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Offline FLBJ

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Conference realignment...the latest scuttlebutt right here!
« on: November 29, 2012, 08:46:53 AM »
I really just wanted to use the word 'scuttlebutt' somewhere... :P

Seriously, 2 schools this way, 2 schools that way. We need a chat room just to keep them all straight!

I feel like I'm at the carnival...'round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows!'

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Re: Conference realignment...the latest scuttlebutt right here!
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2012, 08:59:42 AM »
Last I heard was Middle Tennessee and Florida Atlantic to C-USA, (henceforth to be known as Sun Belt - North).  ;D
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Re: Conference realignment...the latest scuttlebutt right here!
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2012, 12:08:22 PM »
Oh man! Someone beat me to it! He even uses the word 'scuttlebutt'!  :(

Makes for interesting reading!

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1244796.html

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Re: Conference realignment...the latest scuttlebutt right here!
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2012, 01:02:15 PM »
Makes for interesting reading!
It really does! What's even more interesting is to file it away for 3 years and see how it all shook out at the end of '15.
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Re: Conference realignment...the latest scuttlebutt right here!
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2012, 02:08:05 PM »
With the shuffling of teams comes the shuffling of officials.  If a conference loses a couple teams that's one less crew per week on the field for that assignor. 

Does it make sense to follow the schools and jump?  It's got to be a difficult decision for a lot of guys to make.

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Re: Conference realignment...the latest scuttlebutt right here!
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2012, 02:34:22 PM »
Does it make sense to follow the schools and jump?  It's got to be a difficult decision for a lot of guys to make.
Sometimes you are not given the option to make the move.
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Re: Conference realignment...the latest scuttlebutt right here!
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2012, 09:27:52 AM »
The worst D1 would to be a Big East offical right now, trying to figure out if a conference can be jumped to or to stay in the confernece which has gone from second to third rate quickly.

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Re: Conference realignment...the latest scuttlebutt right here!
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2012, 10:11:18 AM »
WAC staff and officials suffered through this nonsense over the last couple of years, and now it is just more of the same.  The conference "nymphomania" won't stop until  teh schools come to their senses, the playoff system gets fairly established, or the "big" schools get their way and control everything.