Posted by npb7768 on 9/2/2015 2:08:00 PM (view original):
Posted by dacj501 on 9/2/2015 11:54:00 AM (view original):
same issue as always when these threads pop up.
Got bored looking at the different proposals, but just on the link that the only submitted there are 6 teams that are bounced from big 6 conferences to also rans.
How do you convince potentially 60 different paying users who built their career to get to a big 6 conference, maybe spanning a couple years of real-time experience and maybe a couple hundred bucks investment, that they are now in the A 10 or Horizon and that's ok? Offer them credits? Let them get ****** and quit? I don't see Fox and WiS doing either of those...
The solution would be to make the new American Athletic a major conference, allowing (in my scenario) for Louisville, Cincinnati and UConn to remain in the "Big Six". Rutgers, an original AAC member, but which I placed in back their original A-10 home, could flip with Temple of the American.
So Rutgers, Louisville, Cincinnati and UConn maintain their Big Six status ("Big Seven" I guess), and as an added bonus there will be 8 additional teams added to the "Big Seven", which would be the other American Athletic schools... Memphis, Houston, Tulsa, Tulane, SMU, East Carolina, South Florida and Central Florida.
Notre Dame would be the only team ending in a worse spot, in their Horizon home of the 1980's, but we can probably figure out a solution to that. Give me a few minutes.
There are a couple of issues with the Notre Dame proposal that are worth mentioning that I think make it hard to justify:
1) since 1985 (when the field was expanded to 64) Notre Dame's basketball program has made the NCAA tourney 16 times. There are at least 33 HD "big 6" schools with fewer RL appearances during that time including:
Alabama, Arizona St, Cal, Clemson, Colorado, Florida St, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kansas St, LSU, Miami, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mississippi St, Nebraska, Northwestern, Iowa, Oregon, Oregon St, Penn St, Seton Hall, South Carolina, USC, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Washington, Washington St, and West Virgina;
2) Notre Dame men's basketball has NEVER been a member of the Horizon league. Other sports were, but men's basketball wasn't. The basketball program has always been either independent, part of the Big East, or now the ACC.
At the end of the day, I really don't care one way or another about realigning conferences, it's kind of fun to look at but it would be a never ending battle to get right. I still think the work you did was pretty good though.