(06-10-2017 03:53 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(06-10-2017 03:13 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  The C-USA and SBC schools, particularly LA Tech, need to just face the fact that they are all essentially playing at the same level and that they are better off working together, reorganizing their memberships to create an Eastern Conference and a Western one. The MAC has always been a regional conference with a tight conference footprint and things work just fine for them.

Both sides have a lot to gain in boosting paid attendence by facing more regional rivals and saving money in travel expenses

Has there ever been a case where two conferences worked together in such a manner? Why would we think it's going to happen now?

If you are going to try to form a new conference from these two, why not try to make the strongest conference? You could make a league with two geographically rational divisions that would arguably be more like the AAC and MWC, and clearly better than the MAC and the CUSA and SBC leftovers.

For example:

East: App State, Marshall, Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, Georgia Southern and Coastal Carolina.

West: Arkansas St, ULL, Troy, Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech and Rice.

Problem is that you have an eastern school in the west, and that is Troy. James Madison and Old Dominion are the better teams to go in the east instead of Coastal Carolina.