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SBC proposing a four-conference merger
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:22 am
by EPJr
News of conference realignment has mostly been focused around the relocation - both actual moves and rumors - of teams in current BCS conferences, but the drama surrounding conference membership has run through all 11 FBS schools over the last several months.
An open records request by the The Murfreesboro Daily News Journal has revealed some of the efforts Sun Belt Conference commissioner Karl Benson took to preserve the future of the league. This included proposing a four-conference merger, convincing current Conference USA members to join the Sun Belt, and targeting as many as 21 schools for possible expansion.
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Re: SBC proposing a four-conference merger
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:22 am
by SuperHornet
This behemoth is a non-starter in my book. It's too big to adequately determine champions on the basis of head-to-head and common opponents alone. You'd be reduced to point differentials and (sometimes) a bloody coin toss, and where's the fun in that? This super-conference nonsense has GOT to go.
It won't leave, I'm sure, because there seems to be too much $$ in it. But IMO it's stupid nonetheless. Not that anyone is going to listed to little ol' SH....
Re: SBC proposing a four-conference merger
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:32 pm
by 93henfan
SuperHornet wrote:Not that anyone is going to listed to little ol' SH....
You got that shit right.
Re: SBC proposing a four-conference merger
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:20 am
by andy7171
93henfan wrote:SuperHornet wrote:Not that anyone is going to listed to little ol' SH....
You got that shit right.
Why is he talking like Penelope Pitstop?
Re: SBC proposing a four-conference merger
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:25 am
by Ibanez
SuperHornet wrote:This behemoth is a non-starter in my book. It's too big to adequately determine champions on the basis of head-to-head and common opponents alone. You'd be reduced to point differentials and (sometimes) a bloody coin toss, and where's the fun in that? This super-conference nonsense has GOT to go.
It won't leave, I'm sure, because there seems to be too much $$ in it. But IMO it's stupid nonetheless. Not that anyone is going to listed to little ol' SH....
Did you say something?
Re: SBC proposing a four-conference merger
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:03 pm
by SuperHornet
andy7171 wrote:93henfan wrote:
You got that shit right.
Why is he talking like Penelope Pitstop?
Because the Hooded Claw is after me AGAIN!
Re: SBC proposing a four-conference merger
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:07 pm
by SuperHornet
Re: SBC proposing a four-conference merger
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:04 am
by tampajag
sometimes.......wow.............