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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2022 17:07:58 GMT -6
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Post by Cleburneslim on Mar 29, 2022 17:27:22 GMT -6
Any idea yet what it costed them.
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Post by troysux on Mar 29, 2022 17:56:50 GMT -6
Glad they settled it.
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Post by Cleburneslim on Mar 29, 2022 18:59:41 GMT -6
Maybe their fans will exit the cusa board now also.
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Post by gemofthehills on Mar 29, 2022 20:39:12 GMT -6
Glad those three are exiting, will help the league. USM and ODU were drags on the conference in football. Will solidify the SBC as the bottom conference.
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Post by troysux on Mar 30, 2022 7:11:23 GMT -6
With the powerhouses of FIU, NMSU, and UTEP in the league, we probably shouldn’t be casting stones.
In football, the Sun Belt is ahead of CUSA.
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Post by gemofthehills on Mar 30, 2022 9:18:20 GMT -6
With the powerhouses of FIU, NMSU, and UTEP in the league, we probably shouldn’t be casting stones. In football, the Sun Belt is ahead of CUSA. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk When your top team in the East gets beat by a 4-4 conference record team in CUSA does make the conference look like a powerhouse. Then you add the current members GaSo, Ark State, ULM, troy state, USA and Tx State to the new powerhouse members USM and ODU. It is a quite impressive list of schools with losing records.
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Post by Whup Em All on Mar 30, 2022 11:26:48 GMT -6
No casting stones here. The Sun Belt is better than CUSA in football, but only by a little. I don't have the numbers in front of me at the moment, but when I compared this season's Sagarin ratings between the post-realignment American, SBC, and CUSA conferences, while CUSA was at the bottom, it wasn't by a lot. The average Predictor ratings put CUSA only about a field goal behind the Belt. That's close enough to call it even.
CUSA fared *FAR* better in basketball. The new Sun Belt is even worse in hoops than the old Sun Belt. Their highest ranked team wouldn't be in the Top 5 in the new CUSA.
The only sport where the Sun Belt is clearly better than CUSA (again, looking at post-realignment rankings) is baseball. CUSA is good. The Sun Belt is outstanding. We have some work to do in this department.
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Post by onefansopinion on Mar 30, 2022 11:34:11 GMT -6
The best response whenever a relationship ends poorly….
In public - “I wish you the best in your future endeavors.”
In private - “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
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Post by stevo on May 3, 2022 13:55:55 GMT -6
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Post by Whup Em All on May 4, 2022 11:42:08 GMT -6
This is a fairly important tidbit at the end of that Brett McMurphy article: No mention of SFA or Kennesaw. (And to no one's surprise, no mention of UTC. That new SoCon exit fee has killed their FBS dreams.) If (as I suspect) CUSA is waiting a year (maybe 2) to allow JSU and SHSU to progress in their transition (and allow Tarleton to become a full D-I member) before taking on another set of FCS programs, then we'd wind up with this group in the next round: EAST (6) FIU Liberty EKU WKU MTSU JSU WEST (5) La Tech SHSU Tarleton UTEP NMSU (In baseball, Dallas Baptist replaces UTEP, which doesn't field a baseball team.) It's getting there. I'd still like to add SFA to further strengthen men's basketball and add another reasonably solid football team. The only way KSU is getting in is if someone leaves, unfortunately. If I could choose the team that has to go, it'd be FIU. But all signs point to WKU as the team with its foot out the door. Regardless, it's not going to happen until the next big realignment. That could be next year, or it could be 5 years from now. Seriously... no one knows.
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Post by stevo on May 4, 2022 13:12:36 GMT -6
Would think that CUSA would like to go from 9 to 12. So my guess is that CUSA is trying to find the 12th school.
Hopefully the 12th school is west of JSU. As I remember it, UTC voted for the increase in exit fee.
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Post by Cleburneslim on May 4, 2022 13:30:48 GMT -6
I’m guessing the next round of realignment won’t be 5 yrs away. Perhaps cusa should try raising their exit fees.
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Post by troysux on May 4, 2022 13:43:44 GMT -6
On a side note, the AAC bound men’s soccer programs will join the AAC for that sport this fall. FIU will join the AAC as an affiliate. That leaves Liberty, who I suppose will stay in the ASUN for men’s soccer.
Maybe FIU will make friends there and will get a call next time they have an opening.
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Post by Whup Em All on May 4, 2022 14:49:58 GMT -6
Would think that CUSA would like to go from 9 to 12. So my guess is that CUSA is trying to find the 12th school. Hopefully the 12th school is west of JSU. As I remember it, UTC voted for the increase in exit fee. Re: 12 schools - I agree that 12 is the ultimate target. EKU and KSU are the best eastern options. I don't see NCAT wanting in now that they're CAA bound. Out west, there's SFA and a whole lot of lesser options. A lot of people are high on Mo State, but I just don't get the attraction. They don't really solve any geographic issues, and their fans, at least, don't seem at all interested in CUSA. Tarleton's probably the best of the rest, which could explain the conference's interest. UCA, McNeese, and SELA have a lot of work to do to make themselves attractive to an FBS conference. Re: UTC and the exit fee - From what I understand, they did, in fact, vote for the increase. If that's not a signal of their long-term intentions, I don't know what is.
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