BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

The Atlantis 10: Hawaii, Washington, Seattle, Oregon, Oregon State, Portland, San Francisco, Long Beach State, USC, UCLA as well as (in keeping with 2010s tradition of being unable to accurately reflect the number of members in your conference) San Diego, San Diego State, Portland State and San Jose State. They could pick up some football-only schools from the Gulf Coast, say Houston and Tulane, to have enough for a football championship game.

Split into the Aquaman Division and the Sub-Mariner Division for football. Patrick Duffy as the commissioner.

 

University of Guam and Northern Marianas College both want in.

 

Are you telling me that New England is dying of leukemia?

 

I could try to explain it, but you wouldn't get it, so I won't waste the keystrokes. You can figure it out when it happens.

In the meantime, keep betting the over.

 

Runup to the Second Coming?

 

Not so much, although in the broader sense, EVERYTHING in the world fits that description. This has nothing to do with sports, but more of a political matter. In the next few years, you will see larger and larger pockets of growing social unrest. It eventually reaches a breaking point, much as it did in the mid 1800s, when the Confederate States of America were formed. Only this time, I suspect the Union will more or less say "let the southerners leave, they're more harm than good. We can still forge trade agreements and get what we need economically from them."

How would that affect small potatoes like college sports? Who knows? Sure, it's possible you could have teams from different confederations competing with one another. The NHL, NBA and MLB do it all the time. Is it the best possible scenario? Who knows? I think the NCAA (as we know it today) will be gone by that time anyway, replaced by a different governing structure.

Anyway, I digress. We'll all watch things unfold together. Nice to know that the people in Boise and San Diego came to their senses and realized they were neither "big" nor "east".

 

This is all more likely than West Virginia joining the ACC.

 

You can't spell secession without SEC.

 

Yeah, I'm thinking West Virginia, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Boston College join Rutgers, Maryland and perhaps a couple of others in an Eastern Division of the revised Big Ten (under a different name, of course) before, say, 2020.

 

The US will never split up. Every state is too dependent on receiving funds from the Federal teat.

 

I'm not saying an individual state will go it alone (well, maybe California someday). But I easily see a scenario where a group of states might decide to seceed. Not like it's never happened.

Anyway, I digress....

 

if the US does break up what are the odds the state of West Virginia joins the Atlantic Coast Confederation?