(05-28-2018 02:29 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  

(05-26-2018 04:10 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(05-26-2018 02:31 PM)templefootballfan Wrote:  so wac 16 did work
CFB hierarcy wouldn't let it grow

Probably...it’s ironic that a conference with that solid lineup, Utah, BYU, TCU, Air Force, San Diego St etc wasn’t included in the country club but a conference with Rutgers, Temple, Pitt, BC, Syracuse was.... unfair, let’s be honest: The WAC got hosed.

What? Utah and SDSU had done nothing before the turn of the century. TCU was left out of the Big 8 merger for a reason.

The best thing the WAC had going for it was big markets and especially state flagships/land grants.

Right. When you go back to 1998, the Big East was closer in quality to the ACC than it was to the WAC or Conference-USA (which were nearly identical in overall strength). You could argue that the Big East should have been on the outside looking in, I guess, but not that the Big East being meant that others should have been as well.