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so, now that the dust of conference realignment has all but settled and West Virginia has joined the Big XII for realsies, we can say we've learned the following...

1. The Big XII has 10 teams
2. The Big 10 has XII teams
3. The Big East includes Idaho and California
4. Pittsburgh is now on the Atlantic Coast somehow
5. The Mountain West will include teams in Carolina and Alabama (maybe the mountains they were referring to are the Appalachians, not the Rockies?)
6. Columbia Missouri is now in the South East.

Anything else I've missed from this college athletics geography and mathematics extravaganza?

Love the headline of this article. "Hawaii and East Carolina Together at Last"

http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2012/02/1 ... _news_blog

I doubt we've seen the last of conference realignment. It might be done for now, maybe another year or two, but there are still way too many variables with too many conferences.

no way it's done. Just look at the cluster it's made the landscape with the things I'm pointed to above. It's really funny that institutions of higher learning have such a grasp of math and geography.

Yeah, I don't think the dust has settled quite yet. I doubt the Big X, SEC and Pac 12 are done adding teams.

The Mountain West/C-USA thing will make some waves, and depending on what happens, people might try to emulate or refine what they have done to profit their own conference.

Who knows where it all ends. One of the many speculations is 4-6 major conferences that disassociate from the NCAA and form their own rules. Rather or not that is viable, who knows. But, I kind of get the feeling universities will do whatever is most profitable in the short/long term regarding not only sports programs but also enrollment and to an extent alumni/booster donations.

OmahaCard79 wrote:no way it's done. Just look at the cluster it's made the landscape with the things I'm pointed to above. It's really funny that institutions of higher learning have such a grasp of math and geography.

It's about math, but not the kind of math you're talking about. It's the simple addition of money to mo' money mo' money mo' money.

Notre Dame will be in the ACC before it's all said and done.

I do find it funny though that Arky and aTm were once in the Southwest Conference but now both are in the Southeastern Conference.

OmahaCard79 wrote: 3. The Big East includes Idaho and California
5. The Mountain West will include teams in Carolina and Alabama (maybe the mountains they were referring to are the Appalachians, not the Rockies?)

Anything else I've missed from this college athletics geography and mathematics extravaganza?

3. And Texas (SMU)
5. Mountain West, Conference USA planning new 16-team league

Logistics should also be an issue in the new league. The football conference will span from Honolulu to Greenville, N.C., a distance of more than 5,700 miles. Other sports would see travel from western cities Fresno and Reno to eastern locations in Birmingham and Huntington, W.V.

Boise St really belongs in the PAC 10 (for selfish reasons).

Boise State is already an affiilate school in Pac 12 for wrestling, I don't know why they haven't been offered a spot full time in the Pac 12. They're wasting their time in the Mountain West.

JoeMcKim wrote:Boise State is already an affiilate school in Pac 12 for wrestling, I don't know why they haven't been offered a spot full time in the Pac 12. They're wasting their time in the Mountain West.

Not really. Outside of being good at football over the last decade or so, they really have nothing else to offer the Pac 12. They don't offer any large TV markets, as Utah (Salt Lake City) or Colorado (Denver) did. They are by no means a top tier academic school, which the Pac 12 does pay some attention to (not as much as the Big Ten, but some).

Their affiliation in wrestling doesn't mean a whole lot. Non-glory sports have all sorts of goofy conference affiliations with smaller schools mixed in with the large ones. There aren't a whole lot of advertising dollars that go along with college wrestling, and there aren't a whole lot of additional advertising dollars that Boise State brings in with football/basketball.