Quote Originally Posted by Boomer View Post
….I guess/think/ am afraid of all the East teams starting a more geographically conference …..,we need a Lafayette almost centered conference which would be great…..Troy, USA, SOUTH MISS, TULANE, LTUR or ULM, ARK ST, MIDD TENN, WKU, SMU, RICE, UTSA, N TEX, TEX ST, TULSA and ??????
Creating new conferences is virtually impossible now. What we can do, however, is create the regional alignment we all want in the SBC West Division.

Currently, we are on the western edge of a 14 school conference. We HAVE TO direct the next expansion our way. If we can't, we may be better off in another conference with more regional schools, like the AAC.

I think that after the dust settles with the whole Big10/PAC/Big12 realignment coming, there will be movement one way or the other, either AAC to SBC or SBC to AAC.

Either schools like UTSA, SMU, Memphis or Tulane will be added to the SBC or schools like US will be added to the AAC. In a perfect world, SMU, Memphis and Tulane will be added here. The SBC West would look like this:

SMU
Texas State
Louisiana
Tulane
ULM
Arkansas State
Memphis
Southern Miss
South Alabama

Troy would move to the East along with them adding East Carolina. This would create a conference that would remain as the Top G5 league for a long time and a 2 top quality, stable, regional Divisions