OT: Mountain West & CUSA Merging
October 14th, 2011 at 6:28 PM ^
22 members? WTF.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:29 PM ^
how is this supposed to work? Maybe they are assuming that a bunch of their members are going to get poached?
Man I really loathe confrence expansion
October 14th, 2011 at 6:36 PM ^
It'd be like if the Big Ten and Pac-12 were mid-majors. The winner of the "Rose Bowl" hopefully gets a BCS autobid.
October 14th, 2011 at 7:16 PM ^
It's not going to work. It's going to be an unholy clusterfuck that will fall apart in less than 4 years.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:29 PM ^
This cannot possibly be true.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:30 PM ^
The fact that this is all occuring during the season is asinine and utterly absurd.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:35 PM ^
October 14th, 2011 at 6:32 PM ^
Maybe they will split it up so what basically happens is the champs of the Mnt. West division and the CUSA division play each other in a championship game?
October 14th, 2011 at 9:09 PM ^
and it actually makes sense. I'd rather see their champ with a BCS bid than the Big Least.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:35 PM ^
ahahahahaha no way!
Edit: http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/32718514
October 14th, 2011 at 6:35 PM ^
They probably think they are a super confrence now but its really not since its C-USA and Mountain west. good effort though
October 14th, 2011 at 6:36 PM ^
Link? Maybe the mountain west is expeccting to lose Boise, SDSU, and maybe a few more on top of BYU, TCU, and Utah? Possible that Big East is going to go after some CUSA teams?
EDIT: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7102822/mountain-west-conference-usa-announce-football-only-alliance here is the link.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:38 PM ^
I read somewhere yesterday that the Big East is trying to lure Boise State. I could see the Pac 12 going after SDSU just for the media market if they go to 16.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:47 PM ^
Now that is a super conference! Lol cant wait to see how this plays out.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:47 PM ^
ago that the Big East plans to invite AF, UCF(all sports), Boise, and Navy. So that is 2 MWC teams, 1 CUSA team, and an Independent. Not to mention TCU leaves for the Big 12. So that puts the "mega-baby seal" conference at 18.
Also, SDSU is courting the Big 12 for membership...so that would put them at 17. So maybe they saw these moves as inevitable.
October 14th, 2011 at 6:49 PM ^
Every team is looking to make a move. Too much expansion for me
October 14th, 2011 at 7:18 PM ^
This is the very definition of Zugzwang; schools would prefer to not make a move, but circumstances force to do something even though any move they make leaves them worse off then they would have been.
October 14th, 2011 at 9:55 PM ^
I'm curious, Blue. Just how did you become familiar with Zugzwang?
October 14th, 2011 at 10:06 PM ^
He's a stats nerd who has done a bunch of work in both sports and politics. I think I first saw him apply it to McCain's decision to announce Palin as his running mate, but he's applied it on a few occasions.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/budgetary-zugzwang/
October 14th, 2011 at 6:57 PM ^
Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?
October 14th, 2011 at 7:06 PM ^
"We shall become...the largest relatively unimportant conference EVER!" *mad laughter*
October 14th, 2011 at 7:14 PM ^
It's like Doofensmirtz invented his evil Conferencerealignmentinator, and this is the result. The Big East, which is neither big nor east, and the, well, whatever the CUSAMWC will be.
October 14th, 2011 at 9:30 PM ^
that means Perry will save the day and sanity will be restored.
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October 14th, 2011 at 7:34 PM ^
They are trying to convince the BCS that quantity equals quality. They seem to think that if they add 22 shit sandwiches together, it becomes poached salmon and filet mignon with piped potatoes and broccoli with hollandaise. That is not the way it works.
October 14th, 2011 at 7:37 PM ^
we haz them!!!
I find this pretty ironic considering the reason the Mountain West exists is because its members broke away from the expanded WAC because a 16 team conference just didn't work.
October 14th, 2011 at 8:58 PM ^
Playing fast and loose with the term "teams," aren't we?
October 14th, 2011 at 7:49 PM ^
I'm so confused...
The Pac-10 is the Pac-12 and has two states in the Mountain time zone. The Big 10 is at 12 and has a conference championship game. The CUSA and Mountain West have formed a crazy alliance. The SEC is at 13. The ACC is at 14. Boise State and Air Force will be in a conference with 'East' in the name.
October 14th, 2011 at 7:51 PM ^
Don't forget the Atlantic 10 being at 14 teams for the last decade and a half.
October 14th, 2011 at 8:14 PM ^
And the Big 12 is at 10
October 14th, 2011 at 8:03 PM ^
They might as well be their own bowl subdivision, located roughly between FBS and FCS.
October 15th, 2011 at 9:11 AM ^
Because combining them doesn;t make them any more worthy of a thing
October 14th, 2011 at 8:08 PM ^
Can you believe all of this started because the Big 10 wanted to go to 12 teams? Psh..and the Big 10 is irrelevant *rolls eyes*
October 14th, 2011 at 8:15 PM ^
All i can say is holy shit
October 14th, 2011 at 10:58 PM ^
TYRANNOSAURUS REX!!!!
October 14th, 2011 at 9:30 PM ^
Their math must be wrong. Its not like when you put 11 bottom feeding teams in C-USA with 11 from the MWC you get a competitive conference with good teams. Now its just one really bad, big conference instead of two smaller ones.
October 14th, 2011 at 9:31 PM ^
We are MountainConferenceWestUSA hear us roar, in numbers too big to ignore
October 14th, 2011 at 9:50 PM ^
I like this move by CUSA and MW; it's smart and pre-emptive given the Big - (L)East's current attempts to poach some teams. In looking at the media reports, it seems like the Big (L)East was not expecting this development and that UCF may well not be leaving and that their plans to expand might be also more limited than they originally thought.
I think you'll see CUSA/MW get an AQ out of this (for their super overall supreme champion of football championship game) for the BCS. The follow up will be the Big (L)East have to turn tail and go groveling to Temple to come in as an all sports member and the elevation of Villanova football (and their 15000 seat stadium...to FBS...
With 22 teams the CUSA/MW football merger could easily supply random Friday night and Saturday noon games forever.
October 14th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
I guess this works, but that means certain teams won't play each other more than once or twice a decade. Kind of hurts rivalries, but I guess it snags them a BCS bid.
October 15th, 2011 at 9:10 AM ^
Should the MAC and WAC get together and expecct an auto bid too? Combining the conferences doesn't make their talent or football teams any better.