Dooley
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Honest question (I'm not being snarky): wasn't the concept of a national concept spread across all time zones essentially shot down? SDSU and Boise both backed out the arrangement and BYU was not interested from the beginning. I would agree that the national concept got me the most excited while UCONN sat in AAC purgatory. My ideal purgatory conference would have been:
UCONN
Temple
Cincinnati
Memphis
UCF
USF
Navy
Houston
SMU
SDSU
Boise
BYU
Colorado St
Fresno St
That would give a 2-division 14 school conference with as best of a mix of football, basketball, TV markets and national appeal as possible. Because it's a purgatory conference, there's no need to get to 16 as some of these schools would bolt for a better conference as soon as the phone rang. If/When a school leaves for another conference, the larger conference concept can be re-shuffled to cut back on travel.
Football would play all division members annually (alternating home/away) and 2 cross-conference mates (1 home and 1 away) per year, allowing for 3 out of conference games. Basketball would play all division members twice (home and away) and each cross-conference mate once (alternating home/away) pr year. Non revenue sports would play all division members twice (home and away) and vary the cross-conference games depending on sport/schedule/budget.
Just typing this out makes me hope that Susan has Jim Delany on her cell phone plan's Friends and Family network.
UCONN
Temple
Cincinnati
Memphis
UCF
USF
Navy
Houston
SMU
SDSU
Boise
BYU
Colorado St
Fresno St
That would give a 2-division 14 school conference with as best of a mix of football, basketball, TV markets and national appeal as possible. Because it's a purgatory conference, there's no need to get to 16 as some of these schools would bolt for a better conference as soon as the phone rang. If/When a school leaves for another conference, the larger conference concept can be re-shuffled to cut back on travel.
Football would play all division members annually (alternating home/away) and 2 cross-conference mates (1 home and 1 away) per year, allowing for 3 out of conference games. Basketball would play all division members twice (home and away) and each cross-conference mate once (alternating home/away) pr year. Non revenue sports would play all division members twice (home and away) and vary the cross-conference games depending on sport/schedule/budget.
Just typing this out makes me hope that Susan has Jim Delany on her cell phone plan's Friends and Family network.