(12-25-2012 05:07 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(12-25-2012 04:38 PM)CivilEng Wrote:  

(12-25-2012 12:00 PM)RaiderATO Wrote:  

(12-25-2012 11:06 AM)CivilEng Wrote:  Why is it that FIU, FAU, NT and MT fans can't understand that no matter which teams leave the Sun Belt, the remaining schools will always claim that the worst teams left and that the Belt is actually better off not having them?

You can feel free to leave MT out of that statement. You'd have to be a women's softball fan to find a crappy MT program.

You completely missed the point of my post.

I don't think he did, the wording was just a bit off(in both your posts) I think his point was that few if any are claiming losing MT is a good thing or that we are a crappy program. Whether or not any of us are crappy programs or whether or not the conference is better off without any of us, I think he was just arguing the semantics that most are willing to admit that we were a real loss to the conference.

I see where you're coming from and I agree with you but his post did not imply what you have just stated. However, while most SB posters do agree that losing MT was a significant loss for the conference, a lot try to down play it. I'll be the first one to recognize MT as one of, if not the best school in the Sun Belt athletically. That is the point I was trying to make. It doesn't matter whether it's FIU and it's large tv market/athletic budget or MT overall athletics/athletic budgets, remaining schools will always claim that the conference didn't lose much.

By the way, I love my school but I am more of realist than anything else; so in no way am I attempting to compare FIU's athletics with MT's. It goes without saying that we're not at your level YET.