(03-06-2014 01:45 PM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote: (03-06-2014 01:39 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote: Missouri is in the SEC east so I don't see why Missouri St. couldn't be in the SBC east.
Because we are not the SEC and we really could use travel partners to help offset travel costs for Olympic Sports. Missouri State does not make since as a travel partner for anyone but Arkansas State. On the other had you don't use travel partners for Football so I suppose if we don't break into divisions for the Olympic Sports then it really wouldn't matter that much...
Arkstfan brought up the point that a Missouri State add would essentially create several clusters of schools, all within Driving distance of one another.
Cluster 1: App State, Georgia State, Georgia Southern
Cluster 2: Missouri State, UALR (Idaho), Arkansas State
Cluster 3: USA, Troy, ULL, ULM,
Cluster 4: Texas State, UTA (NMSU)
If you made a divisional commitment to keep Clusters together...You could probably divide it up any way you wanted and not face a lot of travel issues.
His proposal was to pair up App and the Georgia Schools with Missouri State and the Arkansas schools, while pairing up the Louisiana, Alabama, and Texas Schools. That puts one non football in each division, which is then paired for football purposes with NMSU and Idaho. Putting NMSU and Idaho in separate divisions.
Using a Cross over rivals deal like the SEC has would ensure that at no point would more than 4 SBC schools ever have to play both NMSU and Idaho in the same year...and those schools would rotate every two years.