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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jun 3, 2010 15:48:44 GMT -5
Texas is really the lynch pin of the Big 12. If they leave, the conference loses all it's luster. Oklahoma is still a major school, but Texas has the bulk of support. The Pac-10 is smart looking to package those 4 teams, but it'd be a lot of travel for most of the conference games and I wonder if the teams would really consider it advantageous to change without knowing if the Big 10 is going to get the teams they offered. Most sports you play a bulk of the games in your Divsion. Yea you play some out of Division, but like one series/game. It would be bigger, but in Basketball you allready play games across the country anyways, and you can couple road games together. So you can do Washington and Washington State in one trip. And ACC works fine, and you have BC with Florida Schools. |
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Post by Red Impact on Jun 3, 2010 16:45:38 GMT -5
True, I forgot that the number would mean they'd now get divisions.
I suppose you'd split the conference and include the true west coast schools in one division and the non-pacific Pac-10 schools in the other. That would pair Arizona and Arizona State with the poached Big 12 schools, while pairing the others together. That'd make division games comparatively close. Of course, that'd still such to have to go from Austin to Seattle. That's 700 more miles than it is from Boston to Miami.
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Post by Lancers on Jun 4, 2010 16:24:59 GMT -5
If this does take place, the beginning of the Superconference begins. So let's see...
Arizona/Arizona St./Colorado/Oklahoma/Oklahoma St./Texas/Texas A&M/Texas Tech
Cal/Oregon/Oregon St./Stanford/UCLA/USC/Washington/Washington St.
I'm assuming in this alignment you would play the 7 teams in your division and 1 or possibly 3 games against teams in the other division. If they go with ten conference games, it would cut the non-conference games down to two a year.
And if the Big 10 goes forward with the 5 teams they've mentioned...
Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Minnesota/Missouri/Nebraska/Northwestern/Wisconsin
Michigan/Michigan St./Notre Dame/Ohio St./Penn St./Purdue/Rutgers/Syracuse
Perhaps the Mountain West and the remaining Big 12 schools (Baylor/Iowa St./Kansas/Kansas St.) would merge and add Boise State and 2 others from either Conference USA (SMU, Houston) or the WAC (Fresno St., Nevada) or some combination of those four.
SEC would probably raid the ACC (Clemson/Florida St./Georgia Tech/Miami)
The ACC would replace their lost schools with the remaining Big East schools (Cincinnati/Louisville/Pitt/UConn/USF/West Virginia) plus 2 more from Conference USA (ECU, UCF)
All in all, should be an intriguing couple of months.
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