(10-18-2021 07:26 PM)JMaddy Wrote:  My only concern is CUSA makes a play for and gets App St, GaSt, GaSo and CCU and calls it a day. That would be a scenario that would make the CUSA strong and also make the SBC worthless to us in a single move. The only hope then would be for La Tech and So Miss to go to the SBC thus potentially opening up two more slots.

Its not all a done deal yet but so far this is promising.

(10-18-2021 08:07 PM)JMU2004 Wrote:  I think USM and Marshall will now join the SBC.

Truthfully, I’m now very concerned that JMU will have zero appetite for what’s left of CUSA.

(10-18-2021 08:07 PM)JMU2004 Wrote:  I think USM and Marshall will now join the SBC.

Truthfully, I’m now very concerned that JMU will have zero appetite for what’s left of CUSA.

(10-18-2021 08:38 PM)Duke Dawg Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 08:07 PM)JMU2004 Wrote:  I think USM and Marshall will now join the SBC.

Truthfully, I’m now very concerned that JMU will have zero appetite for what’s left of CUSA.

As we should. It would be terrible.

(10-18-2021 08:26 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Some of you guys don t get it- no Belt team is leaving For CUSA. All 10 Belt football teams are firmly committed to the league and ESPN is backing the Belt. USM is joining and so is Marshall.

(10-18-2021 08:38 PM)Anders Wrote:  

So with the invites that are being sent for the AAC this is the current landscape right?

Edit: Updated, thank you olddawg

(10-18-2021 07:29 PM)JMU1985 Wrote:  These schools could have also sent applications to other conferences, right? Could Charlotte be playing the field and put in applications to the Sun Belt also? Could Charlotte wait and see what happens before they leave CUSA?

(10-18-2021 06:43 PM)CarRamrod Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 06:38 PM)bridgeforthduke Wrote:  Will be interesting to see if it's Sun Belt or CUSA for JMU. CUSA can try to focus as more of an Eastern regional conference now.

CUSA is going to have an influx of cash from all these exit fees. People are saying CUSA is dead, but it seems to me they have a real opportunity to build something interesting if they do this right. Keeping Marshall is probably the most important part, and if JMU is added with another school nearby, I think Marshall is pretty happy. Also, most of the good football is still in CUSA, 4 of the 6 that are leaving are bad and have been bad for a while. Heck, go call up Temple and see how this is going over. Based on their Presidents comments, I can't believe they are at all excited about these adds.

(10-18-2021 09:48 PM)DoubleDogDare Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 06:43 PM)CarRamrod Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 06:38 PM)bridgeforthduke Wrote:  Will be interesting to see if it's Sun Belt or CUSA for JMU. CUSA can try to focus as more of an Eastern regional conference now.

CUSA is going to have an influx of cash from all these exit fees. People are saying CUSA is dead, but it seems to me they have a real opportunity to build something interesting if they do this right. Keeping Marshall is probably the most important part, and if JMU is added with another school nearby, I think Marshall is pretty happy. Also, most of the good football is still in CUSA, 4 of the 6 that are leaving are bad and have been bad for a while. Heck, go call up Temple and see how this is going over. Based on their Presidents comments, I can't believe they are at all excited about these adds.

Am I reading that wrong or am I looking at the CUSA results wrong? I get that it is one year, heck it's actually just half a season, but there are 6 CUSA teams currently >= .500. 4 of those teams are gone. The teams leaving are a combined 22-16, while those remaining are 19-33. North Texas is the only school leaving that has lost to a CUSA school being left behind, the other 5 teams haven't lost to any of the 8 schools staying.

Of the 8 CUSA schools remaining, their OOC records against FBS schools is 3-20 with Marshall beating Navy (1-5 vs FBS) and UTEP beating New Mexico State (0-5 excl. FCS and NM) and New Mexico (0-5 excl. FCS and NM State). The three OOC FBS wins by the remaining CUSA teams are against teams a combined 1-15.

To state the current season results in a different way, 75% of the remaining CUSA teams don't have a SINGLE FBS win midway through the season.

2020 was weird, but 3 of the 4 teams that finished over .500 are gone: FAU (5-4), UAB (6-3), and UTSA (7-5) are leaving and only Marshall (7-3) remains. So again, looks like the majority of the good teams are leaving.

2019 had 7 teams over .500 and 3 of those are gone. Before we all say that the AAC is taking the bad teams, the bottom feeders from that year were 1-11 ODU and 1-11 UTEP, who are staying in CUSA.

So I'm not sure how most of the good remains. You'd have to go back to 2019 season to even start that argument and that argument pretty much ends with the fact that 25% of the CUSA teams remaining didn't have a single FBS win in 2019.

(10-18-2021 09:17 PM)s2dsayer Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 08:38 PM)Anders Wrote:  

So with the invites that are being sent for the AAC this is the current landscape right?

Edit: Updated, thank you olddawg

If the AAC adds become official, CUSA and SB need to quit screwing around and pull the trigger on the Big Swap. Waive all exit fees.

Combine the two East divisions into a conference, add JMU.

Combine the two West divisions into the second conference.

Move Troy from the East to West.

East would have 10, nicely regionalized.

West would have 9, nicely regionalized.

Easy peasy, let's git 'ur done!

(10-18-2021 10:23 PM)JMURocks Wrote:  Have a feeling UMass, UConn and Liberty may come into the picture. CUSA will need more schools to join for survival, especially if SBC is able to poach Marshall and USM.