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I'm sure they are, but unless CUSA is planning to sponsor rodeo, they've got a ways to go.

Joined the 'Belt when we did in 1991. 30 years!

But the writing had been on the wall here. Rumors are UTA is being courted by several conferences (SL, WAC, MVC). I've asked around here, but I...

https://andywittry.substack.com/p/could-the-wac-which-officially-adds

I wonder about some of those instances in conference realignment where it really looked like a close thing between who was going to be doing the robbing and who was going to get robbed. Obviously,...

Boise exploring the AAC.

In quality terms, that might actually make them darn near a "P6" conference. In practical terms, it would mean very little. Money and access will still be hugely...

Interesting.

Seems. . . like a gamble, but after having the geography of the Sunbelt thrown in our faces for the entire time we were in the WAC (which worked out ok for us I'd say) I wouldn't want...

Yeah. What happened here.

That conference had some history, seemed steady - no geographic issues to speak of.

I don't see why UCA would be interested in the ASUN over the Southland. Seems like the SL has better (and closer) programs. Maybe I'm wrong though, I certainly don't know the ins and outs of FCS...

The Zorros!



Simon Fraser plays in the NCAA.

SBC put a seminary in San Francisco for the same reason they put one in New Orleans -

Yikes. If I'm Idaho or NMSU, I really sweating that vote.

I just listened to a podcast this week where a journalist mentioned in passing that off the record the other SB schools will tell you that...

That whole article was written like a message board fan post. "The conference should do this and that big step because it will help my team." I've read a million of these through our time in the WAC...

Is this good logic? Officials don't want to split scarce resources any further, but since they're going to be low anyway, he thinks we should split them?

I guess he goes on to try to make the...

Those are very big and important differences. And obviously, those numbers justify any school leaving CUSA for the "Big" East even if it just ends up being the old CUSA.

But that difference is...

Look at the current BE membership.

Look at all the teams invited to CUSA before we were.

It's not just marketing. I agree that we offer more to a conference than many of those schools do. But...

Well, sure. If we had more fans we'd be more attractive (because we'd have more money and draw bigger ratings, etc.). There are any number of reasons we don't have more fans.

But...

But this is about money.

It's the demographics of North Louisiana not the mindset of the people living there that has Tech in CUSA instead of the "Big" East.

http://www.mwcconnection.com/2013/2/11/3978514/big-east-tv-deal-nbc-sports

BE tv deal.

Not knocking anyone's socks off.

But that is the reason that you can't just split the conjectured list up above down the middle.

From a Tech standpoint, it just looks like a no-brainer decision (just like most non-Tech folks...

We'd love it, but it's the ole "why isn't Tech in the SunBelt" argument we've heard for years from the standpoint of Houston and SMU (and UCF/USF).