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As was expected.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... separation

Great news as we need to move on as soon as possible. Now we know who is in and who is out for the short term at least. It should help speed up negotiations with the media and landing the media contract should add some sort of stability to the conference.

This probably is good news. Keeping SDSU in the new Big East would have meant trying to find some other Western school to pair them with, and the pickings are pretty slim outside of the Pac-12 and MWC.

Plus, you would have the constant threat (real or perceived) of SDSU bolting to rejoin the MWC. Better to cut ties now and wish them well.

Clarity is good.

Now the next two non-Power Conferences, BE and MWC, will now divide the remaining nation market 75% to 25%. I do not expect SMU and/Houston to be pulled into MWC orbit.

Next move is BE with a focus on retaining UConn and Cincinnati by reinforcing BB appeal.

Next move should be to add Army for football only. Then aggressively pursue a television contract. 9 or 10 teams in all sports, 12 teams for football. Great markets, national appeal thanks to Army, Navy, Texas, Florida and Northeast markets. Solid basketball.

Army is not in picture-nor have they been in discussion.

Nothing that wasn't expected. It would have been a pain to has a coast to coast league with only 1 team to the West of us.

May the Aztecs live long and prosper in those fertile recruiting regions of Idaho and Nevada

It would have been fun going to games in San Diego! Oh well time to move on.

Unless something different happens it looks like we play everyone in the conference.

Water Pony wrote:Clarity is good.

Now the next two non-Power Conferences, BE and MWC, will now divide the remaining nation market 75% to 25%. I do not expect SMU and/Houston to be pulled into MWC orbit.

Next move is BE with a focus on retaining UConn and Cincinnati by reinforcing BB appeal.

Crystal Clear:

1) MWC is now the "best of the rest" conference as they are supperior in both Basketball and Football.

2) They are stable now and the Big East is not.

3) Cincy and Uconn will not remain in the conference and when they are gone, we are in Conference USA part 2.

With the BCS bid coming from the MWC yealry coupled with good basketball (could be very good if BYU and Gonzaga join) our choice is obvious. Nobody on the East Coast is going to watch SMU play Temple because it comes on at noon, so I'd like to at least have them watch us as the MWC champion on New Years Day.

Add SMU, UH, BYU and Gonzaga and you have a pretty Salty 16 team league.

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Water Pony wrote:Clarity is good.

Now the next two non-Power Conferences, BE and MWC, will now divide the remaining nation market 75% to 25%. I do not expect SMU and/Houston to be pulled into MWC orbit.

Next move is BE with a focus on retaining UConn and Cincinnati by reinforcing BB appeal.

Crystal Clear:

1) MWC is now the "best of the rest" conference as they are supperior in both Basketball and Football.

2) They are stable now and the Big East is not.

3) Cincy and Uconn will not remain in the conference and when they are gone, we are in Conference USA part 2.

With the BCS bid coming from the MWC yealry coupled with good basketball (could be very good if BYU and Gonzaga join) our choice is obvious. Nobody on the East Coast is going to watch SMU play Temple because it comes on at noon, so I'd like to at least have them watch us as the MWC champion on New Years Day.

Add SMU, UH, BYU and Gonzaga and you have a pretty Salty 16 team league.

Since BSU has a "first, among equals" deal and the balance of MWC will not see revenue gains despite your mislabeled "best of the rest", SMU going west is bad for revenue, media exposure, misplaced time zones (MT and PT) for media and fans, and weak teams with exception of Broncos and, perhaps, Aztecs. And, BYU will never joined a conference that is weaker than the one they previously left.

Strengthening the East and 3/4's of the media world makes the only sense. Besides, losing UConn and Cincinnati is not a given. Combined with Temple, Memphis, USF and a rising LB lead team, BE BB looks good.

Not crystal clear and not over by a long shot. SMU is rightly keeping its powder dry.

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@ChuckCarltonDMN: Big 12's Bowlsby said league board of directors would discuss "advantages and disadvantages of getting bigger" later this month.

Why jump when lots of movement still to come and the MWC will always take us when and if we decide to bolt.

we barely knew yea.....

onward.

I know this stuff is constantly changing, but for the moment I'm not too worried about Cincy and UConn bolting for another league. Right now, the ACC is not interested and they don't have anywhere else to go. Should the ACC take a second look at Cincy and UConn, it will be because its been raided once again by the Big-10, SEC, and/or Big-12. When that raid of the ACC happens, I think its going to be a bloodbath. Its not going to be limited to the ACC losing one or two schools. One of the big boys will take a couple of schools, and the others will be right behind them to take their pick of the rest. In that scenario, Cincy and UConn may go. . .but my thought is that they won't be the only ones. And we'll be in as good a position as anyone to join them.