Hello There, Guest! (LoginRegister)

Post Reply 
Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
Author Message
Bookmark and Share
Pirate4ver Offline
Water Engineer
*

Posts: 39
Joined: Dec 2012
Reputation: 0
I Root For: ECU/TheAmerican
Location: NC
Post: #41
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
(12-29-2012 11:27 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  I'm pretty sure ECU has played USM every year that I've been alive. It's always an important game and a benchmark for our entire season.

Agree... I will miss USM and Marshall the most. Hopefully, those will be some of our out of conference games. I would like to take them with us to the nBE.
12-31-2012 11:09 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
MinerInWisconsin Offline
Hall of Famer
*

Posts: 10,685
Joined: Apr 2004
Reputation: 504
I Root For: UTEP, of course
Location: The Frozen Tundra
Post: #42
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
Memphis in basketball but we still have UAB so that's good.

Houston in football but we still have Rice and Tulsa. When those two leave my fav will be USM until their gone.

We will eventually embrace new rivalries with UNT, UTSA, La Tech and others but it will take a while unless we are one day renewing old rivalries vs UNM, Wyoming, etc. Nobody knows at this point.
12-31-2012 11:56 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Wavebacker Offline
All American
*

Posts: 2,821
Joined: Nov 2003
Reputation: 45
I Root For: Toolane.....
Location: Check your Six!
Post: #43
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
(12-31-2012 10:41 AM)ESE84 Wrote:  
(12-29-2012 08:25 AM)Wavebacker Wrote:  I'll also miss playing Rice. Our closest peer school in CUSA it just feels like a natural rivalry is between us even though it may not feel quite that way.

Agree 100%. I think Rice-UH will keep playing across the board, like when Rice was part of the WAC and UH was in C-USA 1.0.

But Tulane was the C-USA program I was most excited about, and traveled east many times for baseball and football games in New Orleans. I hope to see the Wave on future schedules, but I just doubt it happens. Not much reason for you to play another game in Houston, and not a lot of room on the Rice schedule if we keep playing Houston, someone from the Big 12, a service academy, and a like-minded academic institution (that's the opening, but we are scheduled well into the future with Wake Forest, Northwestern and Stanford).

And SMU - I doubt we see the Ponies again ever unless we meet in a minor bowl game somewhere.

I get what might have been with the Big East, but the money just does not seem to be in place any longer. The privates should have held together.

Tulane vs Rice in Football is probably done for some time. Maybe if we prosper in Football we could schedule a game and fill that private-school opening you have?

In Basketball and Baseball is where we figure to meet again. Non-conf. BBall is easy enough and very doable for us in Baseball even though we just cannot beat you guys regularly. It would help our RPI to give it a try though.
(This post was last modified: 12-31-2012 12:03 PM by Wavebacker.)
12-31-2012 12:02 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
ESE84 Offline
Heisman
*

Posts: 6,596
Joined: Mar 2005
Reputation: 205
I Root For: Rice then UH
Location: Houston

New Orleans BowlDonators
Post: #44
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
(12-31-2012 12:02 PM)Wavebacker Wrote:  In Basketball and Baseball is where we figure to meet again. Non-conf. BBall is easy enough and very doable for us in Baseball even though we just cannot beat you guys regularly. It would help our RPI to give it a try though.

Baseball should be a win-win. We are both going to need baseball RPI boosters in our new conference homes.
12-31-2012 12:12 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
DaSaintFan Offline
Dum' Sutherner in Midwest!
*

Posts: 15,862
Joined: Mar 2010
Reputation: 402
I Root For: Southern Miss
Location: Stuck in St. Louis
Post: #45
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
Memphis.. while the series was a little more than lopsided on the football side, I don't think people understood how big the old "Louisville-Memphis-USM" rivarly was on the gridiron.

Basketball... we have a rival in Basketball??
12-31-2012 12:23 PM
Visit this user's website Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Smaug Offline
Happnin' Dude
*

Posts: 61,211
Joined: Mar 2005
Reputation: 842
I Root For: Dragons
Location: The Lonely Mountain

BlazerTalk AwardBlazerTalk AwardBlazerTalk AwardBlazerTalk Award
Post: #46
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
(12-31-2012 11:56 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Memphis in basketball but we still have UAB so that's good.

UTEP and UAB have played some crazy games.
12-31-2012 02:49 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
uhmump95 Offline
Race Pimp
*

Posts: 5,337
Joined: Mar 2004
Reputation: 50
I Root For: all my hoes!
Location:

Crappies
Post: #47
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
Football - Southern Miss and Tulsa.
Basketball - UTEP.
12-31-2012 03:16 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
PirateTreasureNC Offline
G's up, Ho's Down ; )
*

Posts: 36,249
Joined: May 2004
Reputation: 617
I Root For: ECU Pirates,
Location:
Post: #48
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
It could be real weird to not play So Miss during football season.

The history between the schools Marshall and ECU will be a tough one to swallow as well.

FWIW, we have also played Tulsa for forever too but I don't think there was a much of a connection.
12-31-2012 03:51 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
PirateTreasureNC Offline
G's up, Ho's Down ; )
*

Posts: 36,249
Joined: May 2004
Reputation: 617
I Root For: ECU Pirates,
Location:
Post: #49
RE: Old C-USA Schools which Rivalry are you going to miss the most?
(12-31-2012 09:12 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  Charlotte vs Cincinnati

oh wait................what year is it?

LOL, that was OLD CUSA battle for sure.
12-31-2012 03:52 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 




User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)


Copyright © 2002-2024 Collegiate Sports Nation Bulletin Board System (CSNbbs), All Rights Reserved.
CSNbbs is an independent fan site and is in no way affiliated to the NCAA or any of the schools and conferences it represents.
This site monetizes links. FTC Disclosure.
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org.
Powered By MyBB, © 2002-2024 MyBB Group.