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

[BOBB]

The level of copium in here.

“Maybe we can get Northeast Westsouth Nebraska added for a real powerhouse conference.” It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Several more shakeups coming down the pike with the possibility of WSU getting bounced from the conference in the next decade. If you don’t see this you are willfully blind.

[Stickboy46]

Some are suggesting Army might actually be interested in the AAC this time because the conference isn't as strong as it was before. I guess they originally went Indy in part because they didn't like getting caved in every conference game.

Army would be more valuable conference member (media/brand wise) than SMU if Aresco can swing it.

Give me Army/VCU combo .. then use the Army/Navy combo to pull in AFA/CSU.

[TrackSuitAndTie]

Some are suggesting Army might actually be interested in the AAC this time because the conference isn't as strong as it was before. I guess they originally went Indy in part because they didn't like getting caved in every conference game.

Army would be more valuable conference member (media/brand wise) than SMU if Aresco can swing it.

[C0|dB|00ded]

So contracting to your original point, SMU selling their souls for a group of schools that want to get out might not be worth trading our first-borns for after all.

SMU will be the Rutgers of the ACC.

The ones who've been mentioned as wanting to jump (for football) would still leave a basketball conference 3 million times better than where we're at. Yeah... I'll take Duke over Rice, Syracuse over ECU, Louisville over Tulsa. I would go on, but I literally couldn't recite the full membership of the AAC to save my life. A bunch of no-name directional University of Phoenix hopefuls.

[pogo]

Looks like it was NC State that voted in favor of the additions that allowed the three teams to join the acc. Wonder if they were looking down the road to a time when FSU and Clemson opt to leave for the sec. The disparity between the payouts of the sec/big and the acc will force a change in the membership in the acc

[Kung Wu]

Sounds like a good school. Sign em up

[shock]

I'm a BU alumn. They only care about hockey.

Sounds like a good school. Sign em up

[BostonWu]

I’m not sure any of the A-10 schools would leave to be hoops only here.

I’d like to see Boston U added. Huge enrollment, great academic and research school, and a lot like Rice where if we can get the alumni engaged and then commit to sports they could be very solid.

I'm a BU alumn. They only care about hockey.

[Onegreatracer]

IF we can get the AAC target of Army for football, why Boston U for basketball when Army is already in that same conference. Basketball wise, I don't think either Boston U or Army's basketball moves the needle. VCU or Dayton does move the basketball needle. As a conference, the A-10 seems to have lost a lot of their basketball status of late.

A10 and VCU/Dayton fans I've talked to seem to think they wouldn't leave for pretty much anything and that the programs value their geographic rivalries. Who knows how much truth there is to that.

[Shock Top]

How will they work out the Army/Navy game, with them in the same conference?

That can’t be messed with.

[ShockTalk]

I’m not sure any of the A-10 schools would leave to be hoops only here.

I’d like to see Boston U added. Huge enrollment, great academic and research school, and a lot like Rice where if we can get the alumni engaged and then commit to sports they could be very solid.

IF we can get the AAC target of Army for football, why Boston U for basketball when Army is already in that same conference. Basketball wise, I don't think either Boston U or Army's basketball moves the needle. VCU or Dayton does move the basketball needle. As a conference, the A-10 seems to have lost a lot of their basketball status of late.

[Shoxing Me Softly]

No full shares for UNT/UTSA from AAC for awhile. So new PAC/MWC merger could actually entice them. Might be some truth to the clown tweet and UNT/UTSA and Wichita. Would be 16 teams with Wichita offsetting Hawaii and giving close team to the Texas teams.

still that tweet seemed way out of left field

[Shoxing Me Softly]

I wouldn’t mind the MWC IF Gonzaga is our non-football counterpart.

There is only room for one (Hawaii’s other half)

[shock]

I wouldn’t mind the MWC IF Gonzaga is our non-football counterpart.

[Onegreatracer]

I’m not sure any of the A-10 schools would leave to be hoops only here.

I’d like to see Boston U added. Huge enrollment, great academic and research school, and a lot like Rice where if we can get the alumni engaged and then commit to sports they could be very solid.