(05-10-2017 08:43 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(05-10-2017 07:42 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(05-10-2017 04:53 PM)Oldyeller Wrote:  

(05-10-2017 03:34 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(05-10-2017 02:04 PM)Oldyeller Wrote:  Any credit for the correct use of "hear" in the preceding word. Rhetorically speaking. Zoom in on the 360 image of the fine folk in Boone and you'll figure why a crAppster corrects my typo with such joy!?

Because I can. You onion farmers kill me...

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Peanut.

Vidalia is less than 50 miles from Statesboro...

Hence why they're called Vidalia onions and not Statesboro onions

FYI, lots of onions are produced in Bulloch County and are sold as Vidalia onions. I believe there are 20 some odd counties where they can be grown, but Bulloch Co's main crops are cotton, peanuts, soybeans, and turf. Most watermelons come from the Cordele area... that's kind of their thing.

(05-11-2017 09:42 AM)APPdiesel Wrote:  I wonder if over on the smack threads they're having a rational discussion about realignment.

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Why would you talk about something that isn't going to happen?

(05-11-2017 10:08 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(05-11-2017 09:42 AM)APPdiesel Wrote:  I wonder if over on the smack threads they're having a rational discussion about realignment.

twitter.com/DieselOnRadio

At this point there is no rational realignment discussion. It will not happen until the Big 12 GOR goes out in 2025. ESPN paid the Big 12 not to add AAC schools they consider not to add value to the conference. No school is moving for the time being and No school will risk driving away major donors by stepping down a conference.

All this talk was brought on by click bait writer paid by clicks on his article, and the off-season is the perfect time for this. None of it is realistic, it lacks support from CUSA schools and the top admin I spoke to about this very subject laughed and said "you're joking right" "There is absolutely no support for merger with the Sunbelt" So there you have it Sunbelt fans, sorry that it was a wasted 25 page thread but hey it is the off-season!

What a load of crap.
MTSU's AD was quoted on the record. USM's AD was quoted on the record. I guess it's some sort of conspiracy.

I don't believe that there will be a rainbows and unicorns meeting where all 26 presidents sit down and work out some happy wonderful everything lines up sweetly on the map solution.

But Wood Selig at ODU has said on the record they need another eastern school. Chris Massaro at MTSU has said on the record that schools have to look at shifting into alignments that make better sense. Jon Gilbert at USM said on the record he thinks they have to look at a more regional alignment.

The fart symphony of claims that this BS created by writers is also a claim those three AD's are inept bozos who say random crap that they don't mean.

Realigning CUSA and Sun Belt geographically doesn't require 26 schools agreeing. It only takes 10. Nine Sun Belt to agree to invite the one CUSA willing to take a leap. If USM leaps how long do you think it would be before UAB followed? If ODU and Charlotte were to leap chances are Marshall would look hard at following or going back to the MAC if that option were open.

One domino falls odds are others fall.

CUSA East is now halfway to having continuity of membership to withdraw and become a conference with a hoops auto bid. They already have continuity for auto qualification in other sports.

So really 10 isn't the number. The number is 7. If CUSA East secedes I doubt App, Ga.St., GaSo, or Coastal would tell them to go to hell if offered a spot.

I wonder if 3 10 team conferences would be the best way to go? Southwest, South, Atlantic seaboard?

(05-11-2017 02:23 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  I don't believe that there will be a rainbows and unicorns meeting where all 26 presidents sit down and work out some happy wonderful everything lines up sweetly on the map solution.

But Wood Selig at ODU has said on the record they need another eastern school. Chris Massaro at MTSU has said on the record that schools have to look at shifting into alignments that make better sense. Jon Gilbert at USM said on the record he thinks they have to look at a more regional alignment.

The fart symphony of claims that this BS created by writers is also a claim those three AD's are inept bozos who say random crap that they don't mean.

Realigning CUSA and Sun Belt geographically doesn't require 26 schools agreeing. It only takes 10. Nine Sun Belt to agree to invite the one CUSA willing to take a leap. If USM leaps how long do you think it would be before UAB followed? If ODU and Charlotte were to leap chances are Marshall would look hard at following or going back to the MAC if that option were open.

One domino falls odds are others fall.

CUSA East is now halfway to having continuity of membership to withdraw and become a conference with a hoops auto bid. They already have continuity for auto qualification in other sports.

So really 10 isn't the number. The number is 7. If CUSA East secedes I doubt App, Ga.St., GaSo, or Coastal would tell them to go to hell if offered a spot.

Okay, so what happens after we take two schools from CUSA? Is anyone going to want to move from the SBC to CUSA if we poach, say, USM and ODU from them?

Would Texas State or ULL, for example, be willing to gamble that the western schools will follow and pay the exit fees?

The idea of the two leagues exchanging schools until you have better geographic footprints just seems like it creates a large prisoner's dilemma.

And no one is going to be able to secede from any conference because making new conferences is against the FBS rules.

(05-11-2017 10:08 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  At this point there is no rational realignment discussion. It will not happen until the Big 12 GOR goes out in 2025. ESPN paid the Big 12 not to add AAC schools they consider not to add value to the conference. No school is moving for the time being and No school will risk driving away major donors by stepping down a conference.

All this talk was brought on by click bait writer paid by clicks on his article, and the off-season is the perfect time for this. None of it is realistic, it lacks support from CUSA schools and the top admin I spoke to about this very subject laughed and said "you're joking right" "There is absolutely no support for merger with the Sunbelt" So there you have it Sunbelt fans, sorry that it was a wasted 25 page thread but hey it is the off-season!

He got that part bolded above right. No one in the Sunbelt seems to be in any distress or hurry to step down.

(05-11-2017 03:14 PM)sdcritter Wrote:  

(05-11-2017 10:08 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  At this point there is no rational realignment discussion. It will not happen until the Big 12 GOR goes out in 2025. ESPN paid the Big 12 not to add AAC schools they consider not to add value to the conference. No school is moving for the time being and No school will risk driving away major donors by stepping down a conference.

All this talk was brought on by click bait writer paid by clicks on his article, and the off-season is the perfect time for this. None of it is realistic, it lacks support from CUSA schools and the top admin I spoke to about this very subject laughed and said "you're joking right" "There is absolutely no support for merger with the Sunbelt" So there you have it Sunbelt fans, sorry that it was a wasted 25 page thread but hey it is the off-season!

He got that part bolded above right. No one in the Sunbelt seems to be in any distress or hurry to step down.

ISWYDT

(05-11-2017 10:08 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(05-11-2017 09:42 AM)APPdiesel Wrote:  I wonder if over on the smack threads they're having a rational discussion about realignment.

twitter.com/DieselOnRadio

At this point there is no rational realignment discussion. It will not happen until the Big 12 GOR goes out in 2025. ESPN paid the Big 12 not to add AAC schools they consider not to add value to the conference. No school is moving for the time being and No school will risk driving away major donors by stepping down a conference.

All this talk was brought on by click bait writer paid by clicks on his article, and the off-season is the perfect time for this. None of it is realistic, it lacks support from CUSA schools and the top admin I spoke to about this very subject laughed and said "you're joking right" "There is absolutely no support for merger with the Sunbelt" So there you have it Sunbelt fans, sorry that it was a wasted 25 page thread but hey it is the off-season!

You obviously haven't been paying attention....

BTW, what do you mean by "No school is moving for the time being and No school will risk driving away major donors by stepping down a conference." The only step down for you guys in CUSA is FCS.

(05-09-2017 08:38 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  The Sun Belt would be wise to add no one. With ten being the optimal number due to the CFP, it makes no financial sense to add anyone. The SBC has moved ahead of CUSA in revenue per school because here is no influx of schools diluting the conference payout. Neither of those four schools are going to increase the SBC enough to keep it a top the G5 or consistently gain units in the BB tourney. Fewer mouths of strong, albeit underrated, schools has proven to be successful.

It's coming and it's not going to play out as an orderly swap of schools.

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(05-11-2017 06:06 PM)panama Wrote:  

(05-09-2017 08:38 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  The Sun Belt would be wise to add no one. With ten being the optimal number due to the CFP, it makes no financial sense to add anyone. The SBC has moved ahead of CUSA in revenue per school because here is no influx of schools diluting the conference payout. Neither of those four schools are going to increase the SBC enough to keep it a top the G5 or consistently gain units in the BB tourney. Fewer mouths of strong, albeit underrated, schools has proven to be successful.

It's coming and it's not going to play out as an orderly swap of schools.

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Agree . . it is coming and the wait will not be that long.

(05-11-2017 06:32 PM)DoubletapWolf Wrote:  

(05-11-2017 06:06 PM)panama Wrote:  

(05-09-2017 08:38 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  The Sun Belt would be wise to add no one. With ten being the optimal number due to the CFP, it makes no financial sense to add anyone. The SBC has moved ahead of CUSA in revenue per school because here is no influx of schools diluting the conference payout. Neither of those four schools are going to increase the SBC enough to keep it a top the G5 or consistently gain units in the BB tourney. Fewer mouths of strong, albeit underrated, schools has proven to be successful.

It's coming and it's not going to play out as an orderly swap of schools.

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Agree . . it is coming and the wait will not be that long.

Which makes me worry big time as a Coastal fan. As the most recent FCS call up (not counting Liberty. Liberty wasn't a call up. No one wanted them.) I can't imagine we would be on the strong side of any argument.

I've got a suggestion (we've thrown around so many different ideas, why not?)

How about we create geographically-aligned conferences for non-revenue sports and stay largely in our same conference alignments for football and men's basketball?

Why doesn't the SBC just stay with what we have, and let CUSA solve their own problems. However, I do believe that we have 2 or 3 schools that will jump if CUSA makes a move.

I like this combo. Add Charlotte and UAB to the East / USM and UTSA to the West. Now THAT's a Sun Belt Conference.

(05-11-2017 11:16 PM)ChooChoo Wrote:  

I like this combo. Add Charlotte and UAB to the East / USM and UTSA to the West. Now THAT's a Sun Belt Conference.

need two more team from west

(05-11-2017 11:33 PM)sparty54 Wrote:  

(05-11-2017 11:16 PM)ChooChoo Wrote:  

I like this combo. Add Charlotte and UAB to the East / USM and UTSA to the West. Now THAT's a Sun Belt Conference.

need two more team from west

Why...that's 7 in each division. I still like what we have.

(05-11-2017 11:16 PM)ChooChoo Wrote:  

I like this combo. Add Charlotte and UAB to the East / USM and UTSA to the West. Now THAT's a Sun Belt Conference.

Replace UNCC with MT or Marshall and replace UTSA with WKU or La Tech

(05-11-2017 11:39 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  

(05-11-2017 11:33 PM)sparty54 Wrote:  

(05-11-2017 11:16 PM)ChooChoo Wrote:  

I like this combo. Add Charlotte and UAB to the East / USM and UTSA to the West. Now THAT's a Sun Belt Conference.

need two more team from west

Why...that's 7 in each division. I still like what we have.

I don't see 7 or 8 on west the east already have 8, you tell me who team on 7and 8 ?

No thanks to 14...I would rather stick with 10