(09-01-2012 07:52 AM)mbelcher987 Wrote: (09-01-2012 07:45 AM)zeebart21 Wrote: (09-01-2012 06:23 AM)arkstfan Wrote: (09-01-2012 01:40 AM)Sultan of Euphonistan Wrote: And your commissioner is more worried about scheduling body bag games? I think it sounds like you have more pressing problems.
Remember though FAU was awful last year. They failed to win a single Sun Belt game and would have gone winless if they hadn't played a CUSA team.
MTSU likewise was awful. Playing FAU saved them from going winless in league play. They had already been saved from a winless season by playing a CUSA team.
Man, minus UH and UCF that cusa will be one weak sss conference..
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None of us have lost to an FCS team... You seem to forget USM won the conference last year. They are still with us. And the SBC is still stuck with MTSU and FAU.
You lost Houston, SMU, UCF, and football powerhouse Memphis.
You replaced them with:
FIU picked to win the league this year, but they were picked to win it last year also.
North Texas, God love 'em they are doing some good stuff but they've been a punching bag for the most part for the last 7 years.
La.Tech who balances each good year with a bad 2 or so and has a fan base that seems to be missing at times.
UTSA who has not played an FBS schedule and will not play an FBS schedule until next year.
Old Dominion never played an FBS schedule and will not play an FBS schedule until 2014 and left CUSA waiting in the living room until they were sure they wanted to come down for the date.
Charlotte who hasn't played a game in football.
You still have USM. But you don't have an SMU, Houston, or UCF to push them.
Remember when there was these two amazing football programs in Florida who made their own claim to national dominance over UF? They moved away from tough national schedules for the security and access of a conference. The problem is the easy path of playing some really easy conference games and not being pushed let them lose their edge. Success was easier to achieve and the quality of their teams suffered.
You have USM but the question is whether USM of 2016 will be as a good as USM of 2011 when winning CUSA is easier to achieve.
UTSA who has yet to play an FBS schedule (happens this year).