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Design Your Dream Conference(s) - schmolik - 02-13-2020 04:00 PM
This might be overlapping with other threads on this board but I thought I'd try this out.
Design your dream conference without regards to realistic things, GOR's, economics, geography, etc, unless you want. The only rule(s) are they have to be Division 1 schools and any other rules you want. Want it in just football or just men's basketball? Go ahead! Want a cross country conference? Your call! It's not realistic? Team X would never be with Team Y? Who cares? Be as creative as you want! Pick your favorite school(s) and pair them with the schools you want to play against. Don't like dead weight schools in your current conference? Get rid of them. You're the boss.
My "New" Big Ten
Illinois (Undergraduate Degree)
Penn State (Graduate Degree)
Pitt (Rival)
Temple (Hometown)
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan State
Indiana
Purdue
Wisconsin
No teams west of the Mississippi River. No snotty rich private schools (yeah I'm talking to you, Northwestern).
My "New" ACC/Big East Combo
North Carolina
Duke
Kentucky
Louisville
Villanova
Virginia
Maryland
Syracuse
Connecticut
You could also call it the "Champions" conference. Every team has won at least one men's basketball championship since 2002 (Louisville's was vacated but they still won it and if you go back to 1986 they also won).
I know I'd want Florida and Florida State together and Texas and Texas A&M together just like I'd want Penn State and Pitt together and Kentucky and Louisville together.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - Garrettabc - 02-13-2020 04:14 PM
Good with the ACC minus a few dingleberries; Wake and BC.
Divisions would need to be shuffled just a little and ND can continue to be a partial.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - bill dazzle - 02-13-2020 04:21 PM
(02-13-2020 04:14 PM)Garrettabc Wrote: Good with the ACC minus a few dingleberries; Wake and BC.
Divisions would need to be shuffled just a little and ND can continue to be a partial.
This may be the first time "dingleberries" has been used on the board. It's insulting to Wake and BC, but I have to admit I chuckled.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - Baylorbears11 - 02-13-2020 04:24 PM
The Big 16
SWC Division:
Arkansas
Baylor
TCU
SMU
Tech
Rice
Texas
Texas A&M
Big 8 Division:
Nebraska
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Colorado
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - Yosef Himself - 02-13-2020 04:28 PM
Marshall
Old Dominion
East Carolina
App State
UNCC
Coastal Carolina
Georgia State
Georgia Southern
Troy
UAB
South Alabama
Southern Miss
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - lion1983 - 02-13-2020 04:34 PM
UNA
JSU
KSU
Austin Peay
Chattanooga
Murray State
ETSU
West Florida
Nichols St
SE Louisiana
Northwestern State
Mcneese State
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - Yosef Himself - 02-13-2020 04:35 PM
(02-13-2020 04:28 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote: Marshall
Old Dominion
East Carolina
App State
UNCC
Coastal Carolina
Georgia State
Georgia Southern
Troy
UAB
South Alabama
Southern Miss
That's dream conference.
Best possible "realistic" conference realignment for App:
AAC adds VCU in Oly and AppSt in FB.
AppSt Oly goes back to SoCon with Belmont in tow to keep the even Private/Public split.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - Bogg - 02-13-2020 04:37 PM
Honestly, I'm pretty happy with the upcoming Big East lineup starting in July. Would be nice if Syracuse was involved, but otherwise anything with a strong group in the DC-Boston corridor and MSG full for the tournament is going to work for me.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - schmolik - 02-13-2020 04:40 PM
(02-13-2020 04:24 PM)Baylorbears11 Wrote: The Big 16
SWC Division:
Arkansas
Baylor
TCU
SMU
Tech
Rice
Texas
Texas A&M
Big 8 Division:
Nebraska
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Colorado
What, you have something against Houston?
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - NBPirate - 02-13-2020 04:43 PM
Academic Conference:
Georgetown
Yale
Columbia
Penn
Harvard
Dartmouth
Brown
Princeton
Cornell
OR
Old Big East/ACC Regional Conference:
Georgetown
Syracuse
UNC
UVA
Maryland
Villanova
NC State
UConn
Duke
Wake Forest
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - goodknightfl - 02-13-2020 05:04 PM
Al, auburn, LSU, Ga, GT, Clemson, UF, FSU, UCF, NC.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - Auburn_Blazer - 02-13-2020 05:08 PM
For UAB I'd want them SBC for football and A10 for basketball.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - Love and Honor - 02-13-2020 06:32 PM
Pie-in-the-Sky:
Miami
Cincinnati
Louisville
Marshall
West Virginia
Pitt
Temple
Ohio U
Buffalo
Toledo
(Xavier)
(Dayton)
Semi-Realistic:
Miami
Ohio U
Kent State
Buffalo
Marshall
James Madison
Toledo
Ball State
WMU
CMU
NIU
WKU
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - CitrusUCF - 02-13-2020 06:37 PM
North:
Georgia
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Georgia Southern
Clemson
South Carolina
South:
UCF
USF
FSU
Miami
FAU
Florida
Sorry FIU... numbers don’t work out
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - TU72N76 - 02-13-2020 06:55 PM
STANFORD
USC
BYU
AIR FORCE
TULSA
SMU
TCU
BAYLOR
RICE
TULANE
VANDERBILT
MIAMI
DUKE
WAKE FOREST
BOSTON COLLEGE
SYRACUSE
ARMY
NAVY
NOTRE DAME
NORTHWESTERN
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - RutgersGuy - 02-13-2020 07:19 PM
Northeastern Athletic Conference the NAC!
North: Rutgers, Cuse, BC, UMass, UConn, Temple, PSU, Army (FB Only)
South: Pitt, WVU, VT, Cincy, Louisville, Maryland, UVA, Navy (FB Only)
Army/Navy play every year in a OOC match up. The game doesn't count towards conference standings so it wont interfere with the CCG. I believe Wake played one of the other ACC NC schools in OOC one year so it's not unprecedented.
FB Championship in Giants Stadium, BBall tourny at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly.
Thats Orange Bowl contract worthy team and a tough top 3 BBall conference especially if UConn can ever get its act together again.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - IWokeUpLikeThis - 02-13-2020 07:39 PM
The big ones would be going back to the 7 regional conferences (ACC, BE, B1G, BXII, PAC, SEC, SWC) and the Big Ten going back to its midwestern roots - which its fans almost unanimously want.
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - GoldenWarrior11 - 02-13-2020 07:45 PM
I'll give two variations.
Catholic Conference
Creighton
Dayton
DePaul
Georgetown
Marquette
Notre Dame
Providence
Saint Louis
Seton Hall
St. John's
Villanova
Xavier
B1G/BE Merger (Land Grant/Metro Combination)
Connecticut
DePaul
Georgetown
Illinois
Indiana
Marquette
Maryland
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Providence
Rutgers
Seton Hall
St. John's
Syracuse
Villanova
Xavier
Wisconsin
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - BePcr07 - 02-13-2020 08:34 PM
Unrealistic:
West: Boise St, Washington, USC, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio St, Penn St
East: Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Florida St
Realistic:
West: Boise St*, Washington, USC, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio St, Penn St
East: Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Florida St
*Football-only / Gonzaga non-football
RE: Design Your Dream Conference(s) - Nerdlinger - 02-13-2020 08:40 PM
I'm not a fan of any of these teams, but it'd be neat to see a greater Northeast conference like this:
North: Boston College, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse
South: Maryland, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, West Virginia
Two protected annual crossovers per team preserve important FB rivalries like Michigan/OSU, PSU/Pitt, and Pitt/WVU.