# Creating Mega-conferences **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 17, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496 "2010-10-17T23:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/1 "2010-10-17T23:44:17Z")
Assume recent movement (Colorado and Utah to Pac-10 and Nebraska to Big 10) Share your take on my ideas. To Big East Boston College Villanova Georgetown Temple To Big 10 Cincinnati Pittsburgh Iowa St Missouri Notre Dame To SEC Louisville Memphis LA Tech Tulane UAB Georgia Tech Miami (FL) Florida St To Big 12 TCU SMU UTEP Rice Houston Tulsa To Pac 10 Idaho Boise St Hawaii UNLV Nevada San Diego St San Jose St Fresno St To ACC Marshall West Virginia South Carolina East Carolina New Mountain West Colorado Colorado St Utah Utah St BYU Arizona Arizona St New Mexico New Mexico St Wyoming Montana Montana St New Sun Belt Florida International Florida Atlantic Central Florida South Florida Louisiana-Monroe Louisiana-Lafayette Southern MS Arkansas St North TX ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/2 "2010-10-18T01:40:29Z")
Here’s a few threads we’ve had this year on the topic: [Big Ten talking about being big 12](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=544053)[Let’s make a new SUPER college conference](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=563510) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/3 "2010-10-18T01:44:58Z")
Obviously, it’s supposed to read: Assume recent movement HASN’T happened. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/4 "2010-10-18T02:13:01Z")
> [@](#): > > To Big East > Villanova > Georgetown These teams are already in the Big East. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/5 "2010-10-18T02:14:26Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > These teams are already in the Big East. They don’t play D-I football (yet) ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/6 "2010-10-18T02:18:44Z")
Your proposition looks to be based almost entirely upon geography and heavily southern biased (no mention of the MAC teams, Army, or Navy). It doesn’t seem to take into consideration money, size of the institution, money, size and quality of the facilities, money, possible expansion into new markets, and again money. Why would the Big Ten accept Iowa St.? The current members would be losing money according to their revenue sharing model. Why would South Carolina be willing to leave the SEC to most likely earn less money in the ACC, especially with Miami and FSU gone? If you were going to kick out a current SEC school, why not Arkansas so they can go be with the Southwestern Conf. buddies. How the heck does Boise State get into the PAC-10 but Arizona, a school twice as big in large metropolitan area with a stadium with 20,000 more seats, get relegated to the new Mountain West. Is this what you want to happen, think could happen, or just playing with scenarios? Because I can tell you right now, this has no chance of ever happening. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/7 "2010-10-18T02:27:36Z")
> [@Wolverine](#): > > Your proposition looks to be based almost entirely upon geography and heavily southern biased (no mention of the MAC teams, Army, or Navy). It doesn’t seem to take into consideration money, size of the institution, money, size and quality of the facilities, money, possible expansion into new markets, and again money. All points, by the way etv, that were discussed extremely thoroughly in the first linked thread. > [@](#): > > They don’t play D-I football (yet) And why would they start? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/8 "2010-10-18T02:51:11Z")
> [@Wolverine](#): > > Your proposition looks to be based almost entirely upon geography and heavily southern biased (no mention of the MAC teams, Army, or Navy). It doesn’t seem to take into consideration money, size of the institution, money, size and quality of the facilities, money, possible expansion into new markets, and again money. > > Why would the Big Ten accept Iowa St.? The current members would be losing money according to their revenue sharing model. Why would South Carolina be willing to leave the SEC to most likely earn less money in the ACC, especially with Miami and FSU gone? If you were going to kick out a current SEC school, why not Arkansas so they can go be with the Southwestern Conf. buddies. How the heck does Boise State get into the PAC-10 but Arizona, a school twice as big in large metropolitan area with a stadium with 20,000 more seats, get relegated to the new Mountain West. > > Is this what you want to happen, think could happen, or just playing with scenarios? Because I can tell you right now, this has no chance of ever happening. It is DEFINITELY geography driven. Re: MAC, other than removing Temple, (Oh, add Buffalo to the Big East, BTW), they are perfect, IMO. And I’m basically just messing around, stirring the pot. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/9 "2010-10-18T03:59:00Z")
Incidentally, In my alignment, the service academies are Independents, though it wouldn’t offend me if Army and Navy went to the Big East, and leave Air Farce in the new Mt. West. To the Boise St. vs AZ schools-the conferences would get too big, because that domino would send the New Mexico schools, and CSU into the Big 12. And likely the Utahs into the Pac 10. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/10 "2010-10-18T11:17:47Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > It is DEFINITELY geography driven. Re: MAC, other than removing Temple, (Oh, add Buffalo to the Big East, BTW), they are perfect, IMO. And I’m basically just messing around, stirring the pot. As an actual proposal, I’d hate it and am glad it’ll never happen. You’re demoting my team to a weaker conference based on geography, and promoting Georgetown from I-AA in our place. If you’re making a geographic fantasy, why are Miami, Florida and Florida State not in the Sun Belt? Why is North Texas not in the Big 12? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mega-conferences/557496/11 "2010-10-18T19:04:34Z")
> [@furt](#): > > As an actual proposal, I’d hate it and am glad it’ll never happen. You’re demoting my team to a weaker conference based on geography, and promoting Georgetown from I-AA in our place. > > If you’re making a geographic fantasy, why are Miami, Florida and Florida State not in the Sun Belt? Why is North Texas not in the Big 12? The Sun Belt has no history of credible football play, and the Big 12 is already the Big 16 (or so) in my alignment.