(06-27-2015 08:04 PM)rokamortis Wrote:  

(06-27-2015 12:47 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  

(06-26-2015 09:03 AM)rokamortis Wrote:  

(06-26-2015 07:18 AM)Saint3333 Wrote:  Could CCU leave football in the Big South?

No offense intended, but why would we (or any FCS team) want to do that? It would increase travel cost with no competitive advantage. Most of the Olympic sports are doing just fine where they are and wouldn't be improved by moving to the SBC. At best it is a lateral move that would cost more.

In 2015 ...
Big South baseball had a bit of a stronger RPI rating than the Sun Belt

The Sun Belt RPI was slightly higher in men's bball but both are one bid leagues

Sun Belt soccer is currently held together by affiliate members and doesn't even have a 6th team lined up in two years to guarantee the autobid.

The only reason to join the Sun Belt would be for FBS football. The benefits with FBS football would outweigh any other issues with olympic sports.

Pretty simple. To move yourself to the front of the list when/if you get your football program ready for the jump. Otherwise you can continue to be lumped with EKU and JMU who at any moment could make the push.

SBC plus CCU vs. BS minus CCU baseball would be a pretty big difference.

Long term it would be a better path.

There are just too many assumptions / risks. The SBC may not need a new football member for a long time or could choose to go with someone else when that time comes.

This would have all the costs of the SBC due to increased travel but none of the benefits of additional revenue.

Our loss of Olympic sports would significantly weaken the conference we would try to stay in as FCS football only members - which could trickle into the football side of things and cause the league to fold - which could happen anyway since there are so few members.

I've pieced together from a few different sources that we do have a stadium expansion plan and will be ready to expand the stadium after this season. I'm assuming the plans are contingent on a SBC invite. It will be difficult to increase fan support playing Big South, MEAC, etc. teams.

I don't think it makes any sense to move everything but football to the SBC on a promise.

So you think CCU stadium expansion is contingent on a SBC invite ?

Probably the other way around. With EKU and Missouri State making noise about stadium upgrades & updates, that puts CCU at the end of that food chain.

This is where CCU would have to make some tough decisions and sometimes you have to spend before you reap the benefits. Or, like I was alluding to in my other post ... perhaps put some sort of skin in the game.

Perhaps moving Olympic sports into the Sun Belt w/ some sort of planned expansion and a planned timeline/exit for football would probably be possible, but every decision has some cost and some risk.

That cost and risk is what kept Georgia Southern leadership paralyzed and cemented in I-AA for 15 years while watching others roll by (USF, UCF, UConn, Troy, FIU, FAU, etc)