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RE: Wow, blasting the conference president verbally....
(03-16-2014 08:42 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  I am not really a supporter or opponent of Commissioner Benson at this point. App and Ga. Southern have him to thank at least in part for us being in this conference. We also know the Troy AD was a big supporter of both of us.

I'm sure that's the reason Benson is scrambling to get another team on board....he needs more Benson-backers.
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RE: Wow, blasting the conference president verbally....
Well I guess we have every Sun Belt team to thank also for voting us in to the conference.

Benson keeps talking about that the Sun Belt needs to be like the other conferences (or at least the great majority of them) and have a championship game. It is obvious after last year when no 12th team was added and so far this year no 12th team has been added that either the school (s) we want don't want to join the Sun Belt or the schools who are willing do not have the required 9 votes or both.
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(03-17-2014 08:12 AM)panama Wrote:  
(03-16-2014 08:13 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  Needs to be out front leading the charge for the conference. He is not a leader and never has been. Way to passive for my taste. Need a guy with some back bone that is willing to stand up and say hell no this is not acceptable.

He thinks the conference is a stepping stone. He has said as much many times. Yes, he is a big part of the problem.

He knows he'll get his fat paycheck regardless. He is the definition of apathetic.

The conference really needs to have a plan for branding. Especially for the Basketball side of the Conference. He has got to get us in the conversation on the national stage. We need a TV contract that is better than what we saw this year. The TV exposure was sad.

It's not a matter of branding. It's a matter of having a commissioner that doesn't think his conference is a tinker toy.

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So, this thread has nothing to do with the Sun Belt. And is really about C-USA?
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(03-17-2014 12:00 PM)GaStPanthers Wrote:  So, this thread has nothing to do with the Sun Belt. And is really about C-USA?

Actually, it has everything to do with both.
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(03-17-2014 09:20 AM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  
(03-16-2014 10:07 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  
(03-16-2014 09:49 PM)CajunExpress Wrote:  Large sample CajunFanatico, large sample. WKU good at all sports and football. Southern Miss has a long, long, long history of great football. LTU great history, Middle pretty solid. North Teas coming back. Wat am I missing? Oh yea, UL and ASU want to be there. That makes it a lot better.

Rice great baseball, UTEP has a national championship in their history basket ball and ok football. Rice Ok football. So you base every thing on Troy, two newbies, ULM thats it.

I am not as confident in this as you are. Our administration's goal is to make ourselves the most prominent G5 program and to play in a BCS Bowl. We will play in whatever league accomplishes that goal. If They don't feel CUSA accomplishes that goal, they wont move.

Ideally, I think we want in the AAC. Which isn't happening as long as Memphis is in the league.

Not going to happen until ASU is a Tier 1 academically either.

That part we can control, and are working on.
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(03-17-2014 11:43 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Well I guess we have every Sun Belt team to thank also for voting us in to the conference.

Benson keeps talking about that the Sun Belt needs to be like the other conferences (or at least the great majority of them) and have a championship game. It is obvious after last year when no 12th team was added and so far this year no 12th team has been added that either the school (s) we want don't want to join the Sun Belt or the schools who are willing do not have the required 9 votes or both.

And as you or one of you fellow Eagles noted with the deregulation link, the ACC and Big XII are jointly pursuing legislation that permits conferences to determine if they have a title game and how it will be set up. If the Big XII is able to have a title game with 10, we can have one with 11.

There would be no need for divisions nor a 12th team, there would be a need to adopt something more binding than guidelines to determine who makes the game and where it is held.
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(03-16-2014 08:34 PM)geauxcajuns Wrote:  
(03-16-2014 08:30 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  In basketball what does the conference need to do?

At this point as much as I hate to say it bringing us (Ga. Southern) and App into the league does not help in basketball-- at least right now.

Invite NMSU for all sports. Bring in Missouri St and FGCU for Olympic sports to get back into Florida.

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(03-16-2014 09:11 PM)ARSTATEFAN1986 Wrote:  RE: Wow, blasting the conference president verbally....
(Today 08:30 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:
In basketball what does the conference need to do?

At this point as much as I hate to say it bringing us (Ga. Southern) and App into the league does not help in basketball-- at least right now.

Invite NMSU for all sports. Bring in Missouri St, EKU and Belmont for Olympic sports to get back into Tennessee (Nashville).

(west)
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ULM
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Missouri St

(east)
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Drop Belmont and EKU and add UTA football.
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(03-17-2014 09:05 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(03-16-2014 09:59 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  
(03-16-2014 08:54 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  
(03-16-2014 08:42 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  The truth is, you could probably find something like this said about most G5 commissioners right now.

Exactly

I figured that was the point of quote... To show that if you take out the conference name/commissioner (or president) name, you can find someone bitching about it on every conference message board.

I once saw a post where a Southern Conference fan was detailing the long list of awful commissioners they had been subjected to.

I responded and asked, "Is it possible that the problem isn't the people being hired but rather the people doing the hiring and how they run their programs?"

A lot of people like to blame anybody but themselves.

Also anybody who thought CUSA was going to be good overall in basketball was nuts. If you look at what they have, what they will have, and what they got before with what they had one bid was the most likely outcome.

CUSA basketball isn't anything special. It is a mishmash league of mostly mediocre programs (at best) with a couple of better programs that cannot carry the whole conference by themselves.
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(03-17-2014 01:19 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(03-17-2014 11:43 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Well I guess we have every Sun Belt team to thank also for voting us in to the conference.

Benson keeps talking about that the Sun Belt needs to be like the other conferences (or at least the great majority of them) and have a championship game. It is obvious after last year when no 12th team was added and so far this year no 12th team has been added that either the school (s) we want don't want to join the Sun Belt or the schools who are willing do not have the required 9 votes or both.

And as you or one of you fellow Eagles noted with the deregulation link, the ACC and Big XII are jointly pursuing legislation that permits conferences to determine if they have a title game and how it will be set up. If the Big XII is able to have a title game with 10, we can have one with 11.

There would be no need for divisions nor a 12th team, there would be a need to adopt something more binding than guidelines to determine who makes the game and where it is held.

Is a conference championship game really worth much to G-5 conferences? Do those games make the conferences money? If they do, then by all means, have one. If not, I don't see any advantage to playing one. In fact, USM knocked Houston out of a BCS bowl in the CUSA championship game three years ago. That cost everybody in CUSA about $1M each.
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(03-29-2014 07:30 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  
(03-17-2014 01:19 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(03-17-2014 11:43 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Well I guess we have every Sun Belt team to thank also for voting us in to the conference.

Benson keeps talking about that the Sun Belt needs to be like the other conferences (or at least the great majority of them) and have a championship game. It is obvious after last year when no 12th team was added and so far this year no 12th team has been added that either the school (s) we want don't want to join the Sun Belt or the schools who are willing do not have the required 9 votes or both.

And as you or one of you fellow Eagles noted with the deregulation link, the ACC and Big XII are jointly pursuing legislation that permits conferences to determine if they have a title game and how it will be set up. If the Big XII is able to have a title game with 10, we can have one with 11.

There would be no need for divisions nor a 12th team, there would be a need to adopt something more binding than guidelines to determine who makes the game and where it is held.

Is a conference championship game really worth much to G-5 conferences? Do those games make the conferences money? If they do, then by all means, have one. If not, I don't see any advantage to playing one. In fact, USM knocked Houston out of a BCS bowl in the CUSA championship game three years ago. That cost everybody in CUSA about $1M each.

I forget how much that N. Illinois loss last year cost the MAC, but it was a pile of money to be sure.
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(03-29-2014 07:49 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  
(03-29-2014 07:30 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  
(03-17-2014 01:19 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(03-17-2014 11:43 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Well I guess we have every Sun Belt team to thank also for voting us in to the conference.

Benson keeps talking about that the Sun Belt needs to be like the other conferences (or at least the great majority of them) and have a championship game. It is obvious after last year when no 12th team was added and so far this year no 12th team has been added that either the school (s) we want don't want to join the Sun Belt or the schools who are willing do not have the required 9 votes or both.

And as you or one of you fellow Eagles noted with the deregulation link, the ACC and Big XII are jointly pursuing legislation that permits conferences to determine if they have a title game and how it will be set up. If the Big XII is able to have a title game with 10, we can have one with 11.

There would be no need for divisions nor a 12th team, there would be a need to adopt something more binding than guidelines to determine who makes the game and where it is held.

Is a conference championship game really worth much to G-5 conferences? Do those games make the conferences money? If they do, then by all means, have one. If not, I don't see any advantage to playing one. In fact, USM knocked Houston out of a BCS bowl in the CUSA championship game three years ago. That cost everybody in CUSA about $1M each.

I forget how much that N. Illinois loss last year cost the MAC, but it was a pile of money to be sure.

If not having played in a conference championship game would not have knocked NIU out of a BCS Bowl bid, its stupid to have had to play in one.
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(03-17-2014 01:19 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(03-17-2014 11:43 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Well I guess we have every Sun Belt team to thank also for voting us in to the conference.

Benson keeps talking about that the Sun Belt needs to be like the other conferences (or at least the great majority of them) and have a championship game. It is obvious after last year when no 12th team was added and so far this year no 12th team has been added that either the school (s) we want don't want to join the Sun Belt or the schools who are willing do not have the required 9 votes or both.

And as you or one of you fellow Eagles noted with the deregulation link, the ACC and Big XII are jointly pursuing legislation that permits conferences to determine if they have a title game and how it will be set up. If the Big XII is able to have a title game with 10, we can have one with 11.

There would be no need for divisions nor a 12th team, there would be a need to adopt something more binding than guidelines to determine who makes the game and where it is held.

Thank you and absolutely correct. This 12th team stuff won't slow. At this point I have heard invitations extended to North Dakota State, Eastern Kentucky, Belmont, Florida Gulf Coast, Liberty, Lamar, JMU, MSU, Jacksonville State, UMass, some SWAC team and God know who else. Degrades every school in the conference that has built their programs over the years and wants to improve the SBC.
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(03-29-2014 08:29 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  
(03-29-2014 07:49 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  
(03-29-2014 07:30 PM)BRtransplant Wrote:  
(03-17-2014 01:19 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(03-17-2014 11:43 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Well I guess we have every Sun Belt team to thank also for voting us in to the conference.

Benson keeps talking about that the Sun Belt needs to be like the other conferences (or at least the great majority of them) and have a championship game. It is obvious after last year when no 12th team was added and so far this year no 12th team has been added that either the school (s) we want don't want to join the Sun Belt or the schools who are willing do not have the required 9 votes or both.

And as you or one of you fellow Eagles noted with the deregulation link, the ACC and Big XII are jointly pursuing legislation that permits conferences to determine if they have a title game and how it will be set up. If the Big XII is able to have a title game with 10, we can have one with 11.

There would be no need for divisions nor a 12th team, there would be a need to adopt something more binding than guidelines to determine who makes the game and where it is held.

Is a conference championship game really worth much to G-5 conferences? Do those games make the conferences money? If they do, then by all means, have one. If not, I don't see any advantage to playing one. In fact, USM knocked Houston out of a BCS bowl in the CUSA championship game three years ago. That cost everybody in CUSA about $1M each.

I forget how much that N. Illinois loss last year cost the MAC, but it was a pile of money to be sure.

If not having played in a conference championship game would not have knocked NIU out of a BCS Bowl bid, its stupid to have had to play in one.

I think that after Fresno State lost late in the season, NIU was considered a shoe-in for a BCS Bowl spot. Then they lost their championship game and that was that.
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But on the flip side it's a 13th game against a team that will be good in the power ratings and a win will improve the resume of the victor. Remember NIU 2012 had to win the MAC title game in an upset to make the BCS that year.


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(03-29-2014 10:48 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  But on the flip side it's a 13th game against a team that will be good in the power ratings and a win will improve the resume of the victor. Remember NIU 2012 had to win the MAC title game in an upset to make the BCS that year.


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While the BCS is gone I remember Non power five teams such as Utah, TCU and Boise wining the championship game and still getting told to " Squeal like a pig". In truth with or without a championship game we are at the whims of the P5 at that particular moment.
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Neither TCU, Boise nor Utah have ever played in conference championship games.
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(03-29-2014 11:27 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  Neither TCU, Boise nor Utah have ever played in conference championship games.

Playing in conference championship retracted. Still doesn't change the facts. Why be in a hurry to add a a game that may not help and certainly doesn't hurt you.
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