(02-10-2018 08:21 PM)beefcake0520 Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 06:18 PM)Rabonchild Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 01:08 PM)beefcake0520 Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 11:26 AM)Seminowl Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 02:52 AM)Rabonchild Wrote:  For CUSA to survive a dedicated channel must be developed. If the leadership is to incompotent to reach a channel agreement the odds are CUSA is breaking up. If that happens the conference may look like Marshall, ODU, Liberty, Appalachian, Charlotte, Western Kentucky, Middlle Tennessee, FAU, FIU, Georgia St, Georgia South, & Coastal Carolina.

If three of the teams choose to not join, CUSA reaches out to JMU for football and Charleston & VCU for basketball.

North:
Marshall
ODU
Liberty
App
Charlotte
WKU
MTU

South:
GA State
GA Southern
Coastal
USM/Troy/UAB (Pick 2)
FAU
FIU

No teams west of the Mississippi, geography, recruiting, and rivalries. This is what CUSA should be.

Again noooo. As much as I want Marshall to play in the south, I would rather go back to thr MAC than play in a glorified FCS league

In the long run I would just as soon have JMU as Marshall.

By all means do that. This conference is a joke compared to what it used to be. Other than long time rival USM and building rivals WKU MT, there is nothing worth staying in this dying conference for. You start combining with too many FBS newbies and an FCS pull up, the conference reputation will get even worse. I'm not the only one who sees this. No offense to Charlotte or ODU, I personally saw the light when those two came up for the list of additions, ODU seems to be coming along nicely. Regardless, no one else in big boy football cares, so go ahead and add more to that. I hope my school would make a decision to do something else than that. JMU was passed over for ODU for a reason.

I can understand a team with the history and past success of Marshall not liking the idea of being in a conference with these recent FBS arrivals, but it does seem to me that the alignment in question would be comparable to the MAC. And these newbies all have drive and determination to be better, whereas the MAC has been mostly lousy for decades. I think CUSA is just as good as the MAC now and has a much higher long term ceiling. It just doesn't have the teams with as much name recognition at this time.