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RE: UConn's 2020 schedule almost complete
(12-27-2019 02:40 PM)Bogg Wrote: (12-27-2019 02:08 PM)oliveandblue Wrote: If this pans out for UConn, we might enter a post-conference era where we have 20 or more independents. There isn't enough money at the G5 level to justify conference affiliation unless you really feel at home in your conference.
Eh, I don't think it'll be some huge exodus because the flip side is that you need somewhere to actually go to. The MAC is compact and coherent enough to be protected from any of this sort of realignment, and the MW is the only game in town out west outside of the PAC, so unless Boise wants to try to load up on PAC/B12 schools BYU-style I don't see anyone coming out of there. The AAC has established itself well enough I don't see anyone jumping ship for a non-football conference that isn't the Big East, and that door's closed. You're basically looking at schools on the fringes of CUSA or the SB. Could ODU and/or Charlotte cast eyes at the A10? Maybe, but that's about it.
If there's growth in the number of independents, I think it comes from a single-digit number of FCS schools.
Agreed. You still need a place to park your olympic sports and not many schools have that readily available.
ODU and Charlotte back to the A10 with football as an independent is more viable than it was 5 years ago, but would either school benefit much from doing so?
What other schools would beneift from football independence?
It would be nice if independence became a viable option again, but I doubt many use it
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