Why worry about the crossover games when it's going to take several years to play each cross division team anyway. Just enlarge the conference to two 8 division teams, play zero crossover games and 7 conference games, all in your division. That gives you 5 non-conference games to play with including a pay to play game if needed. If there are cross division teams you have a rivalry you want to keep going, play it as an ooc game.

(01-20-2017 10:18 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Why worry about the crossover games when it's going to take several years to play each cross division team anyway. Just enlarge the conference to two 8 division teams, play zero crossover games and 7 conference games, all in your division. That gives you 5 non-conference games to play with including a pay to play game if needed. If there are cross division teams you have a rivalry you want to keep going, play it as an ooc game.

Expansion is not the answer to any of our problems.

(01-20-2017 10:18 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  Why worry about the crossover games when it's going to take several years to play each cross division team anyway. Just enlarge the conference to two 8 division teams, play zero crossover games and 7 conference games, all in your division. That gives you 5 non-conference games to play with including a pay to play game if needed. If there are cross division teams you have a rivalry you want to keep going, play it as an ooc game.

How is that even a conference anymore?

The biggest reason not to have permanent cross-over rivals is that there aren't really any worth doing. UAB may have some history with some eastern teams, and I guess USM might (but it couldn't be that much). With no history and no proximity, you'd just have 7 forced "rivalries" that may or may not ever really grow into anything. They'd mostly be just picking them out of a hat. Without a good reason to do it, you might as well just get back on the schedule that UAB messed up and let it play out.

14 is such a bad number of teams for a conference, but it's what we have.

When is the real conference football schedule coming out? Doesn't the annual conference meeting occur in January?

(01-20-2017 01:31 PM)jaminniner Wrote:  When is the real conference football schedule coming out? Doesn't the annual conference meeting occur in January?

They usually release the schedules in early February. So we should get them in a couple of weeks.

Schedules will be released on Thursday

https://twitter.com/FBSchedules/status/8...3937463296

(01-24-2017 04:26 PM)sportdawg Wrote:  Schedules will be released on Thursday

https://twitter.com/FBSchedules/status/8...3937463296

Sweeeeet!!!

http://pilotonline.com/sports/college/ol...de593.html

CONFERENCE USA NON-DIVISION OPPONENTS, 2017, 2018

EAST DIVISION
Charlotte: UAB, Southern Mississippi
Florida Atlantic: North Texas, Louisiana Tech
Florida International: Texas-San Antonio, Rice
Middle Tennessee: UTEP, UAB
Marshall: Southern Miss, Texas-San Antonio
Old Dominion: Rice, North Texas
Western Kentucky: Louisiana Tech, UTEP

WEST DIVISION
Louisiana Tech: Florida Atlantic, Western Kentucky
North Texas: Old Dominion, Florida Atlantic
Rice: Old Dominion, Florida International
Southern Mississippi: Charlotte, Marshall
Texas-San Antonio: Marshall, Florida International
UAB: Charlotte, Middle Tennessee
UTEP: Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee

According to USM beat writer Jason Munz, USM will return to UTSA for a 2nd straight year which means USM has an even 2-2 split with the Texas schools now. Also, Charlotte returns to Hattiesburg for a 2nd straight year. He also said that the 2018 schedule would be the same but flip the location.

Home - UAB, North Texas, UTEP and Charlotte
Road - La Tech, UTSA, Rice, Marshall

(01-25-2017 10:29 PM)usm99 Wrote:  According to USM beat writer Jason Munz, USM will return to UTSA for a 2nd straight year which means USM has an even 2-2 split with the Texas schools now. Also, Charlotte returns to Hattiesburg for a 2nd straight year. He also said that the 2018 schedule would be the same but flip the location.

Home - UAB, North Texas, UTEP and Charlotte
Road - La Tech, UTSA, Rice, Marshall

Which means that UAB will come to Charlotte this season.

Really wish we would get Southern MIss on our schedule, we have not played them in regular season since 2012 when we were still members of the Sun Belt....I guess this is the season we play Charlotte?

(01-26-2017 08:33 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  Really wish we would get Southern MIss on our schedule, we have not played them in regular season since 2012 when we were still members of the Sun Belt....I guess this is the season we play Charlotte?

Tech and Southern Miss could trade WKU and Marshall lol. And yeah, you should play Charlotte every year from here on out.