it seems like most of the defectors have nothing better to do than bash conf usa. Not like they moved up to SEC or something. I think both conf's have chance to be good and improve I just dont understand the constant bashing by them.

(08-20-2013 11:20 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Faster does not equal better. Let's see what AAC does now.

I believe I see a little jealousy here...

I'm not jealous of anything C-USA did, I'm happy for you guys, but I'm flat out disgusted and furious at that lying piece of **** Aresco. He's a worthless piece of trash who does not deserve to be employed by a D2 league much less an FBS league. Karl Benson laughs in his general direction.

(08-21-2013 07:19 AM)goherd17 Wrote:  it seems like most of the defectors have nothing better to do than bash conf usa. Not like they moved up to SEC or something. I think both conf's have chance to be good and improve I just dont understand the constant bashing by them.

I thought the defectors were warned of the consequences of coming over here and trashing our conference?

No one is bashing CUSA in this thread. Stop trying to pick fights.

(08-21-2013 07:19 AM)goherd17 Wrote:  it seems like most of the defectors have nothing better to do than bash conf usa. Not like they moved up to SEC or something. I think both conf's have chance to be good and improve I just dont understand the constant bashing by them.

Agree here. And regardless of what happens with the next C-USA television contract, dollars for Rice, Marshall, UTEP, Southern Miss and UAB will not go down because of Banowsky's exit agreements with the AAC defectors.

(08-21-2013 07:27 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  No one is bashing CUSA in this thread. Stop trying to pick fights.

Exactly I think C-USA has done an amazing job, and Aresco should be tared and feathered. I believe C-USA is absolutely getting the max out of the assets it currently has and Aresco might be getting the least possible out of them.

(08-21-2013 05:24 AM)TU 1978 Wrote:  Bano forgot to mention the toilet bowl tie in.

Any bowl that features a cusa mac matchup deserves that title.

no this is not bashing at all.

(08-21-2013 07:36 AM)goherd17 Wrote:  

(08-21-2013 05:24 AM)TU 1978 Wrote:  Bano forgot to mention the toilet bowl tie in.

Any bowl that features a cusa mac matchup deserves that title.

no this is not bashing at all.

Sounds like a jab at the MAC to me.

(08-21-2013 07:07 AM)panicstricken Wrote:  I have no idea how he did it.

I wish CUSA 2.0 stuck together and picked off the last of the Big East + La Tech for a 16 team league.

I think that would have been the 12 C-USA schools + Cincy, UConn, Temple, and USF. Would have been a pretty decent conference, but what's done is done.

(08-20-2013 11:29 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  IMO you're wrong. We had 5 bowl tie-ins last season and 5 this season. Given what we lost, we did outstanding.

You got 14 teams now as well to keep happy, which means less BCS or whatever it's called money anyways. Stands to reason you would need the number of bowls you got. Does it even really matter at this point? Every team in America that is bowl eligible save maybe one or two Sun Belt or MAC schools will go to a bowl. That's gurenteed, and they have even added a couple more bowls to assure that. Having better matchups is the real key.

(08-21-2013 12:00 AM)HerdZoned Wrote:  The same way CUSA improved the TV contract when CUSA lost Cincy, USF and Louisville. The TV contact CUSA 1.0 had was 7.9 million or 890K per team from ESPN. The new TV contract with CUSA 2.0 was 14 million (7 million from Fox, 7 million from CSTV) or 1.17 million.

Inflation from the time the first deal was signed, more TV stations needing product, etc. This was not a surprise really.

(08-21-2013 07:57 AM)StillJonesing Wrote:  CUSA did an outstanding job and they are to be commended!!! There I said it.

We knew you would come around...lol

(08-20-2013 11:01 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  I'm not even crazy about bowls in general but honestly, I am utterly amazed at what Commish Bano was able to do today. You have got to give the man his props for this marvelous achievement.

I'll tell you how he did it.....he used a common sense approach.

1. Replaced departing schools by adding schools that actually increased the overall viewing audience.
2. Added schools with proven support and extremely high ceilings for success (UTSA,LA Tech, ODU, Charlotte, FAU, WKU etc)
3. Created regional rivalries and appeal while still being relevant in large metro areas
4. He has contacts and relationships in this business. Something Aresco currently doesn't have.

Our bowl setup is really sweet when you think about it. We have some great locations for bowl games. I dont think the MWC even has a better lineup than what we have.

Great job by Banowsky and CUSA!

(08-20-2013 11:11 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  He didn't improve them. They are worse than before. Before CUSA had 3 bowls against Aq teams (OBE, SEC, and B10) now they have one (shared HOD/AFB). CUSA did well but not better than old cycle. They simply announced them faster.

Given the collapse of the Big East into a new and seperate conference and the cobbeling of C-USA bowl games together, I think it would be hard to argue that AAC schools have not fallen harder and further than anyone during this realignment cycle. The 'poster boy' of loss during this cycle must be USF. USF and UCF are now literally peers where 18 months ago USF was sitting at the big boy table eating their fill and looking down their noses at the non-AQ's.

FAU is now hosting a bowl which will be on par with USF's local bowl and both FIU and FAU are playing football in a peer conference to the AAC. In five years there may be very little to tell these programs apart.

p.s. and don't forget about C-USA's agreement with FS1; our path is paved, now we execute.

(08-21-2013 05:24 AM)TU 1978 Wrote:  Bano forgot to mention the toilet bowl tie in.

Any bowl that features a cusa mac matchup deserves that title.

I'm not bashing the MAC here, but I have no interest in spending "going to the Bahamas" money to see us play a MAC team in a stadium where front row seats are still 20-30 yards from the sidelines because of that track.

I think it's awesome we're out in front by being a team playing a bowl in a place like the Bahamas - I just wish we were playing some AQ conference there.

(08-21-2013 05:24 AM)TU 1978 Wrote:  Bano forgot to mention the toilet bowl tie in.

Any bowl that features a cusa mac matchup deserves that title.

So Aslut has hit the BIG TIME to like EZWho. You will have the same access to everything you have right now after paying out close to 10 million dollars. And Tulsa left after they knew the BE had lost the orange bowl, lost the BCS money, lost the BCS status, lost the basketball only schools. The only thing they had at that time was the BE name, and now you don't even have that. Call me crazy if I think ECU, Tulane and ECU made a mistake.

(08-21-2013 07:32 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(08-21-2013 07:27 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  No one is bashing CUSA in this thread. Stop trying to pick fights.

Exactly I think C-USA has done an amazing job, and Aresco should be tared and feathered. I believe C-USA is absolutely getting the max out of the assets it currently has and Aresco might be getting the least possible out of them.

The old Big East schools have been saying the same thing for years. He oversaw the destruction of the entire conference. Your school knew what it was getting into.

(08-21-2013 10:35 AM)FIUFan Wrote:  

(08-20-2013 11:11 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  He didn't improve them. They are worse than before. Before CUSA had 3 bowls against Aq teams (OBE, SEC, and B10) now they have one (shared HOD/AFB). CUSA did well but not better than old cycle. They simply announced them faster.

Given the collapse of the Big East into a new and seperate conference and the cobbeling of C-USA bowl games together, I think it would be hard to argue that AAC schools have not fallen harder and further than anyone during this realignment cycle. The 'poster boy' of loss during this cycle must be USF. USF and UCF are now literally peers where 18 months ago USF was sitting at the big boy table eating their fill and looking down their noses at the non-AQ's.

FAU is now hosting a bowl which will be on par with USF's local bowl and both FIU and FAU are playing football in a peer conference to the AAC. In five years there may be very little to tell these programs apart.

p.s. and don't forget about C-USA's agreement with FS1; our path is paved, now we execute.

I like the enthusiasm, but I think it will be more than five years before you guys can close that gap, attendance being the most glaring reason.

(08-21-2013 11:50 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  I like the enthusiasm, but I think it will be more than five years before you guys can close that gap, attendance being the most glaring reason.

It's not about attendance anymore. It's about eyeballs and market size; large student populations to help foot the bill and build infrastructure doesn't hurt either. C-USA's first two invites (UNT and FIU) highlight this point. ESPN and football are driving realignment these days.

(08-21-2013 07:25 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  I'm not jealous of anything C-USA did, I'm happy for you guys, but I'm flat out disgusted and furious at that lying piece of **** Aresco. He's a worthless piece of trash who does not deserve to be employed by a D2 league much less an FBS league. Karl Benson laughs in his general direction.

It's sad when Karl Benson can laugh at your commish.