(07-17-2017 07:01 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 01:52 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 11:53 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 10:05 AM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  IMO, the solution is not to expand CUSA, but divide CUSA and the SBC into Eastern and Western based all sports conferences.

CUSA

Marshall
MT
WKU
ODU
UAB
Charlotte
App State
GA State
GA Southern
CCU
FAU
FIU

SBC

Ark State
LA Tech
N. Texas
Louisiana
USM
USA
Troy
Rice
Texas State
UTSA
UTEP
NMSU

Maybe switch the names. In the unlikely event that such an exchange of schools is going to happen, C-USA will probably want to keep their Texas schools.

Also, nobody will want NMSU when they already have UTEP.

C-USA
East: Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss, Troy, UAB, ULL, ULM
West: Arkansas State, North Texas, Rice, Texas State, UTEP, UTSA

Sun Belt
North: Appalachian State, Charlotte, Marshall, MTSU, ODU, WKU
South: Coastal Carolina, FAU, FIU, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, South Alabama

Remove La.-Monroe and New Mexico State, or that idea will not happen. If Little Rock and UTA re-starts football? They will take those places.
La.-Monroe and New Mexico State and could wind up being Independents. If Chattanooga goes FBS, they want to bring East Tennessee State with them.
James Madison could slip in there somewhere, and so would Stony Brook. If North Florida adds football? They are a school that the Sun Belt have been looking to add. You might wind up forming a third FBS conference out of those two and with the top FCS schools in the area.

Could there be an underlying reason the Sunbelt has considered moving their offices to Chattanooga?

I doubt it. The Atlantic 10 moved its offices from Philly to Newport News a few years ago, but Christopher Newport hasn't jumped there from D3. It's probably just a proximity thing.