(08-23-2023 12:17 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 11:16 AM)JMURocks Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 10:15 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  This is the most optimal for travel costs and rivalries

West
Arkansas State
Louisiana
Louisiana Monroe
South Alabama
Southern Mississippi
Troy
Texas State
West Florida

East
Appalachian State
Coast Carolina
Georgia State
Georgia Southern
James Madison
Marshall
Old Dominion
Western Kentucky

A Division 2 team that lost to Ferris St would do wonders for the conference.

You have to be able to see the potential. You should have been around when USA started football. Also Georgia State. Similar comments.

Potential is what made CUSA fall from grace. Potential has led to a declining AAC.

Screw potential.

Florida has several opportunities for a future Sun Belt presence.

Travel limits opportunities below central Florida so UNF could be on the table.

See Ga state for reference. Perfect location.

Kickoff can’t get here soon enough.

(08-23-2023 02:15 PM)SouthernMiss3613 Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 01:02 PM)monarx Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 12:28 PM)SouthernMiss3613 Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 09:51 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(08-07-2023 06:22 PM)Herdforlife Wrote:  As we await action from the Pac4 in anticipation of any trickle down effects to the Sunbelt. I think we all could agree a weaken AAC leading to a ECU plus one addition would be exciting, but I wanted to pose this scenario.. what if the sunbelt loses one school and we are unable to add from the AAC. Who would you go after to return to an even 14? Here’s a list of options I had thought of:
1. Missouri St
2. La Tech
3. WKU
4. MTSU
5. Chattanooga
6. FIU
7. Delaware
8. UCONN

My take.. I’d like to add to our basketball (tournament runs can make small conferences a lot of money), yet try to maintain a bus league. I think an all sport UCONN would make the conference a lot of money, but I would be willing to bet they’d decline. Next I would think WKU would be the second most valuable, yet Missouri St would be quite intriguing as well.

La Tech and Western Kentucky.

Then I would send open invite to University of West Florida.

West Florida would be awesome and they are located in the panhandle of Florida. The best part of the state.

West Florida can hang out in CUSA first. No disrespect to them. They have a nice program. I have relatives that went to school there. But if I were USA I definitely wouldn't want them, and frankly they don't move the needle outside of that area. Id sooner bring in FIU, and I don't want them either.

They would fit in perfect geographically and culturally. FIU is too far down.

Hi Aunt Martha!

(Note to SBCers unfamiliar with the reference- current UWF president Martha Saunders is a failed former president at USM who hired Elloss Johnson and an AD with no practical athletic administration experience on any level. “Aunt Martha” is what she is/was called derisively by USM fans.)

(08-23-2023 07:25 PM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  (Note to SBCers unfamiliar with the reference- current UWF president Martha Saunders is a failed former president at USM who hired Elloss Johnson and an AD with no practical athletic administration experience on any level. “Aunt Martha” is what she is/was called derisively by USM fans.)

Didn’t she also get caught artificially inflating enrollment numbers or am I confusing that with another story and/or time?

(08-23-2023 05:51 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 01:57 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 12:28 PM)SouthernMiss3613 Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 09:51 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(08-07-2023 06:22 PM)Herdforlife Wrote:  As we await action from the Pac4 in anticipation of any trickle down effects to the Sunbelt. I think we all could agree a weaken AAC leading to a ECU plus one addition would be exciting, but I wanted to pose this scenario.. what if the sunbelt loses one school and we are unable to add from the AAC. Who would you go after to return to an even 14? Here’s a list of options I had thought of:
1. Missouri St
2. La Tech
3. WKU
4. MTSU
5. Chattanooga
6. FIU
7. Delaware
8. UCONN

My take.. I’d like to add to our basketball (tournament runs can make small conferences a lot of money), yet try to maintain a bus league. I think an all sport UCONN would make the conference a lot of money, but I would be willing to bet they’d decline. Next I would think WKU would be the second most valuable, yet Missouri St would be quite intriguing as well.

La Tech and Western Kentucky.

Then I would send open invite to University of West Florida.

West Florida would be awesome and they are located in the panhandle of Florida. The best part of the state.

They could be travel partners with Jacksonville State. It'd be pretty nice to have two Florida schools.

They’re separated by 350 miles. Pensacola is actually closer to the Jacksonville in Alabama. Too bad they don’t have an FBS school there.

Jacksonville is in Florida.

(08-24-2023 06:23 AM)GreenBison Wrote:  Jacksonville is in Florida.

That's the one Judy thinks she pulled into CUSA. Don't tell her differently.

(08-24-2023 06:23 AM)GreenBison Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 05:51 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 01:57 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 12:28 PM)SouthernMiss3613 Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 09:51 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  La Tech and Western Kentucky.

Then I would send open invite to University of West Florida.

West Florida would be awesome and they are located in the panhandle of Florida. The best part of the state.

They could be travel partners with Jacksonville State. It'd be pretty nice to have two Florida schools.

They’re separated by 350 miles. Pensacola is actually closer to the Jacksonville in Alabama. Too bad they don’t have an FBS school there.

Jacksonville is in Florida.

Judy Macleod was smart to add JSU along with FIU. Having two schools on opposite ends of the Florida peninsula is probably going to boost recruiting in CUSA.

(08-24-2023 08:05 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-24-2023 06:23 AM)GreenBison Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 05:51 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 01:57 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 12:28 PM)SouthernMiss3613 Wrote:  West Florida would be awesome and they are located in the panhandle of Florida. The best part of the state.

They could be travel partners with Jacksonville State. It'd be pretty nice to have two Florida schools.

They’re separated by 350 miles. Pensacola is actually closer to the Jacksonville in Alabama. Too bad they don’t have an FBS school there.

Jacksonville is in Florida.

Judy Macleod was smart to add JSU along with FIU. Having two schools on opposite ends of the Florida peninsula is probably going to boost recruiting in CUSA.

Absolutely, and the real question is... which one will become the next UCF?

(08-23-2023 07:25 PM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 02:15 PM)SouthernMiss3613 Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 01:02 PM)monarx Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 12:28 PM)SouthernMiss3613 Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 09:51 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  La Tech and Western Kentucky.

Then I would send open invite to University of West Florida.

West Florida would be awesome and they are located in the panhandle of Florida. The best part of the state.

West Florida can hang out in CUSA first. No disrespect to them. They have a nice program. I have relatives that went to school there. But if I were USA I definitely wouldn't want them, and frankly they don't move the needle outside of that area. Id sooner bring in FIU, and I don't want them either.

They would fit in perfect geographically and culturally. FIU is too far down.

Hi Aunt Martha!

(Note to SBCers unfamiliar with the reference- current UWF president Martha Saunders is a failed former president at USM who hired Elloss Johnson and an AD with no practical athletic administration experience on any level. “Aunt Martha” is what she is/was called derisively by USM fans.)

I didn't know she went there after us.

(08-23-2023 09:07 PM)HarborPointe Wrote:  

(08-23-2023 07:25 PM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  (Note to SBCers unfamiliar with the reference- current UWF president Martha Saunders is a failed former president at USM who hired Elloss Johnson and an AD with no practical athletic administration experience on any level. “Aunt Martha” is what she is/was called derisively by USM fans.)

Didn’t she also get caught artificially inflating enrollment numbers or am I confusing that with another story and/or time?

Her administration routinely counted Mississippi's Girls State summer attendees when it was hosted on campus (usually 400+) as fall enrollees.

(08-08-2023 10:01 AM)TealNation Wrote:  

(08-08-2023 09:57 AM)CAJUNNATION Wrote:  Hypothetical.

SMU, Rice and Tulane leave AAC to be with Stanford. Texas State joins AAC to be with other Texas schools.

If Memphis, South Florida and ECU call us for a group deal, who will tell them no?

None of those schools will join the SBC without the AAC ceasing to exist.

This and that likely only happens if the SEC decides to kill the ACC which they can at any time they please. It is a dice roll whether we should just officially kill CUSA and or wait for the ACC to be raided next and see how the cards fall. No real great prospects in CUSA but do we want to risk just seeing how things shake out if the ACC gets raided? Of just put CUSA out of its misery and take the few decent schools left. Most CUSA teams make regional sense at least.

SI article yesterday... specifically mentions Sun Belt as the conference the ACC would look to if the Cal/Stanford/SMU option falls apart...had to do a triple-take on that ....

The turntables may be turning...

(08-28-2023 10:17 AM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  The turntables may be turning...

Curious if the AAC tries to expand if SMU leaves? I have a feeling they won't try and expand. They have no divisions to keep even, and there just isn't a need to add.

(08-28-2023 10:24 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-28-2023 10:17 AM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  The turntables may be turning...

Curious if the AAC tries to expand if SMU leaves? I have a feeling they won't try and expand. They have no divisions to keep even, and there just isn't a need to add.

I would think they'd go after Wazzu and Oregon State, although the MWC would seem to be the best fit for them after all is said and done.

(08-28-2023 10:24 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-28-2023 10:17 AM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  The turntables may be turning...

Curious if the AAC tries to expand if SMU leaves? I have a feeling they won't try and expand. They have no divisions to keep even, and there just isn't a need to add.

In the past 13 would be weird for scheduling but if you aren't using divisions it's possible. Granted if the AAC is using the 1+7/7 there will be some extra work needed since it's not as easy of a split.

I could see NDSU pushing hard for that expansion spot since FBS spots are going to be harder and harder to get and there was a conversation once where there AD spoke favorably of the AAC.

(08-28-2023 10:24 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-28-2023 10:17 AM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  The turntables may be turning...

Curious if the AAC tries to expand if SMU leaves? I have a feeling they won't try and expand. They have no divisions to keep even, and there just isn't a need to add.

I think they’d stand pat.

(08-28-2023 10:51 AM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(08-28-2023 10:24 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-28-2023 10:17 AM)FairwayEagle Wrote:  The turntables may be turning...

Curious if the AAC tries to expand if SMU leaves? I have a feeling they won't try and expand. They have no divisions to keep even, and there just isn't a need to add.

I think they’d stand pat.

They didn't expand when UCAN'T left, so I see not reason for them to expand when/if SMU leaves.