After being criticized last week for being too speculative about potential SEC expansion...I've decided to go on a wild one and through caution to the wind.
Big 10
Current size: 12
Next Expansion 14
Who: Notre Dame, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse
Big East
Current Size: 9 (10 if Villanova accepts)--17 for basketball
Next Expansion 12/20
Who: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma State
SEC
Current Size: 12
Next Expansion: 14
Who: Texas, Texas A&M, or Oklahoma
ACC
Current Size:12
Next Expanion: 14
Who: West Virginia, Rutgers
Big 12
Current Size: 10
Next Expanion: 12
Who: BYU, Boise State, UNLV, Louisville, Memphis
PAC 12
Current Size: 12
Next Expansion: 14
Who: Oklahoma, Texas
MWC:
Current Size: 10
Next Expansion: 12
Who: Utah State, San Jose State
C-USA
Current Size: 12
Next Expansion: 14
Who: Louisiana Tech, UTSA
WAC
Current Size: 7/8
Next Expansion: 12/16
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Sun Belt
Current Size: 9
Next Expansion: 12
Who: Georgia Southern, Appalachian State, South Alabama
MAC
Current Size: 14
Next Expansion: 16
Who: Richmond, William and Mary
Who will become independent next:
Texas
Ohio State
Now nail me to the cross.
1 comment:
Ideally, Notre Dame should be in the Big 10. The fourteenth team though is up in the air, because no body knows for sure who exactly Commisioner Delany is (possibly) talking to in the future. Good ideas here tho.
Big East is realistically way too big and stretched out over the Central and Eastern time zones. I think what should *ideally* happen to resolve that is a split between the football and basketball schools. Or some better way than the plethora of a conference it currently is.
SEC would love to get those schools but it's currently happy with status quo too. Don't need to fix what isn't broken, I surmise.
ACC could be a darkhorse for expansion, but I still don't know what divisions its teams are already in. lol So if and how they further expand, they need to put their teams in logical order
I read an online rumor that the Big 12 was secretly feeling the interest from San Diego and Las Vegas because those are two markets it could gain from expansion. Who knows, but I think those make sense basketball-wise and market-wise. IMO sexier than say Louisville and Memphis, but that's only because I live in CA.
PAC is still dreaming about those 2, you nailed that one. Would set up a perfect Pac-8 original division and the four corner schools(Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Arizona State) with Texas and Oklahoma possibly Oklahoma state and texas tech(but nobody's talking about Kansas in lieu of either).
Living near San Jose, I really doubt they ever get in to the MWC since they are NOT well advertised in the Bay Area, no body watches them now that Stanford is a BCS bowl winning team, and they lack $$ support and seats in their stadium are never half full.
Utah State you have a much better insight for Ben, but are they on an upward trend that appeals to the MWC (i.e. is winning>money?)
CUSA and Sun Belt I have no idea about, although one rumor leads me to believe Middle Tennessee or another top Sun Belt team is more appealing that La Tech because they've been building on recent winning seasons..
good post though I'm a so-called manifest expansionist for the West
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