Forget a true American Conference, this is what a true Californian Conference would look like:


Cal
Fresno State
Hawai'i
San Diego State
San Jose State
Stanford
St. Mary's College
UCLA
UNLV (because Vegas is a colony of SoCal)
USC

Edit: SJSU added

I tossed in Hawai'i since recruits love games there and I couldn't find 8 football playing schools in CA (SMC is there just to bolster basketball). I would have tried a true Texan Conference but that's been done before.

And yes, this thread is a waste of space but I'm entitled to have some fun.

Or Cal, Stanford, UCLA, and USC could just kick the other 8 schools out of the Pac-12 and have a Pac-4, now that there's no minimum number of teams required for a football championship game.

A new bus league is always welcome around these parts. The WCC fits that mold well, though.

I want to see the Indiana Conference:

Purdue
Notre Dame
Indiana
Ball State
Indiana State
IUPUI
IPFW
Butler
Valparaiso
Evansville


Nice 10 team conference, good hoops

Oh, what the hell ....

I've always liked the Northeast Conference:

BC
UMass
UConn
Army
Syracuse
Rutgers
Temple
Penn State
Pitt
WVU
Maryland
Navy

Rocky Mountain League
Colorado State
Colorado
Air Force
Wyoming
New Mexico
Utah
Utah State
BYU
Boise St

A new Texas Conference:

Arkansas
Baylor
Houston
Rice
SMU
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
TCU

I even threw in Arkansas for good measure so its not so regional, that league couldn't fail.

(04-07-2015 08:19 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  A new Texas Conference:

Arkansas
Baylor
Houston
Rice
SMU
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
TCU

I even threw in Arkansas for good measure so its not so regional, that league couldn't fail.

I see what you did there.

And I said I wouldn't in the OP.

Before considering SMC, UNLV and Hawaii, why not include the other California school in D1-A, SJSU?

And wouldn't it make more sense to fill out a California league with upgraded D1-AA teams than by going out of state? There are three: UC Davis, Cal Poly-SLO and Sacramento State.

Personally, I would be a fan of adding UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego just for the road trips. But one would involve adding a football team from scratch and the other an entire D1 athletics department.

(04-07-2015 08:19 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  A new Texas Conference:

Arkansas
Baylor
Houston
Rice
SMU
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
TCU

I even threw in Arkansas for good measure so its not so regional, that league couldn't fail.

You were born too late.

First of all, I was obviously being tongue in cheek (you probably noticed) and second, I'm old enough to remember the SWC. I remember the height of the Alvin Brooks era (1996) when UH finished 2nd in the SWC and beat top 5 team Memphis at Hofheinz Pavilion.

(04-07-2015 09:10 PM)GiveEmTheAxe Wrote:  Before considering SMC, UNLV and Hawaii, why not include the other California school in D1-A, SJSU?

And wouldn't it make more sense to fill out a California league with upgraded D1-AA teams than by going out of state? There are three: UC Davis, Cal Poly-SLO and Sacramento State.

Personally, I would be a fan of adding UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego just for the road trips. But one would involve adding a football team from scratch and the other an entire D1 athletics department.

I thought I added them? In any event, this post wasn't meant to be taken too seriously.

(04-07-2015 09:38 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  First of all, I was obviously being tongue in cheek (you probably noticed) and second, I'm old enough to remember the SWC. I remember the height of the Alvin Brooks era (1996) when UH finished 2nd in the SWC and beat top 5 team Memphis at Hofienz PAuvilion.

I was just joking.

No harm intended.

I remember 1/82 of the SWC's history.

How about the Florida Conference?

Florida
Florida State
Miami
South Florida
Central Florida
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Florida Gulf Coast
Jacksonville
North Florida
Florida A&M
Stetson
Bethune-Cookman

(04-07-2015 07:49 PM)billings Wrote:  Rocky Mountain League
Colorado State
Colorado
Air Force
Wyoming
New Mexico
Utah
Utah State
BYU
Boise St

Nah. We'll go with the schools in the old Deseret Territory.
U of Deseret (Utah)
USU
BYU
UNLV
UNR
ASU
SDSU
UCLA
USC

Carolinas Conference

UNC-Chapel Hill
NC State
Duke
Wake Forest
East Carolina
App State
UNC-Charlotte
Clemson
South Carolina
Davidson - for basketball

Since Florida has already been done, I guess I will do a Tennessee/Kentucky conf...

ETSU
Tennessee
UT-Chattanooga
UT-Martin
Tenn Tech
Memphis
MTSU
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Louisville
WKU
EKU

Good 12 team conf. Decent football and a basketball powerhouse!

Here's my conference of schools not literally attached to the US Mainland. And yes I had to dig into the lower divisions to grab some names for diversity:

Alaska (Fairbanks)
Alaska-Anchorage
BYU-Hawai'i
Chaminade
Columbia
Hawai'i
Hawai'i-Hilo
Hofstra
Long Island-Brooklyn
NYU
Simon Fraser
St. Francis Brooklyn
St. John's
SUNY-Stony Brook
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Wagner