I would see this new conference taking Sunbelt teams before looking at the MAC. As the great majority of what is left of CUSA is more southern based I would be surprised if any new expansion of CUSA with the possible exception of Temple would include any MAC teams.

I stuck what I thought a 24 team conference would look like in the Temple thread, but I will paste it here:

The problem with a lot of conferences like CUSA is that they are regionally diverse, meaning lots of travel. By taking enough non-AQ teams and putting them in a massive conference, you have enough teams in each part of the country to get short travels and natural rivalries again. The other advantage is that, with this many teams, the ending champion is going to be decent, so this conference has a stronger argument for automatic qualification.

Haha - silly me - i got carried away. I started with 24 teams, actually, but the problem was that you end up with a 3 team playoff if you have 3 divisions of 8. I suppose you can have a wildcard, like the NFL. Also, 32 teams worked better from a standpoint of keeping things regional. If you are only going to have 3 groups, you probably combine the East and South, and lose most of the teams I have in the East.

You could cut to 24 by dropping 2 from each of my four divisions, and play 5 games in division, and one from each of the other divisions, along with 4 non-conference games, but which teams do you lose?

SMU, SDS and Houston are going to Big East so we're down to 29 on L's list.

No one could possibly want Miami at this point. Apathetic students and fans, seemingly little commitment from the university. They may put together a decent season now and then with a little luck, but in general they are fading fast. 

I just don't see Super CUSA adding any MAC teams but Temple. Temple's inclusion based solely on the Philly "potential" market although Temple has been so historically pathetic in football that they may have forever ruined that TV market potential. It's still stunning to me that the BigEast, which was/is  on life support, went from coast to coast, begging virtually anyone, someone to join forces with them.

That Temple, being literally in the BigEast's front yard, with their pants down and legs spread, proved to be too ugly even at last call (they picked Memphis over Temple mind you), speaks volumes. That said, Temple to SCUSA is probably the only MAC school that would be included and again it's the "potential" of the TV market size that SCUSA would want.

The other MACers don't fit either geographically or in TV market potential to make much sense. That the CUSA/MWC merger is mostly a south/southwest/west conglomeration it just seems to me that they would fill in any blanks with SunBelt and WAC teams before even considering a MAC school. They can easily get to their 16-24 team conference and never consider a MAC school

Learn some facts.. The only reason Temple isn't in the Big East is because Villanova is blocking them.

http://dailymail.com/Sports/MUSports/201202130105?page=2&build=cache

This article mentions some of the teams that could fill out the rest of the conference and mentions none from the MAC. The possiblities it gives are Florida International, Louisiana Tech, Charlotte, UT-San Antonio, North Texas and Western Kentucky.

I really don't see any reason a team from the MAC would want any part of this. Travel would go from great to terrible and would be extremley costly. The level of play in football would be about on par with the MAC. I compared Sagarin ratings from last year in the MAC to those in the teams going to be left in Conference USA and the Mountain West and the MAC comes out ahead of the Mountain West and just behind Conference USA.

Come on. The first article say VI is not against. The second is a VI message board. Facts please.

TUVideoGuy, that revelation makes it even more embarrassing. The BigEast powers to be are SO weak and intimidated by Villanova of all people. As the BigEast football brand was crashing before it's very eyes, they let a NON-D1 football playing piss-ant dictate to them to exclude Temple? Seriously?

And the BigEast went all the way to HAWAII to fill a "football only" spot when they had Temple sitting primed and ready in one of the nations "biggest" TV and metro markets. And they let NOVA say NO to Temple? Wouldn't it have made more sense for the BigEast to tell NOVA to take their basketball and shove it up their collective _sses?

So if I have this straight - the BigEast, cowed by a NON D1 playing football - and hardly indistinguishable BBall program (pick em amongst Marquette, St.John's, Seton Hall, DePaul, you get the picture) - had the power to kept out of the football starved Big East the vaunted Temple Ow!s. Ow! how that must hurt!
 
Temple had no more "cajones" than that to influence the Big East? They let the little NOVA push Temple out? And you publically wail and cry about in in public forums. What a pathetically, laughable punch of _ussies Templeton's are.  Go NOVA!

I guess you Templeton's are just thanking your lucky stars that NOVA didn't make you morons move the whole University over to Delaware, huh? Obviously Philly's not "big" enough for 2 "players" huh?  Temple a historically pathetic prior BigEast jettisoned in shame D1 football program, NOVA with the DII or is it DIII football program, both NOVA and Temple's basketball gyms filled to the rafters collectively on any given night would amount to 30,000 people out of a 6 MILLION people market and NOVA kicks your sorry _sses to the curb. And the Flyers thing they're the Broad Street Bullies!

funny, the non football guys kept them out?

He's right. It's been atrocious. We have the same amount of NCAA tourney wins during the past 10 years as schools like Temple.