Yeah, I hear Louisville is interested in rejoining as well.

Anyone that thinks the Frogs would give up trips to San Diego, Provo, and Las Vegas for Tulsa, Hattisburg and Houston are nuts. Besides, we have aligned ourselves with some large western state schools, going back with directionals and other privates would be quite a step back. I bet north texas state would be interested...

DeepellumFrog Wrote:Yeah, I hear Louisville is interested in rejoining as well.

Anyone that thinks the Frogs would give up trips to San Diego, Provo, and Las Vegas for Tulsa, Hattisburg and Houston are nuts. Besides, we have aligned ourselves with some large western state schools, going back with directionals and other privates would be quite a step back. I bet north texas state would be interested...

For the record, a city named school is the same as a directional school. Further, isnt TCU a private?

DeepellumFrog Wrote:Yeah, I hear Louisville is interested in rejoining as well.

Anyone that thinks the Frogs would give up trips to San Diego, Provo, and Las Vegas for Tulsa, Hattisburg and Houston are nuts. Besides, we have aligned ourselves with some large western state schools, going back with directionals and other privates would be quite a step back. I bet north texas state would be interested...

Nice try douchefrog. Your froggies are stuck in the goat herders land of the lost. Enjoy..A few reminders of that BCS bid that got smashed in Hattiesburg....

DeepellumFrog Wrote:Yeah, I hear Louisville is interested in rejoining as well.

Anyone that thinks the Frogs would give up trips to San Diego, Provo, and Las Vegas for Tulsa, Hattisburg and Houston are nuts. Besides, we have aligned ourselves with some large western state schools, going back with directionals and other privates would be quite a step back. I bet north texas state would be interested...

Ok...You only picked the few locations in the MWC worth your hassle to travel. I see how you didn't mention Orlando, New Orleans, Memphis, Dallas (LOL), etc in the C-USA.

UCF isn't a directional school. Which direction is central? It is a regional school! By the way, UCF has 45,000 students. Enjoy your no coverage in the MWC.

A 13/14 team conference is possible if it was financially beneficial (MAC is going to 13 and the Big 11 is ok with being odd). The Sun Belt teams are not going to be added the C*USA unless something totally unforeseen and disruptive happens. Fresno and Boise are unreasonable due to distance unless they want to subsidize travel for non football and basketball sports, and even still I don't they they'd add money. TCU would have to convince us that they are going to add money instead of remove it, unlikely. Only way I see C*USA going to 14 is if they convince the BCS to give an auto-bid for a 14 team C*USA, and if a 14 team C*USA gets a bid, Utah and BYU would make an offer to join that would be hard to refuse.

I still say all this realignment talk is much ado about nothing.

DeepellumFrog Wrote:Yeah, I hear Louisville is interested in rejoining as well.

Anyone that thinks the Frogs would give up trips to San Diego, Provo, and Las Vegas for Tulsa, Hattisburg and Houston are nuts. Besides, we have aligned ourselves with some large western state schools, going back with directionals and other privates would be quite a step back. I bet north texas state would be interested...

No one thinks Louisville would be interested in a return as they went up, not sideways as TUWho did.

As to the trip to San Diego; Provo (?) yep a real destination trend setter there; and Las Vegas, these are nice trips no doubt, but the problem is no one else in most of the country are even aware of your trips there, nor do they give a tinkers damn about them.

YES, someone does think TCWho would be interested in returning to C-USA, namely whoever from the school that contacted C-USA about that possibility. Where theres smoke theres fire. Seems the froggies might be getting second thoughts about that stupid move.

KingMiner Wrote:I still say all this realignment talk is much ado about nothing.

True story. No one is kicking any members out. No one is making any lateral moves. No one is folding up shop. We'll see if a BCS autobid league comes after one or more of our own. Until then, not much to see here.

[quote=SCConway]

Memphis AD mentioned that TCU has made "overtures"

about returning to Conference USA


The Fightin' Frogs will return to C-USA when pigs learn to fly.

I've also got some oceanfront property in Arizona..interested?

EagleRockCafe Wrote:Nice try douchefrog. Your froggies are stuck in the goat herders land of the lost. Enjoy..A few reminders of that BCS bid that got smashed in Hattiesburg....

I enjoyed most of the games with southern miss. too bad for you your last one was a loss and you could only manage 2 wins out of the 6 games. Well, you should do better with 'quality' conference mates like Rice and SMoo.

GreenMississippi Wrote:A 13/14 team conference is possible if it was financially beneficial (MAC is going to 13 and the Big 11 is ok with being odd). The Sun Belt teams are not going to be added the C*USA unless something totally unforeseen and disruptive happens. Fresno and Boise are unreasonable due to distance unless they want to subsidize travel for non football and basketball sports, and even still I don't they they'd add money. TCU would have to convince us that they are going to add money instead of remove it, unlikely. Only way I see C*USA going to 14 is if they convince the BCS to give an auto-bid for a 14 team C*USA, and if a 14 team C*USA gets a bid, Utah and BYU would make an offer to join that would be hard to refuse.

Here's another can of worms for you:

I wonder what happens when (if?) the ACC, Big XII, and SEC start trying to pressure the Big East, Pac 10, and Big Televen to hold a CCG for competitive reasons.

DeepellumFrog Wrote:

EagleRockCafe Wrote:Nice try douchefrog. Your froggies are stuck in the goat herders land of the lost. Enjoy..A few reminders of that BCS bid that got smashed in Hattiesburg....

I enjoyed most of the games with southern miss. too bad for you your last one was a loss and you could only manage 2 wins out of the 6 games. Well, you should do better with 'quality' conference mates like Rice and SMoo.

What's your series record with SMU and who won the last game?

My problem with TCU was not with the fact that they left; rather, it was HOW they left.

tigercat Wrote:

DeepellumFrog Wrote:Yeah, I hear Louisville is interested in rejoining as well.

Anyone that thinks the Frogs would give up trips to San Diego, Provo, and Las Vegas for Tulsa, Hattisburg and Houston are nuts. Besides, we have aligned ourselves with some large western state schools, going back with directionals and other privates would be quite a step back. I bet north texas state would be interested...

No one thinks Louisville would be interested in a return as they went up, not sideways as TUWho did.

As to the trip to San Diego; Provo (?) yep a real destination trend setter there; and Las Vegas, these are nice trips no doubt, but the problem is no one else in most of the country are even aware of your trips there, nor do they give a tinkers damn about them.

YES, someone does think TCWho would be interested in returning to C-USA, namely whoever from the school that contacted C-USA about that possibility. Where theres smoke theres fire. Seems the froggies might be getting second thoughts about that stupid move.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkc0607.htm
Basketball- MWC-8 CUSA-10
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbc06.htm
Football- MWC-7 CUSA-10
http://rpiratings.com/womrate.htm
Chick Hoops- MWC-7 CUSA-14



yeah, lateral.....

You didn't go to a BCS AQ conference, it was a lateral move.

DeepellumFrog Wrote:

EagleRockCafe Wrote:Nice try douchefrog. Your froggies are stuck in the goat herders land of the lost. Enjoy..A few reminders of that BCS bid that got smashed in Hattiesburg....

I enjoyed most of the games with southern miss. too bad for you your last one was a loss and you could only manage 2 wins out of the 6 games. Well, you should do better with 'quality' conference mates like Rice and SMoo.

I wouldn't trade USM's two wins over TCU for the wins TCU has over USM. USM humiliated TCU with Tomlinson in the GMAC Bowl with a heroic last minute td pass. Tomlinson was crying on the sideline because USM punked him in his last game as a Frog.
Next was that outstanding ass kicking USM put on TCU on a Thursday night with the whole nation watching. TCU thought they were going to get a BCS bid until USM kicked them all over the field. So yes, TCU had more wins than USM, but the quality of the wins USM had were in a word...Priceless

Sophandros Wrote:

GreenMississippi Wrote:A 13/14 team conference is possible if it was financially beneficial (MAC is going to 13 and the Big 11 is ok with being odd). The Sun Belt teams are not going to be added the C*USA unless something totally unforeseen and disruptive happens. Fresno and Boise are unreasonable due to distance unless they want to subsidize travel for non football and basketball sports, and even still I don't they they'd add money. TCU would have to convince us that they are going to add money instead of remove it, unlikely. Only way I see C*USA going to 14 is if they convince the BCS to give an auto-bid for a 14 team C*USA, and if a 14 team C*USA gets a bid, Utah and BYU would make an offer to join that would be hard to refuse.

Here's another can of worms for you:

I wonder what happens when (if?) the ACC, Big XII, and SEC start trying to pressure the Big East, Pac 10, and Big Televen to hold a CCG for competitive reasons.

They can't apply enough pressure to the Big 11 and PAC-10 to do so, no reason for them. If the Big 11 decides on their own accord to expand to 12 and host a CCG (money reasons), BE loses either Pitt or WV, and BE is at the mercy of the other schools to add what they want them to add to remain a BCS conference (most likely another C*USA East Raid).

I'm not convinced that the BE is stable, nor is the MWC/WAC but they won't make much of a difference. C*USA is stable so long as the BE is stable.

Sophandros Wrote:

DeepellumFrog Wrote:

EagleRockCafe Wrote:Nice try douchefrog. Your froggies are stuck in the goat herders land of the lost. Enjoy..A few reminders of that BCS bid that got smashed in Hattiesburg....

I enjoyed most of the games with southern miss. too bad for you your last one was a loss and you could only manage 2 wins out of the 6 games. Well, you should do better with 'quality' conference mates like Rice and SMoo.

What's your series record with SMU and who won the last game?

My problem with TCU was not with the fact that they left; rather, it was HOW they left.

we are 39-38 with 7 ties, and Smoo won the last one, the only game we lost that year. When was the last Smiss one loss season again?

I don't understand the 'how' we left. We had to reassess the same as everyone after the defections to the Big East, and we made the best decision for us. If you would elaborate I would be very interested in your view on this move.

GreenMississippi Wrote:

Sophandros Wrote:

GreenMississippi Wrote:A 13/14 team conference is possible if it was financially beneficial (MAC is going to 13 and the Big 11 is ok with being odd). The Sun Belt teams are not going to be added the C*USA unless something totally unforeseen and disruptive happens. Fresno and Boise are unreasonable due to distance unless they want to subsidize travel for non football and basketball sports, and even still I don't they they'd add money. TCU would have to convince us that they are going to add money instead of remove it, unlikely. Only way I see C*USA going to 14 is if they convince the BCS to give an auto-bid for a 14 team C*USA, and if a 14 team C*USA gets a bid, Utah and BYU would make an offer to join that would be hard to refuse.

Here's another can of worms for you:

I wonder what happens when (if?) the ACC, Big XII, and SEC start trying to pressure the Big East, Pac 10, and Big Televen to hold a CCG for competitive reasons.

They can't apply enough pressure to the Big 11 and PAC-10 to do so, no reason for them. If the Big 11 decides on their own accord to expand to 12 and host a CCG (money reasons), BE loses either Pitt or WV, and BE is at the mercy of the other schools to add what they want them to add to remain a BCS conference (most likely another C*USA East Raid).

I'm not convinced that the BE is stable, nor is the MWC/WAC but they won't make much of a difference. C*USA is stable so long as the BE is stable.

I would also think that the Big 11 might also look at Missouri and Iowa State if they were looking to expand. Louisville could be a possibility as well.

i think a lot of you are missing the point. RC Johnson said schools made overtures after katrina thinking that tulane might fold athletics. that is when tcu, mtsu, etc. made their overtures. it doesnt sound like this is a issue that is being looked at "now". so, no we arent looking at going to 13/14, but rather it was to stay at 12. tulane isnt going anywhere. this is a dead issue beyond a few factors.

A) Why were schools trying to poach tulane in their time of need?
B) Why is RC opening up his big fat mouth about it anyway?

TMcCarty Wrote:You didn't go to a BCS AQ conference, it was a lateral move.

So if you went to the Sun Belt, you are saying that would be a lateral move?