Would you be happy with the BE adding 2 western schools and one eastern school?

yep

(11-21-2012 12:29 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  Would you be happy with the BE adding 2 western schools and one eastern school?

Hell yeah!

Give me BYU and Fresno State and I would be fat, dumb and happy.

No. Three would be ideal, to make sure Navy, Temple and Memphis stay east for travel considerations.

As long as none of them are directional schools I'd be good.

Would rather have 3 in the wast but if it's ECU for football and UMASS for oly's i could live with it.

BYU+Air Force+ECU

(11-21-2012 12:37 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  BYU+Air Force+ECU

why ask western members if you're going to shoehorn in the Pirates if the Threadibean anyway?

Choo Choo

We know ECU is a little *ahem* eager to want to join. I don't have an issue with it so long as a real western division is created. The problem seems to be with your eastern comrades. They apparently aren't too thrilled at the idea of your joining. You'll really have to convince them.

(11-21-2012 12:39 PM)k5james Wrote:  

(11-21-2012 12:37 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  BYU+Air Force+ECU

why ask western members if you're going to shoehorn in the Pirates if the Threadibean anyway?

Yeah, what is that all about? Next thing you will be talking about how a good UMass team would fit as a western division rival!

(11-21-2012 12:41 PM)Boise fan Wrote:  We know ECU is a little *ahem* eager to want to join. I don't have an issue with it so long as a real western division is created. The problem seems to be with your eastern comrades. They apparently aren't too thrilled at the idea of your joining. You'll really have to convince them.

For me it's not that I am thrilled or not thrilled about ECU it's just that I think the West needs some major attention and related to that ECU gets lost in the shuffle this time. In the future?? Perhaps.

(11-21-2012 12:29 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  Would you be happy with the BE adding 2 western schools and one eastern school?

If you mean BYU, Air Force and Army, I say hell yeah. (Note: Memphis plays in the west)

(11-21-2012 12:37 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  BYU+Air Force+ECU

Not bad, at all.

Whatever brings most $

Separation

If we add 2-3 more western schools, we could have an all-sports western division. Assuming the majority of oly sports stayed in the west and never played the cross division.

If that's the case, then I would say 3 western schools because there are far better basketball schools and markets out west (UNLV for example).

BYU, Fresno, UNLV would be my choices

Western Division all sports
BSU
SDSU
Houston
SMU
BYU
Fresno
UNLV

(11-21-2012 01:10 PM)BSUFiend Wrote:  If we add 2-3 more western schools, we could have an all-sports western division. Assuming the majority of oly sports stayed in the west and never played the cross division.

If that's the case, then I would say 3 western schools because there are far better basketball schools and markets out west (UNLV for example).

BYU, Fresno, UNLV would be my choices

Western Division all sports
BSU
SDSU
Houston
SMU
BYU
Fresno
UNLV

This would be the best possible solution IMO. The B Ball game got me excited last night and that would be a good b ball conf.

How do you propose to have an "all sports" western division? We joined "FB only" by choice, not from some limitation by the BE. We did so to keep the costs down. If you create a western division that is all sports, they would have to play the east as well. Fine, maybe, for BB but not for the Oly sports.
Oly sports are meant to be regional. There will never be a western all sports division imo. Best we can hope for is getting them together in an existing conference.

Can't start our own western division conference either - adds that are all sports already want to play the eastern schools. Not to mention the hardships that come along with creating a new conference, even if it is to house a western divisions non FB sports together.

So I seriously doubt a western division becomes all sports.

So a huge, gigantic, ginormous and emphatic "NO!" to UNLV.
(sorry, can't say it enough on this board!)

Nah, no team can have East in it's name

East Carolina, the forgotten state.