[silvanthalas]

Mountain West and Conference USA Announce Football Association

"The two conferences will merge into a separate football‐only entity without affecting their status within the NCAA structure."

[eyekwah]

It will be interesting to how they schedule the football games. I saw nothing in the release that says how scheduling will work. I have a sense that there will be fewer games between other conferences with the teams in this alliance. It is going to be harder for AD's to schedule out of conference opponents with arrangement like this.

[BlckNGldHwk]

I'm really confused.

[CAARHawk]

I have been telling people this for about 6 months. Just haven't been able to name the conference. However, they have talked about this being a first phase if Superconferences happen.

[goods10]

How in the hell is this going to be better or ever work??

[NewMexHawk]

Two conferennces that do not earn much money to begin with and now they have to share even less...

[clicheusername3]

Conwest Mounference

[silvanthalas]

They should take Big Mistake before somebody forces the Big East or Big 12 to do so.

[CAARHawk]

Okay

As I said about a month ago, I was in a lunch meeting with a group of people "associated" with an non-BCS Conference. I can now say they were CUSA people. As I said before, these people were not CUSA officials, but were associated with the conference (take that as you will).

As I said before, they were convinced superconferences were happening and that the superconferences would join together and leave the NCAA for football. That is why they were trying to get out in front. Their idea was to develop a four region alliance of schools that were going to be left out of the superconference system.

My school is in the third tier of non-BCS conferences. They were talking to us, because we are growing and have one of the largest fan bases below the second tier, which is CUSA, MAC, and MWC.

So, to answer the question about what does this do? They felt they could negotiate national TV contracts, they could keep travel costs low, they could develop a defacto playoff system, which is what they expect from the superconferences, and they could reduce administrative costs.

[HawkeyesWin]

Big East is going to need to merge FB schools with B12 to survive after this.