Tech's best possible, REALISTIC conference movement

I just hope we are trying.... We need to pull out all the stops and go for it full speed! If we are not doing that, then our new A.D. is not worth anything. I believe that our President can definitely see the benefit, so he should be arranging meetings now with those Presidents. We may have no idea if he is or isn't, though. Those would be in private.

Out of the CUSA teams right now, believe it or not, it is us, Rice, and Southern Miss that have the most name recognition. No directional school (including North Texas) has that. Next would be Marshall, UTEP, and maybe ODU. 3rd tier would be UAB (mainly because of them winning games, but they are definitely a baby brother and perceived that way), and UTSA. Last tier would be all the rest (FIU, FAU, North Texas, etc..)

Please note, I am just going on national name recognition, not records, market size (which is stupid right now), or anything else. This is just my opinion. Who did I leave out? If I left them out, they probably don't have much name recognition anyway. :laugh:

We’ve been working on it since the day we heard about Texas and Oklahoma being the first dominoes

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Originally Posted by champion110

I just hope we are trying.... We need to pull out all the stops and go for it full speed! If we are not doing that, then our new A.D. is not worth anything. I believe that our President can definitely see the benefit, so he should be arranging meetings now with those Presidents. We may have no idea if he is or isn't, though. Those would be in private.

Out of the CUSA teams right now, believe it or not, it is us, Rice, and Southern Miss that have the most name recognition. No directional school (including North Texas) has that. Next would be Marshall, UTEP, and maybe ODU. 3rd tier would be UAB (mainly because of them winning games, but they are definitely a baby brother and perceived that way), and UTSA. Last tier would be all the rest (FIU, FAU, North Texas, etc..)

Please note, I am just going on national name recognition, not records, market size (which is stupid right now), or anything else. This is just my opinion. Who did I leave out? If I left them out, they probably don't have much name recognition anyway. :laugh:

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Generally agree. But Marshall needs to be in the top tier for name recognition.

They're the only CUSA school with a movie with their name in it.

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Originally Posted by Champ967

Generally agree. But Marshall needs to be in the top tier for name recognition.

They're the only CUSA school with a movie with their name in it.

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Not to mention one of the coolest nicknames for any sports team....thundering herd. Just kind of rolls off the tongue.

There was a scene shot in “the Joe” in a movie about Doug Williams? :D

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Market size may be used as an excuse, but it no longer matters since the entire delivery of product has changed over the past 15 years. Never really mattered before, but it was the excuse our people used when UTEP got the nod over us for CUSA.

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Yep, and CUSA has had "buyers remorse" over that decision that has lasted until today. We have CUSA teams in the east that don't even want to travel to El Paso to play games. They hate it. Looking back, it really was a genuinely stupid decision.

Moscow, Boise, San Jose, Fresno………and HONOLULU made no sense for us either. But the WAC is who would have us. So…….

At least Dr. Wood has recent experience with many of those administrators who will have input. Can't hurt.

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ummmm ... I question that.

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ummmm ... I question that.

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You don't believe random anonymous sources?

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal:

https://www.commercialappeal.com/sto...co/5778621001/

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The AAC will now pursue its own expansion in response, Aresco confirmed, with 10 or 12 schools the most likely configuration for the league. Without Cincinnati, UCF and Houston, the AAC would only have eight members in football and basketball.

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"Our remaining schools have competed extremely well with these schools that are leaving. These schools aren’t dynasties," AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco said. "And any schools that we add – and there are schools interested in us who play football and basketball at a very high level – they’ll compete at the highest level in this league. The DNA of this league is not going to change."

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“We would want institutions that would enhance our brand and had the resources to be as competitive at the top level,” Aresco said. “That’s where we want it to be. That’s been the DNA of this league. You have to have schools that are willing to do that. …
“We’re going to be fine. I want the fans to be patient. We will continue to have top-quality football and basketball.

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That's LA Tech.

I hope like hell you are right.

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Generally agree. But Marshall needs to be in the top tier for name recognition.

They're the only CUSA school with a movie with their name in it.

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I've watched a movie from the field at the Joe

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I've watched a movie from the field at the Joe

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Wasn’t our Kansas game in Man of Steel?