(05-30-2013 09:59 AM)baruna falls Wrote: (05-30-2013 09:44 AM)mturn017 Wrote: (05-30-2013 09:10 AM)baruna falls Wrote: The AAC and the MWC will most likely be included with the top conferences if there is a break. There are to many quality programs in these two leagues to be left out without a strong legal challenge to the system.i believe that in order to lessen the likely hood of a long legal battle, or bad press, the AAC and MWC will be brought into the fold.
Are we talking about the same top conferences who already kicked the Big East out of the club and were seriously considering canabalizing the ACC to bring thier numbers down to four?
Interesting comment. Let's be honest, the reason there is talk of a split is because of schools like ODU, Ga Southern , App State and Charlotte joining the FBS. The bigger conferences are concerned about the watering down of the game and the splitting of future revenue. I happen to think all of these schools have potential in the FBS, but for an ODU fan to talk smack is more than comical, it's blind to the reality of te situation at hand.
You couldn't be more wrong. The reason that the mass shift has happened is because the Big Least was sending schools like UCONN that were unranked to the BCS with their auto bid. That is why this started. It had nothing to do with ODU, GA Southern, App State, or Charlotte. They were never in the picture until WVU, Pitt, Cuse, and LVille started bolting.
I honestly do not know where you all think that the AAC or MWC will be in that fold. NEWS FLASH the Big East (now AAC) had its membership to the big boys table revoked because of the product it was producing.
To say that your conferences are lifeline conferences is why you all get so much flack on here about the AAC. Do you not get it? There are no schools left in the AAC that are wanted. UC and UCONN have been whoring themselves out and still have not gotten a whisper of an invite. UCONN's only hope was that Calhoun stayed as HC kept UCONN at the top and his buddies in the ACC brought him in the fold for baskebtall. There is a real concern out there whether that program will continue on the same curve without Calhoun running it.
The MWC has two good schools left in Boise and Nevada. In case you didn't notice no one was coming after Boise. The smart thing for the Big XII would have been to add Boise and TCU and call it a day but they didn't did they. Boise is worthless unless they are going undefeated every season. Once they start losing 2-3 games a season no one will care about them.
The only reason why ECU was ever a rumor was because Oliver Luck brought them up in a meeting a long time ago and it never got any traction among current Big XII memebers. Make no mistake about it WVU will have absolutely no pull in the Big XII in the future and one school in there calls the shots and that is Texas and the DO NOT want a conference championship game and neither does Bob Stoops.
And to be honest since this new development with the ACC I really not see any more movement unless the Big XII somehow decides to take two more teams to help WVU out which I do not see happening. The Big East got tired of WVU and the Big XII will too. Except this time WVU won't be the big dog on the block anymore able to call the shots.