(01-01-2013 12:47 PM)GreenMississippi Wrote: If we didn't jump the gun and invite FIU, FAU, La Tech, UNT, UTSA, and MTSU (6); we would have 8 schools and be in position to reabsorb the remnants of the Big East. We did not anticipate the collapse, and that in the end has turned C*USA into the Belt.
So C-USA didn't really need what will soon be the USA's #4 ranked TV market with the one school that has the largest Texas-based DFW area constituency (even over UT and TAMU) in it at all? SMU never wants to be in bed with us because our UNT System surrounds their limited little private school domain in almost every direction in the DFW Metroplex and they don't want to compete with any of that ever (no matter what other lame brain excuses they give with all their forever class warfare and "we rich--they po' distinctions). Fact is, SMU has a completetly different mission than schools like UNT, UTEP, UTSA, UT, TAMU, Texas Texas, UH, etc, etc, etc,
Yet I thought that the Big East started all their own expansions last year with schools that came from very large TV markets so....has that now changed?:)
I assure you that TV markets will still reign as king when all the dust settles with this among the Group of 5 no matter what and no matter what year or decade.
SMU and UH can dance all over the "we want to be in this conference" or "we want to be in that conference" NCAA map till the cows come home,
but just watch a school from CUSA pull a "Northern Illinois" while those 2 Texas schools continue their "search for some version of the NCAA holy grail."
Hint to UH and SMU: You ain't going to find your holy grail in the Group of 5 in any way you mix it.......sorry, but TCU found your holy grail first.
GMG!