(12-11-2016 02:43 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  The entire conference is in the same boat as us. We should propose it.

(12-10-2016 10:59 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  OK, we make that demand. Conference says no. Then what?

(12-10-2016 10:31 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Why we have eight conference games? We should demand from the conference to reduce to seven conferences games because of poor attendance and play an additional non-conference game

(12-10-2016 03:38 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Here's the way I see our schedule. We have 8 CUSA games. We're not going to make a nickel off them. The one chance we might have there is some sort of a CUSA/Sunbelt reshuffle, where the west teams go to one and the east teams go to the other. That would be something like:

CUSA -- West - Rice, New Mexico State, UTEP, UTSA, Texas State, UNT, UT-Arlington, East - Arkansas State, Arkansas-Little Rock, La Tech, Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana-Lafayette, Southern Miss, UAB (UTA and UALR do not play football).
Sunbelt -- South - Troy, South Alabama, FAU, FIU, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, North - Appalachian State, Charlotte, Middle Tennessee, Western Kentucky, Marshall, ODU.

That would at least give us some regional rivalries to build off.

But even with that, we'll have 8 games that we won't make much money off (but at least with that configuration we won't have to travel so far not to make money). That leaves 4 games to make our money. In the old SWC days, we counted on making our money off 3 games--LSU, aTm, and TU. So I'd try to play two of that three plus UH for 3 of my 4 games, and a peer institution (Stanford, NW, Vandy, Duke, service academy) for the fourth.

Then maybe can start making some money.