Does the SBC need to improve? Yes
Is it to far gone? No
Heres what I was thinken of earlier. As far as Basketball is concerned, you could make a legitimate excuse that this was the worst year of SBC basketball in a long LONG Time. WKU was down, NMSU was bad, UL was still pretty good, but I see alot of hope in the future for UNO, UALR, MTSU, arnd ASU.
Baseball is still good, and will be good for a long time to come, no prob there.
Football...ahh yes, the sport so very looked down upon, this is what I see could happen which would make this a much more marketable league. The longer this drags out, the more it appears La Tech is not getting an invite, apparently same with UNT. With that said, a new top heavy conference will come out of it with UNT/La Tech/and Troy State being current top dogs. Add those 2 teams to the mix, and we go from a conference with little/no respect, to one who beat 2 top 25 teams last year, and numerous close calls with just our ussual group. Wins over Michigan State/Baylor/UAB/ and Marshal top the list of the schools beaten by those 3. If you ask me, doesnt sound like a bad deal. On top of that, ASU/MT/ and UL have shown some serious signs of life, along with ULM to some extent, and FAU is definitly on the way up, and FIU is worken on it. this could be a decent little league. A 9 team league with some decent rivalrys. UL/La Tech (each others oldest rival), UNT/ULM (regardless of record its been close thus far, acctually, UNT/ASU would work 2, and oh yea, I dont see ULM kicked out, but if La Tech is available, I would imagine they would stay on as a football only member instead of full), MT/Troy (not sure about specifics, but I know there was some bad blood between schools), and FIU/FAU (pretty self explanitory eh?). The battle for the bayou would still exist just earlier in the year, but nothing against ULM, La Tech is just our biggest and oldest rival in most sports and if in the same conference, its very possible that will be our rivalry game.
Dont give up, The league is new, we can make this league work if we try.
Tuffguy
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