11-20-2021, 01:00 AM
The Southland apparently lost 4 teams to the WAC last year. Recently, 2 more Southland teams, Incarnate Word and McNeese State, indicated they were going to the WAC. Many experts suggested that this may be the end of the Southland as a division one league. However, last week a deal was reportedly arranged to keep McNeese in the Southland;
They've been convinced to stay (for now) in the Southland... with the following alleged bribes, er, stipulations:
* Starting in 2023, McNeese will host the men's and women's basketball tournaments as well as baseball and softball. For the next four years. With the right of first refusal on those tournaments indefinitely. In other words, Lake Charles is now the permanent host of those tournaments as long as McNeese is in the league.
* No exit fee if they leave for an FBS opportunity in the future.
Sounds like the league was really desperate to keep McNeese. The Southland's priority will still be looking for football ads. However, they do have UNO and Corpus Christi as nonfootball schools. I would assume we are talking them, the Ohio Valley, and the Atlantic Sun. Lake Charles is slightly closer to LR, than New Orleans, so I pretty used to making that 7 hour drive. It is certainly closer than Pensacola.
They've been convinced to stay (for now) in the Southland... with the following alleged bribes, er, stipulations:
* Starting in 2023, McNeese will host the men's and women's basketball tournaments as well as baseball and softball. For the next four years. With the right of first refusal on those tournaments indefinitely. In other words, Lake Charles is now the permanent host of those tournaments as long as McNeese is in the league.
* No exit fee if they leave for an FBS opportunity in the future.
Sounds like the league was really desperate to keep McNeese. The Southland's priority will still be looking for football ads. However, they do have UNO and Corpus Christi as nonfootball schools. I would assume we are talking them, the Ohio Valley, and the Atlantic Sun. Lake Charles is slightly closer to LR, than New Orleans, so I pretty used to making that 7 hour drive. It is certainly closer than Pensacola.