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Here's the agenda.
Section 3 looks pretty thick, so I guess they will spend quite a bit of time discussing membership.
If C-USA wants to impose a big exit fee (say $25 million, I'm just making up a number), should Tech vote for it or against it?
By having a higher fee, we discourage teams like Tulsa and USM from leaving, but if we get the call we want to be able to go too. What say you?
Whoa... wait a minute. How come football gets its own tab and not women's basketball?
We are willingly paying BVDV for a trip to Miami?!
There's no men's basketball tab either.Originally Posted by domangue
Hopefully it was One Way!!!! Make him thumb back and say - sorry all the seats in the plane were full - we thought we had a deal on American, but they gave it to the Iowa St guy - blah, blah, blah!!!!
Judging by Banowsky's past comments, I don't think he would propose a massive increase in exit fees.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...#ixzz2HrkTkCs8
When conferences vote to significantly increase exit fees right before members are expected to leave, it seems like lawyers always get involved, and the exit fees are negotiated down to a much lower level.Houston, Central Florida and East Carolina won titles in recent years. All received what they considered to be better deals from the Big East, then all said goodbye. “We don't really try and deter that,” Banowsky said. “In fact, we promote it. We want the schools in our conference to be the very best they can possibly be.”
I think we would need a mass exodus from the Big East and subsequent expansion for us to get a Big East invite. Who knows?
My guess is Football is more pressing - have to determine scheduling for the fall - the next meetings can deal with basketball scheduling.
Basketball scheduling has apparently already been discussed and probably will be discussed further at this meeting.
The Hampton Roads newspaper is reporting that C-USA will play a 16-game conference basketball schedule. We will play every team once and one "rival" twice. I think that's how the Big East does basketball scheduling now.
http://articles.dailypress.com/2013-...letic-director
Selig said that the current plan is to play a 16-game conference basketball schedule — 15 different opponents and one team twice. Presently, he said it appears that ODU will face Marshall home-and-home next season.
Here's a Huntington newspaper saying that Tech was supposed to be in the east division next season but now will move to the west division.
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/sport...th-new-members
Funny how all this C-USA news is coming from newspapers in Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Mississippi, and Florida. Nothing from Louisiana.
It's now official. Middle Tennessee and Florida Atlantic to C-USA on July 1, 2013.
http://www.conferenceusa.com/genrel/012213aaa.html
http://www.goblueraiders.com/content.cfm/id/65115
http://www.fausports.com/genrel/012213aaa.html
Louisiana Tech in the west. Fine. Shift USM west after ECU and Tulane leave, and all will be right. I want me some USM. EVERY YEAR.
Depending on who stays and who goes, C*USA may be very west-dominated, which would be a change.
CUSA looking less sexier...
Save me the lookup...
So we do get to play Tulane after all? Please let it be in Ruston. I've been to New Orleans.
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