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  • #376
    Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

    Originally posted by ExileOnDaytonStreet View Post
    Between Phoenix, LA and Seattle, there's enough quality stadiums to suggest rotating.

    That or Vegas.
    The Bay Area also has Candlestick, Oakland Colesium, and the new 49ers stadium whenever it actually gets built. Basically everywhere other than OU/OSU has a good one nearby.

    Cornell '04, Stanford '06

    KDR

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    • #377
      Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

      Originally posted by Bob Gray View Post
      The California schools would never accept being split up, so I don't see it ever happening.
      If they had rivalry games they could get around it. Stanford-Cal, Cal-UCLA*, and UCLA-USC are the only pairings that anybody cares about.

      (* and only the state legislature cares about this one)
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      • #378
        Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

        Mack Brown and Rick Neuheisel are slated to be on the Dan Patrick Show tomorrow. Probably not together though...

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        • #379
          Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

          Originally posted by Handyman View Post
          Someone posted this on Gopherpucklive no idea if it is a joke or not:

          http://twitter.com/broncohighway/status/16242109795
          Cant those schools just leave as well? If enough teams split with Texas you would think Texas would just go along too. I doubt they want to be left in a 6 team conf.
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          • #380
            Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

            Originally posted by NMU8405 View Post
            Cant those schools just leave as well? If enough teams split with Texas you would think Texas would just go along too. I doubt they want to be left in a 6 team conf.
            Ask Missouri how well that works.
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            • #381
              Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

              Originally posted by Bob Gray View Post
              The California schools would never accept being split up, so I don't see it ever happening. Other than that problem, your suggested alignment makes the most geographic sense.
              Ya, I was thinking break it into North/South:

              North:

              Washington
              Washington State
              Oregon
              Oregon State
              Colorado
              Utah

              South:

              USC
              UCLA
              Cal
              Stanford
              Arizona
              Arizona State

              Big Ten:

              East:

              Michigan
              Michigan State
              Penn State
              Ohio State
              Purdue
              Indiana

              West:

              Wisconsin
              Minnesota
              Iowa
              Nebraska
              Illinois
              Northwestern

              Two serious questions:

              1. Is the Big XII allowed to have a title game with 10 teams?
              2. Are these conferences going to change their names to reflect what they've become? Pac 12, Big Ten becoming Big 12, etc.

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              • #382
                Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                Originally posted by J.D. View Post
                Two serious questions:

                1. Is the Big XII allowed to have a title game with 10 teams?
                2. Are these conferences going to change their names to reflect what they've become? Pac 12, Big Ten becoming Big 12, etc.
                1. No, not as the current NCAA rules are structured.
                2. Depends. Pac-12 makes sense, since they were the Pac-8 before, and no one else is going to 'steal' Pac-anything as a name. Big XII might need to find a completely new name, and the Big Ten is one of the most recognized brands around - I can't see them changing it at all. Hell, the Atlantic 10 conference has 15 members.
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                • #383
                  Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                  The next question to me is will the Big 12 try to add two teams?

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                  • #384
                    Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                    Originally posted by J.D. View Post
                    The next question to me is will the Big 12 try to add two teams?
                    It seems unlikely that they would; from what I'm reading, one of the things driving the present outcome is that ESPN/ABC was willing to stick by the contract they signed when the contract had twelve teams, and that payout is now only being split ten ways. The time when things might start to get interesting is when we approach the expiry of the current deal, then it might be in the XII/X's interest to go back up to twelve if they can get teams in the right markets.
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                    • #385
                      Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                      Originally posted by J.D. View Post
                      Big Ten:

                      East:

                      Michigan
                      Michigan State
                      Penn State
                      Ohio State
                      Purdue
                      Indiana

                      West:

                      Wisconsin
                      Minnesota
                      Iowa
                      Nebraska
                      Illinois
                      Northwestern
                      Possibly, what are your cross division permanent games?
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                      When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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                      • #386
                        Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                        I say the Big 12 should rename itself the SWAC, in recognition of Texas taking over and dominating the remnants of the Big 8.
                        Originally posted by Priceless
                        Good to see you're so reasonable.
                        Originally posted by ScoobyDoo
                        Very well, said.
                        Originally posted by Rover
                        A fair assessment Bob.

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                        • #387
                          Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                          Originally posted by Bob Gray View Post
                          I say the Big 12 should rename itself the SWAC, in recognition of Texas taking over and dominating the remnants of the Big 8.
                          Not enough Texas.

                          Ideally, the league would just be called "Texas", but I suppose one has to at least recognize that there are other people in the league. The Texas Ten is a cromulent name.
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                          • #388
                            Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                            The Big TeXas.
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                            • #389
                              Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                              I think the name: "SAC" fits a lot better...
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                              Originally posted by SanTropez
                              May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                              Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                              I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                              Originally posted by Kepler
                              When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                              • #390
                                Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

                                Originally posted by bronconick View Post
                                The Big TeXa$.
                                I like this, with one little addition.

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