(11-30-2017 09:36 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(11-30-2017 01:16 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  If North Florida adds football? They could play in the pro stadium. Sun Belt would grab them before Kennesaw State.

Why?

Everyone keeps telling us the Sun Belt should add these random ass teams.

Sun Belt is in the sweet spot of CFP revenue sharing with 10 for football.
In other sports UALR and UTA make the travel work smoothly.
I need only look at 14 member CUSA to conclude that adding another football team will not increase the Sun Belt's media revenue so it will cost us money on the media side to add a team.
Based on what I see going on in basketball. Adding a team will reduce per member NCAA basketball revenue.

No one has remotely made the case for Northeastsouthwest Florida Tech or Cannonball State having such value that we should PAY to add them because that is what happens if the Sun Belt expands. We reduce our revenue and essentially pay to get a new school.

What's the pro for the Sun Belt? Synergistic upward social media hydrid fusion trends???

This is what we got for rescuing Idaho...the assumption that the Belt is the "Land of Misfit Toys" that are just everyone's 'fall back' option.

1) The Belt doesn't have a problem. We are compact, our footprint makes sense, we optimize our per school revenue, and our bowl slots make sense too.
2) For the first time in a long time (actually ever as a FB conference), the members are largely happy to be here. None of our current members feel that they 'have to leave' to be successful. We know we're all probably going to be with each other for quite some time.
3) There's no real threat to the league for the next couple of years, barring some truly unforeseen events
4) There are any number of fall back teams that can be poached if we need extra teams for football. And that's before we'd have to go to Kennesaw, or even Liberty. If we asked for applications to join the league as an all sport, we'd get about 30 serious applications, from teams from the Southland, Atlantic Sun, Ohio Valley, Southern, WAC, and possibly even the Missouri Valley and CAA. There are a LOT of teams, that have far better qualifications than Kennesaw or West Florida, that actually WANT to be in our league. And that's not just FCS schools looking to move up. The Belt is seen as a desirable league by many schools that don't play, and have no plans to play football.
5) Even after a bad year for us in football, and CUSA having a better than average year, the main source of our instability still is too damn big, and still might just get turned down by most of our members in the future.