Temple's move may lead to new midwest conference?

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Ruski
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article from St. Louis PD, seems like the writer is just speculating but this whole BCS business is leaving a lot of schools with nowhere to go that makes sense.

Interesting line at the end:
All of this leaves many SLU fans yearning for the formation of a basketball-driven Midwestern conference with natural rivals like Xavier, Dayton, DePaul, Detroit, Loyola (Ill.), Butler, Missouri-Kansas City, Wisconsin-Milwaukee . . . well, you get the idea.
Building such a conference from scratch would be quite an undertaking, but SLU has been thinking big in basketball for some time.
The big-time coach is in place. So is the outstanding on-campus arena. While the school is on a roll, it should get proactive on the conference affiliation front if the A-10 starts crumbling.
If SLU can do this for basketball, why the hell isn't Tulane thinking about this for football?

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ ... f6878.html


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Ruski wrote:
If SLU can do this for basketball, why the hell isn't Tulane thinking about this for football?
Who with? Just wondering.
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A "southern" conference would be the sunbelt. The Alliance is far better.
We don't need to be in a league with the ULXs.
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If this new league gets to 24-30 teams our division will be full of ULX's.
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damn !!! just recovering for mardi gras.... YAWN....... what a waste of reading experience....
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