(02-09-2017 06:22 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(02-09-2017 06:15 PM)panama Wrote:  

(02-09-2017 06:04 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(02-09-2017 05:45 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(02-09-2017 04:21 PM)NoDak Wrote:  Guess the A10 is kicking itself for being a Philly centered conference with LaSalle and St Josephs and formerly Villanova and Temple. The Sun Belt overwhelms it in TV revenue after all. Atlanta should be the Sun Belt's Philly, but Benson is too worried about satisfying posters here who think Ga State can elevate its game past its local P5 members. The Sun Belt can learn a few lessons from the A10. Local intense rivalries matter.

Let's see Temple averaged 6,300 a game last year. Villanova 8,100.
Temple is 33-32 in the NCAA Tournament two Final Fours, seven Elite Eight, and 7 Sweet Sixteen. 'Nova is 57-32 with two championships, five Final Fours, 13 Elite Eight, 17 Sweet Sixteen

Kennesaw State averaged 1,300 Georgia State 1,800.
Kennesaw is 0-0 in the Dance and Georgia State is 2-3 no Sweet 16 between them.

I'm in I totally see Kennesaw and Georgia State as the Atlanta version of the Big 5 in Philly.

Philly produces excess bb talent. Atlanta produces excess fb talent well beyond the needs of GT and Ga St. Why not use the local talent to energize your own conference to care about your Ga St fb team with local rivalries that local HS gets excited about? Actually build something rather than guarding your turf, when all the time the riches are what we have missed.

Instead the Sun Belt takes in unrelated schools that have little in common and play with Atlanta talent that doesn't care because they are far away from Atlanta. La Tech left because they hated La Monroe, but that doesn't happen elsewhere, and doesn't have to be the example for Ga St. Actually use local rivalries to your advantage. The TV money isn't coming in anyway, so try to maximize attendance.

The SEC and B1G models don't work for the Belt, but yet it still uses those models in expansion. The A10 has a different model, and it has paid off even though it has lost a lot of schools.

You do know that nobody cares about Kennesaw State including their own alumni, right? They seat 8300 for football and thior stadium was half empty all year. You're barking up the wrong tree.

The Ga St alumni care about its football? Something has to be done to change that. Raising up another program will not be the death of Ga St if interest in the Belt is increased in greater Atlanta.

You and FJ and David St need to stop playing NCAA Football The SIMS. You cant just make things so by speaking then. LOL. We have 53k students and just bought a MLB stadium that will be a football stadium in 7 months. We have been to a bowl game. We have a $300M development plan rewriting the southern part of downtown.There are actionable things occurring at GSU football wise. We are not afraid about KSU being raised up. I am telling you there is nothing in to tell us that they will rise up. I cannot remember ever seeing a Kennesaw State sweatshirt or bumper sticker. There level of alumni support is approximately where GSU was in 1988 or 1989.Hell, Mercer would be a better bet and has better support.