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Originally Posted by panerd
I think major conference means a lot more than just basketball. Two of those teams you mention (Col and Miami) have plenty of national titles in football so I don't see them moving to the horizon conference anytime soon. Oregon State and Old Miss would probably fit that bill also.
Panerd's mid-major definition: If you don't field a football team you are at best a mid-major.
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I am not sure where you are going with this. I am just talking about D-1 basketball. What do football national titles have to do with how D-1 basketball teams should be evaluated? Butler, Georgetown and Villanova all field football teams at the FCS level. Butler is considered mid major in basketball while Georgetown and Villanova are definitely majors. Conversely, I don't think of Memphis football as a major college football program despite the great success of the basketball program. My point is that many of the "mid-major" conferences have teams that have moved beyond "mid-major" status and should no longer be looked upon as such. In turn, many "major" conference teams are more fitting of "mid-major" status based on the current state of their basketball programs. The Miami Hurricane basketball program is MUCH more worthy of mid major status than any of the programs that I mentioned before IMO.
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