tu
aTm
TT
TCU
OU
OSU
ARK
LSU

Would be a nice foundation for a conference ?
Geographically speaking.

Then add probably:

Tulsa, La Tech, Baylor (houston, unt, smu, or rice)

Basically you would have a 3 state conference.
Making traveling easier on the other sports.

OF COURSE TV DRIVES THE MARKET AND THIS IS BASICALLY THE SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE #2

Let's go the other way and drop Baylor and ISU, drop the championship game and still call ourselves the Big 12 (Like the Big 10 does with 11 teams) and earn ourselves more BCS births.

Super 16 Conference

North:
ISU
Nebraska
BYU
Colorado
Missouri
K-State
Kansas
Notre Dame

South:
A&M
Baylor
Tech
OU
OSU
U of Memphis
Central Florida
t.u.



[This message has been edited by Iowaggie (edited 12/13/2007 3:18p).]

The new and improved Big 12.

Arkansas
BYU
Colorado
Kansas
Louisiana State
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech


East

Arkansas
Kansas
Louisiana State
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska


West

BYU
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech

I much rather reduce down to 10 or 11 teams, drop the divisons and the CCG, and just have everyone play everyone every year to determine the champ.

These threads are inevitably idiot parades.

1) We're not going to lure away any schools that would provide a positive return to the conference (i.e. ADD more revenue than we lose by splitting things 14 ways).

2) I don't think we can just kick Baylor out for sucking at football.

3) We shouldn't have ANYTHING to do with Arkansas or LSU, both of which would simply improve their Texas recruiting at our expense.

4) Now STFU

Here is a fun idea.

The Big 24 super conference

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
LSU
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Carolina
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Penn State
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Texas A&M
Virginia
Wisconsin

4 six team divisions

Division A – Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin

Division B – Arkansas, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas A&M

Division C – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee

Division D – Kentucky, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, and Virginia

Play each team in your division plus two from each of the other divisions on a rotating basis for 11 games. Each team plays one non conference game.

Conference Championship tournament
Division A vs. C
Division B vs. D

Winners play in the Conference Championship game.

That’s a super conference.

The networks would be tripping over each other to give out the most lucrative TV contract in the history of college sports.

DisAg,
Your setup is basically how they tried to setup the Southwest Conference. It started off with

Texas
Texas A&M
Baylor
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State (then Oklahoma A&M)
Southwestern
Rice

(yes, that's Southwestern from Georgetown)

And they wanted to LSU and Mississippi in it too, but they declined. That would have been a powerhouse conference. People laugh at Ole Miss now, but it has three national championships, so its not a complete doormat.

add arkie and the school in south bend

This is a new thread

How bout we see how many schools we can stuff into a phone booth and call it a conference!



Some people are like Slinkies. They're really good for nothing, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

hawaii and uconn make the most sense in this very legit question.

tcu and arkansas

quote:

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DisAg,
Your setup is basically how they tried to setup the Southwest Conference. It started off with

Texas
Texas A&M
Baylor
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State (then Oklahoma A&M)
Southwestern
Rice

(yes, that's Southwestern from Georgetown)

And they wanted to LSU and Mississippi in it too, but they declined. That would have been a powerhouse conference.

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definitely. the SWC was a rousing success in its late years with a HUGE national draw.

What a waste of time, even thinking about it

houstontexan,
It doesn't really work when you change the point of what I said. I never said the SWC was a success in the late years. It would be difficult for any conference essentially isolated to one state to have a national draw.

I said that if the Southwest Conference had included A&M, Texas, Oklahoma, OK State, LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, and just about anyone else back then, it would have been a pretty good conference in football, baseball, basketball and most other sports. Schools from five states would also have a better national appeal than just Texas and Arkansas.

[This message has been edited by kinto (edited 12/14/2007 5:29a).]

dumb. just dumb.

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