(11-12-2017 02:25 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(11-06-2017 03:52 PM)OwlFamily Wrote:  USF is ranked and been around longer. FAU is new to this thing. Just a hunch and I would hope I was wrong.

That's an excuse. I guess Marshall is new to CUSA. I mean we've been here less than you have been a program. Lets say what it really is: Those that go to FAU could really care less if you have athletics or not. Most of your students and alumni likely roots for Miami, Florida and Florida State and they are at those games instead of in Boca Raton on game day.

Around longer, so 4 years is really that much longer. USF started football in 1997, FAU 2001 .

The dynamics were a bit different for the USF, a larger school that lay a claim to the South Floridian and Central Floridian piece of recruitment pie 4 years before the Owls and 5 years before the Golden Panthers.

Additionally, they came of age at exactly the right time to coincide with the conference realignment explosion.