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As we have seen, NOTHING permanently locks us out of moving. It's just Cost. You pay it.
 
CL82 said:
You went a long way for that...was it worth it? I have to vote yes, because I read it paused and they laughed out loud.
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I'm having a hard time laughing this evening. But I am glad I made someone else laugh.
 
Pudge said:
As we have seen, NOTHING permanently locks us out of moving. It's just Cost. You pay it.
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If the GOR doesn't allow the conference you're moving to to show your games, no one will want to play you.
 
CL82 said:
Well, I'm easy.

It's a sad day and I'm not being all that productive. I think I might wrap things up and go to my daughter's basketball game. That just feels right today.
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Sounds like a great idea. It doesn't get much sadder than today.
 
Keep this league at 12 schools. With the Western schools out of the picture for the Pac and UConn, UC and USF off the board in the east, the B!G, SEC and Big 12 would be left with going after the ACC. Any of the remaining ACC schools would be better options than Tulane and Memphis.

East
UConn
Cincy
USF
UCF
East Carolina
Temple

West
Boise St
San Diego St
Houston
SMU
Nevada
UNLV

Add 4 ACC leftovers from Duke, Wake, Louisville, Pitt, BCU and Cuse. I'm assuming FSU, Clemson, Ga Tech, Miami, NC ST, UNC, UVa and Va Tech would already be poached.
 
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Oxford Bob said:
Keep this league at 12 schools. With the Western schools out of the picture for the Pac and UConn, UC and USF off the board in the east, the B!G, SEC and Big 12 would be left with going after the ACC. Any of the remaining ACC schools would be better options than Tulane and Memphis.

East
UConn
Cincy
USF
UCF
East Carolina
Temple

West
Boise St
San Diego St
Houston
SMU
Nevada
UNLV

Add 4 ACC leftovers from Duke, Wake, Louisville, Pitt, BCU and Cuse. I'm assuming FSU, Clemson, Ga Tech, Miami, NC ST, UNC, UVa and Va Tech would already be poached.
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I like what you're proposing, but I really feel like Fresno has to be part of that equation. Not sure who I would pull out of the west in order to do that, or maybe it would mean that we take another school in the east to go to 14. But I feel like you do that the league has to be good from top to bottom, which by definition, means smaller. A 16 team conference is silly, because there just aren't 16 strong teams out there. But what you've presented looks pretty good to me.

Question is: Does it look good to NBC, FOX, or ESPN?
 
UConnDan97 said:
I like what you're proposing, but I really feel like Fresno has to be part of that equation. Not sure who I would pull out of the west in order to do that, or maybe it would mean that we take another school in the east to go to 14. But I feel like you do that the league has to be good from top to bottom, which by definition, means smaller. A 16 team conference is silly, because there just aren't 16 strong teams out there. But what you've presented looks pretty good to me.

Question is: Does it look good to NBC, FOX, or ESPN?
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I just threw in UNLV as a travel partner for SD ST, but Fresno, Utah St or even BYU could replace them. You're right that 16 to start is too big. Memphis, Tulane, Rice and Service Academies don't fit for one reason or another, but the ACC will become as vulnerable as the Big East was. Then you could pick and choose who you want from them.

I don't include ND (who would raise any contract, but F'em they would throw things out of balance. FOX or NBC, Disney caused all this to begin with so put them on the ND sh&t list.
 
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Oxford Bob said:
I hear ya, I texted my daughters (both in HS) to tell them I loved them. Oxford HS is about 10 minutes away from all this.
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Great gesture. Love directed towards our children, even when we think they don't appreciate it, is always appreciated at some level of their being.
 
Oxford Bob said:
I just threw in UNLV as a travel partner for SD ST, but Fresno, Utah St or even BYU could replace them. You're right that 16 to start is too big. Memphis, Tulane, Rice and Service Academies don't fit for one reason or another, but the ACC will become as vulnerable as the Big East was. Then you could pick and choose who you want from them.
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I think that UNLV brings some good stuff to a western side of the conference; the foremost thing being basketball. But they aren't that bad in football either, and it helps to have Vegas under your umbrella, I would think, from a tv standpoint.

I like the list you put together. Nothing against the fans of both Memphis and Tulane, but.......Memphis and Tulane!!! I know that if we continue with our current format that they will be our conference brothers, but they really have done nothing to deserve it. ECU certainly deserves it, but Memphis and Tulane do not. And the eastern side basketball division would be plenty good with UConn, Cincy, Temple, and UCF. We don't need Memphis for hoops...
 
I like going a little bigger, because I want to cripple the MWC and CUSA.
 
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