In the east? YesLOL
Preposterous if anyone thinks of a conference without Rutgers?
Syracuse? Who needs Syracuse? NYC metro...different story.I'll grant you that Rutgers does belong in any northeastern conference....maybe not so much in a mix of 14 east coast teams that spread from Miami to Syracuse.
Most of the country is populated with NY/NJ transplants and RU will always be in a densely populated part of the media capital.....look at Fla and the Carolinas....how many bolstered and elevated you're state?
Who cares? If BB was important they'd be in the B1G.And believe me I live in NY metro and if you think they wouldn't prefer to be in the B1G I've got a bridge for sale.Btw how are they doing the last week or two in hoops?Killing it in the ACC? At one time they had loads of FB fans too!!Cuse basketball vs Rutgers basketball maybe?
And Cuse basketball set NY viewing records.
I never miss a game......on TV. I stopped going after the Temple game in protest of KF this year.Yeah Nicky....folks just are drawn to their remotes any time that Rutgers might be televised.
Rutgers sets all kinds of viewing records....kills it when in a bowl.
billy I'm curious?? Do you have anything to do in sunny Fla? Or is this you're job promoting the ACupC?I never miss a game.on TV. I stopped going after the Temple game in protest of KF this year.
billy I'm curious?? Do you have anything to do in sunny Fla? Or is this you're job promoting the ACupC?
I like the yiddish inflection billy......whodathunkit? A professional? Not you so much as stimpy whose much smoother and only has 1 weak spot while you have too many holes in you're pysch for it.....ego, temper, arrogance and pride are exempting you from the position. BTW why do I have to schlepp RU? Their already locked in a better conference than you're's. Before FSU(or Fla was a state or we were a nation) was even thought of RU was an elite colonial institution. It was Queens College at the time....lots of catching up to do at podunk billy. Good luck with the SEC accepting a #2 school in a state(perceptionwise anyway). On second thought they already have one... TAMU.It's a job, Nicky.
Only in it for the money.
I assume you must get paid more than I. But you ought to. Schlepping Rutgers is tougher work.
Agree no privates ....large Publics with resources at their disposal.No privates. Give UMass a chance to develop. Tons of regional rivalries in this setup:
UMass
UConn
Rutgers
PSU
Maryland
West Virginia
Pittsburg
Virginia
Virginia Tech
12 team conferences are stupid...put together only for greed. We really only need 10 teams in a conference; play each team in football round robin for a 9 game schedule and each team home and away for basketball. Easy scheduling and easier to get the geographic rivalries that are needed,
BCU
UConn
Syracuse
Rutgers
Penn State
Pitt
WVU
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Now you've also got the Boston market (from us rather than BCU), the New York market (us, Cuse, Rutty, Penn State), the Pittsburgh market (Penn State, Pitt, WVU), and Baltimore/Washington (UMD, UVA, and Tech).
I like the yiddish inflection billy.whodathunkit? A professional? Not you so much as stimpy whose much smoother and only has 1 weak spot while you have too many holes in you're pysch for it.....ego, temper, arrogance and pride are exempting you from the position. BTW why do I have to schlepp RU? Their already locked in a better conference than you're's. Before FSU(or Fla was a state or we were a nation) was even thought of RU was an elite colonial institution. It was Queens College at the time....lots of catching up to do at podunk billy. Good luck with the SEC accepting a #2 school in a state(perceptionwise anyway). On second thought they already have one... TAMU.
You put WVU and West Virginia.12 team conferences are stupid...put together only for greed. We really only need 10 teams in a conference; play each team in football round robin for a 9 game schedule and each team home and away for basketball. Easy scheduling and easier to get the geographic rivalries that are needed,
BCU
UConn
Syracuse
Rutgers
Penn State
Pitt
WVU
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Now you've also got the Boston market (from us rather than BCU), the New York market (us, Cuse, Rutty, Penn State), the Pittsburgh market (Penn State, Pitt, WVU), and Baltimore/Washington (UMD, UVA, and Tech).
UConn, BC, Rutgers, Penn State, Syracuse, Pitt, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, WVU.
I'll be that guy that goes to 16 teams, because why not? It would be the eastern seaboard, essentially, with a heavy emphasis on Big East (old BE) / ACC schools:
North Division
UConn
BC
Syracuse
Rutgers
Penn State
Pitt
Maryland
West Virginia
South Division
Virginia
Virginia Tech
UNC
Duke
Ga Tech
Miami
Fla State
USF
Eastern seaboard teams left off the ballot: NCState, Wake, Navy, Temple, ECU.
This conference might have been worth more than any other conference in the nation, based on demographics, etc. And it never had a chance in hell to happen...
Swap out USF for Clemson, and you have likely created the greatest all sports conference in history. It encompasses the entire East Coast while combining both great athletics and academics. You could do four rotating pods of logical rivals, and still maintain the semblance of a conference.
Northeast
UCONN
BC
Cuse
Rutgers
Mid Atlantic
PSU
Pitt
WVU
UMD
Mid South
UVA
VPI
UNC
Duke
Southeast
Clemson
GT
FSU
Miami
Wow. Football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, soccer, just about everything. It's a shame that everyone is so damn greedy, chasing their own self interests. If presidents could see the bigger picture, they would see that they are actually leaving dollars on the table at home chaising cents all over the country. Blow the whole damn thing up and start over.