My Shot at Custom Conferences

[NaptownMVP]

Quote: Originally Posted by zephyr13

Why replace CURRENT teams that will STILL be in the PAC10 for the foreseeable future, with teams that are joining at LEAST a year down the road?... doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe because it's his game and he did it the way he wanted to?

I did the same thing, except I took out Washington and Washington St. and moved them to the WAC. I also moved Houston and TCU to the Big XII, but put them in the North, because I didn't want to break up UT/OU. IU I moved to the MAC, and then I made a few other little changes. Your conferences look good. I like South Carolina in the ACC.

Here's what I did:

[zephyr13]

Quote: Originally Posted by pdiehm

I would agree with ^^ but Utah and Colorado are both Pac 10 members now.

You must have missed my first post:

1. I know that they are FUTURE members of the Pac10.
2. Why remove 2 PAC10 schools and replace them with two that aren't in the conference yet? SILLY...

[zephyr13]

Quote: Originally Posted by NaptownMVP

Maybe because it's his game and he did it the way he wanted to?

No argument's as good as the, "It's my game and I'll do what I wanna do..." six year old response.

I just said it was silly and it doesn't make sense to me... I didn't deny the fact that he has the right to do whatever he pleases.

[NEOPARADIGM]

Quote: Originally Posted by zephyr13

Oh, so taking UTAH (a mountain state) out of the MOUNTAIN West and, instead of putting Colorado (a mountain state) into the MOUNTAIN West, he puts both of them in the PACIFIC 10 (because UU & CU are so close the Pacific Ocean). Like I said before... SILLY...

Way to turn a fun, light-hearted thread in to this.

And people think OS is going downhill. Imagine that.

[wisgator]

Quote: Originally Posted by zephyr13

You must have missed my first post: 1. I know that they are FUTURE members of the Pac10. 2. Why remove 2 PAC10 schools and replace them with two that aren't in the conference yet? SILLY...

If he wanted Utah and Colorado in the Pac10, that's the only way to do it. You can only switch out teams, not add more. So, he would have had to swap 2 schools anyway, big deal. Don't be so bent out of shape over this...

[Pogo27]

Quote: Originally Posted by wisgator

If he wanted Utah and Colorado in the Pac10, that's the only way to do it. You can only switch out teams, not add more. So, he would have had to swap 2 schools anyway, big deal. Don't be so bent out of shape over this...

Should move the Big 12 out of the Big 12 and then use the Big 12 conference to set up the soon-to-be Big Ten + Nebraska or Pac10 + Col + Utah

[TDTGodfather]

Quote: Originally Posted by NaptownMVP

Maybe because it's his game and he did it the way he wanted to? I did the same thing, except I took out Washington and Washington St. and moved them to the WAC. I also moved Houston and TCU to the Big XII, but put them in the North, because I didn't want to break up UT/OU. IU I moved to the MAC, and then I made a few other little changes. Your conferences look good. I like South Carolina in the ACC. Here's what I did:

i haven't read the whole thread so sorry if this has been mentioned...
but i think in the future they should be able to let you design your own conferences (i.e. i should be able to put 12 teams in the big ten) the problem was moving a team out of there. i chose to move purdue to the big east after tinkering with maybe moving northwestern. then decided to move iowa to the big 12 north and move in Notre Dame as well.

i liked the new moutain west (although ISU is a little out of place) also hawaii became independent to join army and navy.

anyway here's what i did

SEC East
Florida
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia Tech

SEC West
Auburn
Alabama
LSU
Ole Miss
Arkansas
Texas A&M

Big Ten

Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Nebraska
Notre Dame
Illinois
Penn State
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Northwestern

Big 12 North
Iowa
Kansas
Kansas State
Mizzou
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State

Big 12 South
Texas
Texas Tech
Baylor
Houston
TCU
Mississippi State (it's the new arkansas of the old SWC)

ACC Atlantic
Maryland
FSU
Louisville
Vanderbilt
NC St
Clemson

ACC Coastal
Duke
UNC
Miami
GT
USF
Virginia

PAC ten
moved in Utah and Colorado
moved out WSU and Stanford both to MWC

Mountain West

Stanford
Wash St
Fresno St
Boise St
Air Force
BYU
Colorado State
UNLV
Iowa State

WAC
Wyoming
Nevada
San Jose St
New Mexico
New Mexico St
Tulsa
Idaho
Utah St
San Diego St

CUSA West
Tulane
SMU
Rice
UTEP
La Tech
Southern Miss

CUSA East
UCF
Memphis
UAB
ECU
Marshall
Wake Forest

Big East
WVU
Cuse
Uconn
Purdue
Rutgers
Boston College
Cincy
Pitt

i didn't touch the sun belt/

[dpw1717]

If we were going to dismantle conferences, why not do it right? Let's just keep it somewhat simple. I don't understand why every other sport organizes teams geographically, except for college football. Sure, it kind of worked out that way for natural reasons, but it also gets really messed up. For instance, the WAC spreads from Hawai'i to Louisiana! Conference-USA form Carolina to Texas! Etc.


Here is my answer, redo all the conferences so they're in geographical order. It saves the schools money, and will keep most rivalries intact, since most are in-state rivalries. The one thing you must do is make sure that a conference has all the teams from a given state. Thus, the 10 schools in Texas must all be in the same conference, same for the 7 from Florida and California, etc.


Here it is: 12 conferences, 10 teams each, you play 9 conference games and 3 non-conference games (scheduled at your will, just like normal). Each conference must play its top two teams in a championship game and name a conference champ. That would be the start of the bowl games is the conference championship game. Then you have 12 teams left and the way you seed it by total points scored. You then have to add 4 more teams to make the bracket right and the way to do that is by adding teams that played in the conference championship game and again by total points scored. When you start the playoffs it’s 16 teams and for the next three weeks are the playoffs for a total in the season of 17 weeks. The way I see it, it's still 12 games in the regular season (I believe stretched out over 14-15 weeks), and still 4 weeks in the post-season one week being the championship game. I added all the bowl games up for my new playoff system and it would be 25 and that’s less than 30 plus it has been.


In case you wanted an idea of how the conferences would look, I'll include that below. I take no responsibilities for bad conference names. I just now put this together, and making each conference have exactly 10 teams takes some wiggle room. I'm sure if it was actually to happen it could be perfected:






Southwest: California, Hawai'i, Nevada

California
Fresno State
Hawai'i
Nevada
San Diego State
San Jose State
Stanford
UCLA
UNLV
USC


Northwest: Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming


Boise State
Idaho
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State
Wyoming


Four Corners: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah


Air Force
Arizona
Arizona State
Brigham Young
Colorado
Colorado State
New Mexico
New Mexico State
Utah
Utah State


Lone Star: Texas


Baylor
Houston
North Texas
Rice
Southern Methodist
TCU
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
UTEP


Louisiana Purchase: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma


Arkansas
Arkansas State
Louisiana - Lafayette
Louisiana - Monroe
Louisiana Tech
LSU
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Tulane
Tulsa



Gulf Coast: Florida, Mississippi


FIU
Florida
Florida Atlantic
Florida State
Miami (FL)
Mississippi
Mississippi State
South Florida
Southern Miss
UCF



Southeast: Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee


Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Memphis
Middle Tennessee
Tennessee
Troy
UAB
Vanderbilt



Atlantic: New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia


Clemson
Duke
East Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Rutgers
South Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest



Richland: Ohio, West Virginia


Akron
Bowling Green
Cincinnati
Kent State
Marshall
Miami (OH)
Ohio
Ohio State
Toledo
West Virginia



Great Plains: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri


Illinois
Iowa
Iowa State
Kentucky
Louisville
Missouri
Northern Illinois
Northwestern
Purdue
Western Kentucky



Great Lakes: Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin


Ball State
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Notre Dame
Western Michigan
Wisconsin



New England: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania


Army
Boston College
Buffalo
Connecticut
Maryland
Navy
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Syracuse
Temple