(12-19-2012 08:33 PM)fedale Wrote:  What I'm most butthurt about is... is that TULANE and SMU are in this scenario... market wise? Yeah sure...

But athletics wise, they bring NOTHING to the table.

Overall Record (Conference Record) over the last 5 years

Marshall
2008: 4-8 (3-5)
2009: 7-6 (4-4) [bowl win]
2010: 5-7 (4-4)
2011: 7-6 (5-3) [bowl win]
2012: 5-7 (4-4)

SMU
2008: 1-11 (0-8)
2009: 8-5 (6-2) [bowl win]
2010: 7-7 (6-2) [CCG loss, bowl loss]
2011: 8-5 (5-3) [bowl win]
2012: 6-6 (5-3) [bowl TBD]

I don't know whether you feel that Marshall deserves it over SMU, but your post came across that way. Irrespective, we've done okay - not great. But lumping us in with Tulane is a little unfair.

(12-20-2012 11:03 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  I am so incredibly sick and tired of conference realignment crap.

I hear you but its like looking at a bad traffic accident....you yell at everyone for rubbernecking but you just have to slow down when and watch when you roll by.

Im stoked about next years CUSA-W football lineup, the Liberty Bowl and the rebirth of USM football.

Even if we leave Im gonna enjoy every single second Tulsa is in CUSA. If its a few more years or 50.

(12-20-2012 11:24 AM)Ragu Wrote:  ^Doubt you are right about that. You keep going back and forth on this. Make up your mind. One day you laud CUSA and the next you are clamoring for the MWC. The MWC is going to lose more teams making those that wish to go there look really foolish.

Dude Im probably the most bi polar person in the history of internet.

(12-19-2012 06:59 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 06:53 PM)T_Won1 Wrote:  That conference is a disaster. They need to skip the inevitable blow up and just form a new conference without Boise and SD State.

Why is it a disaster?

Its a disaster because some egos got in the way and said no to a contract that would have paid 11 million per team. Now your gonna be damn lucky to get a penny more than currently in cusa. Oh and before its said and done you may have to send womens bb and volleyball to sdsu and boise and whoever else they find from back there.
the be is much like the federal gov. the spending is gonna outpace the revenue.

(12-20-2012 11:35 AM)panicstricken Wrote:  

(12-20-2012 11:24 AM)Ragu Wrote:  ^Doubt you are right about that. You keep going back and forth on this. Make up your mind. One day you laud CUSA and the next you are clamoring for the MWC. The MWC is going to lose more teams making those that wish to go there look really foolish.

Dude Im probably the most bi polar person in the history of internet.

At least you admit it...

I just think it is a lot more likely that the MWC loses teams from the current lineup than them gaining teams from the BE or CUSA. I especially think it is wishful thinking for Houston/SMU to go there after being in CUSA before and being in the BE now.

(12-19-2012 07:18 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  Since this is a Conf USA board, the question is this, if UNLV and Fresno joined the BE, would it have any effect on Conf USA. I say not much at all.

silly post. how could anyone say that out loud after the last two years? 1) reduces the potential for nbe to reach out to CUSA for more teams, 2) increases the potential for certain remaining mwc and cusa teams to join together, 3) reduces the risk of Boise pulling out, which decreases the risk of remaining nbe teams needing a new home. there's more, but that should be enough.