Huan
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:23 PM)Bogg Wrote: (11-01-2021 08:16 PM)GoBuckeyes1047 Wrote: If JSU is joining, I would think Eastern Kentucky isn't too far behind. Would Chattanooga also join to build a solid east division? Also gotta think another TX school (ACU or SFA) for the west to get to 10 assuming Missouri St. is out and MT/WKU to the MAC.
It would be very funny if CUSA responded to the anticipated MTSU/WKU moves by creating new in-state FBS recruiting competition for both. Wouldn't stop decision that the two ultimately make, but still funny.
Wku and mtsu likely were aware of the candidates because they haven’t left yet. If there were in state applicants, and they were blocked, thee applicants will be reconsidered after wku and mtsu leave.
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PicksUp
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:11 PM)Bogg Wrote: Oh yeah? Instead of departing teams somehow managing to vote to dissolve the conference, the most obvious potential outcome happened instead?
Thats not how this works, thats not how any of this works.
So many of guys pretend to know how these things work. Really…
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Blue_Trombone
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:27 PM)PicksUp Wrote: (11-01-2021 08:11 PM)Bogg Wrote: Oh yeah? Instead of departing teams somehow managing to vote to dissolve the conference, the most obvious potential outcome happened instead?
Thats not how this works, thats not how any of this works.
So many of guys pretend to know how these things work. Really…
He agrees with you. He's making fun of the countless pointless speculation that C-USA would dissolve, when it would only help the teams leaving. Anyone who knows how this stuff works knows that was never going to happen. But unfortunately a lot of the people here didn't actually care what UTEP/LT/FIU would think about the situation, or care enough to know the actual rules.
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
If true, this gives C-USA some breathing room. They probably need another 3 to be safe.
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Bogg
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:27 PM)PicksUp Wrote: (11-01-2021 08:11 PM)Bogg Wrote: Oh yeah? Instead of departing teams somehow managing to vote to dissolve the conference, the most obvious potential outcome happened instead?
Thats not how this works, thats not how any of this works.
So many of guys pretend to know how these things work. Really…
The funniest thing about the "dissolve the conference" schemes is that the AAC almost certainly wouldn't allow their new members in until their own departing schools left, so the 6 AAC-bound schools would be voting to make themselves all-sports independents for a season.
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11-01-2021 08:32 PM |
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:15 PM)bullet Wrote: (11-01-2021 08:14 PM)jarmzet Wrote: (11-01-2021 08:11 PM)Bogg Wrote: Oh yeah? Instead of departing teams somehow managing to vote to dissolve the conference, the most obvious potential outcome happened instead?
This has been said a million times, but departing members don't get a vote in conference matters after they declare they are leaving.
If everybody leaves, who gets to vote?
Who gets the money? Lol
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:05 PM)RamblinRedWolf Wrote: https://twitter.com/brett_mcmurphy/statu...60804?s=21
Good on 'em. I didn't think Liberty would be in C-USA, but it's a strong add. I don't think the call-ups from FCS are finished though—clearly not if the stories about WKU & MTSU to the MAC are true.
I'm really, really hoping that EKU is one of those teams.
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:06 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:
@LaTech, maybe being in a league with ULL and ULM isn't so bad after all
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
UMass Football only?
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
This seems to be eluding some, and not to step on any toes, but for what it's worth...
If programs exit by Aug 2023... and that may or may not be practical... CUSA football won't technically exist for that season unless they are able to coax all 5 FBS indys to join, making 8. The FCS schools they may add shortly will be meeting the annual June deadline for application to move up, and the NCAA manual explicitly says they cannot be reclassified until the August two years after that deadline... meaning, August 2024.
(Someone raised the fact that the manual also allows for an exception, but that exception also is explicit to one situation, ie, that a given school that had been FBS would fail to meet the requirements for the number of sports sponsored.)
That said, CUSA as a full-fledged FBS football conference still would be able to return for 2024... as far as I've been able to find, anyhow, there is no football penalty for skipping a year.
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11-01-2021 08:42 PM |
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:13 PM)bullet Wrote: Alabama and Texas are really over-saturated with FBS teams. Sam and Jax have real low ceilings.
Raining on our small and infrequent parades is frowned upon. Personally I'm happy we have started to see the rebuild although I'll refrain from calling it build back better.
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11-01-2021 08:44 PM |
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:19 PM)shizzle787 Wrote: I assume this means WKU and MTSU are leaving. If so, they are up to 7 members. They still need one more all sports member. Who could it be?
Have to think 3-5 schools out some of the other ASUN FCS institutions - Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, North Alabama, Austin Peay, and Kennesaw State - followed by Missouri State, another WAC Texas school, Chattanooga, and maybe UMass FB-only.
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11-01-2021 08:46 PM |
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:42 PM)_sturt_ Wrote: This seems to be eluding some, and not to step on any toes, but for what it's worth...
If programs exit by Aug 2023... and that may or may not be practical... CUSA football won't technically exist for that season unless they are able to coax all 5 FBS indys to join, making 8. The FCS schools they may add shortly will be meeting the annual June deadline for application to move up, and the NCAA manual explicitly says they cannot be reclassified until the August two years after that deadline... meaning, August 2024.
(Someone raised the fact that the manual also allows for an exception, but that exception also is explicit to one situation, ie, that a given school that had been FBS would fail to meet the requirements for the number of sports sponsored.)
That said, CUSA as a full-fledged FBS football conference still would be able to return for 2024... as far as I've been able to find, anyhow, there is no football penalty for skipping a year.
Uh, if they announce before July 1, 2022 this is their schedule:
2022: Transition year 1, FCS
2023: Transition year 2, FBS (not bowl eligible)
2024: Transition completed, full FBS
So if they announce before July 1, 2022 then they will be counted as an FBS game in 2023 and C-USA will still have football.
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
I am happy New Mexico State found a conference. I hope WKU & MTSU stay.
(This post was last modified: 11-01-2021 08:50 PM by AuzGrams.)
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:42 PM)_sturt_ Wrote: This seems to be eluding some, and not to step on any toes, but for what it's worth...
If programs exit by Aug 2023... and that may or may not be practical... CUSA football won't technically exist for that season unless they are able to coax all 5 FBS indys to join, making 8. The FCS schools they may add shortly will be meeting the annual June deadline for application to move up, and the NCAA manual explicitly says they cannot be reclassified until the August two years after that deadline... meaning, August 2024.
(Someone raised the fact that the manual also allows for an exception, but that exception also is explicit to one situation, ie, that a given school that had been FBS would fail to meet the requirements for the number of sports sponsored.)
That said, CUSA as a full-fledged FBS football conference still would be able to return for 2024... as far as I've been able to find, anyhow, there is no football penalty for skipping a year.
Ncaa waivers have been used for membership issues before. This situation is different but the SBC had a similar situation around 2013 or so.
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Huan
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:42 PM)_sturt_ Wrote: This seems to be eluding some, and not to step on any toes, but for what it's worth...
If programs exit by Aug 2023... and that may or may not be practical... CUSA football won't technically exist for that season unless they are able to coax all 5 FBS indys to join, making 8. The FCS schools they may add shortly will be meeting the annual June deadline for application to move up, and the NCAA manual explicitly says they cannot be reclassified until the August two years after that deadline... meaning, August 2024.
(Someone raised the fact that the manual also allows for an exception, but that exception also is explicit to one situation, ie, that a given school that had been FBS would fail to meet the requirements for the number of sports sponsored.)
That said, CUSA as a full-fledged FBS football conference still would be able to return for 2024... as far as I've been able to find, anyhow, there is no football penalty for skipping a year.
If all the departing programs leave after 22 and all the new programs start in 23 and they have less than 8 fbs, the 2 years grace period starts and last till the 25 season. CUSA should be compliant then.
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
(11-01-2021 08:42 PM)_sturt_ Wrote: This seems to be eluding some, and not to step on any toes, but for what it's worth...
If programs exit by Aug 2023... and that may or may not be practical... CUSA football won't technically exist for that season unless they are able to coax all 5 FBS indys to join, making 8. The FCS schools they may add shortly will be meeting the annual June deadline for application to move up, and the NCAA manual explicitly says they cannot be reclassified until the August two years after that deadline... meaning, August 2024.
(Someone raised the fact that the manual also allows for an exception, but that exception also is explicit to one situation, ie, that a given school that had been FBS would fail to meet the requirements for the number of sports sponsored.)
That said, CUSA as a full-fledged FBS football conference still would be able to return for 2024... as far as I've been able to find, anyhow, there is no football penalty for skipping a year.
It seems like CUSA could get support for legislation for an additional exception/waiver from the Sun Belt and from the American if they are reasonable in negotiating the exit fees for the 11 departing schools.
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11-01-2021 08:50 PM |
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
If they need 8 members to formally survive, can they take the non-football schools from the Sun (ALR / UTA) and UMass / UConn as FB only?
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11-01-2021 08:59 PM |
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
So they do need at least one more full FB-playing member. They could also serve as a decent landing spot for UTA and UALR. Potential travel partners:
Jacksonville State/?
Little Rock/Louisiana Tech
New Mexico State/UTEP
Sam Houston/Texas-Arlington
And FIU/Liberty, I suppose, unless the 10th add is closer to either of them than to JSU.
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RE: Breaking: NMSu, Liberty, SHSU & Jax State to CUSA
If true - good for New Mexico St. They are a good BB program and near UTEP - makes so much sense.
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11-01-2021 09:00 PM |
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