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Doomsday Scenario: MWC or AAC?

Judoka said:
Notre Dame is already in the ACC for everything other than football. If they gave in and joined a conference for football it would seem much more likely they'd just add their football to the ACC rather than totally moving conferences.
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The ACC gave them a pretty sweetheart deal for partial membership that the B1G wouldn't offer. If push came to shove and ND had to join a conference, which I don't think will ever happen but which does happen in this "doomsday" scenario, I think ND would choose the more natural fit of the Big Ten for full membership.
 
Just for grins, and to answer the OP question, I would say AAC.

You get more TV coverage in the earlier time zone, and more ESPN love. The Pac12 just about gets looked over, the MWC would be worse. I think the travel in the AAC would be easier and cheaper too. BBall is better in AAC by a lot, and imho the football is crap in both.

I also think Surly is onto something in that it wouldn't be just ISU - it would probably be 3 or 5 other teams as well "left behind" and we'd pull others (ie most of the AAC) into the Big12 since the brand is better.

Let's get super speculative and creative. Say KU, KSU, Baylor, TCU, ISU and WV are "left behind". You could go for the gusto of 12 adds to make a super conference with 3 divisions east/west/central.

EAST
UCF
USF
Temple
UConn
East Carolina
Navy

MIDWEST
ISU

Memphis
Cincinnati
KU
KST
WV


SOUTHWEST
TCU
Baylor
SMU
Houston
Tulane
Tulsa

That midwest division is a HELL of a bball league. The SW football isn't bad either.

For FB you'd play the 5 in your division, and 2 from each other every year for a 9 game schedule. So the other division teams you would see every third year, and every 6th at home. Not ideal, but such is life in the mega conference.

For BB I am struggling if you would play a 17 game season and just play everybody once, or add 5 games, play 22 conference games, and play home-and-home in your division. That's a LOT of conference games. Maybe you play h&h in division, and just 3 of each other division for 16 conference games.




And yes, this topic is not immediate, the Big12 isn't collapsing. And I guarantee the above BS is never going to happen. But why not BS with it? It is the offseason, why not talk about something? People carping about the off season topics not being good enough need to get bent. Or go on facebook and talk about politics, or watch cat videos, or something.

Conference realignment is the cat videos of CF.
 
CyFan61 said:
The ACC gave them a pretty sweetheart deal for partial membership that the B1G wouldn't offer. If push came to shove and ND had to join a conference, which I don't think will ever happen but which does happen in this "doomsday" scenario, I think ND would choose the more natural fit of the Big Ten for full membership.
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Notre Dame has too much institutional memory to ever join the Big Ten. I have always believed that is the last conference they would ever join. When Yost and Michigan tried to get them all to blackball Notre Dame, that is when they started developing the nationwide schedule including USC.
 
Good grief. Everyone has Iowa State free falling in their Doomsday scenarios. And then when talking "expansion" they want to elevate programs like Colorado State, Tulane, Houston, Memphis, etc., etc.

People we have a pretty decent fanbase. We have the 3rd largest stadium in the Big 12. We have great attendance. The only thing we lack is TV sets. And some of these colleges in populated areas are barely even given press coverage where they are located. And their attendance sucks.

In a doomsday scenario, Iowa State actually brings quite a bit to the table. We have a stadium which seats 61,000 that we will fill or come very close to it. Our other sports are well attended as well. Our academics are first rate. Iowa State is not the ugly girl some are trying to make it out to be. They are a founding member of a Power 5 Conference, with great attendance and first rate academics.
 
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