Another conference realignment article

[coachacola]

The WAC survives...

[quote]The WAC when its all said and done will likely receive that lifeline legislation from the NCAA about the continuity rule. Something interesting is begining to happen with the WAC andthe membership merry-go-round. After the last 2 decades of primarly going after a better piece of the Pacific Coast, the WAC is now becoming a Texas based league.

After the additiional subtractions to WAC membership that I have outlined above the league will consist from East to West of La. Tech, Texas State, UT-San Antonio, New Mexico State, Denver, andIdaho. To this group the league is on the verge of offering Lamar, yet another school in the old SWC footprint. Talks are now ongoing to add NorthTexas (more excited with the large number of Texas schools) and UL-Louisiana (excited to get away from UL-Monroe). Primary western candidates UC-Davis and Montana have rejected membership so its clear the WAC whether it likes it or not is forced into its new SWC type direction[/quote]

I found this interesting on why he thinks North Texas and ULL would join the WAC:

[quote]The SBC has been given a lot of credibility for how its outmanuvered the WAC thus far and the expanding southern markets that it has unlike the MAC. It has the lowest academic profile of any FBS conference with UL-Monroe, Troy, A-State, UALR, WKU, MTSU being US World and News Report "master's universities" and not rated as national univerisites(usually an indicator of whether a school is FBS material). That is another reason why there is a good chance of UL-Laf and UNT eventually acepting a move from the SBC (Dukes of Hazzard Country) to a more regional, academically respectable WAC. It is forgotten that this league was very much on life support like the WAC 10 years ago and forced to add all these subpar academic schools just to stay in buisness.[/quote]

http://www.ubbullrun.com/2011/1/8/1923475/realignment-continues

[Green Menace]

coachacola, with all due respect, I don't think UNT is moving to the WAC.  We've turned them down three times already, even when Boise, Fresno, and Hawaii were still there.  Not gonna happen.

[puddin tane]

oo-la-la leaves....ulm goes to southland....appy state,ga southern join sunbelt....oo-la-la and lu join wac...can we get utah st.  and idaho to leave and go back to big west?

[UNLV]

[quote name="puddin tane" post="953223" timestamp="1295754056"]
oo-la-la leaves....ulm goes to southland....appy state,ga southern join sunbelt....oo-la-la and lu join wac...can we get utah st.  and idaho to leave and go back to big west?
[/quote]You are now catching on. The WAC will lose Idaho, Utah st, and SJSU. ULL, Lamar, and UNT will join the WAC.
Possible name change.

La Tech
UTSA
Texas st
Lamar
ULL
UNT
Denver
UALR
Ark st
Missouri st

[bigred360]

Good article, thanks for posting it coachacola.

[puddin tane]

[quote name="UNLV" post="953241" timestamp="1295757332"]
[quote author=puddin tane link=topic=79138.msg953223#msg953223 date=1295754056]
oo-la-la leaves....ulm goes to southland....appy state,ga southern join sunbelt....oo-la-la and lu join wac...can we get utah st.  and idaho to leave and go back to big west?
[/quote]You are now catching on. The WAC will lose Idaho, Utah st, and SJSU. ULL, Lamar, and UNT will join the WAC.
Possible name change.

La Tech
UTSA
Texas st
Lamar
ULL
UNT
Denver
UALR
Ark st
Missouri st


[/quote]

Southland, Chapter 2?

[UNLV]

[quote name="puddin tane" post="954094" timestamp="1295937257"]
[quote author=UNLV link=topic=79138.msg953241#msg953241 date=1295757332]
[quote author=puddin tane link=topic=79138.msg953223#msg953223 date=1295754056]
oo-la-la leaves....ulm goes to southland....appy state,ga southern join sunbelt....oo-la-la and lu join wac...can we get utah st.  and idaho to leave and go back to big west?
[/quote]You are now catching on. The WAC will lose Idaho, Utah st, and SJSU. ULL, Lamar, and UNT will join the WAC.
Possible name change.

La Tech
UTSA
Texas st
Lamar
ULL
UNT
Denver
UALR
Ark st
Missouri st


[/quote]

Southland, Chapter 2?
[/quote]Very much, but it is a formula that will work very well for LU.

[bigred360]

At least now there won't be the travel expenses to Cali and Idaho.