(05-10-2020 07:52 PM)Itinerant Texan Wrote:  

(05-10-2020 07:10 PM)Trod0 Wrote:  

(05-10-2020 04:16 PM)Itinerant Texan Wrote:  

(05-10-2020 04:09 PM)Itinerant Texan Wrote:  [quote='Fighting Muskie' pid='16812588' dateline='1589140544']
The biggest stabilizing move would be 4 football playing schools from the Lone Star Conference.

Heck, take all 6 if they want to come up.

Getting NAU and S Utah to switch leagues wouldn’t be bad either.

You know, with the limited info we have to go by, I have to say this is the most plausible solution. The more we talk and dream about all the possible FCS/FBS scenarios, logic brings me back to this one. Raiding the Lone Star Conference of its plentiful D2 bounty is the most logical business model to bring instant stability to the WAC, albeit FCS. It solves alot of near-term problems, and provides a solid foundation on which to build whatever it might be in the future (FBS). Selfishly, I really want Tarleton to blaze its own trail out West, and maybe bring along a bitter rival or two. But as they say, the ties that bind..

And I do like the Southern Utah lateral move idea, just up the road from Dixie.

Raiding a D2 conference is not what you do when you hold a FBS ticket. The conference is already washed up with these crap schools wanting to move up. Adding more just makes it worse. Raid the FCS schools that want to be FBS. Let these FCS conference’s backfill with WNMU if they want. No more D2 schools that have dreams of going FCS. I know you new TS fans are use to that D2 lone star stuff but you don’t make a legit D1 conference with those guys.

Dude I'm all for a FBS WAC and Tarleton shooting their shot. I keep having to talk myself out of it when I look deeper into the feasabilty. Your AD mentioned it will likely be regional in scope. Please provide an 8-team (minimum) hypothetical football conference that makes sense from a geographical/financial standpoint. I'm all ears...

I honestly wouldn’t even know, especially the geographical part. Current FBS members would never make the jump. Current FCS members thinking of making the FBS jump aren’t really in the footprint. I guess if it was easy as us fans talk this situation would have been handled 10 years ago. But if we keep adding these D2 schools that have a dream we hurt out conference overall. If these D2 schools you guys talk about were so good they would have gotten sucked up by FCS conference’s already. The only reason you guys are here is because we need warm bodies as members have jumped ship.