Realignment Carousel Spins Up again (USC and UCLA to Big 10)

[TrackSuitAndTie]

[TrackSuitAndTie]

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Starting football would be a great use of that surplus $100 million sitting in athletic department coffers. All we have to do is put a tax an a ballot to have the city build a 60,000 seat stadium. There's no doubt that would pass in a landslide. The excitement of that new team starting up in a new stadium in Wichita wouldn't have any trouble attracting 60,000 rabid football fans away from supporting KU or K-State, or even OU.

Those first couple of years when we'd likely be playing teams like McNeese State, Houston Christian, Northwestern State, Incarnate Word, and others in the Southland Conference would ensure some lopsided wins and maintain the fan level and support at a fever pitch.

Can't miss!

Who cares about stadiums. Just mow down a 100 yard patch next to K96 and people can bring blankets and sit on the highway berms. Wichitans will think they're at a CU game in Boulder.

We're gonna be in the equivalent of the MVC (or worse) in about a year anyways.

[Aargh]

If we remain in this shell of a conference, we need to restart football tomorrow. Hell, the AAC would need us to restart football. They need product. And we need to redefine ourselves as a football school or go back to the MVC and play Evansville.

Starting football would be a great use of that surplus $100 million sitting in athletic department coffers. All we have to do is put a tax an a ballot to have the city build a 60,000 seat stadium. There's no doubt that would pass in a landslide. The excitement of that new team starting up in a new stadium in Wichita wouldn't have any trouble attracting 60,000 rabid football fans away from supporting KU or K-State, or even OU.

Those first couple of years when we'd likely be playing teams like McNeese State, Houston Christian, Northwestern State, Incarnate Word, and others in the Southland Conference would ensure some lopsided wins and maintain the fan level and support at a fever pitch.

Can't miss!

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If we remain in this shell of a conference, we need to restart football tomorrow. Hell, the AAC would need us to restart football. They need product. And we need to redefine ourselves as a football school or go back to the MVC and play Evansville.

[calfan]

This writer shares my thoughts:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/pac-12-adding-mountain-west-schools-sets-new-standard-of-pointlessness-in-college-sports/ar-AA1qsJvC?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[Stickboy46]

25 million in exit fees to move to a conference that is posting a best case scenario of 2-5 million more a year and will add 2 million plus in travel.

All to be in a glorified MWC. I struggle where any of this makes sense. It made more sense when the Pac still was considered a P conference. They have lost all of the official benefits of that.

[Stickboy46]

If the AAC loses Memphis, Tulane, USF, and UTSA I worry it won't be in a position to even backfill from the MWC. I wouldn't hate going to the MWC if it meant bringing schools like Tulsa, UNT, and UAB with us.

If we lose 4 and they lose 4, we are still in the position of power over them IMO. They would also be under the required number of schools to be a conference. Air Force is almost a certainty to jump at that point. Its a domino effect. There is almost zero chance in that situation that AAC schools go to the MWC, but a very high chance of the other way around.

[TrackSuitAndTie]

The Ross Dellenger article linked earlier in the thread actually did note that USF would prefer to remain in the AAC for now.

[TrackSuitAndTie]

The fact that USF could soon be in the PAC while Stanford and Cal currently sit in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference makes absolute jackshit no sense.

The Ross Dellenger article linked earlier in the thread actually did note that USF would prefer to remain in the AAC for now.

[Kung Wu]

The fact that USF could soon be in the PAC while Stanford and Cal currently sit in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference makes absolute jackshit no sense.

[ShockBand]

The fact that USF could soon be in the PAC while Stanford and Cal currently sit in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference makes absolute jackshit no sense.

FUBAR

[WuShock16]

The fact that USF could soon be in the PAC while Stanford and Cal currently sit in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference makes absolute jackshit no sense.

[ShockBand]

Sister's got hops! Well, it is Miller Lite, so not a lot of hops...

[Kung Wu]

That won't get through the clergy.