Conference USA, Mountain West to Merge

The progression to mega-conferences continues, with Conference USA and the Mountain West announcing they will merge and perhaps bring in additional schools. According to this article, "The newly named league would have a membership in 2013-14 that includes at minumum UNLV, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado State, Air Force, Hawaii (in football only), Southern Miss, Tulsa, Marshall, Rice, UTEP, UAB, Tulane, East Carolina, Nevada and Fresno State."

Memphis to Big East

Memphis will be joining the Big East in all sports for the 2013-14 academic year. I created a geographic map in a previous posting, to illustrate the member schools (current and future) as of December 8, 2011. Two weeks ago (January 24, 2012), it was announced that Navy would join the Big East for football starting in 2015.