(06-12-2016 12:38 PM)Kittonhead Wrote:  I think the problem with geographic alignment for CUSA/SBC schools is the geography across the south is so wide that you'll never be able to reign in travel costs.

What I think might make more sense is to just take the 10 schools with the biggest football stadiums in each region of the South and make a conference out of that with hopes of getting more TV/CFP money per school.

East: Marshall, MTSU, UAB, App State, Georgia Southern
West: UTSA, North Texas, Arkansas State, Louisiana, Southern Miss

This way you'd be dumping the Coastal's and Charlotte's and their 15k stadiums.

It wouldn't save on travel but it would increase competitiveness for a CFP bowl.

Because when conference memberships are discussed, the one and only driving factor is the size of the venue for the one sport of football. Makes perfect sense to ignore actual PERFORMANCE in football, and completely ignore everything to do with baseball and basketball, and instead look at football stadium capacity as the deciding factor.

Dear goodness I'm glad people like you aren't making these decisions.