(03-30-2013 11:04 AM)Ragu Wrote: (03-30-2013 09:33 AM)Crump1 Wrote: (03-30-2013 08:47 AM)Ragu Wrote: (03-29-2013 08:32 PM)GSU Eagles Wrote: (03-29-2013 05:28 PM)Ragu Wrote: Did you really just say that Georgia Southern is more successful than any FCS or FBS team. Really? Do you not realize the huge difference between FCS and FBS level football? FAU made the final 4 in FCS in their 4th year of starting football from scratch.
Georgia Southern isn't even close to the top echelon in FBS now or anytime in the past. You are on crack if you really think as you type.
Is there another program in division 1 that has more national titles and title game appearances over the last 30 years? Go ahead and educate me if I said something factually incorrect.
So playing FCS competition is the same as playing FBS competition now?
Now I know not to take anything seriously from you. You obviously are not very knowledgeable about the huge difference between FCS and FBS football.
Yeah, Ga So is no Wagner...
Wouldn't put it past you or other Sun Belt fans for thinking that though. You guys are some of the more delusional fans on these boards.
Our level of anti-FCS bias is probably lower than many.
There was a lot of laughter about FIU/FAU for a while but it didn't take that long before they transitioned and were serious competitors.
WKU was the laughing stock for a little while but daayumm they blew up and that's over.
Troy. They did ok.
USA has a good transition going. Texas State has a good transition going.
App State and Georgia Southern have just as much opportunity, maybe more, of blowing up and making noise in a relatively short time frame.
I think we can say the same of ODU.
UTSA is playing to its strengths at the moment and may have a non-traditional transition route. I can't say that it is a bad way for them to go. If it works, they will take off and be a player.
It's true we don't know anything about Charlotte yet.
Georgia State is the one that is questionable at the moment and that has nothing to do with their FCS status and has more to do with geography and structural things that would apply regardless.
Over the years I've learned that there is nothing inherent in being an FCS move-up that causes you long-term problems. The determining factor is how your transition strategy matches your strengths/weaknesses and how well you implement it.
I'm thinking that Georgia Southern's main problem may be that they are so wedded to past success that they just try to carry it forward into FBS without developing a real FBS strategy. That would be a recipe for disaster.