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Posted: 2/23/2018 12:30 PM
About six months ago there was some talk that C-USA's western teams might break off and join the Sunbelt to form a more regional league. The AD at Southern Mississippi was one of those talking about this. I haven't heard anything recently. Is this still a possibility, or was this a trial balloon that got punctured? If this were to happen, it would have ramifications for the MAC potentially, as some of the schools left in the lurch, like Marshall, MTSU and WKU might be looking for a new home.
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Posted: 2/23/2018 12:54 PM
The teams in Texas are probably the main keeping thing this alive because really there is nowhere else for UTSA, UTEP, Rice and North Texas to go outside of forming their own league with whomever else they think they could get.

I'd love for the MAC to add WKU and Marshall. They both fit perfectly geographically and you wouldn't have to do any switching of current members' divisions. Put Marshall in the East and WKU in the West.

The Sun Belt could get much, much stronger adding schools like Southern Miss and La Tech.
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Posted: 2/23/2018 1:56 PM
Marshall had their chance. They're out for good.

WKU and MTSU would be fun additions though!
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Posted: 2/23/2018 3:29 PM
LaTech and MTSU left Sun Belt on not the best of terms a few years ago. I doubt that either would be heading back anytime soon.

After CUSA lost Houston, Memphis, UCF, ECU and Tulsa (plus, SMU and Tulane) to the AAC, they tried to make up for the loss of quality with an increase in quantity. It's just not working. A 14-team conference is really cumbersome for football. Unfortunately for them, they may be stuck with their mess. The Sun Belt -- while on the rise -- doesn't offer anything more for any CUSA team.
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Posted: 2/23/2018 3:53 PM
Pataskala wrote:expand_more
LaTech and MTSU left Sun Belt on not the best of terms a few years ago. I doubt that either would be heading back anytime soon.
La Tech was in the WAC before C-USA.
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Posted: 2/25/2018 12:41 AM
GoCats105 wrote:expand_more
LaTech and MTSU left Sun Belt on not the best of terms a few years ago. I doubt that either would be heading back anytime soon.
La Tech was in the WAC before C-USA.
Anyway, going to the Sun Belt would seem like backsliding for LaTech. At least when they moved to CUSA it seemed like a lateral move, if not a step up.
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Posted: 2/25/2018 6:43 PM
We should probably jump on any opening, stadium attendance has been high, get in a league with Saturday games and then build the addition to Peden at 35-40k.
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Posted: 2/26/2018 7:36 AM
If Pataskala's prediction is correct and the TV money dries up when sports move to the internet things will be changing. My guess is we will hold onto the MAC as long as we possibly can but if major restructuring happens all bets are off. The bargaining chip in my opinion for getting into another conference is that yet to be built basketball practice facility. With it OU has one of the best mid major basketball facilities in the country.
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Posted: 2/26/2018 11:59 AM
BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
We should probably jump on any opening, stadium attendance has been high, get in a league with Saturday games and then build the addition to Peden at 35-40k.
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Posted: 2/27/2018 7:44 AM
I had lunch yesterday with about half a dozen Marshall fans. These guys are fairly plugged in. The consensus among them is that they hate that their conference stretches all the way to Texas with little-to-no upside for it. I couldn't get them to commit to the idea of a new conference made up of MAC East + CUSA East, but they didn't totally dismiss the idea either.

They also mentioned this article, from an ODU perspective:
https://pilotonline.com/sports/columnist/harry-minium/art...


(Also, FWIW, despite our problems with MAC scheduling, they said they wished Marshall had half the TV exposure we have.)
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Posted: 2/27/2018 10:51 AM
C Money wrote:expand_more
I had lunch yesterday with about half a dozen Marshall fans. These guys are fairly plugged in. The consensus among them is that they hate that their conference stretches all the way to Texas with little-to-no upside for it. I couldn't get them to commit to the idea of a new conference made up of MAC East + CUSA East, but they didn't totally dismiss the idea either.

They also mentioned this article, from an ODU perspective:
https://pilotonline.com/sports/columnist/harry-minium/art...


(Also, FWIW, despite our problems with MAC scheduling, they said they wished Marshall had half the TV exposure we have.)
I found this quote from the article especially interesting: "As with most good ideas in college athletics, the odds of this are long. ODU officials declined comment on potential conference realignment, but officials at two other schools, who asked to remain anonymous, say informal discussions have taken place." Even though they classified the discussions as "informal" that fact that officials at two schools were willing to admit this says to me that there's a lot of unrest in C-USA.
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