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The 5 schools are official:
http://www.conferenceusa.com/genrel/050412aab.html

Charlotte presser:

http://video.uncc.edu/content/live-stream

congrats to the fans of all the new members

Charlotte is the #9 hitter who struck out swinging 5 times but hit a walkoff homer in extra innings. They were in deep doo-doo with their football affiliation, or complete lack thereof. Now they'll never have to sell a single ticket as a true FCS team. This was the best possible outcome out of the realistic scenarios remaining for them. Check that, this wasn't even on the list of realistic scenarios if you'd asked my opinion 4 months ago.

(05-04-2012 10:51 AM)LastMinuteman Wrote: [ -> ]Charlotte is the #9 hitter who struck out swinging 5 times but hit a walkoff homer in extra innings. They were in deep doo-doo with their football affiliation, or complete lack thereof. Now they'll never have to sell a single ticket as a true FCS team. This was the best possible outcome out of the realistic scenarios remaining for them. Check that, this wasn't even on the list of realistic scenarios if you'd asked my opinion 4 months ago.

Sadly this was a realistic scenario the second they announced they were starting football.

How many members will C-USA have now?

2013 football right now- 12
2013 on- right now bball- 13
2015 football- 13

(05-04-2012 10:51 AM)LastMinuteman Wrote: [ -> ]Charlotte is the #9 hitter who struck out swinging 5 times but hit a walkoff homer in extra innings. They were in deep doo-doo with their football affiliation, or complete lack thereof. Now they'll never have to sell a single ticket as a true FCS team. This was the best possible outcome out of the realistic scenarios remaining for them. Check that, this wasn't even on the list of realistic scenarios if you'd asked my opinion 4 months ago.

Charlotte is Warren Morris?

Next up Old Dominion

Get it together ODU.

Well at least ECU and USM will have some help until a bigger invite they deserve comes along !

(05-04-2012 11:33 AM)CardFan1 Wrote: [ -> ]Well at least ECU and USM will have some help until a bigger invite they deserve comes along !

Deserve has nothing to do with it. Ask Middle Tennessee.

(05-04-2012 10:51 AM)LastMinuteman Wrote: [ -> ]Charlotte is the #9 hitter who struck out swinging 5 times but hit a walkoff homer in extra innings. They were in deep doo-doo with their football affiliation, or complete lack thereof. Now they'll never have to sell a single ticket as a true FCS team. This was the best possible outcome out of the realistic scenarios remaining for them. Check that, this wasn't even on the list of realistic scenarios if you'd asked my opinion 4 months ago.

Honestly though, I don't think it was as lucky as it may have seemed. 4 months ago Charlotte's name had been dropped a few times. Mike hamrick mentioned On the radio that we were their first replacement choice. ECU had also mentioned the same. I really think it had a lot more to do with the fact that no one, not the press, not the fans, thought it was an actual realistic possibility. I can't count how many times people on this very board said there was no way it was happening.

However, if you take a look at what our administration was saying and doing since inception, you can see this was a carefully and meticulously planned idea. From the very beginning there was plans to expand the stadium to 40,000 without any demolition. We hired a BCS defensive coordinator as our head coach and a BCS offensive coordinator as our head assistant. There is already money allocated for 2014 for stadium expansion. We were "passed up" by multiple fcs confences due to the short nature of our stay.

A better analogy would be that the AD put on their poker faces, went all in, and won the pot.

(05-04-2012 11:35 AM)PirateMarv Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-04-2012 11:33 AM)CardFan1 Wrote: [ -> ]Well at least ECU and USM will have some help until a bigger invite they deserve comes along !

Deserve has nothing to do with it. Ask Middle Tennessee.

Its all about Markets..When teams get inviting that ain't even playing yet..

just the way it is now...

Nice... grad school at UNCC next year just got much better! ;-)

(05-04-2012 11:32 AM)wvucrazed Wrote: [ -> ]Next up Old Dominion

No - I think next up is UTEP to the MWC. That would leave C-USA at 12. They might stop there.

Louisiana Tech is finally in C-USA. Oh yesssssss!

The rebuilt CUSA looks good! Good luck hope the league is fun to watch.

(05-04-2012 08:26 PM)DogsWin Wrote: [ -> ]Louisiana Tech is finally in C-USA. Oh yesssssss!

You guys should do real well in that league.

Old Dominion may be delaying the announcement because if they announce now they are ineligible for the 2012 FCS playoffs, even if they do not start transitioning until 2013. ODU will announce about a year from now that they are upgrading, especially if both ODU and Charlotte are not allowed to begin conference play in 2014, which is the second year of their transition.