Sun Belt Conference

[Boomer]

Why we losing those?? Where would they go??

----Sorry I didn't include their matriculation plans----The alliance of the CUSA and MWC schools would also add some teams to their new venture---talk is that they would take high market area teams of which N-Texas (Dallas/Ft Worth) and the Miami twins are situated!!!!

[veedreen]

Oh gotcha!! So Tx State and UTSA would be good additions. What about Southern Miss?? Luring them away from Conf USA wouldn't be a good fit??

[Big Buds]

What about Southern Miss?? Luring them away from Conf USA wouldn't be a good fit??

Good luck with that.

[veedreen]

Yea I know. Was a good thought though. Wouldn't that be a good thing?

[Oiler]

Supposedly, the Mountain West/CUSA Alliance will initially include 20 or 22 schools, with the possibility of growing to 24 later. The two conferences have 18 schools presently. They'll eventually add three WAC schools and three Sunbelt schools. I think they'll initially add UNT, FIU, La Tech, and Utah St. Later they'll add San Jose ST and either UTSA, MTSU or Ark ST. We won't get in because there is no way that they'll include three schools from Louisiana. That's the bad news. The good news is that I don't think a conference made up of schools that stretch all the way from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast can succeed long term. Once the Big East and the MWC/CUSA Alliance fail, regional conferences will return. Once all the dust settles, we'll land on our feet.

[veedreen]

Well I hope we stay right where we are.And the Sun Belt holds on to most of their schools. Cuz I think most of this super conference crap will fall apart

[Turbine]

Yea I know. Was a good thought though. Wouldn't that be a good thing?

A very good thing.

[CajunRebel]

Yea I know. Was a good thought though. Wouldn't that be a good thing?

It would be a good thing. Why don't we just add Texas A&M and Alabama while we're at it?

[veedreen]

Uh no. Let them stay where they are.

[veedreen]

Any other news or rumors about the Sunbelt conference??

[Turbine]

Had you seen this? LINK

UNT has not been kind to Karl Benson, but they seem to be priority one for him.

He said: "Everyone always talks about 'Who is the next Boise State' and I can honestly say 'why not North Texas?'"

[veedreen]

I knew I'd seen a rumor somewhere about UALR getting expelled from Sun Belt. N Texas I can see being poached by Conf USA. I can see the Fla schools being poached by ACC as well as Conf USA