I think we need an anti-trust investigation of the power 5.  And the ESPN-SEC relationship needs a congressional investigation (with 0 southerners on the committee.)                          

With those teams moving into the AAC, Temple looks more and more like a huge outlier in that conference. Time for them to come home to the A-10 just like UConn did with the Big East!

My guess is that the A10's biggest threat (and I'm not sure there's a close second) would be if the Big East had an interest in becoming a superconference.  Without big time football, this would be more of an ego play than anything else, as in if the SEC becomes 16 schools and say other conferences get to that number or close to that number, then the Big East may feel it can't stay at 11 and feel relevant.  

To get to 14, you could add Dayton (which Xavier might object to though the two co-existed for many years in our conference) and SLU which could join a west division along with Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Marquette and Xavier.  This adds the 23rd and 65th largest US markets for the conference.  You would then need one more school for the eastern region and that could theoretically be either Davidson (#22 largest market), VCU or Richmond (though it would more likely be VCU, #56 largest market) or as a longshot, UMASS (116 in market size but the way these things sometimes get figured, the flawed logic might be that with BC out of the conference, UMASS will bring the Boston market back into play, even if this in reality would have a marginal impact).  Of course to reach 16, then Dayton, SLU, Davidson, VCU and UMASS could all go, with one of these schools designated as a west division school.

The CAA is adding Hampton, Monmouth, and Stony Brook.  https://www.nj.com/setonhall/2022/01/monmouth-stony-brook-hampton-officially-join-the-colonial-athletic-association.html

Sounds like the MAAC will be lookin to expand now, too.  Maybe NJIT can leave the A-Sun?

For some reason Vermont always have good teams. It's amazing that Monmouth, in my time a small  local college,  who my HS's varsity use to scrimmage,  is now is in the CAA.  Times have changed.

The year we won the NIT.  Hofstra (by a hair) at home, at Monmouth, Florida at  home because the UF court was being renovated, and the blowout wins against San Diego State (revenge game against the Fab 5 coach) and Valpo.  Mike L put Yuta on Monmouth's great scoring point guard and shut him down.  Last year we had a good team.

This is crazy news but makes sense in this power/money-driven college world.  This is one of those major dominos and I can easily see this being the destruction of the Pac-12.

If I'm the Big 12 right now, I'm looking at Stanford, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State to create a 16-team Big 12 once Texas and OU finish their SEC migration.  That would leave 6 teams in the Pac 12, without a whole lot of good options.  Their TV package would fall apart, the Big 12 would become a better conference than it is now, and we'd be left with a Power-4 set of conferences.

Should be interesting to see how this plays out.

B.

Once again football is going to screw up basketball.

Once the super leagues are formed, what incentive is there for the big boys to schedule any games against the A10's of the world?  Just play teams from the NEC, 1-2 MTEs amongst themselves, and then their conference schedules. I think it makes it almost impossible for the A10 to get 4+ teams in the tournament.

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BC, this is real, or reportedly so.  I posted this in the General Discussion area earlier, but my feeling is this is going to be the death of the PAC 12 as a Power-5 conference.  If I'm the Big 12 right now, sitting at 12 schools once Texas and OU join the SEC, I go after Stanford, Utah, and the two Arizona schools.  That would leave the PAC 12 with just 6 schools.

I hope everyone who let the (loud)mouthpieces at the networks convince us that, instead of having teams play a season that ended satisfyingly with a bowl trip, we "needed" a National Championship game (because we members of the public are too mentally limited to debate, discuss and appreciate on any level other than a definitive "yes-no" dichotomy) are happy now. Basically, we now have schools with teams (a group GW is in), teams with schools (see umASS, WVU, etc...) and pro franchises (SEC and Big10).
College sports are dead, except where TV money pays for the illusion it still exists. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
[Will the remains of the Pac12 poach Nevada-Reno, San Diego St and (perhaps) Hawai´i, or will some schools (Oregon, ASU, Colorado) get snatched by either the Big10 or SEC with the other pieces of the carcass getting absorbed by the Mountain West and Big Sky?]
 

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