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RE: An Example of how different the invites to the NCAA are.
I’ll just be honest, I don’t know any CUSA team that deserved a bid. With how ODU is playing, they’ll go out first round. We’re a bad basketball conference and until we step our game up and improve as a whole, things won’t change. There at plenty of ‘mid major’ conferences that have gotten multi bids in the past five years. There’s no vendetta against CUSA. We’re just not good.
03-19-2019 07:15 AM
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RE: An Example of how different the invites to the NCAA are.
(03-19-2019 07:15 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  I’ll just be honest, I don’t know any CUSA team that deserved a bid. With how ODU is playing, they’ll go out first round. We’re a bad basketball conference and until we step our game up and improve as a whole, things won’t change. There at plenty of ‘mid major’ conferences that have gotten multi bids in the past five years. There’s no vendetta against CUSA. We’re just not good.

I think the league had a lot more average/good teams this year. We just need to have 2 -3 teams each year that are elite and set themselves at the next level to go along with the improving depth of the league. That's what the A10, AAC, and others have had in the past that led to multiple bids.
03-19-2019 08:51 AM
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RE: An Example of how different the invites to the NCAA are.
(03-19-2019 08:51 AM)Eagleholic Wrote:  
(03-19-2019 07:15 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  I’ll just be honest, I don’t know any CUSA team that deserved a bid. With how ODU is playing, they’ll go out first round. We’re a bad basketball conference and until we step our game up and improve as a whole, things won’t change. There at plenty of ‘mid major’ conferences that have gotten multi bids in the past five years. There’s no vendetta against CUSA. We’re just not good.

I think the league had a lot more average/good teams this year. We just need to have 2 -3 teams each year that are elite and set themselves at the next level to go along with the improving depth of the league. That's what the A10, AAC, and others have had in the past that led to multiple bids.
Yeah, the challenge is once a CUSA school is elite, the coach gets picked up by a P5 and you have to start from scratch. Tough to maintain success at this level. MT would've been elite had this not been the case. WKU has potential to be elite if they keep Bassey one more year (no idea what his plan is) and if ODU can leverage this championship into high quality transfers then we have that potential. UTSA has potential as well with a young team. There's a lot of young talent in this league and I hope we all take a step forward next year.
03-19-2019 09:35 AM
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RE: An Example of how different the invites to the NCAA are.
Bringing up the TV deal thing again:

Most of the schools in this conference have $25,000,000+ (at minimum) athletic budgets. Some are in the $40,000,000 range. How much does a few hundreds thousand dollars from a bad TV contract actually mean to our schools? Why not agree to go on ESPN, CBS, FOX for free? The exposure is worth MILLIONS more in money than the payouts we get from having zero exposure.

I'm not advocating for what the MAC does. They get good exposure but play at bad times, and in turn get decent money for playing at bad timespots. I'm saying we play for FREE, on better networks, at good times (not weeknight football games, for example). It's not like these TV channels are broadcasting better things, as I see terrible conferences on ESPN all the time, and I see reruns on CBS and FOX at the same times that CUSA games are being broadcast on BeIN sports.
03-19-2019 03:14 PM
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