#1 There are more OT: posts than on topic posts
#2 Southern Miss fans have stopped visiting once they have realized they will never be mentioned in any conference realignments (ever)
#3 Turns out, most people post here thinking it is good place to pick up chicks who need a green card
#4 UCF posters just visit here to feel better their crappy situation
#5 ECU has been once again been rejected as member during a C-USA vote of confidence
#6 It turns out that Britton Banowsky actually is a real person with a pulse and is not brain dead, who da thunk?
#7 Mike Slive denies any prior affiliation with any such a conference
#8 The Big Sky conference refuses to schedule games with C-USA as it will hurt their RPI
#9 LMFAU has decided not to accept a C-USA invite hoping the WAC offers stability
#10 We have run out of Div I-A schools for realignment scenarios

Link?

Hey, don't you know a Top 10 List is supposed to go from 10 to 1 David Letterman?

I think this thread is "officially dead".

If this board is dead then there are going to many more who'll be reading its obituary on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis in the near future looking at the numbers below.

From a poster on GMG.com

"CUSA will add approximately 2.8 million sets with the changes in membership. I did read somewhere that the Fox contract was $46 million for five years which might account for the difference that you noted.

Usually contracts are renegotiated when there are major changes to the structure of the original contract. In this case I believe that the difference in the number and makeup of the conference warrants rethinking. The losses of Orlando and Memphis are more than offset by the additions of Miami, Charlotte, San Antonio and Norfolk. That's a lot of advertising dollars for the networks."



PS: CUSA also added approx. 160,000 more DFW Metroplex TV sets tied directly to a CUSA member school if you count the difference in DFW's SMU and UNT alumnus numbers. 160,000 is hardly pocket change and I'm not even counting UNT's enrollment which will be about 37,000 this Fall. I don't know of any other single Texas-based university in the DFW Metroplex whose alumnus numbers are even close to UNT's collective constituency numbers and that includes UT with their Texas Exes and Texas A & M with their Former Students (the Aggies never call their grads alumnus but rather.....former students).

Bottom line is we all hope all the additional constituencies numbers will mean more annual TV revenues for each CUSA member.

GMG ! !

I'm thinking of a list of my own....

Top 10 reasons why postings like this would end up getting a poster banned from the CUSA board.

I like the spirit of North Texas fans, and hope we get an opportunity soon in the East-West divisional matchups to meet on the field. Both of our fanbases have embraced this move, and both expect big things from our teams.

From one newbie to another....game on!

(05-27-2012 10:37 PM)robiwon Wrote:  #1 There are more OT: posts than on topic posts
#2 Southern Miss fans have stopped visiting once they have realized they will never be mentioned in any conference realignments (ever)
#3 Turns out, most people post here thinking it is good place to pick up chicks who need a green card
#4 UCF posters just visit here to feel better their crappy situation
#5 ECU has been once again been rejected as member during a C-USA vote of confidence
#6 It turns out that Britton Banowsky actually is a real person with a pulse and is not brain dead, who da thunk?
#7 Mike Slive denies any prior affiliation with any such a conference
#8 The Big Sky conference refuses to schedule games with C-USA as it will hurt their RPI
#9 LMFAU has decided not to accept a C-USA invite hoping the WAC offers stability
#10 We have run out of Div I-A schools for realignment scenarios

(05-27-2012 10:37 PM)robiwon Wrote:  #1 There are more OT: posts than on topic posts
#2 Southern Miss fans have stopped visiting once they have realized they will never be mentioned in any conference realignments (ever)
#3 Turns out, most people post here thinking it is good place to pick up chicks who need a green card
#4 UCF posters just visit here to feel better their crappy situation
#5 ECU has been once again been rejected as member during a C-USA vote of confidence
#6 It turns out that Britton Banowsky actually is a real person with a pulse and is not brain dead, who da thunk?
#7 Mike Slive denies any prior affiliation with any such a conference
#8 The Big Sky conference refuses to schedule games with C-USA as it will hurt their RPI
#9 LMFAU has decided not to accept a C-USA invite hoping the WAC offers stability
#10 We have run out of Div I-A schools for realignment scenarios

See? This is just sad, man. I'm going to guess you are part of the "self-esteem at all costs" kids that are just reaching college and beyond. When your teacher said it was trying that counts...she was lying. I'd much rather be hardcore offended by a troll than to have one suck so bad that I start to feel a tiny bit of pity. If you're coming, you've got to bring it. Otherwise don't bother.

Is that Darrell trolling?!?

It is the end of May, there's only so much on-topic stuff to discuss this time of year.

And ECU lost a vote of confidence? Is that the same ECU that got the expansion they wanted (ODU and Charlotte)?

The Big Sky Conference won't schedule us for hurting their RPI? That's rich.

(05-27-2012 11:35 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(05-27-2012 10:37 PM)robiwon Wrote:  #1 There are more OT: posts than on topic posts
#2 Southern Miss fans have stopped visiting once they have realized they will never be mentioned in any conference realignments (ever)
#3 Turns out, most people post here thinking it is good place to pick up chicks who need a green card
#4 UCF posters just visit here to feel better their crappy situation
#5 ECU has been once again been rejected as member during a C-USA vote of confidence
#6 It turns out that Britton Banowsky actually is a real person with a pulse and is not brain dead, who da thunk?
#7 Mike Slive denies any prior affiliation with any such a conference
#8 The Big Sky conference refuses to schedule games with C-USA as it will hurt their RPI
#9 LMFAU has decided not to accept a C-USA invite hoping the WAC offers stability
#10 We have run out of Div I-A schools for realignment scenarios

I ****ing loved that movie when I was a youngster.

I think you should rephrase #2. It's not the fact that we'll never be mentioned in realignment discussions that drives USM fans away (from this board as well as from USM athletics in general), it's the fact that nothing our school does on or off the field will ever matter.

Why go to the effort to whip somebody's ass if everyone is still going to think the victim of the ass-whipping is superior? It's easier to just dispense with the ass-whipping altogether and skip to the part where people look down on us. Memphis and Louisville sure do, despite the fact that we're the superior institution overall. And if Gen. Hammond is to be believed, we'd save money that way.

There is a small but growing movement for USM to deemphasize athletics as a result. Their are hidden costs associated with running athletics that are now being scrutinized for the first time.

You could clean the 'ville's clock for a hundred years, and they'd still think they were better than you.

Arrogance of gumps. Tradition of Miami.