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RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - lion1983 - 01-24-2020 11:22 PM (01-24-2020 11:15 PM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote:(01-24-2020 04:25 PM)Stugray2 Wrote: On NCAA AQ, I suspect what would happen is the NCAA would expand the first four to the first 8, adding 2 more conferences and 2 more at-large bids. Really, no more AQ spots will be added... The big South folds, gets absorbed by the ASUN and UAC. That's still the same amount of spots... nothing changes in terms of AQ spots. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - BePcr07 - 01-24-2020 11:24 PM (01-24-2020 11:22 PM)lion1983 Wrote:(01-24-2020 11:15 PM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote:(01-24-2020 04:25 PM)Stugray2 Wrote: On NCAA AQ, I suspect what would happen is the NCAA would expand the first four to the first 8, adding 2 more conferences and 2 more at-large bids. They’ll consider options like adding play-in games RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - Fighting Muskie - 01-24-2020 11:25 PM Looking at things from the FCS angle: The combined 21 schools of the Big South and A-Sun can only count 6 FCS scholarship football teams among them and neither conference’s non-fb components are willing to expand to help out the football playing minority. The plan for the UAC is that they will recruit a block of at least 3 schools that will play scholarship FCS football. The UAC will then let at a minimum, Kenn St, but possibly Charleston Southern, Gardner-Webb, Hampton, and Campbell as well, be admitted as fb affiliates. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - BruceMcF - 01-24-2020 11:31 PM (01-24-2020 02:58 PM)solohawks Wrote:(01-24-2020 02:18 PM)lion1983 Wrote: So after more digging with a different UNA person, there seems to be some confusion among officials about how this is going to happen (if it even does). It can be ... a whole lot of "ors" in the multi-sport conference bylaw. Quote: 20.02.5.2 Sports Sponsorship. A multisport conference shall satisfy the following requirements: (Adopted: 1/15/11, effective 8/1/11) So if they sponsor basketball, football AND two other team sports, the "six members shall sponsor five other sports, including ... two additional team sports" can apply, even if FCS falls short of six full members and is made up with affiliates. I presume those two sports would be baseball and soccer (noting that meeting the women's team sports requirement isn't going to be a constraint). Quote: For Kennesaw this amounts to moving their football team from Big South to UAC while doing a whole lotta mess to play with the same schools under the same name for Olympic sports Yeah, seems a lot of wheel spinning and very little benefit to Kennesaw. More like trying to set it up so they don't fight hard against it. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - lion1983 - 01-25-2020 12:02 AM (01-24-2020 11:31 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:For Kennesaw, they have to be part of the Core 7 for this to work. They may very well move to the UAC as a full member once everything is done. That would be a bet I would take.(01-24-2020 02:58 PM)solohawks Wrote:(01-24-2020 02:18 PM)lion1983 Wrote: So after more digging with a different UNA person, there seems to be some confusion among officials about how this is going to happen (if it even does). RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - IWokeUpLikeThis - 01-25-2020 12:30 AM (01-24-2020 11:15 PM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote:(01-24-2020 04:25 PM)Stugray2 Wrote: On NCAA AQ, I suspect what would happen is the NCAA would expand the first four to the first 8, adding 2 more conferences and 2 more at-large bids. They will take up the ACC proposal creating a 2nd Dayton site. So it’ll be something like: Tuesday & Wednesday 6:40pm Dayton TruTV 7:40pm Albuquerque CBSSN 9:10pm Dayton TruTV 10:10pm Albuquerque CBSSN It should be in the Palestra but it’ll be a western clone of Dayton. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - DavidSt - 01-25-2020 04:36 AM Here is the problem here. 1.No one from the Big South will leave. 2.No school from OVC will downgrade to this new conference. 3.No FBS schools will join. 4.Monmouth and Robert Morris will not join the southern schools. 5.Southland nor Tarleton State will join this mess. 6.Only schools that may jump would be MEAC schools which would not make 20. 7.No one from the MAAC will join. 8.For Stetson to go scholarship football? They need more football schools in the Southeast. 9.No Southern Conference schools will join. 10.Gulf South Conference, Peach Belt and Sunshine D2 conferences will be the ones filling up the 20 schools. The D2 football schools among the MEAC would get Stetson, UNF and FCGU to have scholarship football. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - BruceMcF - 01-25-2020 04:52 AM (01-24-2020 11:24 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:(01-24-2020 11:22 PM)lion1983 Wrote: Really, no more AQ spots will be added... And that consideration will persuade them to make sure that no more AQ spots are added. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - Yosef Himself - 01-25-2020 09:54 AM (01-25-2020 04:36 AM)DavidSt Wrote: Here is the problem here.I agree with David 100% that no Big South school will join Also, the Big South, as a conference, has zero incentive to drop football, like I said on page 1/2. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - lion1983 - 01-25-2020 10:01 AM (01-25-2020 09:54 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:(01-25-2020 04:36 AM)DavidSt Wrote: Here is the problem here.I agree with David 100% that no Big South school will join Except for the fact that the Big South is already planning to shut down. There will be no more Big South.... RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - johnbragg - 01-25-2020 10:12 AM (01-25-2020 10:01 AM)lion1983 Wrote:(01-25-2020 09:54 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:(01-25-2020 04:36 AM)DavidSt Wrote: Here is the problem here.I agree with David 100% that no Big South school will join And why exactly are they going to shut down? EDIT: And if, for some reason, the Big South is going to shut down, why not just use the existing Big South--which already has an autobid--as the shell conference, rather than try to get an autobid for the "United Athletic Conference"? RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - Yosef Himself - 01-25-2020 10:20 AM Lol. Okay RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - Scoochpooch1 - 01-25-2020 10:40 AM (01-25-2020 12:30 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:(01-24-2020 11:15 PM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote:(01-24-2020 04:25 PM)Stugray2 Wrote: On NCAA AQ, I suspect what would happen is the NCAA would expand the first four to the first 8, adding 2 more conferences and 2 more at-large bids. Oh, I hadn't heard this. Do you have a link per chance? RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - North Ala Supporter - 01-25-2020 10:59 AM Yes, very confusing! I’m looking and waiting for an Announcement from the Big South. From posting on this forum and the North Alabama forum its seems that it could be a merger of the two conferences. The ASUN currently will have 10 schools, and wants 20 by 2023. By adding the Big South that would be 21 not 20. In both Conferences there are now a total of 13 non -playing scholarship football schools. What are the options of the 3 schools that will not be included? Southern Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Ohio Valley. Does the Big South football playing schools have an option to go elsewhere? What would be the chances of them getting an invite from another conference? (Personally, I prefer that North Alabama not be in a Conference with those schools for football or any sport.) I’m listing 9 FCS below of which I would like to see at least 6 invited. UT - Chattanooga, James Madison, Eastern Kentucky, Murray State, Jacksonville State, Delaware, Stoney Brook, Albany, Youngstown State. Those schools would be beneficial to Liberty and Bellarmine. Then after it becomes a multi sport’s division of the ASUN, why would they want to be a division of the ASUN. Why not a completely New Conference with a Commissioner and staff. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - johnbragg - 01-25-2020 11:22 AM (01-23-2020 09:50 AM)lion1983 Wrote:(01-23-2020 08:14 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote: There's no incentive for the five Big South schools to go along with that. So who gains anything by the change? Quote:If the ASUN pulls out, the Big South losses any power and an AQ spot in the FCS playoffs. And so do North Alabama and Kennesaw State, along with the 4 Big South football schools (And Monmouth). Quote:This just changes the name, and puts any votes on equal terms. Most of the Big South does not play football. Most of the ASUN does not play football. And only 2 ASUN 2020-21 schools play scholarship FCS football. Quote:Monmouth is just a football only member. The Big South would then just concentrate on non football sports and everyone is happy. How is that so hard to understand? What's hard to understand is what the point of all this is. Who gains anything out of all this movement? If the end goal is for the Atlantic Sun to bring up a few Division II football schools and create an FCS football league replacing the Big South FCS conference, under NCAA rules you can just do that with a 2 year waiting period. (You might not even have the 2 year waiting period--I think the old continuity-by-school rules still apply for single-sport conferences.) Bring up University of West Oklabama and Panhandle State College with their football teams, pull out of the ASUN-Big South agreement, start football under the ASUN banner and invite the 4 Big South football schools (with or without Monmouth). ASUN has 12 teams for basketball. Simple. "Invite 10 schools into the ASUN so that 7-10 of the existing ASUN schools can leave and form a new conference" is not simple. It's unnecessarily complicated. Unnecessary complication is usually a cover for an ulterior motive. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - MissouriStateBears - 01-25-2020 01:20 PM I think you are seeing a deal where the ASUN and Big South are tired of losing members for football reasons. This gives those leagues a viable all-sports league for their membership and where their members would be fairly stable. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - DavidSt - 01-25-2020 01:57 PM Big South should invite North Greenville and UNC-Pembroke. Those two and either West Chester or Indiana PA could get the Big South to 6 football members. UNC-Pembroke have more students enrolled UNC-Ashville. A-Sun should go after Florida Tech, West Florida, Bethune-Cookman, Florida A&M, South Carolina State, Valdosta State, West Alabama and Delta State. They could grab Union Tenn. who is looking at football. Augusta and Columbus State along with Lincoln Memorial and Francis Marion for non-football. Big South football: Monmouth UNC-Pembroke Campbell Gardner-Webb North Greenville Hampton Charleston Southern North Carolina A&T UNC Central Howard West Chester/Indiana PA. You could actually invite Monmouth full member then. You could split the conference north/south with 9 schools a piece. North Carolina A&T could go FBS, and some private football schools could join Southern Conference in the future. A-Sun's new 20 team conference that splits into two: A-Sun: Liberty NJIT Bellarmine Union, Tenn. UAH FGCU Jacksonville N. Florida Stetson Augusta Columbus State Tampa Nova Southeaster North Georgia UAC all sports football: SOUTH Carolina State Kennesaw State North Alabama West Georgia Valdosta State Bethune-Cookman Florida A&M Florida Tech Delta State (could go to the Southland Conference split.) Mississippi College (could go with Delta State.) West Alabama West Florida FGCU, North Florida, Union and Columbus State could join UAC as full member if they add football. There are some more non-football schools in Florida and Georgia that could go to the ASun. Kennesaw State would be a temp to established the new conference and go back to the football schools. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - BruceMcF - 01-25-2020 10:44 PM (01-25-2020 11:22 AM)johnbragg Wrote: ... If the end goal is for the Atlantic Sun to bring up a few Division II football schools and create an FCS football league replacing the Big South FCS conference, under NCAA rules you can just do that with a 2 year waiting period. (You might not even have the 2 year waiting period--I think the old continuity-by-school rules still apply for single-sport conferences.) It's two years by school for single sport conferences sponsored by less than 50% of Division 1 members: Quote: 31.3.4.4.2 Single-Sport Conference. FCS Football is obviously under the 50% bar. It looks like the "ASUN Loophole" was imagined by someone who read the automatic qualification terms in Article 31 and never bothered to read what it takes to be considered a multi-sports conference. In non-basketball: Quote: 31.3.4.4.1 Multisport Conference. If you read that and don't follow up on what 20.02.5 says, you might get the idea that it works the way that allows the imagined ASUN Loophole. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - Fighting Muskie - 01-25-2020 11:01 PM The 4 FCS scholarship Big South schools have a great geographic set up for Olympic sports. I see them as only wanting to be football affiliates to the UAC if at all possible. If push came to shove and they could the right combination of schools in the UAC then perhaps they’d leave that security for this experiment but I see them taking a conservative approach and staying put unless it becomes absolutely necessary. RE: ASun Committed to Expansion - lion1983 - 01-25-2020 11:51 PM (01-25-2020 11:01 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: The 4 FCS scholarship Big South schools have a great geographic set up for Olympic sports. I see them as only wanting to be football affiliates to the UAC if at all possible. If push came to shove and they could the right combination of schools in the UAC then perhaps they’d leave that security for this experiment but I see them taking a conservative approach and staying put unless it becomes absolutely necessary. Makes sense... |