Conference Realignment

Collegiate Sports
3660

I want a Carolinas league. If that’s too small for today’s environment, add VA teams.

Carolinas (10)

App
Charlotte
Clemson
Coastal
Duke
ECU
UNC
NCSU
USC
Wake

South Atlantic (14)

App
Charlotte
Clemson
Coastal
Duke
ECU
JMU
UNC
NCSU
ODU
USC
UVA
VT
Wake

No, no Liberty. Also, if it gets this big, you have to do divisions which I don’t care for either. 9 is probably the perfect size for a league (play everyone, every year), though 10 is workable (drop a non conference game or rotate out 1 team each year).

3661

I don’t think there is any version of this that we ever play in a League with UVA, Chapel Hill or Clemson.

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3662

https://x.com/Shane_DNRSports/status/1943797542719995942?t=Yx9ia0nUOuRWuu1IU9x6jQ&s=19

3663

I don’t think we are going to be in a league with any of the P4.

When has a team ever gone down?

They will protect their own to protect themselves.

The only chance is if a school pulls a U Chicago and self relegated themselves.

If it hasn’t happened by now I don’t see it.

I really don’t know what is keeping California and Stanford on this merry go round though.

They are elite and would be totally fine without top level athletics.

3664

https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/1943807469068988609

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/1943806131286999136

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3665
  • JMU- if they show real progress towards R1
  • buffalo
  • delaware
  • pass
0 voters

clt asks what is your choice for The American if memphis goes away. do we pick up anyone on the east?

3666

App State

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3667

https://x.com/HustleBelt/status/1943807775479673216

3668

clt says appy has many non starters for The American.

  • non R1
  • no metro
  • no airport
  • no growth in enrollment
  • no basketball history/brand
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3669

Really depends. It’s less that a team steps down as much as if the top of the p4 steps up. Wake forest has no business in being in the same division as Clemson. If this is all about maximizing revenue then the schools they drive the revenue for the P4 at some point are going to walk.

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3670

Realistic Regional Conference

1.NINERS
2.ECU
3.App
4.ODU
5.JMU
6.Coastal
7.Marshall
8.WKU
9.Middle Tennessee
10.Memphis
11.UAB
12.Georgia Southern or State

12 teams is the max i would want. Mostly driveable games. If you go to 10 you could be much more compact.

3671

No thanks.

To me, the aac would be pretty much perfect if the Texas schools were traded for JMU, App, and ccu/liberty

Nothing against the Texas schools. Just far away.

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3672

https://x.com/RoccoMiller8/status/1944752490668314774

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3673

Liberty is would probably be the best bet. Instant drama, good fanbase, big budget, and CUSA school. Their academics/politics would be the bigger issues. I’m also pro VCU as a basketball only add to balance Army.

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3674

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/1945227738689732617

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3675

https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/1945258232458498492

3676

https://x.com/ChrisVannini/status/1945581557185708262

3679

1 Charlotte
2 ECU
3 App St
4 Duke
5 Wake Forest
6 Marshall
7 JMU
8 Memphis
9 UAB
10 USF
11 Florida Atlantic
12 Army
13 Navy
14 Georgia St
15 Tulane
16 Temple

After the ACC dissolves, we pick up Duke and Wake Forest, create one conference, split into two, east and west or north and south, eight teams each, the rest of the ACC goes into various conferenes based upon prestige and fit, SEC, B1G, Big 12, Pac 12, let the far western AAC teams join the Pac 12 ( UTSA, Rice, North Texas, Tulsa, ) , this is the best that we can hope for, a regional conference with the left overs from the ACC, and cherry picking from the Sun belt

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3680

Duke is never going to join a conference like that. Schools like wake and GT may not have the clout to avoid it though.

3681

clt would bump appy and marshal due to academics