Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[USF Bulls Football]

The ACC will invite FIU before they invite Navy.

[Azmodi]

I disagree. Navy has had talks with the ACC prior to joining the American. Navy wasn't ready to join the ACC as it perceived them to be too strong of a conference for Navy to flourish.

[Gismo]

SEC may take an ACC school. 

[Azmodi]

17 minutes ago, Gismo said:

SEC may take an ACC school. 

I doubt it. The ACC finally gets their network and someone bails? Nope, I think the ACC is stable for the foreseeable future.

USF needs to know what Oklahoma is doing before Texas leaves. Then we'd be able to play our cards right.

[NewEnglandBull]

3 hours ago, Azmodi said:

The way I see it, we're on the bubble either way.

1, Texas and Texas Tech with go to the PAC. That is pretty much what I've though the entire time.

2, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will go to the SEC. (Unless the Big 12 is promised to remain a Power conference. Then You may See the SEC take TCU instead of Oklahoma State).

3, The B1G will take Kansas and then UConn to balance out their conference so as not to split Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State.

4, The ACC will take Cincinnati and Navy (Football only).

This will leave;

1. WVU

2. TCU or Oklahoma State

3. Baylor

4, Kansas State

5, Iowa State.

They will add;

6, Houston.

7, If Oklahoma State remains, SMU. If TCU remains ?

8, USF

9, UCF.

10, Memphis.

11, ECU.

12, Temple.

13, Louisiana State.

14, Old Dominion

15, Arkansas state.

16, Georgia State (For the Atlanta market).

The Big 12 leftovers will not want to invite a small private outside of SMU.

Is this conference Power 5 worthy? I don't know. It has 5 teams that won 10 or more games last year. So theirs that at least.

 

No way you get a 16 team conf from this. It stays at 12. Your 13-16 schools add zero value. Georgia State? Arkansas State? Really????

[Azmodi]

26 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

No way you get a 16 team conf from this. It stays at 12. Your 13-16 schools add zero value. Georgia State? Arkansas State? Really????

They would be the best available as I'm guessing, the Media Partners would not want to go further west. I also stated that I doubt it was Power 5 worthy. I guess you missed that post. I further based the decision on Oklahoma as it would be their conference to build.

FYI, Georgia State is in Atlanta. That's all I said they brought to the table. Their location. As for Arkansas State, they are an adjacent state and would supplement the western division. It's all conjecture and guess work at this stage anyway.

[NewEnglandBull]

3 minutes ago, Azmodi said:

They would be the best available as I'm guessing, the Media Partners would not want to go further west. I also stated that I doubt it was Power 5 worthy. I guess you missed that post. I further based the decision on Oklahoma as it would be their conference to build.

FYI, Georgia State is in Atlanta. That's all I said they brought to the table. Their location. As for Arkansas State, they are an adjacent state and would supplement the western division. It's all conjecture and guess work at this stage anyway.

Understood, but I can't see any reason going to 16. The money for the 12 would be greater per team. I am very familiar with Georgia State. Perhaps their move into the old braves stadium will help, but their attendance makes USF look like Michigan. 

[Leviathan]

By the time USF gets into a "P5" conference it will be so full of replacement schools that we will still be on the outside looking in because then"P4" will be the elite group of conferences in college football.

Once OK and TX leave the Big 12, there will be no more Power 5. 

Edited May 10, 2017 by Leviathan

[NewEnglandBull]

8 minutes ago, Leviathan said:

By the time USF gets into a "P5" conference it will be so full of replacement schools that we will still be on the outside looking in because then"P4" will be the elite group of conferences in college football.

Once OK and TX leave the Big 12, there will be no more Power 5. 

By the time USF gets into a P5 conference I will be dead. 

[Gismo]

4 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

By the time USF gets into a P5 conference I will be dead. 

Morbid. -1

Edited May 10, 2017 by Gismo