Aside from fans and alumni of your own school, how many fans do you really know, in real life, of other schools in the Sun Belt?

I, for one, only know two alumni (not fans) of two other schools. One is my wife's cousin who graduated from Georgia Southern four or so years ago. The other is another of my wife's cousins who just graduated from Coastal Carolina.

That's all I got.

Maybe fans of schools in the Gulf states run elbows with each other more than I seem to do in North Carolina.

This is the one thing I miss about the SoCon: knowing people who went to the other schools. I knew alumni from every SoCon school (circa 2012 membership) except for Samford and UTC. (Wife went to Elon. Brother to Charleston undergrad and The Citadel grad. Bro in law to UNCG. Sister in law to WCU. High school friends to Furman and Wofford. One time girlfriend to Davidson. Aforementioned wife's cousin to Ga. Southern.)

Of course I would never ever ever want App to go back. App has had tons of success in the SB, at a higher level of play. And the message board community serves a good purpose.

The other thing I will say is that while I am in favor of regional realignment, it would not necessarily mean people all of a sudden will know more folks who went to another slchool within their conference. Sure, I know some UNC Charlotte grads, but no one from Old Dominion or Marshall or WKU or MTSU or UAB or Southern Miss or FIU or FAU.