(06-29-2020 06:08 PM)NoDak Wrote: The ASUN being blocked from forming a new league had all kinds of
repercussions in the region. The ASUN lost its factor in determining who new FBS teams will be but will still have vast influence.
Some MEAC schools will now get their chance, mainly Howard,.Hampton, NC AT, and FAMU.
The ASUN has rights over a division of the Big South Football league. It will add Tenn- Chatty and Jacksonville St. It will.also add JMU, Delaware, and Stony Brooke. It will have the right to NC AT, Howard, and Hampton. SC St will probably have their rights owned the the Big South.
So the initial class of FBS ASUn would be Jacksonville St, UTC, Kennesaw St, Hampton, NC AT, Howard, Delaware, JMU, Stony Brooke. Liberty waiting in the wings with Famu and more could be added like EKU, Albany, UNH etc.
Later, UNA, UNF, FGCU would get their chance in FBS if they wanted it.
Couple things:
1. The ASUN does not want to have a FBS conference. They want an FCS conference. They are trying to put together continuance using some Big South football schools to form their own FCS conference in the future.
2. The ASUN wants this league to be a Southern region focused, bus travel league.
3. Why would these schools trade the convenience and cost savings of bus travel for a league that stretches up and down the East Coast from New York/New Hampshire to Florida?
4. Hampton, NC A&T, and FAMU are all moving to new conferences; why would they exit these conferences and move to this startup?
5. Liberty seems to be enjoying their FBS Independence. Why would they move down to FCS for this conference?
6. Let's say for the sake of argument, that the ASUN is starting an FCS conference to
eventually move the conference as a whole to the FBS level. Why would the P5 and G5 conferences agree to share their pie with another conference? And even if they did or the ASUN sued to get in, how many years in the future would that be? Would that timeline be acceptable for schools that are looking for a sooner move up?
7. It is spelled "Stony Brook" not "Stony Brooke." Stony Brook is a State University in NY; Stony Brooke was my buddy's ex gf in college that was always high.
8. What is the criteria of schools looking to move up? Some of these schools don't have the infrastructure, the on field success, the fan/administration support, the budget capabilities, or any combination of the aforementioned to support a move to FBS from FCS. Two of the schools you mentioned don't even have football, and I don't believe they are interested in adding it.