BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

My parents went to a D-II school that used to consider South Dakota State one of its big rivals. Alas, Fort Hays State has been left behind.

 

If they move to the AAC, is that a signal Wichita State might try to revive the football program at some point? Obviously, it's not something that can be done overnight.

 

I think they originally reached out to the Mountain West with the idea of bringing back football, but the Kochs and others decided the cost was too high. If they go AAC it is to balance out football only member Navy.

 

The Hartford Courant and others have mused about a reunion between UConn and the Big East. Maybe UConn can form a three-team football-only league with UMass and Army.

Jeff Jacobs: UConn-Big East Talk Just Gets Louder

 

My favorite quote from the article:

"Right now, the UConn hierarchy does not want to weaken football to the point where, if the Power Five (or whatever form the monopoly has) comes looking in future years, the program would be so irrelevant that the conferences would say forget UConn."

The chances of the Power Five coming for UConn are markedly less than me having a relationship with Maria Sharapova. UConn football is irrelevant. Randy Edsall is not going to make them a national power. He has won one game against a top 25 team in his career.

Furthermore the Power Five was formed basically to exclude schools from the television money such as UConn. It is quite likely that when the contract for the Longhorn Network expires the Big 12 collapses and schools such as Iowa State will be getting booted from the Power Five. The UConn's and Cincinnati's of the world will not be getting added.

 

Or if you are UConn and optimistic, the Pac 10 adds two teams and the Big 12 gets its act together and adds 4 teams so the power five are all 14-team leagues and you think you'd be one of those six. It's not likely but if you're program goes to shit you don't stand a chance of being considered. Of course you'd think UConn would realize it's a basketball school and everyone knows it as one and just go with that.

 

The only way the PAC-12 adds more teams is by raiding Texas + Somebody from the Big 12. At that point, the Big 12 will cease to be a power conference and it won't matter if it adds UConn, BYU or Palmer College of Chiropractic.

 

Well that that point, the Big 12 could go all in and give the world to Notre Dame to get them to join.

There are scenarios that Uconn could squint and see take place. Almost everyone else would say no chance but if they want to grasp, it's there.

 

I hear they are great at adjustments in their bend but don't break defense.

 

But in their efforts to grasp for a Power Five berth they will probably damage one of thier premier products which are the basketball teams. Big time college are a business. In business you concentrate on your best products. You do not risk diluting thier brand value by taking a longshot on an inferior product.

 

The ACC and Big Ten have no clue what you're talking about.

 

Smart solutions that will probably happen:
* Wichita to the AAC. If football ever becomes reality again, it would have a home. And Wichita is as close to Houston, SMU, Tulsa and Memphis as it is to most of its competition in the MVC.
Smart solutions that won't happen:
* Dayton and Saint Louis to the Big East. Dayton has non-skolly FCS football, Saint Louis has nothing. Both are religious schools that would give Creighton, DePaul, Butler and Xavier some closer rivals.
* Old Dominion and Charlotte to the A-10. Both have the potential to be just as good as Dayton in hoops to offset that loss. And ODU especially seems to be having some buyer's remorse in all sports thanks to the ridiculous travel involved in CUSA. But FOOTBAW, so no, this will never happen.