Conference Re-Alignment Thread Part Who Knows

[He1nousOne1]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cardot

Um, a lot of fun. Maybe not for the person paying the travel expenses...but for everyone else?...yeah, a lot of fun. In fact I don't believe I have ever heard "Oh rats, I have to go back to Hawaii. Again. Sigh."

I always figured that being able to tell a potential recruit that they will have a chance to play a football game in Hawaii at least once in their college career would be one hell of a recruiting tool.

Is it costly? Yeah but its just a chartered plane ride, not THAT costly and if it lights up the eyes of just one highly desired recruit a year than its more then worth it.

How many chartered flights does Hawaii pay for a year for their sports teams? If that University can handle that then the argument about the cost of playing against Hawaii in conference is simply being misleading.

[DonkeyJote]

Quote: Originally Posted by He1nousOne1

I always figured that being able to tell a potential recruit that they will have a chance to play a football game in Hawaii at least once in their college career would be one hell of a recruiting tool. Is it costly? Yeah but its just a chartered plane ride, not THAT costly and if it lights up the eyes of just one highly desired recruit a year than its more then worth it. How many chartered flights does Hawaii pay for a year for their sports teams? If that University can handle that then the argument about the cost of playing against Hawaii in conference is simply being misleading.

If that was true, the NCAA wouldn't have had to make the rule giving teams a 13th game if they played in Hawaii.

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[He1nousOne1]

Quote: Originally Posted by DonkeyJote

If that was true, the NCAA wouldn't have had to make the rule giving teams a 13th game if they played in Hawaii. Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk

Sounds like a great reason for the PAC to add them should they decide to expand further, since the PAC loves to play full schedules in conference.

[jbrew2411]

All these schools the Big East is looking at makes zero sense. I just turned on ESPN to see that Boise St is the target this week. There is a reason most conferences were made up of regional schools. You have to look at more then just football. These school will have to pay for womens teams to travel to play these schools. I know football makes the schools tons of money, trust me I'm a coach myself, but it is not that much when you have to fund non-money making programs like soccer, tennis, or golf have to travel cross country to play conference games/matches. This stuff has gotten out of hand. The Big East should be stripped of their AQ status no matter who they add at this point.

[dickey1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by jbrew2411

All these schools the Big East is looking at makes zero sense. I just turned on ESPN to see that Boise St is the target this week. There is a reason most conferences were made up of regional schools. You have to look at more then just football. These school will have to pay for womens teams to travel to play these schools. I know football makes the schools tons of money, trust me I'm a coach myself, but it is not that much when you have to fund non-money making programs like soccer, tennis, or golf have to travel cross country to play conference games/matches. This stuff has gotten out of hand. The Big East should be stripped of their AQ status no matter who they add at this point.

Boise would be football only. Not all of the schools coming to the Big East will bring all sports.


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[DonkeyJote]

There's a decent chance that in the not too distant future, there will be football only conferences. Teams will have a conference for football, and a conference for everything else.

[hoform22xu]

Hope this happens, then we'll have a bowl victory over a team in the SEC again.

[Bondgirl0072]

Report: Big East, Boise St. still need persuading


http://espn.go.com/college-football/...eed-persuading