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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 2253562, member: 628"]
I love playing the what-if game when it comes to conferences, particularly alternative realities re: northeast schools.  Of course, I'm weird.

Here's a fascinating article in the NY Times from August 1990 that details the precarious situation the eastern independents were left in after PSU joined the B10.

[URL='http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/28/sports/football-six-eastern-teams-set-out-to-lose-their-independence.html']FOOTBALL;   Six Eastern Teams Set Out to Lose Their Independence[/URL]

A few eerily prescient passages:

If there ever was a hope of a cohesive, northeast-included, all-sports conference it was around this time in the early 90s when Jefferson Pilot (I believe, it was one of those TV syndication companies) floated the idea of a 16 team mega conference that spanned the east coast.  IIRC, it would've included most of the indies that existed in the early 90s: Syracuse, BC, Pitt, Rutgers, Temple, West Virginia, Florida State, Miami, Louisville, South Carolina, Virginia Tech,  Cincinnati, Memphis, East Carolina, Southern Miss, and perhaps the service academies.

No one had the guts or vision to pull that off, but it would've been unreal.
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