Comments on: Mountain West announces title game, division names

By: bertenheim

bertenheim — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:27:21 +0000

The Pac-12 championship is played at the stadium of a participant, and a sell-out is not guaranteed.

By: shackdelrio

shackdelrio — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:23:10 +0000

I like the idea of the highest rank team hosting the title game. In so many of these conference championship games, the stadium is half empty and there is no atmosphere.

With it being at a stadium of a team involved, you can almost guarantee sellout.

By: hardballtalkusername

hardballtalkusername — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:16:14 +0000

scalp, the Pac-12 makes sense geographically.

By: timh1955

timh1955 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:47:03 +0000

@bigfatpaulie27

Ok….I stand corrected.

But I just checked my map of the US and Missouri borders Arkansas so all the SEC teams touch each other too.

By: bigfatpaulie27

bigfatpaulie27 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:30:23 +0000

Hey Tim, Nebraska touches Iowa. Just so you know

By: vanmorrissey

vanmorrissey — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:35:57 +0000

Wow and the West teams play west of the mountains, Genius! Remarkable how easy that was.

By: timh1955

timh1955 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:06:52 +0000

@scalpemseminoles

Kentucky is in the South
Texas A&M is also in the South
Missouri – Wh0 cares?

Nebraska (BIG10) doesn’t touch any of the other member states (at least I don’t think so)

By: crazyphatdude14

crazyphatdude14 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:04:22 +0000

I only count 5 teams in the “West” division. Who is the other team?

By: scalpemseminoles

scalpemseminoles — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:58:46 +0000

Only one conference cares about geography. the south eastern conference has kentucky which is not south, texas a&m which isn’t east, and missouri which is mid and west! of course the atlantic coast conference has taken a team from kentucky and a team from pennsylvania, neither of which touch the atlantic coast! the big east will expand to the western state of texas (althought it wanted to go as far as california). the big 12 for some reason has west virginia, half a country away; while the big 10 is the only one that even makes georgraphic sense with all member states touching

By: timh1955

timh1955 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:52:57 +0000

The championship game should be played at a neutral site.

By: 8to80texansblog

8to80texansblog — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:43:24 +0000

As far as the divisional alignment goes, the conference has been divided into Mountain and West divisions (See how easy and non-pretentious that is, Big Ten?).
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LOL… Big 10+2…. what a joke of a conference.

Delaney…. please know that the “legends and leaders” makes you the brunt of SO many jokes… that… and getting owned in Bowl season…

By: swagger91

swagger91 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:23:55 +0000

I like it..but they should play the champ. game at the cardinals stadium or the chargers stadium…but if hawaii the highest ranked team dat would be an awesome site to play

By: fcmlefty1

fcmlefty1 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:57:40 +0000

I’m usually a pretty strict believer in geographic divisions, but I’d have gone a different direction in this case to preserve rivalries:

MWC “Charter Schools” : San Diego State, UNLV, Colorado State, Wyoming, Air Force and New Mexico.

MWC “New” : Boise, Fresno, Nevada, San Jose State, Utah State and Hawaii.

Rivalries completely intact and probably a more balanced split.

By: delashmit

delashmit — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:50:00 +0000

Division names that make sense. The Big 10 should take a remedial naming course from the Mountain West.