App State beat Michigan once, but that doesn't make App State better than Michigan. Just better than them at that specific moment in history, in that specific situation.

*EDIT* Oh God why is this the first post on page 201.

HOW ABOUT THEM PIRATES

[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM. Reason : .]

10/11/2011 1:23:11 PM

seriously, we have no room to shit on other schools in football.

especially ones like louisville and cincy.

10/11/2011 3:54:58 PM

^^ they got their shit kicked in both but they have been to two BCS games

[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 4:04 PM. Reason : Cinci, that is]

10/11/2011 4:03:44 PM

i heard that ECU wanted to join the Big East because they figured it was the fastest and easiest way to finally get into the ACC

10/11/2011 6:33:06 PM

How is anyone talking shit about another team on a NC State message board, especially after Cinci kicked your shit in? Your 3 wins are against Liberty, South Alabama, and a directional Michigan school. You should be happy the ACC doesn't kick you out and make you join C-USA.

[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 6:51 PM. Reason : yea]

10/11/2011 6:51:21 PM

forgot what a headache boneyardbanter is to read. how do they put up with that shit?

10/11/2011 6:53:04 PM

Quote :

"How is anyone talking shit about another team on a NC State message board, especially after Cinci kicked your shit in? "

10/11/2011 6:54:58 PM

Hey, things could be worse. We could be ECU.

10/11/2011 7:00:03 PM

ECU is just plain horrible. no defense and a sputtering to non-existent offense

10/11/2011 7:02:07 PM

of course they are bad this year. they don't play us. their fans give them a bye.

10/11/2011 7:12:30 PM

Quote :

"forgot what a headache boneyardbanter is to read. how do they put up with that shit?"

I completely agree

10/12/2011 12:09:07 AM

Quote :

"How is anyone talking shit about another team on a NC State message board, especially after Cinci kicked your shit in? Your 3 wins are against Liberty, South Alabama, and a directional Michigan school. You should be happy the ACC doesn't kick you out and make you join C-USA. "

lmao nice

10/12/2011 12:54:42 PM

per ESPN bottom line

UCF to be invited to Big East for all sports, Boise, Air Force, and Navy in football only.

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 5:44 PM. Reason : NO EZU LOL]

10/14/2011 5:43:08 PM

Here's who they're still deciding on for those remaining two slots.

Quote :

"The Big East is still considering adding Temple, and UCF's Conference USA rivals SMU and Houston. Temple, which was kicked out of the Big East in 2005, plays football in the Mid-American Conference."

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7101780/big-east-double-exit-fee-invite-four-schools-expansion

SO yeah, seriously no ECU. Assuming everyone they ask says yes. I could see Boise St., AFA, and Navy saying no. Navy to protect it's independent tradition (BCS money isn't as important there), Boise and AFA because of the travel costs involved and because Boise St. is tired of acting desperate.

UCF will probably be happy to join, but I'd stick up for the basketball program and try to sneak that into the Big East as well.

Of course, they probably wouldn't "plan to invite" if they didn't have solid evidence that these universities would agree to join.

/ I'm going to feel kinda bad for ECU if the Big East adds 6 freaking schools and they get passed over again.

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 5:52 PM. Reason : .]

10/14/2011 5:51:34 PM

Quote :

"UCF will probably be happy to join, but I'd stick up for the basketball program and try to sneak that into the Big East as well."

Read ^^, looks like bball is going too.

And I do not feel bad for ECU at all. It's funny.

10/14/2011 5:54:54 PM

Oh, whoops, my bad.

10/14/2011 5:57:16 PM

MWC and CUSA joining together for football. 22 members.

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20111014/SPORTS/111014015

Quote :

"Pod 1 Wyoming Hawaii Boise State San Diego State Fresno State Pod 2 Air Force New Mexico Colorado State Nevada UNLV Pod 3 Houston Rice Tulane Tulsa SMU UTEP Pod 4 Memphis East Carolina Southern Mississippi Central Florida Marshall UAB"

or

Quote :

"West division Wyoming Hawaii Boise State San Diego State Fresno State Air Force New Mexico Colorado State Nevada UNLV UTEP East division Houston Rice Tulane Tulsa SMU UTEP Memphis East Carolina Southern Mississippi Central Florida Marshall UAB"

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 6:26 PM. Reason : ya]

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 6:26 PM. Reason : obviously with the Big East moves, could change...two different articles...]

10/14/2011 6:22:09 PM

Wow that's.... unweildy. I guess it'll one day be the 6 BCS conferences and C-USA.

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 6:50 PM. Reason : .]

10/14/2011 6:50:00 PM

who is replacing the Big East as the 6th BCS team?

10/14/2011 6:59:56 PM

obviously the WAC, go Rainbow Warriors!

10/14/2011 7:01:04 PM

wow what the fuck, 22 team football conference


I wish we still had 12 team conferences

10/14/2011 7:44:04 PM

holy shit.

10/14/2011 7:50:25 PM

ESPN just reported Big East has invited Boise, UCF, Navy & Air Force.

Interesting move by the Mt. West & C-USA. Will it keep any of these teams from leaving? We'll see...In my opinion it would be stupid of Boise to leave for teh Big East, the travel alone is a lot on the student athletes & recruiting would change IMO. Boise would also have to find another conference for all of it's other sports as Mt. West & C-USA stated that any team leaving must leave for all sports, can't leave football & remain the rest of the way in the league.

Mark May & Lou Holtz just talked about it on College Football Live...ripped the Big East for not taking ECU & Memphis.

I'm hoping that Boise dosen't take the invite & stays in the Mt. West. If they do that I doubt any other of those teams goes except maybe UCF. I'd love to see the Big East die...what a total shit conference. I'm still convinced that Louisville & WVU will be gone within a year or so to the Big 12 or SEC..leaving the Big East a real shithole of a conference.

10/14/2011 8:24:41 PM

I don't know how Boise could logistically play in the Big East.

The Big East's basic structure is not stable for the current sports environment. Having multiple athletic programs with only football and only basketball involvement is way too unwieldy. I think they should go back to what they do best and that's basketball for the small private universities in the Northeast.

10/15/2011 6:29:24 AM

Distance between Greenville, NC and Honolulu, HI is 5728 miles. For a comparison, Moscow (yes, the one in Russia) is closer to Greenville by about 700 miles.

10/15/2011 6:53:58 AM

Quote :

"I think they should go back to what they do best and that's basketball for the small private universities in the Northeast."

They aren't going to just give up the NYC market completely by losing UConn and Rutgers, not to mention WVU and Louisville... which would happen should they just to be just a basketball conference.

10/15/2011 8:08:49 AM

^^ it'll probably be pretty rarefied they actually play each other. In a conference that large they probably won't play more than one out of division team (if any at all)

10/15/2011 10:07:38 AM

Quote :

"ESPN just reported Big East has invited Boise, UCF, Navy & Air Force."

Plus Houston & SMU

10/15/2011 10:19:24 AM

That is such an ugly conference merger (CUSA & MW). They probably will get an AQ status though if Boise stays.

[Edited on October 15, 2011 at 11:47 AM. Reason : ;]

10/15/2011 11:46:26 AM

I prefer 6 team conferences.

6 conference games
6 out of conference games

get people playing more teams from around the country.

10/15/2011 12:09:25 PM

the Big East should invite Hawaii to join

10/15/2011 12:18:14 PM

Quote :

"I don't know how Boise could logistically play in the Big East."

Football only member so they would only have to fly east for 3 games a year (plus their annual trip to the big east championship game lol), which they sometimes do anyway.

10/15/2011 12:19:42 PM

Quote :

"I prefer 6 team conferences. 6 conference games 6 out of conference games get people playing more teams from around the country. "

Works great when you play yourself for the 6th conference game.

10/15/2011 1:07:10 PM

lol

10/15/2011 1:08:47 PM

Ha!

I prefer an 8 game season. As much as I think expansion was good for the ACC, we really did have perfect season when it was just 9 teams. Especially after FSU became beatable.

OOC, 1 Div1aa school as a tune-up(Ideally AppState, Western, NCCU, or someone else relatively local like Richmond or JMU so they don't have to incur problematic travel costs), one non-BCS Div1a school, one lower-level BCS school, and one mid-to-high level BCS school.

That's a perfect season right there, imo.

[Edited on October 15, 2011 at 1:16 PM. Reason : .]

10/15/2011 1:14:42 PM

What about the WAC schools? It should be:

West division
Wyoming
Hawaii
Boise State
San Diego State
Fresno State
Air Force
New Mexico
Colorado State
Nevada
UNLV
UTEP
San Jose State
Idaho
UC Davis
Cal Poly
Northern Arizona
Cal State Los Angeles
Hawaii Hilo
BYU Idaho
Alaska Anchorage
Yukon
Australia

East division
Houston
Rice
Tulane
Tulsa
SMU
UTEP
Memphis
East Carolina
Southern Mississippi
Central Florida
Marshall
UAB
Akron
Ball State
Samford
App State
UNC Pembroke
Wake Tech
Oxford
Broughton
some team in Africa

10/17/2011 9:14:28 AM

Quote :

"Works great when you play yourself for the 6th conference game. "

haha, sorry, meant 7 (obviously had 6 games on the mind)

10/17/2011 9:34:42 AM

^^ Oxford has a bad ass debate team. Watch the fuck out.

10/17/2011 9:53:25 AM

the Big East should invite University of Singapore to join

10/17/2011 12:27:51 PM

WVU to the Big 12 according to this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/sports/ncaafootball/West-Virginia-Big-12-Big-East.html

[Edited on October 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM. Reason : link]

10/25/2011 2:31:24 PM

One more chance for ECU!

Which means they'll invite Temple, of course.

I still think that if they do invite Temple then The Owls should rudely tell the Big East to STFU and go DIAF.

10/25/2011 2:39:01 PM

ECU will get into the Big East just in time for 2-3 more teams to leave, which will cause the conference to just disband. It's their plight in life.

10/25/2011 2:53:04 PM

one step closer to notre dame to the acc

10/25/2011 3:08:49 PM

even if ECU did get invited to the Big East now, a Big East without WVU has no shot of keeping an automatic BCS bid (assuming something retarded like Boise State joining doesn't actually happen).

10/25/2011 3:10:13 PM

We are witnessing the birth of The Big East USA

10/25/2011 3:48:23 PM

ugh. so much wasted effort on such a crappy product

10/25/2011 4:05:09 PM

NCAA = Not Caring About Atlas



[Edited on October 26, 2011 at 11:50 AM. Reason : i meant Atlas]

10/26/2011 11:48:56 AM

You mean atlas?

10/26/2011 11:49:52 AM

WVU to Big XII - II, Louisville left in the cold, Missouri to SEC posted on their website, then removed

10/28/2011 11:32:32 AM

Fuck it, let's just do away with conferences all together. Everyone plays 12 randomly selected FBS schools each year.

[Edited on October 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM. Reason : B]

10/28/2011 1:15:36 PM