You're coming a very long way in a very short time with these. The first few were basically sideshow: all the effort in visuals and Editing is really paying off

I love these kind of “what-ifs” and “almost happened” scenarios. A video on the proposed Magnolia League or Airplane Conference would be great!

It's funny that the New Mexico AD was afraid of being the laughing stock of the Big 12, because I mostly remember them as being the laughing stock of a Group of 5 conference. They could have been a second Indiana, instead they are a second New Mexico State. 😂

That Oklahoma vs. NCAA ruling was absolutely the correct decision. And it is also the genesis of everything that has destroyed the soul of college football ever since.

I would still say they're about to be a super conference. 16, possibly 18 members. You've got Fox's golden child in Colorado, two time PAC 12 champ Utah, Arizona who's ranked, plus the current big 12 minus the Red River Rivals'. I'd still call that a super conference.

As a Louisville fan this is the first I’m hearing of this so it’s kinda cool idea to keep the rivalry with Memphis and start other new rivalries. But then wouldn’t have the Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and and West Virginia rivalries

This content intertwines my love of sports, academia, history and geography in a way I haven’t seen elsewhere on this platform, quickly becoming one of my favorite channels

Another great video! Have you considered doing one on the granddaddy of them all, the Ivy League? Or maybe the proposed Magnolia or Airplane Conferences of the late 50s?

Great Video. Do Penn State to Big Ten in 1990. What if Penn State joined the ACC is the biggest inflection point for why the ACC and B1G did not stay at the same tier.

the editing and visuals in this one are really good

Another small piece of trivia from 96. Some may wonder why Memphis was on there but in the previous 10 years, Memphis had beaten Alabama, Florida, USC, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri and Louisville, amongst others. For a non-power conference, that is an amazing set of wins in 10 years. The problem was they could beat Tennessee and then lose to East Carolina the next week, but wins like that can grab other conferences attention

I comment this on every video… but I’m always excited when I see you dropped a new video!

OMG, Rudy Davalos was a good friend of my older brother at Edison. He was always stopping by the house.

I am loving this type of conference content! Keep it coming

Excellent video, as always, by Lucas. I never knew anything about this until this video, and I enjoyed it a lot. But as Lucas wisely said, college sports is weird and full of “what-ifs” that never happened. Here’s a what-if question I wanna ask: What if the University of Houston joined the proposed Big 16 back in 1996? Think about it. In basketball, Hakeem Olajuwon & Clyde Drexler led the Houston Cougars (Phi Slama Jamma, baby! 👍😉🏀) to the NCAA Title game in 1983. Hakeem led the Cougars back to another title game in 1984. Meanwhile, in football, Houston knew what it was like to play in a heated, bloodthirsty league as a member of the Southwest Conference, and would not have been afraid of Oklahoma, Texas or Texas A&M. If you’re not gonna be able to add New Mexico, put Houston in there instead, and you’re super conference may actually be more “super.” That’s just my opinion. Lucas, feel free to let me know what you think. Oh, and keep up the great work! 👍👍

The big 12 should of brought in the entire swc. Would of been cool if the north division was the big 8 and the south division was the old swc minus Arkansas

babe wake up dalukes posted a new conference video

Been loving the videos lately, would love to see what you think the conferences should look like to you

You’re amazing dude love the vids!

As a huge fan of collegiate sports and history in general, your videos are so entertaining and right up my alley! Keep up the great work!

Another GREAT watch.. AMAZING topic and even better execution.. Keep up the Great work.. If you make it "they" will watch.

always love your videos!

Big 12 and big 10 be alike. Numbers are stupid names are life😅

As a Memphis Alum, we were really gunning to join a bigger conference, may have been a different story if our BBall coach didn’t go to Kentucky. It felt like bigger conferences were intimidated by Memphis & gotten farther teams to join so they could avoid them

As a WVU alum, this was inevitable.

How many times as a Memphis fan do we have to suffer

Interesting seeing Dave Bliss there. There's a Big XII name I can't forget no matter how much I would like to.

Ok, this video is very informative and I love your content, BUT “Colorado had long wanted to align itself with California University” is a silly claim that is presented here without evidence. Where are you getting that from??

I can't believe I am watching a video actually going into the history of UNM "Everyone's a Lobo! Woof woof woof!"

Imagine being a Lobos fan watching this video lol

Steve Young is Brigham Young's descendant

I love your videos so much. Have been a college football fan for around 15 years, but being not from the US understanding all the intricacies was not easy. Greetings from Russia. Keep up the great work. Your videos are simple looking but a joy to watch and I love the way you sound.

I think Louisville may still wind up in the Big 12 given how many schools are looking to leave the ACC. It's just a question of how soon the ACC Grant of Rights can be defeated. Pittsburgh or Georgia Tech would probably follow as the eighteenth member.

Travel Back in Time to my 1st Grade Year in Elementary School ages 6-7 years old 1996-97 during Serena (Moon), Amy (Mercury), Raye (Mars), Mina (Venus), Lita (Jupiter), and Molly's 12th Grade Senior Year in High School.

Can’t wait to learn about all the game changing realignment that almost happened.

Dalukes, did you work in the video department @ksu???

i never heard of Oklahoma trying to leave the big 8

The most prominent "what if" was when the PAC 12 flirted with adding Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech. The deal breaker was Texas refusing to share the revenue from the Longhorn Network. Otherwise, you might have seen a PAC 16 of Arizona, Arizona St., California, Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Oregon, Oregon St., Stanford, Texas, Texas Tech, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington and Washington St. That could have held up against any conference in the country. What would have happened to Kansas, K-State, Iowa St. Baylor and TCU would have been interesting. Perhaps they would have been absorbed by the AAC or the Mountain West. But then the merger fell through and the PAC 12 collapsed. By such little footnotes history is made.

This hurts to watch as a Memphis fan

babe wake up, new dalukes video

Back in the 70s and 80s, Tech regularly played New Mexico due to the school's proximity fun times.

when the old Big East was collapsing, I would have loved to have seen the B12 be aggressive and snag PITT and Louisville...but the ACC beat them to the punch

I live about an hour from Memphis and I’m honestly shocked a power 5 conference hasn’t scooped up Memphis. Like I know they aren’t the best go5 school but they’ve made so much money for a go5 school and has FedEx to back them all I’m saying is a power 5 conference better scoop Memphis up soon.

As a lobo fan that's still hard to take

New Mexico as a Big 12 member definitely would have been something interesting. They could probably make the jump now if they wanted too because in all honesty, the teams the conference brought in to replace Texas and Oklahoma can only do so much

To think my Lobos could've been in the Big 12.....

I actually would be hella interested to see this conference ngl

Content is great, but I always pause for the footnotes. It looked like one of your uncles volunteered that photoshopped logo.

The Big 12 should honestly rebrand to the Big 16 at this rate.

You should do WAC story

ANOTHER heater

Lets not forget around this time the Big 10 flirted with raiding the Big 8/Big 12 of Mizzu and KU along with Rutgers to get to 14.

There was no such thing as a power conference before, like 2010. That being said, they should've made these moves.

When you join a bigger conference you are being given an opportunity to grow your program to the level of said conference's top tier programs. It will take time but it can happen and that's your only chance now that being an independent is becoming impossible.

i am a very sad lobo fan

Very impressive stuff. Especially for a purple.

Thank god UNM turned down that opportunity, look at how well our program has grown over the last 27 years…

Big12 needs to go ahead & add, now: UConn Villanova Tulane Memphis Tulsa USF UTSA ECU AppSt either: Marshall or Coastal Caroline or Temple, or all 3. The ACC aren't going anywhere soon, if ever, except maybe Louisville may wish to join Big12 - the others prefer not to do so, now that Stanford, SMU & Cal have joined. FSU, Clemson, maybe UNC & NCSt may depart, however, and the ACC will be adding many or all the teams listed above. The best chance Big12 has of adding big State schools from the ACC is to take away ACC options to replace FSU, Clemson, UNC, & NCSt.... take away the life lines, then you get some, maybe, still, maybe not.

Interesting to think about where New Mexico would be today. They would’ve struggled early but you’d think the extra money from the tv revenue would’ve given them far more upside than they have now. Definitely not brilliant in hindsight. I wonder if that could signal where the PAC will aim, after the legal drama is done. 🤔: maybe a combo of Memphis, New Mexico, UNLV, and three more I can’t think of at the moment to get to 8 - then try to figure things out from there. I think they should consider Rice & Tulane and just assume they have to be as “national” as all the conferences seem to be going now. So that’s 7. After that they just have to get creative. I doubt Boise or SDSU want to go at this point. Maybe Colorado State. After that, it’s a real ghost town out west and they’ll really need to get creative. They may be the first P5 to have to bring a school up from FCS. Portland State or someone, maybe. I would round out 10 with Portland State and NIU from the MAC then start to think of long term plans to get to 12 and beyond.

There hasnt been any real good getty images lately......or at least ones you've told me to comment on haha

Did the Big Twelve ever have 3 teams make the final four in the same Tournament. I don’t think so. The Big East did in 1985 and almost had 4 teams make the final four that year. BC lost a close game against Memphis State (Memphis) by 4 points.

The people(me) need a yankee conference video

Time for a turn witha true superconference: the MIAA.

If you had said 4 years ago that 3 AAC schools would join, I would have said Memphis would probably be number one. They won more football games in the AAC than any of the three teams that joined. They've had two number one recruiting classes in basketball in the last 5 years. They made the cotton Bowl 4 years ago. It still blows my mind that they were not chosen. They haven't always taken advantage of their opportunities, and their administration wasn't always looking ahead, But I think, the potential for growth is there more than in any other group of five team left. They have potential to be a power basketball school and a pretty good football school. I think what doomed them on the field was missing a field goal against UCF in 2017 to go to the peach Bowl in the AAC championship game on the last play of the game, and missing a field gold in 2015 against Houston that would have put them in the championship game and most likely the NY6 game. Ironically both field goals were missed by current NFL kickers and were makeable. Regardless of off the field reasons, a group of five team that made three NY6 bowls In 5 years would have been tough to not pick, especially if you add in the two number one recruiting classes in basketball. They haven't translated that into tournament success, which has really hurt them. I'm not sure how much a lack of an on-campus stadium is or the crime rate is, but on the field I still think they should have been chosen

Come on. Once Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska and A&M left, the Big 12 was barely even relevant. Losing Texas and Oklahoma finished it off. Adding any number of mid-major schools makes zero difference.

Theres no reason why they can't call themselves the Big 16

Long time big 8 fan...byu, Memphis, New Mexico, and Louisville were never in the mix in 96. Louisville, Utah, BYU and Pitt were considered about the time the Big East and Mountain West fell apart around 2008 (?)...no way in 1996. Around 2012 the Big XII had an application process when a lot of institutions filed. The Big XII did that process as an initial vetting for possible future expansion.

early squad

Bring back the South West Conference you cowards

Imagine not keeping UofH and SMU/TCU to lockdown Houston and Dallas markets, but thinking BYU, Baylor, TTU, and NMSU would be more worthy for TV eyes. 😂😂😂😂😂 This is why the conference imploded. Oh, and Governor Ann Richards got involved.

4:58 Wrong. As of 2018 the NCAA officially awarded the at the time MWC member University of Utah co-championship rights for 2008-09 along w/ BCS winners Florida.

DO THE MOUNTAIN WEST AND THE WAC ALREADY