(04-28-2014 07:10 PM)SlyFox Wrote: I assume this means that WLAX gets the boot to their own place so the lines can stay off the field.
A number of LAX teams play on a gridiron with permanent lines, though LAX fans tend to whinge about it ... sharing a field with a soccer pitch is a lot less distracting.
For instance, when the Buckeye's men's LAX team plays That School Up North, they play in the Horseshoe before the spring football game, and they hosted the first round NCAA game in the Horseshoe last year ...
... though they play most of their games at the Jesse Owens Track & Field and Soccer stadium, where they are hosting the ECAC tournament starting tomorrow (and hosting a first round NCAA tournament game is not going to be an issue for them this year).
(04-28-2014 11:18 AM)GoApps70 Wrote: Only advantage the Sun Belt might actually have is for Army's coach to have been GaSo coach.
Which would not think was much of an advantage.
The sprawling Sunbelt footprint would seem like the main draw for a school that would like to play a fairly national schedule ... that would be a big advantage of the Sunbelt over the MAC, from the perspective of what Army wants ... but it seems like Army would have to believe it could compete for bowl game bids and the occasional conference championship before it would make the move.
As arkstfan notes, they wouldn't move if they feared a risk of the disastrous CUSA conference experience ... which one of two main reasons to think they'd at least prefer the Sunbelt to the America, which is, in essence, an upgraded CUSA version 1.0 (the other reason being bringing the Army-Navy game in-conference).
And relative Conference position on an "Army preference ladder" is meaningless so long as the top rung of the ladder is remaining independent.