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C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:45 pm
by BRStang
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... nt-leftout

Also talking about a merger is the Mountain West Conference and Conference USA.

Mountain West Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson told the Idaho Statesmen that he and CUSA Commissioner Britton Banowsky “resurrected this consolidation concept with Conference USA from a football-only standpoint.”

A union between those schools could create one BCS automatic qualifying league, but there’s no guarantee some of those schools won’t also look elsewhere.

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:47 pm
by Comet
This is really SMU's only feasible solution in all of this. I hope this actually happens, and I hope the conference isn't named C-USA, that sounds terribly mid-major.

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:49 pm
by mrydel
Call it the "Automatic Qualifying Conference". It would be harder for them not to let us in.

C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:49 pm
by smupony94
Cut some dead weight

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:54 pm
by redpony
smupony94 wrote:Cut some dead weight


Absolutely, cut out the dead weight in both conferences and build a conference by merging the best of the best and then adding some other teams that might have been left out by the others. 8)
Baylor need not apply. :x

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Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:56 pm
by mathman
smupony94 wrote:Cut some dead weight

That is going to have to be done. Dog eat dog right now.

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:57 pm
by RednBlue11
Comet wrote:This is really SMU's only feasible solution in all of this. I hope this actually happens, and I hope the conference isn't named C-USA, that sounds terribly mid-major.



the way things are going the BCS is going to be left w/ only 5 super confs...so maybe they let Conference Mountain America States of the West be the 6th after the BE is picked clean.

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:00 pm
by BRStang
If the C-USA and MWC merger would be accepted as an AQ conference (after trimming the fat), it should be done immediately :!:

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:06 pm
by Mestengo
So drop
UAB
TULANE

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:08 pm
by redpony
And Rice as they have no real commitment to fball.

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C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:09 pm
by smupony94
Rice

C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:13 pm
by Dutch
All this is making my head spin

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:15 pm
by skyscraper
No brainer cuts to be made
CUSA- Rice, Tulane, UAB
MWC- Wyoming

C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:16 pm
by smupony94
Dutch wrote:All this is making my head spin

Is that official?

Re: C-USA and MWC talking merger, too

PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:19 pm
by redpony
Hope you're not cooking tonight at 1st&10. :lol:

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