(07-09-2016 05:10 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(07-09-2016 03:54 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(07-09-2016 09:53 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  [quote='gsuncc' pid='13377622' dateline='1468067181']
[quote='Michael in Raleigh' pid='13377570' dateline='1468055391']
Besides La. Tech, would any other CUSA schools have major objections to a theoretical realignment with CUSA and SBC schools reorganizing into a geographically based arrangement?

That's almost impossible to answer, especially on a message board. Fans look at it through a very different prism than university presidents and ADs; fans have a different take on what constitutes a "peer" program than the folks in charge...La Tech "fans" may object, but the university president is the one looking at the costs, weighing benefits, etc., and that gives a different perspective. He/She must, of course, take into account fans attitudes, donors, etc., before making a decision...but message borders could possibly see things as a step back, a step side-ways, a step forward.

Having said that, it seems to me that all the schools in CUSA could possibly see positives and negatives with any realignment, much as some SBCers might also...cost, travel, competition, institutional fit, etc. are all factors.

Just my two cents....

SNIP! All of your wild fantasy crap about CUSA vs the SBC.

Not to mention, USM is not joining up with USA, UAB is not going to join up with Troy and Tech sure is heck not going to be joining up with ULL and ULM, dialing the clock back 20 years. Just not going to happen.

You got that right (the bolded). "LA Tech will NEVER be back in the Sun Belt!!!" - Direct quote from a VIP who would know.

Edit: And oh, just so you know (no linkie love for you, sorry), your oh-so-exalted LA Tech came begging the Belt to take them back when the WAC collapsed. The Belt said "NO!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!!"

Be thankful CUSA threw you a lifeline.