NCAA Football, 2014-2015

[Valmy]

The answer is simple.  Add Wyoming and some other loser team out east and roll in all the added media bucks of having the nation's smallest population state as part of the coverage zone!

As much as everybody loves road games in Laramie in November...

[sbr]

Take Boise State.

[Valmy]

Take Boise State.

Is this a serious suggestion?  West Virginia has been calling for a partner out East so if the league does do some expanding, and I do not think they will, then it will be in that direction.

[Ed Anger]

Ugh, Boise State.

[sbr]

Take Boise State.

Is this a serious suggestion?  West Virginia has been calling for a partner out East so if the league does do some expanding, and I do not think they will, then it will be in that direction.

Not really.

[Eddie Teach]

Take Boise State.

Is this a serious suggestion?

Maybe he hates you and wants to force you to watch a game on that blue field every other year.

[Valmy]

Not really.

You are not the first person to suggest it.  It is just a crazy idea.  A school way out in BFE with nothing to recommend it?

[jimmy olsen]

Oh cool.  More realignment talk. 

Here's my idea:  B12 to 14 teams (they hold the trademark on Big 14, so that becomes the name).  Add Cincy, ECU, UCF, USF.  Split the divisions East/West. 

Done.

WVU has some nearby teams, and now there are trips to both Florida and Texas for recruiting.   

BYU is independent. All those other schools are inferior academically and athletically, not just to BYU but also the Big 12 membership.

I don't know about academically, but looking at their record in the last decade football wise Cincinnati seems on par or better than several Big 12 teams.

Cincinnati and Memphis are both top 50 media markets as well.

[Valmy]

I don't know about academically, but looking at their record in the last decade football wise Cincinnati seems on par or better than several Big 12 teams.

If you go by record Mount Union is on par or better than Alabama.

[jimmy olsen]

I don't know about academically, but looking at their record in the last decade football wise Cincinnati seems on par or better than several Big 12 teams.

If you go by record Mount Union is on par or better than Alabama.

Unlike Mount Union, Cincinnati plays FBS football and have been 75-28 in that since 2007. They were in the Big East for most of that time, and while Big East wasn't a strong conference, it wasn't the WAC either.

Also, it's the 34th largest media market in the US.

[Eddie Teach]

Harvard is undefeated and didn't win all their games by just 3 points. 

[Valmy]

I don't know about academically, but looking at their record in the last decade football wise Cincinnati seems on par or better than several Big 12 teams.

If you go by record Mount Union is on par or better than Alabama.

Unlike Mount Union, Cincinnati plays FBS football and have been 75-28 in that since 2007. They were in the Big East for most of that time, and while Big East wasn't a strong conference, it wasn't the WAC either.

Also, it's the 34th largest media market in the US.

Yeah and SUNY Stony Brook is in the largest

Cinci is under consideration but they are hardly a juicy morsel.  Nobody in Cincinnati cares about them.

[jimmy olsen]

If Cincinnati got in the Big 12 interest would go up, surely.

The Big 12 should add Cincinnati, Memphis, UCF and Colorado state (close to Denver and the legislature just voted to build them a new stadium).

[Valmy]

Doubtful.  People are not fans of schools because of what conference they are in.  Ohio belongs to Ohio State and Cincinnati belongs to professional sports.

I have heard Memphis and Colorado State thrown out there.  But really this is just adding schools to add schools and I don't think there is enough interest by the ADs in the conference for it go forward.  Besides adding Colorado State would upset PDH too much for me to support.

[MadImmortalMan]

PDH's opinion is obviously the biggest consideration. He really should be running the NCAA.