(11-23-2017 12:14 PM)Limebull Wrote:  Everyone will be watching the WAR ON I-4

Not everyone. Not even most. Not really even very many.

Our conference is only 22 years old. It was formed in 1995, so we're babies on the football scene. That's hardly enough time to develop lasting rivalries unless those rivalries already existed outside of the conference between current member schools. Throw in the fact that other schools have left C-USA during those 22 years for an upgrade, and it makes the rivalry situation even more difficult.

The only G5 conference younger than ours is the Mountain West, formed in 1999, and they're hardly a blip on the football rivalry radar either. For what it's worth, C-USA has tried to do their best given our circumstances to foster some rivalries, with the Texas teams and LA Tech in one division, and with WKU, MTSU together in the other division, as well as putting the F_U's together in the East in the hope that something will develop out of that. Forgive me btw if I missed someone. The Big 12 was formed in 1996, so they're also a year younger, but they have that little P5 thing to their advantage, and many of those schools have been together since the SWC days anyway.

It's real easy for us to criticize though, but a much more difficult matter altogether for a conference as new as ours to live up to the expectations we hold for it, and I think that some of those who are quick to criticize may not be cognizant of the hurdles there are to overcome. If this year's Rivalry Week schedule didn't quite pan out as some of us might have hoped, maybe there's a reason for that also. Maybe we were hoping that our rivals playing each other in a different week would be better for our ratings because we wouldn't therefore have to compete with everyone else's rivalries the same week. Or maybe it just didn't work out right for us schedule-wise.

That said, I'm also not a fan of our current commissioner, and feel we can only make so much progress from this point forward under her leadership.

(11-24-2017 03:23 PM)FriscoDawg Wrote:  

(11-23-2017 12:14 PM)Limebull Wrote:  Everyone will be watching the WAR ON I-4

Not everyone. Not even most. Not really even very many.

almost no one......

however, I'm gonna bet the shite out of it.....so they got me (like the NoFunLeague has fantasy football to keep it going)

disclaimer: I'm a nobody

I don’t think there are really any rivalries that are that great in CUSA. I’m happy to be playing USM this week. If not them then I’d prefer UAB.

(11-23-2017 11:42 AM)Coach Bonez89 Wrote:  Usually intense rivalry games are dispersed between the middle and end of the season:
MIDDLE: UT/OU UT/Bama Michigan/ MSU UGA/FLorida and there are plenty more OU/Nebraska (defunct)
END: Bama/Auburn Michigan/OSU, Miss/ Miss St............................ UT/A&M KU/ Mizzou and Colorado/Nebraska (defunct)

The point is the biggest rivalry games take place from middle of October on

Yea like all those SEC vs 1-AA rivalry games they play every year late in the season.

(11-23-2017 12:14 PM)Limebull Wrote:  Everyone will be watching the WAR ON I-4

What is that? After Thanksgiving road rage?

(11-23-2017 10:52 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  This is an interesting thread that makes MAC fans happy with where we are.
We have lots of stability.
No new teams messing up our image.
Lots of history and tradition to pride ourselves on.
Id hate to not have one actual rivalry game in the entire conference...

I still hate Toledo & Miami & UCF & WVU more than all CUSA schools combined.

I reserve all of my hate towards UM.

(11-23-2017 03:41 AM)TTT Wrote:  Granted, CUSA really doesn't have super serious rivals but some are growing...it doesn't take much thought to have the following teams playing each other the last week of every season:

LT/USM or UAB
FAU/FIU
WKU/MTSU or Marshall
UNT/UTSA
UNCC/ODU
Rice/UTEP

Then again, we've got a terrible commish so should I be surprised?

they are spread out because having it this week would kill attendance. uab is going up against the Alabama Auburn name with national championship implications. casual fans are not going to cusa games this week. not having all our biggest games this week means our commissioner knows what she is doing

(11-24-2017 08:01 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  I reserve all of my hate towards UM.

I think you meant UF

(11-24-2017 10:26 PM)Seminowl Wrote:  

(11-24-2017 08:01 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  I reserve all of my hate towards UM.

I think you meant UF

I am annoyed by UF. I hate UM.

(11-24-2017 08:12 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  

(11-23-2017 03:41 AM)TTT Wrote:  Granted, CUSA really doesn't have super serious rivals but some are growing...it doesn't take much thought to have the following teams playing each other the last week of every season:

LT/USM or UAB
FAU/FIU
WKU/MTSU or Marshall
UNT/UTSA
UNCC/ODU
Rice/UTEP

Then again, we've got a terrible commish so should I be surprised?

they are spread out because having it this week would kill attendance. uab is going up against the Alabama Auburn name with national championship implications. casual fans are not going to cusa games this week. not having all our biggest games this week means our commissioner knows what she is doing

We take it very seriously when we play the FIU kittens from down south. They are our largest rivalry but we do need a Schnelly related rivalry with UM.