(05-20-2012 03:07 PM)StillJonesing Wrote: What's pitiful is ECU fans and Leaders supporting the same sad ideas ECUaccforever exposed for years. 8 years ago when he had his website dedicated to getting ECU in a conference and competing with schools like App our fans called him nuts. Now the anti Jenkins has brain washed you all to the point you just roll over. He wants to surround us with the same kind of schools if not worse versions as Croney and the sheep just follow. It's amazing how brainwashed the fanbase has become in a short time.
CUSA didn't have to go to 14 teams and completely water down the product with startups from the FCS. We could have added La Tech and FIU and stayed at 10 like the MWC and still resembled a D1 conference, but our idiot leaders are the ones pushing to go to 18 and add more schools all around us like App and Delaware to farther undercut us.
Our leaders are doing the very things ECUaccfoever pushed years ago, that's all that really needs to be said, and you sheep have let them They completely brainwashed you all into thinking it was a good thing to develop rivalries with D2 schools and give away the last recruiting advantages we had earned decades ago from schools we had passed by.
SJ, I don't know you at all... but you need a drink OR you need to put one down. Relax, dude...
I care about ECU in all regards; that said, I am not thrilled with this situation at this time. However, I am excited about what it could become. ODU (in particular) and Charlotte will both be great conference partners in the long run. Both have good basketball programs and both will support football; in fact, I will go so far as to say that they will help us expand our stadium again due to the amount of fans they will bring to town. Save this quote if you like and remind me of it if I am wrong in 10 years...
One more thing: did it ever occur to you that this move was strategic on our part? We are not going to the SEC, B12 or the ACC at any point in our future. I also do not see how on earth there will only be 4-16-team conferences... 64 teams will not a majority make in the near future, and the "haves" will need that majority in order to maintain their power and prevent Congressional involvement (which would happen because of the tax dollars spent at these schools). With that said, ECU, ODU and Charlotte may be better off working together to meet our our mutual best interest in the long run.
Let's say that FSU, Clemson, GT and ND go to the B12. The SEC may counter with the additions of VPI and NCSU (if the state legislatures allowed them to do so). Should this happen, I could easily see UNC, UVA, Duke and Maryland moving to the B10. This would actually be the best-case scenario for the BE, but it most likely would not happen... most likely, Rutgers, Temple and UCONN would go to the ACC (or UL/Cinci). If that was the case, the BE would look like this:
UL
UC
Memphis
UCF
USF
Boise State
SDSU
Navy
Houston
SMU
At this point, I have to think that the BE Catholic Schools would say "to hell with this" and split. The football schools could then (1) seek membership in CUSA or the MWC ot (2) start a new deal for themselves. I predict that #2 would occur... and when it does, it may just be that ECU, ODU and Charlotte have more power together than they do seperately.