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Post by gemofthehills on Oct 19, 2022 15:53:20 GMT -6
For the record Im glad both left because we would not be going to CUSA.
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Post by troysux on Oct 19, 2022 20:15:34 GMT -6
I just don't get the MAC expanding. It is a very compact league that has been together forever with Buffalo the big outlier. Is Delaware really going to help things? They aren't going to bring Philly any more than Kennesaw will Atlanta. Nobody in the MAC delivers Cleveland, Detroit, or Chicago.
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Post by Whup Em All on Oct 20, 2022 10:29:30 GMT -6
If WKU leaves they will be unhappy in the MAC. WKU is wanting to move to not feel left out. Marshall and ODU left because the AAC turned them down and both wanted to fell wanted. I don't want WKU to leave, but if they DID leave CUSA for the MAC, and subsequently became supremely unhappy in their crap new league, I'd laugh for the next 20 years. I mean, anyone with half a brain can compare the two conferences and see which one has more promise. (Narrator: It's not the MAC.) One can make an argument that the Sun Belt (for now) is a more desirable conference, at least for teams along the Atlantic coast. (Delaware certainly qualifies.) But Delaware is apparently not heading to the Belt. One could make a great argument for Delaware moving to CUSA, even though they stretch the footprint, don't actually bring a market, and at nearly 300 miles from Lynchburg, don't really work that well as a travel partner for Liberty. But Delaware is apparently not heading to CUSA. So that leaves the MAC. A stable bus league in no imminent danger of having teams poached. (Narrator: Because no one wants them.) But WKU wants so badly to be wanted, and the MAC appeared to want them, mainly so they could get MTSU. But MTSU didn't want the MAC, crushing Hilltopper dreams and consigning them to an eternity in CUSA, unless a new partner could be found. Enter the Blue Hens. They're about as close to the eastern MAC teams as WKU is from the western teams. (Narrator: Not close at all.) It makes sense to bring them in as a partner with WKU, if you squint and hold your breath for so long you turn blue and see stars. While nothing has been announced, this seems to be the leading theory for how Delaware plans to make this move, mainly because there aren't any other conferences who'd have them. They're not AAC bound, and no P5s are going to dip into the ranks of the FCS for an expansion candidate. So what I'm hoping happens -- if this is legit -- is that Delaware and WKU move to the MAC, dominate it, and fade into the obscurity a stable bus league provides. The MAC signs a new media deal which is really kind of lackluster and low-rent, since it matches their conference. Meanwhile, CUSA replaces WKU with EKU and (eventually) shores up the West with a couple of additions out there, fans start to respond to a conference filled with actual rivalries, crowds and excitement grow, which all looks good on TV, and a new media deal reflects this dynamic. CUSA becomes the new SEC. OK, no. We don't become anything like the SEC. We're just a solid P5 conference that wins bowl games and lands a couple or three teams in the NCAA tourney every March. And we're all mostly happy, even MTSU and La Tech. Meanwhile, a giant sentient blob of red towels stands alone on a hilltop in western Kentucky, a single tear running down his face, realizing he made the wrong choice. Again.
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Post by gemofthehills on Oct 20, 2022 14:55:14 GMT -6
Delaware lack of interest in the SBC is probably academic driven. Same for CUSA.
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Post by Cleburneslim on Oct 20, 2022 18:13:02 GMT -6
It's kinda hard to get there without going through here.
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