of us we decided to do 10 rounds. Then before the first trade period we said it would be an 8 team minimum and a 12 team maximum so picks could be traded. Merging was never brought up to the best of my knowledge.

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I thought that we were picking teams until there was no value available. That changes both of our strategy.

(09-23-2014 12:10 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(09-23-2014 10:50 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  

(09-23-2014 09:49 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(09-06-2014 08:47 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  This has been done on another board so I thought that I would bring it here for us to enjoy. It helps bring a new perspective to conference realignment and what better way to have fun with conference realignment than to draft your own conference. For those of you new to this, here are the basics:

* You are the commissioner and you build your conference through a snake draft, like in fantasy football. Our number of participants will determine how many schools are picked for each conference. You select if you want divisions, pods or to go divisionless.

* Ideal conferences are judged in the same way that we judge real conferences: athletic prowess, academic profile, cultural fit, geographical fit, revenue ability, rivalries and other such factors.

* Selections are limited to current FBS schools or schools that have declared to join FBS, like Navy.

* We will break halfway through the draft for realignment period (to make trades). Both schools and remaining draft picks can be traded. When the draft concludes, final realignment (trades) will also take place. Like in fantasy football a trade can be blocked with a unanimous vote from the other commissioners if voting occurs within 24 hours of the trade.



Respond if you want to play! The only requirement is that you stay up with the board over the next week or two to make sure you make picks in a timely manner. We can run two or three drafts if we get enough interested people. Lets give everyone a few days to join & depending on the response we will get started early next week. What do you think?


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There is a 12 team limit?

Yes. Throughout the draft we created our rules. Since there was 9 of us we decided to do 10 rounds. Then before the first trade period we said it would be an 8 team minimum and a 12 team maximum so picks could be traded. Merging was never brought up to the best of my knowledge.

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I thought that we were picking teams until there was no value available. That changes both of our strategy.

* You are the commissioner and you build your conference through a snake draft, like in fantasy football. Our number of participants will determine how many schools are picked for each conference. You select if you want divisions, pods or to go divisionless.



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(09-23-2014 10:50 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  

(09-23-2014 09:49 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(09-06-2014 08:47 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  This has been done on another board so I thought that I would bring it here for us to enjoy. It helps bring a new perspective to conference realignment and what better way to have fun with conference realignment than to draft your own conference. For those of you new to this, here are the basics:

* You are the commissioner and you build your conference through a snake draft, like in fantasy football. Our number of participants will determine how many schools are picked for each conference. You select if you want divisions, pods or to go divisionless.

* Ideal conferences are judged in the same way that we judge real conferences: athletic prowess, academic profile, cultural fit, geographical fit, revenue ability, rivalries and other such factors.

* Selections are limited to current FBS schools or schools that have declared to join FBS, like Navy.

* We will break halfway through the draft for realignment period (to make trades). Both schools and remaining draft picks can be traded. When the draft concludes, final realignment (trades) will also take place. Like in fantasy football a trade can be blocked with a unanimous vote from the other commissioners if voting occurs within 24 hours of the trade.



Respond if you want to play! The only requirement is that you stay up with the board over the next week or two to make sure you make picks in a timely manner. We can run two or three drafts if we get enough interested people. Lets give everyone a few days to join & depending on the response we will get started early next week. What do you think?


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There is a 12 team limit?

Yes. Throughout the draft we created our rules. Since there was 9 of us we decided to do 10 rounds. Then before the first trade period we said it would be an 8 team minimum and a 12 team maximum so picks could be traded. Merging was never brought up to the best of my knowledge.

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Typical SEC cheater move.

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(09-23-2014 02:44 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(09-23-2014 10:50 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  

(09-23-2014 09:49 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(09-06-2014 08:47 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  This has been done on another board so I thought that I would bring it here for us to enjoy. It helps bring a new perspective to conference realignment and what better way to have fun with conference realignment than to draft your own conference. For those of you new to this, here are the basics:

* You are the commissioner and you build your conference through a snake draft, like in fantasy football. Our number of participants will determine how many schools are picked for each conference. You select if you want divisions, pods or to go divisionless.

* Ideal conferences are judged in the same way that we judge real conferences: athletic prowess, academic profile, cultural fit, geographical fit, revenue ability, rivalries and other such factors.

* Selections are limited to current FBS schools or schools that have declared to join FBS, like Navy.

* We will break halfway through the draft for realignment period (to make trades). Both schools and remaining draft picks can be traded. When the draft concludes, final realignment (trades) will also take place. Like in fantasy football a trade can be blocked with a unanimous vote from the other commissioners if voting occurs within 24 hours of the trade.



Respond if you want to play! The only requirement is that you stay up with the board over the next week or two to make sure you make picks in a timely manner. We can run two or three drafts if we get enough interested people. Lets give everyone a few days to join & depending on the response we will get started early next week. What do you think?


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There is a 12 team limit?

Yes. Throughout the draft we created our rules. Since there was 9 of us we decided to do 10 rounds. Then before the first trade period we said it would be an 8 team minimum and a 12 team maximum so picks could be traded. Merging was never brought up to the best of my knowledge.

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Typical SEC cheater move.

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What? People suggested changes along the way which were all agreed upon, mostly through the first few rounds. Assistant commissioners for example. There were 9 of us after all.

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(09-23-2014 03:53 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  What? People suggested changes along the way which were all agreed upon, mostly through the first few rounds. Assistant commissioners for example. There were 9 of us after all.

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(09-23-2014 05:01 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(09-23-2014 03:53 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  What? People suggested changes along the way which were all agreed upon, mostly through the first few rounds. Assistant commissioners for example. There were 9 of us after all.

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Lol. Llllooooonnnngggg day.

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I am good with mergers.

Ok, enough time has past on the merger voting & due to lack of votes against merging is now available. Bizzle & John are now merged so I guess a vote for one is a vote for both(?). So Mark if you are still good with us merging I say lets do it.

Voting is still open.

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I'd say with the merger if you voted for one of the two merger people you have to re-vote as you are decidedly not getting the same thing as your original vote.

Having said that, my vote for army56mike still stands for the same reasons.

(09-22-2014 07:08 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  *Breaking news.............ESPN is reporting that Bizzle's conference and John's conference have merged to form the Big 18 conference.*

I thought John was going to make the announcement last week, I've been on a cruise all weekend.

ESPN has confirmed the formation of the Big 18 conference.

East
Rutgers
Syracuse
Penn State
Navy
Maryland
Illinois
Purdue
Notre Dame
Ohio

West
Air Force
Texas
Texas Tech
Kansas State
Iowa
Oregon
Colorado
Utah
Nebraska

In a mega deal that only commisisoners John & Bizzle could pull off, the country's first super conference has been created. We have the largest television contract of all the conferences. We have 125 million people in our viewing audience including NYC, Chicago, DC, Houston, Dallas, Denver, San Antonio, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, & SLC.
We are able to showcase iconic collegiate brands in Syracuse, Penn State, Navy, Notre Dame, Air Force, Texas, Colorado & Nebraska. Every saturday we will have the game of the week on ABC/ESPN. Notre Dame/Texas, Penn State/Notre Dame, Nebraska/Oregon, Syracuse/Penn State, Navy/Air Force, Notre Dame/Navy, Iowa/Nebraska, Penn State/Nebraska, Air Force/Colorado, Navy/Maryland, Texas/Oregon, Notre Dame/Texas, Notre Dame/Oregon, Texas/Nebraska, Notre Dame/Nebraska, Texas/Penn State, etc, etc, etc. Our television deal will be huge, making us the richest of all conferences. We are a national conference unlike the regional conferences that try to compete with us. We have the biggest football games and the best rivalries. We have formed the Big 18 network which will be in 200 million homes starting August 2015. We will also have the most watched championship game in college football and will get 2 teams into the CFP most years. Our regional divisions are close enough to play a 9 game (8-1) conference schedule and maintain rivalries. We don't need to schedule out of conference.

What about other sports like basketball? We have Syracuse, Notre Dame, Maryland and Texas but frankly we don't care about basketball as long as we have all of this football money coming in. The money will provide the best facilities for our student athletes allowing us to elevate the profile of our non-football sports.

What about academics? We have Notre Dame, Syracuse, Rutgers, Navy & Air Force but again who care about academics when you have lots and lots of money. Think of the $EC only bigger.

With mountains of money, we plan to raid GTS for USC & Stanford, creating the Big 20. Those schools will get tired of not making money playing 11pm games on Fox Sports.

Future Big 20:
East
Rutgers
Syracuse
Penn State
Navy
Maryland
Illinois
Purdue
Notre Dame
Ohio
Iowa

West
Air Force
Texas
Texas Tech
Kansas State
Iowa
Oregon
Colorado
Utah
Nebraska
USC
Stanford

Other conference can try to merge but they won't be able to match the awesomeness that is the Big 18(20). John and I had this vision somewhere in round 3-4. We were both fighting for the same region and some of the other conferences weren't willing to make any trades. John wanted a traditional northeastern conference, I wanted an eastern conference. Somehow we were able to bridge Syracuse & Oregon via a few trades. Ohio is an especially interesting selction. Most would view it as an anchor dragging down the conference. We view it as an opportunity. With Penn State, Syracuse, Purdue & Notre Dame surrounding Ohio, the football talent, the media markets and the right coach, we feel that Ohio has the potential to make noise in this conference. Attendance should quadruple.

There you have it folks. Commissioner John & Commissioner Bizzle have turned the sports world upside down. The Big 18 conference($$$$). John, do you have anything that you would like to add?

oh snap I completely forgot about this IDC

opps

sorry about that guys.

(09-24-2014 09:07 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I'd say with the merger if you voted for one of the two merger people you have to re-vote as you are decidedly not getting the same thing as your original vote.

Having said that, my vote for army56mike still stands for the same reasons.

With yours I have 4 votes recorded. Mine, West, GT & Mike. I would also add that since one can not vote for themselves that one can not vote for merged partner as well then. A vote for either merged partner counts for the merged conference.

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ESPN is predicting a huge merger between Len & Mark. Rumors have been rampant the last few days & may be made official soon.

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Breaking news… ESPN is reporting the epic merger of Marks conference & Lens Southern Coast Conference (SCC) to form the Southern Association of Schools or the "SAS".

Our Motto

Rumors of this merger have been running rampant lately but today it is official. This is how the divisions will be set up.

EAST- Florida, Florida State, LSU, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, Memphis, Ole Miss, Miss State & Tulane

WEST- Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Arizona, Baylor, Arkansas, TCU, Houston, SMU, New Mexico & Rice

This merger restores rivalries and reconnect the south. There is no doubt that the 'SAS' will be competitive throughout all of athletics & strong in academics as well. It is contiguous across every southern state from Georgia to Arizona. A conference of this magnitude will surely lead all others in revenue. All of the experts agree that this merger is a "game changer".

*UPDATE… Rumors out of Austin has Texas looking to replace Rice in the 'SAS' west division once their GoR has expired.

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Several cities are fighting over the right to host the inaugural SAS Championship:

Bids coming in from: Phoenix, Arlington, San Antonio, Houston, NOLA, Atlanta, Tampa, Orlando


Rumors are circulating...I heard from the Dude of Hickory Hollow that several schools are being asked to leave...but that contradicts from official SAS press releases that all 22 are all valued assets. Another rumor has several schools are submitting applications.

10, 11 or 12 game conference?

I could see this conference splitting into the Southern Athletic Conference (SAC=WAC) and the Southern West Conference (SWC=MWC)

(09-18-2014 02:45 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I went by just endowment, and I averaged nearly $4b. But unlike your list ... the schools in mine actually are competitive in sports. If biggest endowment wins ... I'll punt Utah for Harvard and average 7.5b. But it doesn't. So I won't.

Dafuq?

I also posted my school's average standing in the 2014 Director's Cup, which is 32. Can you match? You've got Stanford, so that's a nice head start.

Also, you had ZERO competition out west, while I had 3 or 4 people to contend with.

You were able to recreate the Pac 12 + whatever. How novel and creative.

(09-22-2014 09:39 AM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  For your convenience, here is what Mike posted;

(09-18-2014 04:21 PM)army56mike Wrote:  [quote='Lenvillecards' pid='11136777' dateline='1411072340']

* Ideal conferences are judged in the same way that we judge real conferences: athletic prowess, academic profile, cultural fit, geographical fit, revenue ability, rivalries and other such factors.

In no way am I saying that mine is the best conference. But I'd put my conference against anybody's conference in the criteria highlighted above. I was going solely for regional rivalries, fan friendly destinations and good competition. I got what I wanted.

Colonial Frontier Conference

West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . East
Cincinnati (2-0) . . . . . . . . . . Pittsburgh (3-1)
Louisville (3-1) . . . . . . . . . . .East Carolina (3-1)
Liberty (3-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . Old Dominion (3-1)
Tennessee (2-1) . . . . . . . . . .West Virginia (2-2)
South Florida (2-2). . . . . . . . .Virginia Tech (2-2)
Western Kentucky (1-2) . . . . .Central Florida (1-2)

Just updating the records of the CFC.