I think that in the coming years we will see the P5 conferences begin to shed themselves of underperforming members. Schools like Iowa State, Oregon State, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Duke will find themselves amongst the "unclean" and looking for new conference homes. Of course, G5 schools will make a mad dash to try to associate themselves with the "once had's" in any way they can.

The P5 will become the P4 as what's left of the Big 12 will merge with what's left of the PAC 12 to form one new power conference.

The G5 will become the G6.

The outcast members of the Big 12 will align with the outcast members of the PAC 12, plus Northwestern and a few MWC members to form a new Western G6 conference.

A few CUSA west members will then jump to the MWC (UTEP, UTSA, and UNT).

The AAC will absorb the ACC and SEC rejects and then go about dumping Tulane, SMU, and Tulsa.

Those three will join with Rice, TX St, ULL, LA Tech, Ark St, USM, and USA to form the South Central Conference (the SCC).

What's left of the SBC will merge with what's left of CUSA.

In the end, in the G6 there will be the:

1) Western Conference
2) MWC
3) CUSA/SBC
4) SCC
5) AAC
6) MAC

Or not.

(03-02-2016 06:11 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  I think that in the coming years we will see the P5 conferences begin to shed themselves of underperforming members. Schools like Iowa State, Oregon State, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Duke will find themselves amongst the "unclean" and looking for new conference homes. Of course, G5 schools will make a mad dash to try to associate themselves with the "once had's" in any way they can.

The P5 will become the P4 as what's left of the Big 12 will merge with what's left of the PAC 12 to form one new power conference.

The G5 will become the G6.

The outcast members of the Big 12 will align with the outcast members of the PAC 12, plus Northwestern and a few MWC members to form a new Western G6 conference.

Then again, maybe.
A few CUSA west members will then jump to the MWC (UTEP, UTSA, and UNT).

The AAC will absorb the ACC and SEC rejects and then go about dumping Tulane, SMU, and Tulsa.

Those three will join with Rice, TX St, ULL, LA Tech, Ark St, USM, and USA to form the South Central Conference (the SCC).

What's left of the SBC will merge with what's left of CUSA.

In the end, in the G6 there will be the:

1) Western Conference
2) MWC
3) CUSA/SBC
4) SCC
5) AAC
6) MAC

Or not.

Yeah because the ACC hates having underperforming Duke around during basketball season...

None of the teams you listed are going to be forced out of their conferences in our lifetime.

(03-02-2016 06:14 AM)ButlerGSU Wrote:  

(03-02-2016 06:11 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  I think that in the coming years we will see the P5 conferences begin to shed themselves of underperforming members. Schools like Iowa State, Oregon State, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Duke will find themselves amongst the "unclean" and looking for new conference homes. Of course, G5 schools will make a mad dash to try to associate themselves with the "once had's" in any way they can.

The P5 will become the P4 as what's left of the Big 12 will merge with what's left of the PAC 12 to form one new power conference.

The G5 will become the G6.

The outcast members of the Big 12 will align with the outcast members of the PAC 12, plus Northwestern and a few MWC members to form a new Western G6 conference.

Then again, maybe.
A few CUSA west members will then jump to the MWC (UTEP, UTSA, and UNT).

The AAC will absorb the ACC and SEC rejects and then go about dumping Tulane, SMU, and Tulsa.

Those three will join with Rice, TX St, ULL, LA Tech, Ark St, USM, and USA to form the South Central Conference (the SCC).

What's left of the SBC will merge with what's left of CUSA.

In the end, in the G6 there will be the:

1) Western Conference
2) MWC
3) CUSA/SBC
4) SCC
5) AAC
6) MAC

Or not.

Yeah because the ACC hates having underperforming Duke around during basketball season...

None of the teams you listed are going to be forced out of their conferences in our lifetime.

Yeah, Duke and Kansas do have that basketball thing going on, but what has Oregon St or Iowa St ever contributed to their conference's cause? I'm thinking that the TX's and USC's of the world are ready to stop subsidizing the likes of those two.

(03-02-2016 06:49 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(03-02-2016 06:14 AM)ButlerGSU Wrote:  

(03-02-2016 06:11 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  I think that in the coming years we will see the P5 conferences begin to shed themselves of underperforming members. Schools like Iowa State, Oregon State, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Duke will find themselves amongst the "unclean" and looking for new conference homes. Of course, G5 schools will make a mad dash to try to associate themselves with the "once had's" in any way they can.

The P5 will become the P4 as what's left of the Big 12 will merge with what's left of the PAC 12 to form one new power conference.

The G5 will become the G6.

The outcast members of the Big 12 will align with the outcast members of the PAC 12, plus Northwestern and a few MWC members to form a new Western G6 conference.

Then again, maybe.
A few CUSA west members will then jump to the MWC (UTEP, UTSA, and UNT).

The AAC will absorb the ACC and SEC rejects and then go about dumping Tulane, SMU, and Tulsa.

Those three will join with Rice, TX St, ULL, LA Tech, Ark St, USM, and USA to form the South Central Conference (the SCC).

What's left of the SBC will merge with what's left of CUSA.

In the end, in the G6 there will be the:

1) Western Conference
2) MWC
3) CUSA/SBC
4) SCC
5) AAC
6) MAC

Or not.

Yeah because the ACC hates having underperforming Duke around during basketball season...

None of the teams you listed are going to be forced out of their conferences in our lifetime.

Yeah, Duke and Kansas do have that basketball thing going on, but what has Oregon St or Iowa St ever contributed to their conference's cause? I'm thinking that the TX's and USC's of the world are ready to stop subsidizing the likes of those two.

ut-austin and a-m were ready to shed the dead weight and get out of the sw conf. but they were forced to drag along baylor and tech but both have improved enough to be worthy.

Here's what's next.

Nothing.

Every other day, you guys want to add schools and in reality, every one of them suck. Sorry.

Right now this league is, geographically, perfect.

Ten for football is fine. Even if we were to lose a school (and that won't happen anytime soon), we'd be at 9/11 and we have survived eleven the last few years. We'd have an OPTION to add, but not a necessity.

There's no guarantee we're going to add a title game, in fact, right now I'd say the odds are against it unless we can get a deal that pays us well.

As soon as we get stability, you guys want to change it again.

I know the speculation is fun. But this league won't be doing anything for the foreseeable future unless forced to.

That's just not going happen. Vandy is a founding member of the SEC. Duke is a top 5 program in basketball. Those schools you named aren't going anywhere.

The Dukes, Northwestern, Vandy etc would are not going anywhere...the only chance that could happen is if the P5 schools leave the NCAA to strike out on their own...then you might see some sort of mergers between conferences to form a few ultra high money conference...but that's not going to happen either.

Lol this...

(03-02-2016 08:42 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  Every other day, you guys want to add schools and in reality, every one of them suck.

And this...

Quote:As soon as we get stability, you guys want to change it again.

You are 100% correct on both points. Plus, (everyone) we won't even have this "stability" for 2 more years. Take a breath expansioners. Right now I can't see the SBC expanding unless two absolute home run / can't pass em up candidates come along.

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(03-01-2016 02:50 PM)rokamortis Wrote:  

(03-01-2016 02:46 PM)swampbear Wrote:  

(03-01-2016 02:38 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(03-01-2016 02:31 PM)rknj8993 Wrote:  With Idaho and NMSU *supposedly* out, what's next for the Sun Belt?

Coastal Carolina is on its way in, so do we sit at 10 football/12 all-sports members for a while? Are we going to enter into expansion mode immediately? What do you think is going on behind closed doors at this point?

On another note: what happens to NMSU and Idaho? Do they both drop to FCS? Do they try to ride it out as independents? What happens to those universities altogether?

Everyone should imagine what getting raided again would be like and then act accordingly.

Hell, if we were smart enough to do that then Idaho and NMST wouldn't be booted......I just don't get this

I hope it wasn't a penny-wise, dollar-foolish decision. I have to think that further expansion will be announced soon. I'd prefer more teams to help protect from possible attrition.

I think it was a very short-sighted and incredibly foolish move.

(03-02-2016 08:42 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  Here's what's next.

Nothing.

Every other day, you guys want to add schools and in reality, every one of them suck. Sorry.

Right now this league is, geographically, perfect.

Ten for football is fine. Even if we were to lose a school (and that won't happen anytime soon), we'd be at 9/11 and we have survived eleven the last few years. We'd have an OPTION to add, but not a necessity.

There's no guarantee we're going to add a title game, in fact, right now I'd say the odds are against it unless we can get a deal that pays us well.

As soon as we get stability, you guys want to change it again.

I know the speculation is fun. But this league won't be doing anything for the foreseeable future unless forced to.

1,000,000% correct. I don't understand the constant need for change some seem to think is necessary. Especially when all the realistic options do nothing to improve the conference.