(12-11-2012 05:01 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote:  Is that correct or has ODU moved up their join date as well?

We moved from 2015 to 2014, so that is correct for 2013.

(12-11-2012 09:58 PM)devyanks90 Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 05:01 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote:  Is that correct or has ODU moved up their join date as well?

We moved from 2015 to 2014, so that is correct for 2013.

Gotcha, thanks. I knew I had heard something but I couldn't remember what it was.

(12-11-2012 09:57 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote:  Someone needs to hit the freaking reset button on college football. Can't we please just have somewhat regional conferences with like minded universities? ie football first conferences full of schools that are rabid about football, the same for basketball. Conferences made up from teams from the same half of the country if not the same time zone?

You finally had that and chose to leave. You fianally had 4 schools in driving distance. Then decided, screw that. Now you may be left without a home. Unless the NCAA lets a new conference form.

(12-11-2012 11:13 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 09:57 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote:  Someone needs to hit the freaking reset button on college football. Can't we please just have somewhat regional conferences with like minded universities? ie football first conferences full of schools that are rabid about football, the same for basketball. Conferences made up from teams from the same half of the country if not the same time zone?

You finally had that and chose to leave. You fianally had 4 schools in driving distance. Then decided, screw that. Now you may be left without a home. Unless the NCAA lets a new conference form.

Hear Hear!!!

(12-11-2012 11:17 PM)77Herd11 Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 11:13 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 09:57 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote:  Someone needs to hit the freaking reset button on college football. Can't we please just have somewhat regional conferences with like minded universities? ie football first conferences full of schools that are rabid about football, the same for basketball. Conferences made up from teams from the same half of the country if not the same time zone?

You finally had that and chose to leave. You fianally had 4 schools in driving distance. Then decided, screw that. Now you may be left without a home. Unless the NCAA lets a new conference form.

Hear Hear!!!

Ah you caught me. When the invite came Holland and Ballard showed up and knocked on my apartment door to get my approval before accepting and in the heat of the moment I gave it.

(12-11-2012 11:20 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote:  You
Ah you caught me. When the invite came Holland and Ballard showed up and knocked on my apartment door to get my approval before accepting and in the heat of the moment I gave it.

You may have not wanted it but Terry Holland for the last 8 years has been trying to get a regional conference for ECU. He finally gets his way after kicking and screaming for years and up and leaves it.

The only more regional ECU would have ever got would have been to join the SoCon, since the ACC will never happen. Not in our lifetimes anyway.

I do not feel a bit sorry for any school that may be left out in the cold. Each and every president and AD knew this could happen or better yet knew it would happen. If they thought that the basketball schools would stick around without getting a payday from the BCS then they are a bigger fool than I thought.

(12-11-2012 11:54 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 11:20 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote:  You
Ah you caught me. When the invite came Holland and Ballard showed up and knocked on my apartment door to get my approval before accepting and in the heat of the moment I gave it.

You may have not wanted it but Terry Holland for the last 8 years has been trying to get a regional conference for ECU. He finally gets his way after kicking and screaming for years and up and leaves it.

The only more regional ECU would have ever got would have been to join the SoCon, since the ACC will never happen. Not in our lifetimes anyway.

I do not feel a bit sorry for any school that may be left out in the cold. Each and every president and AD knew this could happen or better yet knew it would happen. If they thought that the basketball schools would stick around without getting a payday from the BCS then they are a bigger fool than I thought.

I wasn't referring to the invitees to C-USA. I was talking about the move to the Big East. I'm not sure why I am being called out because of what someone else did.

All I have ever wanted from a conference was for ECU to be in a regional conference of established FBS schools. I know I will probably never see that but that's the dream. C-USA was not regional though it was getting closer from a Pirate's perspective and the Big East is certainly not going to be regional either. I don't want anyone's sympathy I was just putting in my 2 cents. Not here to say anything bad about C-USA.

Looking at the map of CUSA now it certainly looks like a regional confrence with East/West divisions.

If CUSA lost two more (UTEP/TULSA) and pulled in 2 of WKU/ASU/ULL/GSU you would have shifted a tad more east, gained more market share, and travel would be fairly easy.

Is it possible that if the Big East BB Schools split for the NCAA to allow the football schools to take the football credits & bowl ties to form a new conference? It would be starting new in basketball for the conference but if this new conference pulls in football minded schools they might not care so much about that.

Wow, lets quit busting the chops of the schools that are leaving (even the posters deserve it) if we had their opportunity we would have jumped at it in a heart beat. That said I don't believe my beloved Herd will ever move up. We are screwed due to lack of TV viewers. What a way to go. Please don't bring up Boise their MSA (616,561) is over 2 times ours (287,702). Southern Miss is even worse off their's is (143,093).

If the former BCS schools have their way the teams that are leaving won't be any better off than the rest of us soon. If they go to 4 super conferences we might as well be considered 1AA.

(12-12-2012 09:58 AM)jn4theHERD Wrote:  Wow, lets quit busting the chops of the schools that are leaving (even the posters deserve it) if we had their opportunity we would have jumped at it in a heart beat. That said I don't believe my beloved Herd will ever move up. We are screwed due to lack of TV viewers. What a way to go. Please don't bring up Boise their MSA (616,561) is over 2 times ours (287,702). Southern Miss is even worse off their's is (143,093).

If the former BCS schools have their way the teams that are leaving won't be any better off than the rest of us soon. If they go to 4 super conferences we might as well be considered 1AA.

As a Marshall fan, I'm not necessarily concerned about whether the Herd will ever "move up". I just want to see my school in a conference along side other schools with which I feel a connection. ECU was one of those schools, and I'm sad to see them away. Marshall will never be BCS AQ. I would say that will be the case for the vast majority of the CUSA schools.

That said, the Big East reminds me of the housing bubble. There was a brief time where the value of the conference ballooned, and it seems as though that bubble might be starting to pop now. It's unfortunate (at least to me) that ECU will be caught right in the middle of it, as I really hate to see bad things happen to them. (I realize that may put me in the minority these days)

Unfortunately, every school that has moved in this round (whether it be Boise St, WVU, all of the CUSA schools that have jumped, or anyone else) has caused this. It's a particularly sad situation because there were only a few teams that "won" in the mix. Those that moved into the AQ conferences are able to look down at the rest of us as we struggle and deal with the fallout.

Make no mistake, the majority of us lost in this exchange, whether our school moved or not. That's what makes all of this bickering petty and pointless.

Yep, it's just a sad situation across the board.