CUSA needs to go to the Belt for a merger

Lol. What.

I said the CUSA should go to the Belt. Rather or not the Belt would take them is a different story.

I know Troy and South Alabama would love to get UAB in their conference. I figured the Louisiana schools would feel the same way about Tech.

Marshall is a good program with good support, but I don’t think they’re worth an annual flight if you’re Georgia Southern or someone.

I don't care about all that, but I'd love for UAB to move to literally any other conference.

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I briefly dated a UAB cheerleader, so I went to a few games. They were like vs Rice and UTEP I think.

Hard to get excited about playing a bad team half a country away.

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It's true. The yearly game against an FCS-level team from Alabama (Alabama State, Alabama A&M) is always more entertaining than the in conference games.

There have been rumblings of a new conference / CUSA split with the west foundation being:

UTEP
UTSA
Rice
North Texas
Louisiana Tech
Southern Miss
NMSU
Ark State
UL-L

This was discussed pre covid - appears it is gaining traction due to covid.


The east CUSA would be:

UAB
Marshall
ODU
WKU
Charlotte
FAU
MTSU
FIA
Troy


The issue is Marshall wanting completely out - and USM deciding if they want east or west.

Also - baseball requirements have been a big issue - no baseball, no go. That puts UNT on the hot seat for sure.


Edit - and many of these schools are looking at going independent - covid has shed some light on the darkness of budgets...and believe being independent would allow for better football scheduling which would generate more revenue.

It is no secret that USM and LaTech have looked into rotational scheduling with Big12 and ACC teams in the past - makes sense as long as you can stomach 4 home games most years - but bring in much, much more money.

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Now if ULM drops to FCS

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I think they would eventually have more fans at their games if they dropped back down, and I think the football program would be better off now if they had not moved up. There's nothing wrong with being a big fish in a little pond. That place was rocking in the 70's and 80's when John David Crow and Pat Collins led them.

I also think a pretty large number of the Group of five conference teams have no business in FBS.

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I also think a pretty large number of the Group of five conference teams have no business in FBS

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This will always be the case though. If the worst Sun Belt teams and CUSA teams dropped, the best teams in those conferences would look like they need to drop.

If the P5 split off, Oregon State, Vandy, etc. would need to drop. If those teams dropped, Miss State, Kentucky, etc. would need to drop.

There will always be bottom feeders in college athletics regardless of where the division split is.

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I figured the Louisiana schools would feel the same way about Tech.

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We’d rather let those arrogant pricks die on the vine.

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UL Fan

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Pot meet fricking kettle

Can’t deny UL had an awesome year and that’s great, but calling tech fans arrogant doesn’t make any sense. We know we suck.