Mountain East Conference?
Eastern Athletic Conference?
PanAm Conference?
PacAtla Conference? (Pacific to Atlantic)
CalTexFlo Conference?
Frequent Flyer Program Conference?
WeStillThinkWeAreRelevant Conference?
AlmostGotACCMoney Conference?

(12-18-2012 11:52 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  Since the catholics left, I favor calling it the Heathen Conference

Well our origional name was to be 11 gentiles and Tulane??

(12-18-2012 02:26 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 11:52 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  Since the catholics left, I favor calling it the Heathen Conference

Well our origional name was to be 11 gentiles and Tulane??

Tulane actually isn't a religious school, but that still fits.

(12-18-2012 02:25 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  Mountain East Conference?
Eastern Athletic Conference?
PanAm Conference?
PacAtla Conference? (Pacific to Atlantic)
CalTexFlo Conference?
Frequent Flyer Program Conference?
WeStillThinkWeAreRelevant Conference?
AlmostGotACCMoney Conference?

I always liked Pan-American Conference for the name of the Alliance that never happened but might now happen without us.

Its a bunch of the bigger mid majors. Just call it what it is. Big Mids-16

One of our St. Louis station hosts... called the Catholics the "Big Priest" (with the rhyming play on the Big East) and the others got left as the "Trans-Continental (Trannys)" (i think they were reading someone's post on here :) )

(12-18-2012 01:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  Yeah, but the root cause isn't realignment. The root cause is a bunch of overly ambitious commuter schools going FBS and diluting the brand. That's what started all of this. The formation of the SBC was a watershed event, and was bad for CFB. USM, ECU, Cincy, Houston, Memphis, and Louisville had a pretty well-established place in Division I and were at least tolerated by the traditional powers.
Once ULL, USA, GSU, Troy, UNT, etc. tried to start feeding at the trough, though, all hell broke loose. Now, instead of actually being what USM was, these clowns get to drag USM down to their level. They get a little thrill out of claiming to have climbed to our level, but really they just brought us back down to their level.

Could be the most on-point post currently on this board.
Can't blame the traditionals to want to separate.

(12-18-2012 02:17 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 02:14 PM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  I still think it should be called the Trans-Continental Conference, and referred to as the Tranny for short.

I've always wanted an invitation from a tranny...

That explains alot Andre.

Continental Congress?

(12-18-2012 01:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 12:56 PM)SgtGoldenEagle Wrote:  well I do know this for sure, it is going to be interesting to see what comes of all this, but I would be surprised if college football gets much improvement is any from it all.

Yeah, but the root cause isn't realignment. The root cause is a bunch of overly ambitious commuter schools going FBS and diluting the brand. That's what started all of this. The formation of the SBC was a watershed event, and was bad for CFB. USM, ECU, Cincy, Houston, Memphis, and Louisville had a pretty well-established place in Division I and were at least tolerated by the traditional powers.

Once ULL, USA, GSU, Troy, UNT, etc. tried to start feeding at the trough, though, all hell broke loose. Now, instead of actually being what USM was, these clowns get to drag USM down to their level. They get a little thrill out of claiming to have climbed to our level, but really they just brought us back down to their level.

Yeah, CUSA is dubbed the worse BCS conference and you are the worse team in the conference. So, where does that leave USM? Your arrogance is amazing.

Since we stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific I submitted a name to Aresco calling it the Atlantic Pacific conference or A-Pac for short. I also suggested the Patriot Conference if it didn't infringe on the Patriot League's rights.

If this two 8-team division conference does come together, who gets Texas? That's pretty fertile recruiting ground. Hard to see one division cede it to the other. Or do UH and SMU get split up?

(12-18-2012 03:13 PM)AtlantaEagle Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 01:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  Yeah, but the root cause isn't realignment. The root cause is a bunch of overly ambitious commuter schools going FBS and diluting the brand. That's what started all of this. The formation of the SBC was a watershed event, and was bad for CFB. USM, ECU, Cincy, Houston, Memphis, and Louisville had a pretty well-established place in Division I and were at least tolerated by the traditional powers.
Once ULL, USA, GSU, Troy, UNT, etc. tried to start feeding at the trough, though, all hell broke loose. Now, instead of actually being what USM was, these clowns get to drag USM down to their level. They get a little thrill out of claiming to have climbed to our level, but really they just brought us back down to their level.

Could be the most on-point post currently on this board.
Can't blame the traditionals to want to separate.

That damn overly ambitious ULL is the 2nd largest university in the state of Louisiana, and has always been a part of the FBS.

In 2012 nobody did it worse than USM. It was really hard to swallow since I can remember USM as Mississippi Southern College with Thad "Pie" Vann playing good football. I, like all USM fan who value the history of the program, believe we will return to being a very good team soon. Maybe because USM hasn't had but 9 losing seasons since 1935 I am being too optimistic, but I think we will see USM at least pull an upset over a well respected program ever so often.

(12-18-2012 03:45 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 03:13 PM)AtlantaEagle Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 01:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  Yeah, but the root cause isn't realignment. The root cause is a bunch of overly ambitious commuter schools going FBS and diluting the brand. That's what started all of this. The formation of the SBC was a watershed event, and was bad for CFB. USM, ECU, Cincy, Houston, Memphis, and Louisville had a pretty well-established place in Division I and were at least tolerated by the traditional powers.
Once ULL, USA, GSU, Troy, UNT, etc. tried to start feeding at the trough, though, all hell broke loose. Now, instead of actually being what USM was, these clowns get to drag USM down to their level. They get a little thrill out of claiming to have climbed to our level, but really they just brought us back down to their level.

Could be the most on-point post currently on this board.
Can't blame the traditionals to want to separate.

That damn overly ambitious ULL is the 2nd largest university in the state of Louisiana, and has always been a part of the FBS.

ULL has been around a very long time. In USM's last season that they lost all games (1925) 1 of those losses came to ULL. The others came to the likes of Clarke Memorial College, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Spring Hill College, Pearl River Community College, Louisiana College, and the biggest Ole Miss Freshmen team. So ULL is hardly a late comer and has a long long history.

(12-18-2012 03:16 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 02:17 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 02:14 PM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  I still think it should be called the Trans-Continental Conference, and referred to as the Tranny for short.

I've always wanted an invitation from a tranny...

That explains alot Andre.

Well my wife doesn't have any complaints.

(12-18-2012 04:00 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 03:16 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 02:17 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 02:14 PM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  I still think it should be called the Trans-Continental Conference, and referred to as the Tranny for short.

I've always wanted an invitation from a tranny...

That explains alot Andre.

Well my wife doesn't have any complaints.

She has no problem with you trolling for trannies?

(12-18-2012 03:54 PM)SgtGoldenEagle Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 03:45 PM)Complacent Cajun Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 03:13 PM)AtlantaEagle Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 01:11 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  Yeah, but the root cause isn't realignment. The root cause is a bunch of overly ambitious commuter schools going FBS and diluting the brand. That's what started all of this. The formation of the SBC was a watershed event, and was bad for CFB. USM, ECU, Cincy, Houston, Memphis, and Louisville had a pretty well-established place in Division I and were at least tolerated by the traditional powers.
Once ULL, USA, GSU, Troy, UNT, etc. tried to start feeding at the trough, though, all hell broke loose. Now, instead of actually being what USM was, these clowns get to drag USM down to their level. They get a little thrill out of claiming to have climbed to our level, but really they just brought us back down to their level.

Could be the most on-point post currently on this board.
Can't blame the traditionals to want to separate.

That damn overly ambitious ULL is the 2nd largest university in the state of Louisiana, and has always been a part of the FBS.

ULL has been around a very long time. In USM's last season that they lost all games (1925) 1 of those losses came to ULL. The others came to the likes of Clarke Memorial College, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Spring Hill College, Pearl River Community College, Louisiana College, and the biggest Ole Miss Freshmen team. So ULL is hardly a late comer and has a long long history.

I don't think ULL even had a bowl history until last year. They weren't anything resembling USM's equal until all of the recent destabilization. And the fact that there would be any doubt whatsoever about this is EXACTLY what I was referring to.

(12-18-2012 04:04 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 04:00 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 03:16 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 02:17 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(12-18-2012 02:14 PM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  I still think it should be called the Trans-Continental Conference, and referred to as the Tranny for short.

I've always wanted an invitation from a tranny...

That explains alot Andre.

Well my wife doesn't have any complaints.

She has no problem with you trolling for trannies?

I was just quoting Ellis Johnson. But if your point was "perverts don't understand football" then maybe you're onto something.