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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Football => Topic started by: bshea85 on November 11, 2014, 09:17:08 PM
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In a world...
where the BigXII conference didn't exist. In 2010, the Pac-10 became the Pac-16 with the addition of UT, OU, OSU, TTU, CU, and TA&M. Kansas State, along with KU, ISU and Baylor headed off to the Mountain West Conference. The MWC was currently receiving national attention because Utah, TCU and Boise St. were killing it in their post-season bowl games. With the arrival of four former BigXII teams, the prestige of the conference immediately skyrocketed with the addition of power football and elite basketball programs. MWC was able to create a conference championship game, negotiate a sweet TV deal with ESPN and received an automatic BCS bowl birth.
The scenario is all laid out in this article I somehow scrounged up. Found here http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865595018/Commentary-What-if-Boise-State-BYU-TCU-and-Utah-had-all-stayed-in-the-Mountain-West.html?pg=all .
I really think this would've been a great setup for the Katz. Imagine traveling to beautiful mountain states instead of Lubbock for away games. Not only that, but the MWC is a real 5 heart type conference. Collin Klein still would've played for KSU too, being from Colorado. I also think that KSU would be dominating that conference year-in and year-out.
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Loser
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Loser
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I would trade my right testicle for that not to happen.
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Loser
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What an awful scenario.
(BTW, loser).
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Would take.
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Loser
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What a loser
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geek
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It's like he doesn't even know we're tied for the lead in the conference right now.
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Yeah, pretty stupid post on my part.
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Sorry bshea it's a blood-in-the-water shark pack mentality around here after a tough loss I've noticed.
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^loser
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Well, I my alternative timeline, KSU wins every nat'l champy in all sports since 1988. There are no wars, and water fountains are all replaced with gin fountains.
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bshea was born to be a cyclonefanatic
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Well, I my alternative timeline, KSU wins every nat'l champy in all sports since 1988. There are no wars, and water fountains are all replaced with gin fountains.
I'm headed to this timeline. So long, and thanks for all the fish. :buh-bye:
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I should point out that in this timeline that there is a disease which afflicts one out of every million humans and gives them the power of flight, but their arms fall off.
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Someone tell that dude that in his alternate universe Utah players still do stupid things like drop the ball before they actually reach the endzone. (probably)
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I want to live in Chingon's universe. Will that comet landing make this a possibility
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There's only one difference in my alternate universe. It's a beautiful place where Bishop took a knee when he had first-down yardage.
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I would have spent a year making fun of the small timey programs in the MWC, maybe taken a few road trips to pak and then slowly stop caring about college sports very much.
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bshea wants dugout dickstone to stop caring about the Cats, now I'm really mad.
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There's only one difference in my alternate universe. It's a beautiful place where Bishop took a knee when he had first-down yardage.
Yeah.
Alternate _FANverse has a pair of NCs in football. Wins over Tennessee and Notre Dame. Mixed in between is a basketball NC in that epic title win over Duke. Topped off with a Royals World Series just this past year.
Its pretty great guys.
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In my alternate timeline we're actually worse in sports but academically we're really, really good. It's kind of weird.
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In my alternate chunkleverse the sky is the earth (& earth is the sky), and we are all able to float between pillowy clouds and candy corn was never invented, happiness is the only currency, which sucks because there is none, since everyone else is dead in my chunkleverse. :cry:
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In Chicat's alternate universe his desk is on the other side of his office. Everything else is the same
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In Chicat's alternate universe his desk is on the other side of his office. Everything else is the same
No worms at your place of work? :surprised:
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In my alternate universe, I sit down and drink beer and play video games all day and make $100,000 a year. In which I spend going to all the Cat, Royal, and Chief games.
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That timeline would have resulted in us being irrelevant losers like BYU is now.
http://www.sltrib.com/sports/1708463-155/byu-football-season-bowl-cougars-loss (http://www.sltrib.com/sports/1708463-155/byu-football-season-bowl-cougars-loss)
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Desert news dot com. Information sourced from: desert. news. dot. com.
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several different theories exist where there is an alternate universe for every possible outcome for every situation that has ever happened. basically googol^googol universes. im pretty glad that we dont live in the alternate universe where what you explained happened.
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in my alternate timeline, i get woken up by some freak in a bunny costume and then a jet engine crashes through my roof
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in my alternate timeline, i get woken up by some freak in a bunny costume and then a jet engine crashes through my roof
:thumbs:
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In my alternate universe, I sit down and drink beer and play video games all day and make $100,000 a year. In which I spend going to all the Cat, Royal, and Chief games.
you're quite the dreamer
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That timeline would have resulted in us being irrelevant losers like BYU is now.
http://www.sltrib.com/sports/1708463-155/byu-football-season-bowl-cougars-loss (http://www.sltrib.com/sports/1708463-155/byu-football-season-bowl-cougars-loss)
I seriously doubt that. BYU would most likely have stayed in the MWC if the MWC became a "Power" conference overnight with the addition of decent BigXII teams, a re-negotiated TV deal and an automatic BCS-bid. I mean, those ideas were already in the works and picking up steam before the conference re-alignment gutted the MWC. BYU took off after the MWC collapsed.
Desert news dot com. Information sourced from: desert. news. dot. com.
You are absolutely right. I don't even know how I came across the article. It's an opinion piece from some no-name out in the middle of nowhere. BUT, it made me wonder....
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in my alternate timeline, i get woken up by some freak in a bunny costume and then a jet engine crashes through my roof
:lol:
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I want whatever Tobias is on :lol:
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In my alternate timeline I have all the cool stuff from your timelines like Edward Norton's character in The Italian Job.
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In my timeline ksu got a national championship. Nubbs got the death penalty. Also my friend andrew brietbart would still be alive.
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in my alternate timeline, i get woken up by some freak in a bunny costume and then a jet engine crashes through my roof
When people run in circles its a very, very mad world
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I seriously doubt that. BYU would most likely have stayed in the MWC if the MWC became a "Power" conference overnight with the addition of decent BigXII teams, a re-negotiated TV deal and an automatic BCS-bid. I mean, those ideas were already in the works and picking up steam before the conference re-alignment gutted the MWC. BYU took off after the MWC collapsed.
:lol: KSU, KU, ISU, & Baylor would not make that a power conference. Even if given that designation it wouldn't matter because the BCS was still going to die in favor of a playoff within a couple years. That MWC is a second tier conference needing an undefeated season to get in the playoff ahead of a multiple loss power conf champ. Independent or not... that's irrelevant.
Desert news dot com. Information sourced from: desert. news. dot. com.
You are absolutely right. I don't even know how I came across the article. It's an opinion piece from some no-name out in the middle of nowhere. BUT, it made me wonder....
Deseret News is a Mormon newspaper, so it was probably written by a BYU fan desperate for relevance.
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In my timeline ksu got a national championship. Nubbs got the death penalty. Also my friend andrew brietbart would still be alive.
:frown:
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I seriously doubt that. BYU would most likely have stayed in the MWC if the MWC became a "Power" conference overnight with the addition of decent BigXII teams, a re-negotiated TV deal and an automatic BCS-bid. I mean, those ideas were already in the works and picking up steam before the conference re-alignment gutted the MWC. BYU took off after the MWC collapsed.
:lol: KSU, KU, ISU, & Baylor would not make that a power conference. Even if given that designation it wouldn't matter because the BCS was still going to die in favor of a playoff within a couple years. That MWC is a second tier conference needing an undefeated season to get in the playoff ahead of a multiple loss power conf champ. Independent or not... that's irrelevant.
I disagree. Assuming Baylor, TCU and Kansas State would have continued their success on the football field AND assuming ISU, KSU, KU had continued their success on the basketball court, I have no doubt that the MWC would've been labeled a "Power" conference, especially with the dissolution of the BigXII.
Also, even after the dissolution of the BCS, I think that the alternate-timeline MWC would seed a team at the "Final Four," especially if the MWC had a conference championship. Just look at TCU, a former MWC team, now sitting atop the playoff rankings and Baylor who beat that same TCU team.
Now just talking about football: The only thing that would shoot a hole through my hypothetical scenario, is if the recruiting at Baylor and KSU would have suffered and resulted in crappy teams being fielded (I don't mention TCU because they were formerly in the MWC, recruited well and had great post-season wins). IMO, I don't think that recruiting at Baylor and KSU would suffer because Baylor has an open door to Texas recruits and KSU seems to only recruit 5-heart transfers/JUCO's and walk-ons. I don't think ISU or KU would suffer because... its ISU and KU, they're already suffering.
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In my alternate universe wrestling is real, and the NWO comes to power over the earth and Hulk Hogan is now our overlord.
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Now just talking about football: The only thing that would shoot a hole through my hypothetical scenario, is if the recruiting at Baylor and KSU would have suffered and resulted in crappy teams being fielded (I don't mention TCU because they were formerly in the MWC, recruited well and had great post-season wins). IMO, I don't think that recruiting at Baylor and KSU would suffer because Baylor has an open door to Texas recruits and KSU seems to only recruit 5-heart transfers/JUCO's and walk-ons. I don't think ISU or KU would suffer because... its ISU and KU, they're already suffering.
Of course the recruiting will suffer when you replace games in Norman and Austin with Ft. Collins and Albuquerque. The only possible recruiting positive about ending up in the MWC is we could become a partial qualifier mecca and really live up to the glorified JC rep teams that repeatedly lose to the cats bitch about.
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Tell you what, I'll run the scenario in the latest copy of NCAA 14 and simulate it out 20 years... :ROFL: