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All but done: Nebraska to B10

MrTitleist

MrTitleist

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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5268408&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

Watch the dominoes fall!
 
ESPN Radio is also saying that Texas, Texas Tech, TAMU, OU, OKST, CU are heading to the PAC-16 with Mizzou be left for dead.
 
MrTitleist said:
Missouri will be in the Big 10 by the end of the week.
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My guess is that the Big "10" sticks with 12 teams and doesn't invite Missouri. If true, it will be interesting to see where they end up.
 
Hi everyone, new to the forum. Big time Cowboys fan who just recently moved to Kansas.
Here's what i hope happens. We don't need 16 teams to be a power conference. I think 14 would be great. And yeah maybe catch a few from the falling out of the Big 12 (Mostly for basketball purposes). but, also bring a few teams on the outside to go up with us. Here's the scenario:
MWC: AFA, BYU, CSU, UNM, SDSU, TCU, UNLV, UTAH, WYO.

Take from the BIG 12: KU, KSU (Both are great for basketball, mediocre at best for football, but better than ISU or baylor, besides we don't need to be taking BCS schools that stink, including Colorado).

Bring up with MWC: Boise St(Great football program), Nevada(Up and coming football program, good basketball program), Fresno st(Good football program).

in all this strengthens our conference in football and basketball significantly.

How it would look:

Mountain West Conference

Mountain
1. Air Force (good football program, low basketball program)
2. Brigham Young (Great football program, Great basketball program (as much as I hate saying that)).
3. Utah (Great football program, mediocre basketball program)
4. Wyoming (Up and coming football program, mediocre basketball program)
5. Colorado st. (Mediocre football program, mediocre basketball program)
6. Boise st. (Great football program, mediocre basketball program)
7. New Mexico (Mediocre football program, Great basketball program)

West
1. TCU (Great football program, mediocre basketball program)
2. UNLV (Poor football program, Great basketball program)
3. SDSU (Poor football program, Good basketball program)
4. Kansas (Mediocre football program, Elite basketball program)
5. Kansas st (Mediocre football program, Good Basketball program)
6. Nevada (Up and coming football program, good basketball program)
7. Fresno st. (Good football program, mediocre basketball program)

As it's lined up all rivalries get to keep with each other. WYO-CSU, BYU-Utah, AFA-CSU, UNLV-Nevada, KU-KSU.
 
Welcome KansasCowboy! Enjoy your stay! :)

As for your proposed scenario.. wow, cripple the WAC! I'm all about it.
 
Boise, sure, I don't see why not.
Fresno, iffy, but have been fairly solid.
UNR, uh, no. I'd rather have Houston. Expands the Texas recruiting market and TCU isn't so isolated anymore.

The only reason I would want CU, is because of their proximity to UW, CSU, AFA, Utah, BYU, and UNM.
 
MrTitleist said:
Welcome KansasCowboy! Enjoy your stay! :)

As for your proposed scenario.. wow, cripple the WAC! I'm all about it.
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Howdy, Kansas Cowboy!!!

Here's my # 1 thought in ALL of this,.......

As long as Wyoming is going to be a part of a much stronger MWC that gets in the BCS...Who gives a rip what else happens overall?!
 
I just wish this was all over and done with. The MWC board is getting different news from different sources by the freakin' HOUR!
 
What do you not like about Nevada? They are a solid football program, and have been getting better year by year, on top of that they've been second to only Utah st in basketball. I'd say that they are key to a team that deserves to move up.
Houston? Not so much, they've only recently started to have success in football and their basketball isn't the greatest. I would honestly say that the top three in the WAC are better than any in C-USA. I wouldn't be picking a team from a conference that ranks behind the WAC and even sometimes behind the MAC.
Same point for the WAC, If their top three go to the MWC, then they will be going after to C-USA schools like, Tulsa, SMU, Utep, and possibly Houston. I see the Big East not dismantling but adding schools from the C-USA, This conference like the big 12 will die aswell, The WAC and the Big East will take from USA, and the MAC and the Sun Belt will finish it off. So here's how I see this conference disbanding:
Big East: takes Southern Miss, UCF, East Carolina and Memphis.
WAC: takes Tulsa, SMU, Utep,Rice and Houston.
Sun Belt: Tulane and UAB
MAC: takes one more school to level out to 14 with Marshall.

The MWC wants to take the best options, C-USA is not a good option for us.
 
Houston adds another Texas market for recruits and more viewers for the the TV deal. UNR has only been able to dominate the lower tier of the WAC and is played around by BSU annually. The only reason they seem solid is because they keep beating up on teams that Wyoming would dominate in our down years in a conference that is only supported by BSU, and to a lesser extent, Fresno and Hawaii. UNR gets clobbered against top competition, or they are toyed around with. Just look at their last bowl game. They were destroyed by a 6-6 SMU team. One of the teams that you are calling less than UNR. BSU is the only real reason why the WAC has not been relegated to MAC status.
 
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