(05-16-2020 07:07 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  Glad we're not in the Sun Belt right about now.

So far, no SB schools have cut sports, but the MAC, which easily has the tightest conference footprint of all 10 FBS conferences, and is even tighter geographically than the SoCon, has two schools who have cut sports. Travel costs are real, but schools who managed their overall expenses well prior to this crisis will suffer the least. Bowling Green, Akron, and very sadly Furman are examples of how tight conference geography isn't everything.

Also, the SB is indeed spread out, but the eastern division isn't any more spread out than the SoCon is. That helps. It isn't like C-USA, which stretches west to El Paso (minutes from Mexico and New Mexico), south to Miami, east to Norfolk, and north to Huntington, WV. The SB's extremes are central Texas in the west/south, Boone, NC, in the north, and Conway, SC in the east. It's not perfect, but I am very pleased App moved to FBS... My hope is for basically the eastern schools of both leagues to merge as a new league and for the western schools to do the same, not just for travel savings, but also for regional rivalry opportunities.

Anyway, I definitely hope ETSU doesn't have to drop any sports. I'm sad about Furman. I had a good friend in high school who went there on a baseball scholarship a while back. Hate it for him and all the people involved in both sports that were cut.

BTW, you guys had a great team in hoops this year. Probably would have picked ETSU for the Sweet 16 in a world with no COVID.