(07-08-2020 10:11 PM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  

(07-08-2020 09:53 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  It's a dream that 4-7 years a combination of UConn or Army as a football only to another G5 would be possible. It would give us a bus-able conference mate and rival, with a conference championship and bowl tie-ins. Yes know it's a dream and conferences as the MAC do not want partial members.

Do agree getting the numbers for a possible new conference is doubtful. Plus you have all the reasons the prior administration did not go all in with the MAC. For all other sports travel costs go up and would not be a multiple bid BB league. Is a football FBS conference even possible.

Independence is not bad having both UConn and Army as bus-able games and scheduling a FCS game, along with sometimes having Boston College on the schedule.

Here's your scenario: A mix of C-USA and Sun Belt eastern schools get the green light from all necessary parties to start a new G5 eastern league.

C-USA drops from 14 down to 8 or 9. Sun Belt drops to 5 or 6. C-USA needs to add just one or two schools to get to 10 (# necessary to have a CCG) and goes straight to the SB.

Sun Belt needs to replenish badly. They go after FCS schools, NMSU, maybe Liberty, and football-only's UConn and UMass. Boom. There's your conference.

Nope, don't see that, just saying independence is not bad having local bus-able games and keeping the A10 where almost half the teams are bus-able. That perhaps a team as ODU defects from the CUSA and finds a home in the A10. Not sure about the 49ers. Nothing regarding the Sun Belt. Status quo there as you guys are building up fine. UConn has a lot of bus-able teams in the new Big East and our AD thinks there will be other new independents it realignment in the future, 3-5 years.

(07-08-2020 09:53 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  It's a dream that 4-7 years a combination of UConn or Army as a football only to another G5 would be possible. It would give us a bus-able conference mate and rival, with a conference championship and bowl tie-ins. Yes know it's a dream and conferences as the MAC do not want partial members.

Do agree getting the numbers for a possible new conference is doubtful. Plus you have all the reasons the prior administration did not go all in with the MAC. For all other sports travel costs go up and would not be a multiple bid BB league. Is a football FBS conference even possible.

Independence is not bad having both UConn and Army, along with sometimes Boston College on the schedule.

UConn is a great fit in the new Big East and fine as an independent. They have UMass, Army, Boston College and Syracuse as local games.

Of the current indies who seem fixed on staying that way, while BYU will go running to a P5 invite, I could see Army joining a group if it meant the schools carried a certain academic reputation and there was a regional tie. Sorta like FBS Patriot. I could see them working regularly with UConn and UMass (if those two could work together regularly). But you need more schools from the northeast wanting to come up, and I don’t see that, even if we speculate Delaware, Stony Brook, and even James Madison to death.

There may have been a time where Army and other northern schools, small and large, could have worked together, but, what, that was the 70’s or early 80’s? Army getting along with others is one thing, but the politics between other northern schools (like UMass and UConn, or, probably why you don’t see Delaware moving up with Temple, UMD, and Rutgers around), it’s never been easy up here to have schools really get along with each other.