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Saw this idea on another board and was interested in what others think. Here is my tentative one...

- UAB
- Georgia Tech
- Memphis
- Southern Miss
- Auburn
- Louisville
- Florida State
- LSU
- Tennessee
- Alabama
- Cincinnati
- Georgia

This is not an expansion thread... this is just a hypothetical situation. No way would many of these teams be a part of such a conference. In fact, most in the SEC are probably satisfied with their current affiliation. CUSA and the Big East, among others, are clearly not terribly satsified with things as they stand. But again, this isn't about what will happen in the next shakeup... that can be left to other threads.

Blazer85 Wrote:Saw this idea on another board and was interested in what others think. Here is my tentative one...

- UAB
- Georgia Tech
- Memphis
- Southern Miss
- Auburn
- Louisville
- Florida State
- LSU
- Tennessee
- Alabama
- Cincinnati
- Georgia

I didn't see Troy in your list.

Blazer85 Wrote:Saw this idea on another board and was interested in what others think. Here is my tentative one...

- UAB
- Georgia Tech
- Memphis
- Southern Miss
- Auburn
- Louisville
- Florida State
- LSU
- Tennessee
- Alabama
- Cincinnati
- Georgia

I have to disagree. The biggest unifying factor in who UAB has aligned themselves with over the years is that they have been public, urban universities (with the notable exception of Southern Miss). It helps that all the schools in the conference have similar institutional goals, and Presidents pay MUCH more attention to that than we fans do. I would say something like this:

UAB
Georgia Tech
Memphis
Southern Miss
Louisville
Cincinnati
UCF
USF
Houston

and if you needed 12:
ECU
Tulsa
Pitt

LSU
Georgia
Hawaii
UCLA
South Carolina
Ole Miss
Florida
Florida St.
Southern Cal
Arizona St.
Texas


This Website had nothing to do with my list.... honest. Ok, back to dreaming about the road trips in that conference.

Uab91Eng Wrote:I didn't see Troy in your list.

+1

Any discussion without Troy, is flawed.

Troy has to be on there......... One's life is not complete without a trip down there to the land of the plainbellies......

[favorite Troy joke]I stopped for lunch in Troy one day. When I came out, I found a degree pinned to windshield.[/favorite Troy joke]

Smaug Wrote:[favorite Troy joke]I stopped for lunch in Troy one day. When I came out, I found a degree pinned to windshield.[/favorite Troy joke]

That's as bad as: Why does a -your least favorite school's name inserted here- graduate put his/her diploma on the dashboard? So he/she can use the "Handicapped Parking" space.

BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:

Smaug Wrote:[favorite Troy joke]I stopped for lunch in Troy one day. When I came out, I found a degree pinned to windshield.[/favorite Troy joke]

That's as bad as: Why does a -your least favorite school's name inserted here- graduate put his/her diploma on the dashboard? So he/she can use the "Handicapped Parking" space.

Or,
"What goes clip-clop, BANG-BANG, clip-clop?"



A Troy Drive-By Shooting...

UAB
Notre Dame
Texas
Alabama
Oklahoma
Southern Cal
LSU
Michigan State
Florida State
Florida
Ohio State
Penn State

I can go along with this absurdity.

Since we're living in a fantasy world:
The SEC is done. Government pressure after the NCAA is found covering up the biggest case of corruption in college sports history forces the NCAA to dole out the greatest penalties in it's history, with the worst offenders not playing or out of conferences for 5 years. The nail-in-the coffin stipulation being that no more than 3 SEC schools can join the same conference or schedule amongst themselves after their respective schools are done serving their penalties. The conference shockwave after these schools are allowed back into College Sports would be incredible.

During this time, without competition from their in-state SEC rivals, Tulane, USM, Memphis, and UAB grow exponentially.

Southern Metropolitan Conference
---
West: Tulane - USM - Memphis - UAB - Louisville - Cincinnati
East: Georgia Tech - Georgia - South Carolina - Florida - Florida St. - Miami

This arrangement kept as many of the natural and historical rivalries as possible, as well as a considerable marketshare. South Carolina considered the ACC, but the ACC took a more basketball-oriented track and raided the Big East (UConn, Rutgers, Syracuse). The Big 10 took Kentucky. The remnants of the Big East (West Va, USF, Pitt) joined with ECU, Marshall, Temple, and SEC remnants UAT, AU, and UT-Knoxville to form the Eastern-9.

The Western schools are involved in a political tussle that leaves some schools in question of their conference affiliation even after the harshest of penalties are expired for most of the SEC schools, the shakeup affecting every conference except the PAC-10.

The End

What is Alabama doing on here??? They would bring down our RPI!

I'll Play.....

UAB
Memphis
ECU
UCF
Louisville
West Virginia
UConn
Pitt
Syracuse
Rutgers
USF
Cincy

And We could call it the Big East.

geez alot of those teams in alot of those dream conferences would destroy us in football. We would be decent in basketball. Those are ridiculous.

UAB
Auburn
UAT
Troy
Georgia
Ga Tech
Miss St
Ole Miss
USM
Memphis
MTSU
Vandy
250 miles or less to road games

Motley Blazer Wrote:UAB
Auburn
UAT
Troy
Georgia
Ga Tech
Miss St
Ole Miss
USM
Memphis
MTSU
Vandy
250 miles or less to road games

it is a DREAM conference.
keep on

USAFBlazerFan Wrote:"What goes clip-clop, BANG-BANG, clip-clop?"



A Troy Drive-By Shooting...

USAFBlazerFan Wrote:

BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:

Smaug Wrote:[favorite Troy joke]I stopped for lunch in Troy one day. When I came out, I found a degree pinned to windshield.[/favorite Troy joke]

That's as bad as: Why does a -your least favorite school's name inserted here- graduate put his/her diploma on the dashboard? So he/she can use the "Handicapped Parking" space.

Or,
"What goes clip-clop, BANG-BANG, clip-clop?"



A Troy Drive-By Shooting...

Q: How do you get a Troy Graduate off your front porch?
A: You pay him for the pizza.

(I heard this in a HBO special about the Ohio St-Michigan rivalry. The school where the pizza guy graduates from can be any school. I think it's funny. It was especially funny hearing an about 80 year old OSU grad say that about a Michigan grad)