Conference Re-Alignment Thread Part Who Knows

[AuburnAlumni]

LMAO at 3000 miles separating division foes. It's so ridiculous it's funny.

I bet the baseball, volleyball, and tennis teams are pumped about 3000 mile trips 2-3 times per week for conference games. And their parents.

[superjames1992]

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LMAO at 3000 miles separating division foes. It's so ridiculous it's funny.

I bet the baseball, volleyball, and tennis teams are pumped about 3000 mile trips 2-3 times per week for conference games. And their parents.

Boise State and San Diego State will be football-only. SMU, Houston, and UCF aren't in much worse of a position than USF or Colorado already are in.

[simgamer0005]

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San Diego State in the Big East?? Boise State is in Idaho. That's out west, but San Diego State is located on coast of the Pacific Ocean! How can this happen? Things like this defy conventional logic and is beyond any logical assessment. With every school that moves to another conference, college football falls further away from it's own tradition. i don't get how those in charge fail to see what you lose with this.

[Perfect Zero]

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Guys, it just a name. There's a whole bunch of crying over nothing.

[Tovarich]

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come on Tova..you like a State school too judging by your AVY...its SDSU not SDST.

Sorry, that really bugs me when people type that. Just like Oregon State is not OST

I abbreviate it as ORST a lot and NCST. We're not really OSU too often because people assume that's Ohio State or Okie State.

[simgamer0005]

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LMAO at 3000 miles separating division foes. It's so ridiculous it's funny.

Well it's so ridiculous it's funny because you have conferences that stand for a region, like east, that have teams from as far west as possible. These things aren't even that shocking anymore because we are so desensitized to the amount of re-alignment. things like west coast teams moving to eastern conferences is just another level of absurdness to this wave of conference shuffling. the ridiculousness is being maxed out and this doesn't seem to do anything except to make people question what is going on even more. i'm pretty sure that there was a time where schools were in a conference and that was what conference they were in. I mean yeah we've seen conferences occasionally add a team, but it wasn't done in such a nonchalant way that it is now.

[fsquid]

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If there was a playoff, this mass realignment would never happen.

[DonkeyJote]

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If there was a playoff, this mass realignment would never happen.

Are you kidding me? If there was a playoff, being in a bcs conference would be more important. The Big 6 conference champs would likely get invites, meaning 2 at large berths in an 8 team playoff, meaning almost no shot if you aren't in a "BCS" conference.

Secondly, what's the big deal? It's just a name. This isn't the old days. It takes about 8 or 9 hours to fly from San Diego to New York (the longest of SDSU's travel, which wouldn't be frequent). As it is now, in the Mountain West, they already will have to travel 6 hours to Hawaii.

[Rancid Radio]

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San Diego St. is to the East of Asia, you guys are just overthinking this.

[simgamer0005]

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Are you kidding me? If there was a playoff, being in a bcs conference would be more important. The Big 6 conference champs would likely get invites, meaning 2 at large berths in an 8 team playoff, meaning almost no shot if you aren't in a "BCS" conference.

well fsquid might be right. if they managed to put together a playoff a few years ago, before all this mass re-alignment, maybe it would have just been about football by now and watching controversy-free seasons unfold. i think the re-alignment is actually the schools getting fed up with the way things are. the way things are would have been better with a playoff, and maybe if there was one you wouldn't have seen it unfold like it has with all this conference shuffling. the problem now is that even if with a playoff, you still have these changes to conferences.

Secondly, what's the big deal? It's just a name. This isn't the old days. It takes about 8 or 9 hours to fly from San Diego to New York (the longest of SDSU's travel, which wouldn't be frequent). As it is now, in the Mountain West, they already will have to travel 6 hours to Hawaii.

Yeah it is just a name, but San Diego State in the Big East does speak to the level of absurdity that exists now. it shows that there's not any real meaning to the things we are seeing. something like this becomes reality, but why it happened didn't make any sense so it's hard to take it seriously as a college football fan. it's important because it's taken this long for fans to start admitting that this is getting ridiculous. the problem in the past has been that a lot of stuff has changed but it just kinda all became accepted to an extent. now that it keeps getting more ridiculous, it's getting harder to accept all this and just say "yeah this makes sense", because it doesn't.

[superjames1992]

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Is anyone actually surprised by this? The Big East is just doing what it has to to survive. In fact, if they do get all five teams, that is a best-case scenario considering the circumstances. When the ACC rapes and pillages five teams in seven years, you have to do what you have to do.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Can't wait to see Boise, SDSU, Houston, and SMU compete for the Big East West division championship.

I'm happy for schools like UCF and SMU, but this makes absolutely no geographical sense whatsoever.

[1Rose]

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Boise St. and San Diego St. in the Big East?

Hmmm.

[superjames1992]

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Boise St. and San Diego St. in the Big East?

Hmmm.

Idaho used to be in the Sun Belt.

[dickey1331]

TCU was in the Mountain West. SMU was in the WAC. Big 10 has 12 teams. Missouri isn't in the Southeast. People making a big deal over nothing. Like its a new thing.


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