(02-13-2012 10:21 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  I think UTSA would be a really great option for the belt because they bring a good market and a good stadium from my understanding. And unlike some FCS teams UTSA already has a schedule to become a D1 school so it would be as low a risk as you can make in terms of adding an fcs team. I just can't get excited about TXST now because I have never heard of them and it just seems like a WAC desperation move up. And to put things in perspective their literally at the same level as South Alabama right now so a 2013 join would be pretty ideal.

La Tech...I just may have pride but I think I would rather see big on their knee's or go back to FCS from the way their fans used to talk about us. A little over a year ago Tech fans mocked the Sun Belt and claimed they were runner ups for conference USA or bound to be in the alliance. So I ask why not Georgia St? UTSA technically won't be a FCS move up because they are WAC bound and La Tech has had some decent seasons to be followed by bad ones. But it won't help us a lot going forward to add them, won't give us a new market, and won't improve recruiting. Georgia St is not very well followed but gives a great market and probably decent attendance over time because I'm sure most Sun Belt schools have many alumni in the city.

TxState has 30K+ students

after they finish the remodel of their stadium it will hold 30K the same as North Texas State

they have nearly identical admissions as North Texas State and a slightly larger endowment and a higher research profile that is improving rapidly with the addition of new programs

they already have a baseball program with a pretty decent on campus facility and they are about 35-40 minutes south of Austin and about 90 minutes north of San Antonio with one of the nicest campuses in the USA with a great tubing river running through it

Fran the former TCU, Bamer, and TAMU coach is their coach now and has been there one season after having coached there years ago before they started looking to move up to D1-A