(02-03-2018 12:11 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(02-03-2018 10:30 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(02-03-2018 10:21 AM)megadrone Wrote:  Still, somewhat sad that the Metro 16 plan didn't go through. I think it was a little ahead of its time but with the Eastern independents and the football schools already in the Metro it would have been a great conference. Houston would have been a fit there if there was room, if there wasn't room Houston probably would have gone to the WAC with the SWC private schools.

The Metro 16 was an interesting plan but I still think it would be vulnerable as its best schools would still have had better options elsewhere.

South Carolina, Penn St, and the schools who jumped from the Big East to the ACC would all still probably end up bailing.

I don't know that Pitt, Syracuse, and BC would have ever been more than football affiliates. The convenience and allure of the Big East basketball set up that had was simply too good to abandon.

The Big East swiped the Metro idea anyway. The original Big East football lineup was the "North Division" of the Metro proposal with the Big East including Miami instead of Cincinnati.