(02-06-2020 11:58 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(01-25-2020 10:01 AM)lion1983 Wrote:  

(01-25-2020 09:54 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(01-25-2020 04:36 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Here is the problem here.
1.No one from the Big South will leave.
2.No school from OVC will downgrade to this new conference.
3.No FBS schools will join.
4.Monmouth and Robert Morris will not join the southern schools.
5.Southland nor Tarleton State will join this mess.
6.Only schools that may jump would be MEAC schools which would not make 20.
7.No one from the MAAC will join.
8.For Stetson to go scholarship football? They need more football schools in the Southeast.
9.No Southern Conference schools will join.
10.Gulf South Conference, Peach Belt and Sunshine D2 conferences will be the ones filling up the 20 schools. The D2 football schools among the MEAC would get Stetson, UNF and FCGU to have scholarship football.

I agree with David 100% that no Big South school will join

Also, the Big South, as a conference, has zero incentive to drop football, like I said on page 1/2.

Except for the fact that the Big South is already planning to shut down. There will be no more Big South....

I want to circle back around to this nonsense.

I never quite got the idea that two affiliates could strongarm an entire other conference into dropping a sport and rebranding by threatening to go FCS independent.