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I don’t think what’s happening to CUSA has anything to do with the necks. From what I’ve seen over the years on their bbs board their fans have been very supportive of the conference. They stick up for their brethren and mostly just try to denigrate the Sunbelt and our teams. They seem to be pretty good conference mates.
Their budget is a completely valid point, I didn’t realize it was so low. They do have new FEMA facilities though and they do have tradition, and Terry Bradshaw.
Nothing is stable in the G5.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
Screw @ Ruston!
Now go forward and shout it from the mountain tops!
I'll jump in, just cause I know cajun55. Here's my 2˘...play LT every year as our rival game & OOC finale; leave them to rot in CUSA 4.0.
SBC adds USM & MU this year, getting to 12. In 2 years add 2 more - assuming SBC continues to increase rankings and status.
West pursues Memphis or Tulsa (if either are still in AAC)
East pursues ECU, ODU, or JMU
I don't like the idea of adding any former conference mates (LTU, WKU, MTSU). But, this is just my 2˘.
Only way I'd want to add Tech is if we go to 14 teams, I'm pretty happy with 12, but I think the SBC has a great opportunity right now to get teams from C-USA. I think if we were to go to 14 LA Tech would be the best West addition after Southern Miss. I'd love to hear a better option other than sliding over Troy to the West and adding 3 Eastern teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajun_in_NM
I like Western Kentucky for basketball purposes, I miss the old BBall rivalry, but I don't think they move the needle for football and we would still be looking at an empty visitors section at Cajun Field. I don't have any issue with former SBC schools, let them eat crow and come back if they want. I guess I just don't have the loyalty to the SBC that some of you all of sudden have since the AAC is going a different direction based on tv markets. I don't blame them one bit for trying to improve their programs situation 8 years ago.
I can't, because that is the best option. Unless of course we could have convinced UTSA or possibly UAB, but since that did not happen the best move for the SBC (if they go to 14) is to move Troy over to the West and then add 2 new teams to the East to go with current group minus Troy and add Marshall.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun55
Western Kentucky hasn’t been relevant in basketball (or any other sport) in years.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun55
That isn't true, but have you been to the Cajundome lately? Regardless, another reason LA Tech would be a good addition. Our basketball and baseball games will be good for the fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
It is true and unfortunately, I have.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun55
Vannini reporting ODU and JMU are real candidates for SBC expansion. So add 3 eastern schools and move Troy west is actually good intel I’ve been getting.. Twists and turns!
WKU and MT and the MAC would do themselves right by aligning together. MAC would become better, WKU and MT would join a better conference then the CUSA at the moment and the good news is that La Tech, UTEP, ODU and FIU would have to figure it out for themselves. We could then grab JMU and ODU and move Troy to the West. All good and all done.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun55
While they haven't been to the NCAA since they left the Sun Belt they won a 1st round NIT game last year and went to the NIT Final Four 3 years ago. I remember them knocking off a few top 25 teams in recent years too. Certainly not up to the standards of their fanbase but I wouldn't call that irrelevant. I would love to rekindle that rivalry in Basketball, I'm certain their fanbase would remember the 6th man and the logo dancing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
We have already been playing LA Tech in Basketball and Baseball almost every year!Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun55
women's basketball and softball as well. I think the only thing they will not play us in is Football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie35
Some of you need to go read the tech board. They would rather rot in CUSA than "lower" themselves by coming to "the SunBelch".
____ those delusional inbreds. Let them rot.
Can't wait for those ODU, Troy, and James Madison sell outs at Cajun Field.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
Too be fair Marshall and Southern Miss should draw very well. I'd rather keep more money for the current schools and just add those two.
"Some of you need to go read the tech board. They would rather rot in CUSA than "lower" themselves by coming to "the SunBelch".
____ those delusional inbreds. Let them rot."
Fans on a message board don't equal a desperate President and AD. I'd love to see their AD beg for a SBC invite.
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Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
Again not about us, but think about the rivalries with ODU, JMU, Marshall, Georgia Southern and App will have.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun55
We get the bonus of adding USM who will be a nice draw for us once they are playing better football. USA will continue to grow a fan base and should travel better soon. But USA, TROY and USM will have some really good crowds and rivalries. It's about the entirety of the SBC, not about UL.
Marshall, App and Georgia Southern have history. Coastal is becoming everyones most hated rival.
Look at what we have added to our destination travels if this occurs:
Already great college town destinations:
Boone, Conway (Myrtle Beach), Statesboro (Savannah), Atlanta
New Destinations:
Norfolk (VA BEACH), Harrisonburg, Va (great mountain town/college town) and Huntington (not a great town, but a really good college town if you have not been there, I suggest making the trip).
Also add the west:
Mobile, Lafayette, San Marcos, Hattiesburg (good college town), Jonesboro (Memphis), Troy (Birmingham), it would only really leave Monroe as a _____tie arse city to travel to.
Tech deserves the position it is in right now. When they were in the same conference as us. Always did what was best for them even if it didn’t benefit the sunbelt. Also what they do to UL all the childish antics that they done to the university as well. Just last year when the sunbelt commissioner talked about a possible merger with CUSA it was tech’s AD that was arrogant comment about UL should do what it takes to get to CUSA . And that turd left a few months later ran to Vanderbilt . Let tech stay in that so desired conference because in their eyes they are too good to be associated with us.
Vannini's article did not say they were real candidates for SBC expansion. He said "Old Dominion and James Madison are in Virginia and a bit outside the footprint, but they could work as travel partners. They have large athletic budgets, in the $50 million range, though those budgets are heavily subsidized by student fees."Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
He also said that after saying this about USM and Marshall, "Southern Miss and Marshall are largely viewed by people in the Sun Belt as the strongest choices. Both have football history, long runs of success and, most importantly, engaged fans who travel, especially when they’re successful. Much like the Sun Belt benefited from adding App State and Georgia Southern from the FCS because they had solid fan bases (as opposed to “TV markets”), Southern Miss in particular is smack dab in the middle of the Sun Belt’s footprint."
My take from the article was that USM and Marshall were the real candidates and ODU and JMU were second tier candidates.
I have not chimed in on best conference partner preferences. I'm enjoying the read.Quote:
Originally Posted by moorecajun
I just know UL will make more money as a twelve-game independent, besides the four-games each year where every single school is an independent.
If you’re only reading Vannini, then maybe that’s the takeaway. Different outlets have been talking about eastern adds and ODU/JMU have been in consideration. Vannini saying it gives it credence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajunmac
Wouldn't southern miss and old dominion damage sun belts football perception. They have been garbage the past few years. James Madison is a good fcs team but again we are bringing on a fcs team
I agree there is no advantage to adding a member for IN-Conference games when it causes you to lose games from the Independent portion of the schedule.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajun_in_NM