(07-13-2021 10:52 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(07-13-2021 08:19 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(07-11-2021 03:08 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(07-11-2021 02:17 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(07-11-2021 09:59 AM)dawgonit Wrote:  Sun Belt has done very well recently in football while CUSA has slipped. However when viewed through all athletics and not just football, CUSA is the better conference. The name recognition and academics of schools in CUSA are better too. The question of moving from the Sun Belt to CUSA is if the separation is big enough to warrant such a gamble. App State is doing fine in the belt and maybe they see the step up to CUSA as not being enough and a gamble. Basically, it doesn't seem to be THAT much greener on the other side, why make the change. There's an argument to be made there that I understand. But overall CUSA is the better athletic conference.

Again, we don't see CUSA as a step up.

Your school president might disagree with you. You know realignment is more than football, right?

Yup.... It's also about financial security and we're far better off in the SB than CUSA.

No, you’re not.

C-USA has bigger budgets, schools ranked higher academically, better facilities, more home and home games against P5 schools (and P6 in basketball), a core of basketball schools with multiple NCAAs, it’s a better baseball league and the Olympic sports are better too (Marshall just won the men’s soccer national championship). Those are things school presidents consider when it comes to realignment not just “we’ve been better in football in two of the last 20 seasons so we’ll stay where we are”.

Personally, I’m against adding more schools regardless if they’re FBS or FCS or even worse, swap schools with the Sun Belt. C-USA needs to focus on what they have. The potential is there but sadly mediocrity has been the standard since the 2.0 days.