Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Dooley, post: 1028071, member: 2920"] If I had to guess, the P6th conference would be a merger between whatever schools in the current G5 want to adopt the new rules. I would guess that those schools would be some sort of combination of: UCONN, BYU, UCF, USF, Houston, ECU, Cincinnati, Memphis, SMU, Boise, SDSU, Colorado St?, Utah St?, Fresno St?, Temple?, Navy? Allow me to channel my inner-HFD... Conference Name: Power 6 Revenue Sports Conference, aka The RSC. Conference fans can chant "Money! Money! Money!" to counter those "SEC! SEC! SEC!" chants. Money always wins in college sports. [U]Football[/U]: Split 16 conference members into 2 divisions of 8 schools each. East: UCONN, UCF, USF, ECU, Cincinnati, Memphis, Temple, Navy West: BYU, Boise, SDSU, Colorado St, Utah St, Fresno St, Houston, SMU Each football division team plays each other once (rotating home games each season) = 7 games Cross-division games are set up to rotate to play a team every 4 years (alternating home games years) = 2 games Allows for up to 3 OOC games Championship Game played on a rotation of Philadelphia, Tampa, Houston/Dallas, San Diego [U]Basketball[/U]: Same divisions as above. Divide into 4 Pods. Northeast: UCONN, Temple, Navy, Cincinnati Southeast: ECU, UCF, USF, Memphis Mountain-Central: Houston, SMU, Colorado St, Boise West: BYU, SDSU, Utah St, Fresno St Play each Pod school on a home and home every season = 6 games Play 1 game against each other pod (alternating home games every season) = 12 games Rest OOC scheduling Conference Tourney played on a rotation of Hartford, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Diego [U]TV market exposure (I'm not saying the RSC will dominate these markets...just have reach into them)[/U]: NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore/DC, Houston, Dallas, Orlando/Tampa, Denver, San Diego [U]Football Recruiting[/U]: PA/NJ, OH, Mid-Atlantic, FL, TX, CA [U]Basketball Recruiting[/U]: Not quite as important but would have national reach [U]Academics[/U]: Not great but most schools have large enrollments (why Utah St, Colorado St and Fresno St added) and room to grow. [U]Olympic Sports[/U]: every man/woman/school for itself Of course, we can all debate who would make the Top 16 cut but I would think that it would be important to merge the "best of the rest" to try to maximize TV revenue. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach