02-13-2012, 08:35 PM
Wow, I wonder how many fans will commute from Hawaii to East Carolina for a conference football game? (Do these meglaconglomerates have to file an EIR before they're allowed to merge?) There's a rivalry waiting to happen. And Stanford complains about having to go 1000-3000 miles or more for a tournament game.
Yvonne, don't disparage them:
 Both UNLV and UTEP (by its former name) won a NCAA Div. 1 men's basketball championship more recently than the Stanford Indians did.
 Rice beat Stanford for the baseball championship in 2003.
I say universities should be done with it, and just form the National Conference of American Athletics, so they don't have to deal with these small 24 team conferences. They could then compete in divisions like the Political Action Committee 12, Big Eats, the Yet-Another-Coalition, the S.E. Conglomerate, etc.
Yvonne, don't disparage them:
 Both UNLV and UTEP (by its former name) won a NCAA Div. 1 men's basketball championship more recently than the Stanford Indians did.
 Rice beat Stanford for the baseball championship in 2003.
I say universities should be done with it, and just form the National Conference of American Athletics, so they don't have to deal with these small 24 team conferences. They could then compete in divisions like the Political Action Committee 12, Big Eats, the Yet-Another-Coalition, the S.E. Conglomerate, etc.