[phoenix]

Naturally, there is a lesson to be learned from all of this: Droids rule/ruled (once iPhones came out, Droids lost their credibility but until Apple creates a form of the BCS, we have to use droids).

Whaaaaaat are you talking about?

I got off topic a little bid and started into an Android vs Iphone debate.

Slight threadjack, but you don't even know what you're talking about HERE. The iPhone came out before any Android phones came out. The iPhone was unveiled in January of 2007; the Open Handset Alliance unveiled itself in November of that year, and the first commerically available phone running an Android OS was the HTC Dream, released in October of 2008. So no -- the Droids didn't rule until the iPhone came out. Droids had no credibility before the iPhone because they didn't exist.

So now we know TWO things that you know nothing about.

[From the class of 09]

Whaaaaaat are you talking about?

I got off topic a little bid and started into an Android vs Iphone debate.

Slight threadjack, but you don't even know what you're talking about...

So now we know... that you know nothing...

[phoenix]

I got off topic a little bid and started into an Android vs Iphone debate.

Slight threadjack, but you don't even know what you're talking about...

So now we know... that you know nothing...

Yeah, I guess I could have just stopped with that, huh?

[rueful]

Naturally, there is a lesson to be learned from all of this: Droids rule/ruled (once iPhones came out, Droids lost their credibility but until Apple creates a form of the BCS, we have to use droids).

Slight threadjack, but you don't even know what you're talking about HERE. The iPhone came out before any Android phones came out. The iPhone was unveiled in January of 2007; the Open Handset Alliance unveiled itself in November of that year, and the first commerically available phone running an Android OS was the HTC Dream, released in October of 2008. So no -- the Droids didn't rule until the iPhone came out. Droids had no credibility before the iPhone because they didn't exist.

So now we know TWO things that you know nothing about.

I wanted to say the same thing. I really could care less about all that garbage, but this argument was one of the dumbest things I read on flame fans in 2011

[thepostman]

Its almost as if he gets ideas in his head and just doesn't think it all the way through and instead of admitting he is wrong he just continues to go with it. Young prideful ignorance at its best.

I am not saying that as an insult cjsweat, but simply as in observation. There are many on this board that use to be much like you in their outlook. It goes away with maturity.

[jbock13]

Its almost as if he gets ideas in his head and just doesn't think it all the way through and instead of admitting he is wrong he just continues to go with it. Young prideful ignorance at its best.

I am not saying that as an insult cjsweat, but simply as in observation. There are many on this board that use to be much like you in their outlook. It goes away with maturity.

Like me right postie?

[ATrain]

And in other news, MWC is applying for a BCS autobid. The article also states they are no longer discussing merging with C-USA:

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... id-2012-13

[Sly Fox]

Actually here is the exact quote from the AP story:

The league also said no further decisions were made on plans for the Mountain West to merge in football with Conference USA by 2013.

In other words, MWC-CUSA merger is still on the table unfortunately.

[PAmedic]

then again if the FBS autobid thing goes away, I see an end to the push for these conferences to align in such un-natural (geographic) fashion.

to be honest, the whole thing confuses me- I'm not sure what the motivation would be then

[thepostman]

Its almost as if he gets ideas in his head and just doesn't think it all the way through and instead of admitting he is wrong he just continues to go with it. Young prideful ignorance at its best.

I am not saying that as an insult cjsweat, but simply as in observation. There are many on this board that use to be much like you in their outlook. It goes away with maturity.

Like me right postie?

No he is way, way worse. You've admitted when you were wrong

[bradyfan]

Actually, you're all wrong. The idea of Androids came about long before cell phones even existed. It was a stupid off topic argument but I was really just joking around.

[From the class of 09]

Actually, you're all wrong. The idea of Androids came about long before cell phones even existed. It was a stupid off topic argument but I was really just joking around.

[bradyfan]

Actually, you're all wrong. The idea of Androids came about long before cell phones even existed. It was a stupid off topic argument but I was really just joking around.

When I say Androids, I'm not referring to smart phones btw.

[BJWilliams]

Which wasnt even the point of your off topic foray in the first place...

[Purple Haize]

Actually, you're all wrong. The idea of Androids came about long before cell phones even existed. It was a stupid off topic argument but I was really just joking around.

When I say Androids, I'm not referring to smart phones btw.

Geez does no one read Sci Fi? Androids are like robots only different.

[jbock13]

Actually, you're all wrong. The idea of Androids came about long before cell phones even existed. It was a stupid off topic argument but I was really just joking around.

When I say Androids, I'm not referring to smart phones btw.

Infowars doesn't count as a credible academic source. You should know this as a student.

[ATrain]

Actually, you're all wrong. The idea of Androids came about long before cell phones even existed. It was a stupid off topic argument but I was really just joking around.

Seriously...just drop it

[Sly Fox]

Here's an interesting development that confirms what we all have assumed in believing that the Big Ten & Pac-12 have no plans to expand ...

Pac-12 and Big Ten Announce Scheduling Partnership
By PETE THAMEL
Published: December 28, 2011

In a time of instability and uncertainty on the college sports landscape, the Pac-12 and the Big Ten announced an innovative scheduling agreement Wednesday that links the two conferences and shows they have no imminent plans for change.

Starting in 2017, each team from the Pac-12 and the Big Ten will play a team from the other league in football each season, and the conferences will also begin to play each other extensively in other sports starting as soon as next season.

The Big Ten commissioner, Jim Delany, said the essential idea was to create some of the benefits of conference expansion — greater reach, increased brand recognition and more quality games — without actually expanding. Delany called Larry Scott, the Pac-12 commissioner, about the idea in the summer and the plan crystallized through a series of meetings between athletic directors and university presidents, the last of which was in New York in December. The two leagues have their own television networks and share more than a century of history tied to the Rose Bowl.

Click Here for Full Story

[Purple Haize]

Here's an interesting development that confirms what we all have assumed in believing that the Big Ten & Pac-12 have no plans to expand ...

Pac-12 and Big Ten Announce Scheduling Partnership
By PETE THAMEL
Published: December 28, 2011

In a time of instability and uncertainty on the college sports landscape, the Pac-12 and the Big Ten announced an innovative scheduling agreement Wednesday that links the two conferences and shows they have no imminent plans for change.

Starting in 2017, each team from the Pac-12 and the Big Ten will play a team from the other league in football each season, and the conferences will also begin to play each other extensively in other sports starting as soon as next season.

The Big Ten commissioner, Jim Delany, said the essential idea was to create some of the benefits of conference expansion — greater reach, increased brand recognition and more quality games — without actually expanding. Delany called Larry Scott, the Pac-12 commissioner, about the idea in the summer and the plan crystallized through a series of meetings between athletic directors and university presidents, the last of which was in New York in December. The two leagues have their own television networks and share more than a century of history tied to the Rose Bowl.

Click Here for Full Story

Smart. Very smart for both conferences.

[jcmanson]

The MAC will make a "big announcement" at 1pm. Wonder what this will be about? Realignment?

[Sly Fox]

Divisional realignment it appears necessitated by UMass formally joining the league. It doesn't appear they are talking about bumping up to 16 teams yet. They currently stand at 14 now with UMass.

[kuntryboimike]

Can you watch or listen to the announcement live anywhere?

[kuntryboimike]

Not really big news...

MAC Announces New Football Divisional Alignment In 2012
Bowling Green moves to the West Division as UMass joins the East Division beginning this fall.

http://www.mac-sports.com/News/tabid/96 ... -2012.aspx

[Kricket]

Conference USA and Mountain West met the other day to discuss their merger according to the Las Vegas Review in the following link:

http://www.lvrj.com/sports/mwc-c-usa-wo ... 72158.html

In other news, La Tech wants into Conference USA and I guess they expect it to happen fast as the article says official hope for an invitation in the next few weeks:

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/arti ... /120115018

Perhaps the C-USA and Mountain West merger isn't the ideal scenario for Liberty to make the move, but perhaps it could end up working out if C-USA and the Mountain West take enough teams from smaller conferences...

[kuntryboimike]

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/ ... sts-future

Commish talks about Big East's future
January, 20, 2012
By Travis L. Brown
DALLAS -- After taking part in a celebration at SMU for its future membership, Big East commissioner John Marinatto said Thursday the conference’s expansion wouldn’t end with additions coming in 2013.

Marinatto reiterated the conference's wishes to expand to at least 12 football schools, but he would not discuss a timetable or potential schools to be pursued.

“We’re working very hard,” Marinatto said. “I made it a practice over the last year to never discuss institutions specifically by name, so I’m not at liberty to get into specifics, but yeah, we want to get to at least 12 and that’s been our goal. We’re very happy with where we are, but obviously we have a little bit more work to do.”

Marinatto included, for at least 2012, West Virginia in the roll call for the conference. In 2013, Boise State, San Diego State, Houston and Central Florida will join, along with SMU. Whenever West Virginia leaves for the Big 12, an issue that hasn't been resolved, the additions will leave a total of 10 football schools in the Big East.

Marinatto said he participated in the two meetings that concerned the future of the BCS after the national championship football game in New Orleans. He characterized the meetings as “brainstorming sessions” which yielded 50 or 60 ideas of what the future could hold for the BCS system.

There will be another meeting at the end of January and another in February to continue these discussions as part of four meetings scheduled before any new manifestation of the BCS is finalized.

Marinatto believes some changes will be made, but said they will add to the good the BCS has done to college football, in his opinion.

“I think everyone around the table agrees the BCS has helped college football in so many ways,” Marinatto said. “It has made college football relevant and it has given schools that may have not had the opportunity to play in some of the major bowls the opportunity to play in some of the major bowls, but there’s also another side to it, and that’s the discussion. How do we keep what has been put in place, that’s been so helpful to so many, and at the same time reduce some of the negatives that go along with it?”

Losing the conference’s BCS automatic-qualifying status was not a concern of the commissioner, citing the strength of the programs the conference added in this newest phase of realignment, if, of course, automatic qualifying bids remain part of the BCS framework.

The addition of new teams is also a bargaining chip in landing a major TV contract in September of 2012, which Marinatto believes will provide the stability that the conference has lacked over the past year.

“Most of the expansion initiative’s complete, but when that’s done, certainly the glue that will continue to hold us together will be that when we get to the market, we can deliver with the kind of TV agreement similar with what the other five major conferences have, and that’s something we anticipated,” Marinatto said.

The final step in the process once expansion has been finalized for the conference and a TV deal is in place is to discuss the matter of divisions in a conference that will span across the entire country. All teams that will be members of the conference will have a vote in any major decisions such as a TV deal or the formation of divisions.

Had to be done