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(03-09-2018 11:23 AM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

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(03-09-2018 11:04 AM)cmett003 Wrote:  Current Conference Basketball Standings for this proposed conference

ODU (2nd C-USA)
Charlotte (14th C-USA)
Marshall (4th C-USA)
App State (7th Sunbelt)
MTSU (1st C-USA)
WKU (3rd C-USA)
Coastal Carolina (8th Sunbelt)

Southern Miss
FAU (11th C-USA)
FIU (8th C-USA)
UAB (6th C-USA)
Ga Southern (3rd Sunbelt)
Ga State (2nd Sunbelt)
Troy (6th Sunbelt)

I would say adding those teams would help basketball and football. We are getting 2 of the top 3 bball teams from the sunbelt

That conference is awful though.

I don't see where it is any worse than what we are in.

CUSA has 4, maybe 5 better teams than the 2nd best Sunbelt team. And it pretty much drops off from there. 8 of the 12 teams are >200 or worse.

I don't understand what you are saying. You are correct about CUSA, but all the good teams are included in this scenario. Then we add lesser teams that are just as good as the ones they replace, and sprinkle a little better geography in there.

You could make an argument that this proposal is not great for football, though.

I don't know the best solution. Haven't really even thought about it because it's probably a huge waste of time. I guess its the addition of these schools while eliminating the Texas/LA schools? It appears that your adding some geographical upgrades while eliminating a couple schools that really do care about football/basketball and have good support/turnout. Is that the best solution? Maybe. None of these schools really strike me as long term good basketball conference mates, which was my point.

App State (7th Sunbelt)
Coastal Carolina (8th Sunbelt)
Ga Southern (3rd Sunbelt)
Ga State (2nd Sunbelt)
Troy (6th Sunbelt)

Personally, my plan A would be to get rid of the Florida schools.