The Homeless Five...What Happens?

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Conference USA expansion

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Already at 12, so one of the Homeless Five is still dicked...(and we know it'd be ISU)

I'm hoping they raid another conference, like CUSA, then the SunBelt/WAC/CUSA leftovers can work it out

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Kansas will find a good home, I reckon the Big10..

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This. So will MU. Just waiting for the Tex-arse schools to bolt. ISU, OSU, KSU and Baylor will have to join the "Plains" division of the Mountain West (but by "inviting" them to join the Big-12, they'll keep the Big-12's BCS bid).

Pac-16
East: TX, TT, A&M, OU, CU Utah, ASU, Ariz
West: USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, OSU, UW, Wazoo

Big-12/Mountain West/Old WAC
Plains: ISU, OSU, KSU, CSU, AF, Wyo, Baylor, TCU
Mountain: Boise, BYU, SDSU, UNLV, Fresno, Nevada, Hawaii, NM

Big-16
West: NU, MU, KU, IA, MN, WI, NW, IL
East: Purdue, IN, OSU, MSU, MI, PSU, CT, Rutgers

so RockChalk, I take it you think aTm will cave in at the last min and joing the Pac16, despite all the SEC talk?

I kinda think that too, but I hope I'm wrong...if the SEC is going to have to expand (because everyone else is), I want them to have aTm...

IMO ISU and Baylor are fricked - and KSU is hoping MU and KU are fricked so they have a reason to stand by KSU

Kansas and Missouri might be fricked but they have enough positives that they may still complete a hail-mary and land somewhere good

Missouri is probably the fourth team on teh Big 10's wish list at this point - behind Notre Dame, Rutgers, and Maryland. I don't think Syracuse or Pitt make as much sense as MU. Fortunately for Missouri - 4th may still end up being high enough if they go to 16

I could be wrong with Kansas but I think they are more likely to end up in the PAC than the Big 10. Regarding the Big 10 - they do offer superior basketball but they don't have much in the way of population, are further west (without the national football cred of Nebraska) and just offer less of a media market. They are probably somewhat tied to KSU as well... so depending on how things shake out Kansas ends up in the PAC without KSU and MU or trying to forge a new conference affiliation with MU and KSU as the other two name players

"Deserves got nothing to do with it" - Unforgiven


Every single school and conference mentioned in all of these discussions has acted in their own self interest. From the Big 10, to Nebraska and Missouri, to Texas, Colorado, and teh PAC 10