(12-17-2014 03:59 PM)AlwaysSunny Wrote:  

(12-16-2014 10:55 AM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  It would be a lateral move at best, and cost valuable $$$ that none of us can spare.
I think long term, we're better off staying put....if no one else moves. (That's the key.)

Some of you really need to stop fooling yourselves.

If no one leaves...if the Sun Belt stays put, we are far better off as an institution. We may have had a bad year this year, but the numbers show that the two leagues will even out pretty quickly.

What gets the SBC is not some issue of perception or this belief that we are better off moving, its the prisoners dilemma. You don't want to be THE School that turned down a CUSA invite when you know there are 4 guys behind you who would gladly accept the invite, leaving your current league in a far worse predicament.

But acting like we would gain anything more than a shiny new patch and some extra TV Dollars by moving is the foolish part. I don't know what we'll do, we've certainly been very public about the costs of switching leagues, and have mentioned openly we felt WKU and MTSU made mistakes in leaving, but we could just as easy accept an invite because the alternative would be to watch another SBC school leave.

Hopefully CUSA's TV deal isn't enough of an incentive for them to expand, and they start looking to go back to 12 whenever the Big 12 makes its move.