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Post by GoYotes on Dec 15, 2012 14:00:34 GMT -6
Quite a bit of message board and Twitter talk about Creighton joining the new conference being formed by the Catholic 7 leaving the Big East. How will this effect the Summit? My guess is that if the Bluejays do leave, a couple of Valley teams will join the MAC and/or whatever Conf USA turns into and that the remaining teams in the Summit, Valley, Horizon & A-10 will merge into 3 conferences. UND will also be reunited with the other 3 Dakotas.
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Dec 15, 2012 14:29:33 GMT -6
Interesting thought, I wonder what will happen, but I wonder if this leads to nd joining that conference or those schools joining the Atlantic, which was discussed earlier.
Don't tell coyotefan about valley schools joining the Mac, the Mac is NAIA level to him so that would just disprove everything.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Dec 15, 2012 18:50:20 GMT -6
CF#1 you make so many assumptions about me that it is laughable. I never said the MAC was a bad conference. They just happen to be the 9th best football conference of the 11 FBS conferences. Maybe I think the M-Valley-FC is comparable to the MAC, but that does not mean I think the MAC isn't a good conference when it relates to USD. For an all sports conference USD would be lucky to be in a conference with members that are currently in the Valley all sports conference or MAC.
I will say that with all this conference scrambling it's a good thing that USD is moving forward with facility plans and not backwards or sideways. USD is going to need facility upgrades to simply be a viable D1 athletic school period.
One thing USD has going for it is it's academic reputation and it's name. Not many colleges can claim to be the University of their state. Some states don't even have a University of their state at all. I don't think there is a U of NJ or a NJ State. Having that name and academic reputation certainly won't hurt USD. Now they just need to get a better rep on the field of play.
Sorry if I don't consider the MAC on the same level as the SEC, Pac 12, Big 10, Big 12 etc. They just aren't when it comes to all sports. That doesn't mean I think they are terrible.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Dec 15, 2012 18:59:40 GMT -6
One thing interesting about all this conference shuffling. When it comes to SDSU and USD for that matter going into a better conference might mean losing the priviledge of being home teams every year for the foreseeable future for their conference basketball tourney. That is something that may be lost in all of this. Will Sioux Falls still have as much power if USD and SDSU go in a different direction from the Summit.
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Dec 15, 2012 23:32:27 GMT -6
Will Sioux Falls have as much power with Denver coming in? Wouldn't it be funny if in 5 years usd ended up in the Mac, the league coyotefan thinks isn't an actual conference?
Never said they were the PAC-12, just said fbs ... Which generates more revenue than FCS football....
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Dec 15, 2012 23:36:54 GMT -6
Also, what does being the state university have to do with anything? Look at notre same, pretty successful, and Rutgers just went to the big 10....duke, just a ton of examples. And tons of schools at the d-1 level have a great institutional background. Come on.
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Post by wrj on Dec 16, 2012 9:31:23 GMT -6
Also, what does being the state university have to do with anything? Look at notre same, pretty successful, and Rutgers just went to the big 10....duke, just a ton of examples. And tons of schools at the d-1 level have a great institutional background. Come on. I don't understand your point here. How does Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, fit in with Notre Dame and Duke in your example? |
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Dec 16, 2012 11:13:15 GMT -6
Also, what does being the state university have to do with anything? Look at notre same, pretty successful, and Rutgers just went to the big 10....duke, just a ton of examples. And tons of schools at the d-1 level have a great institutional background. Come on. I don't understand your point here. How does Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, fit in with Notre Dame and Duke in your example? Because I keep forgetting they are the state university of New Jersey. I knew they were a public school, just keep forgetting they are the state school since the reasoning for always wanting Rutgers in a conference is part of the "new york" market. Thanks for catching that WRJ. |
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