<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Stallion:
<B>...that is good news indeed for SMU especially if ECU or USF or even Memphis is the third team in addition to Cincy and Louisville. That will leave one more spot ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by WildHorse:
<B>That's really not a bad idea.
Send it to Karl Benson!</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Actually, I sent it to him about three weeks ago. My rationale was a little ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Casey:
<B>Damn - the Rice AD also went on vacation instead of to a meeting that could help determine the athletic future of his employer? What's with people these days ...

The WAC's ESPN/ESPN2 ratings the past two seasons have been 19% higher than the MWCs and 17% higher than CUSA's. Benson was quoted in the Hawaii paper as saying that when television contracts are renegotiated, the WAC will get every bit the exposure and television contract that the MWC gets ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sam I Am:
<B>TCU ain't leaving the C-USA and UNLV wants the MWC. The Yoda plan is only a dream, not a prospect for the future. If you are going to dream, then dream BIG - as ...

Phew... Just in time.

Almost died for lack of a second...

<A HREF="http://westsports.com/yodaplan.pdf" TARGET=_blank>http://westsports.com/yodaplan.pdf</A>

Yoda out...

Mr. Tanner,
From my conversations with Jim Copeland, I would say his first choice is to
stay with the WAC in a two-division format.
Thanks for the note.
Gerry Fraley

The same basic post offended some folks on the WFF and I wanted to clarify what I meant. Following is a repost...

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My apologies for any offense as none was intended. My point wasn't that the schools in that conference would be of a D1-A quality or that they would be inferior to ...

That's a really dumb idea unless SMU, TCU, Rice, Houston, et. al. have resigned themselves to going forward in a defacto D1-AA conference.

Correct me if I'm wrong - I read it a couple of hours ago and it’s not worth reading twice - but if I recall, Copeland’s contribution to that article was very ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hoop Fan:
<B>Private Division: SMU, Rice, Tulane, Army, Navy, Tulsa

Public Division: Houston, La Tech, UAB, Utep, New Mexico State and UNT.</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE ...

Not so fast. The Big East has to know that the ACC will likely be back for another bite later. So I say that they not just replace the two lost schools, they expand all the way to 10 or 12, to give themselves some room to lose somebody. So what happens if CUSA loses Louisville, Cincinnati, Memphis ...

I understand what they think but they (along with the W-WAC Presidents) are operating under an out of date paradigm. They are looking at them today and at us yesterday -- when the split occurred.
If the logic is there, they will eventually come around. And I think that the logic is there.

Yoda ...

Sorry... I screwed up. That was intended as a response to EastStang under a different thread.

Please ignore this thread and I will go back there...

I understand what they think but they (along with the W-WAC Presidents) are operating under an out of date paradigm. They are looking at them today and at us yesterday -- when the split occurred.

If the logic is there, they will eventually come around. And I think that the logic is there.

Yoda ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Water Pony:
<B>Also, the assumption that UNLV and SDSU would leave the Mtn. West doesn't make sense. The WAC would need to project a stronger image and future than the Mtn ...