(04-13-2017 01:04 PM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(04-13-2017 10:50 AM)MT FAN Wrote:  We don't need to realign with the Sun Belt or by geography. The fact is we have too many teams in this conference. It is no longer advantageous to have as many teams as we do, in fact it puts us at a disadvantage. What we need to do is cut the dead weight and we instantly have a better conference. We saw what having so many bad teams did to our conference RPI in basketball this past season same for football as well. Are top teams are not the problem. It's the numerous bottom dwellers that are. My loyalty is to MT not CUSA and not to other programs in CUSA just because we happen to share a conference at the moment. Every school should have this same mindset. So, once we meet the 5 years together or whatever it is to keep an automatic bid MT, Marshall, Western KY, La Tech, Southern Miss, UAB, ODU, Rice, and Charlotte need to split away and form a new conference. This solves our problem. If we lose members in the future we can add the best Sun Belt teams if needed.

That would be a fine conference but I don't think you would get Rice or LT. I also think that Marshall, being the best football brand name in the 7, would insist on having at least one, if not both, of the Florida schools since they recruit so heavily there.

Yeah, there's no way anyone goes along with that. It makes our current situation worse, not better.