(05-22-2020 09:51 PM)deb025 Wrote:  

(05-22-2020 08:59 PM)Cajuns1252 Wrote:  

(05-22-2020 02:37 PM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(05-22-2020 02:32 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  With the impending recession coming and public college funding cuts inevitable, G5 conferences will need to align to survive.

ESPN has already indicated that the AAC contract will be renegotiated drastically now that UConn has left. And now that live sports has stopped and ESPN is in survival mode a drastic reduction is highly probable.

What would a G5 realignment look like?

Southwest G5
Houston
North Texas
SMU
Tech
Tulsa
Texas State
Rice
UTEP
Arkansas State
Louisiana
UTSA

Tulane for #12.

I like it, I wouldn’t mind southern Mississippi but I understand everything can’t be perfect, I’m gonna throw you a curve ball though. There’s a lot of teams in this new conference who don’t like each other on the gridiron and don’t get to play often..... break down the new rivalry week match ups for us lol

Rivalry matchups:
UNT vs Texas St.
UTEP vs UTSA
Tulsa vs Arkansas St.
Tulane vs Rice
Houston vs ULL
SMU vs Louisiana Tech

Looks good to me. New Southwest Conference because Texas St. owns the naming rights, I believe.
I would hate to lose Southern Miss. as a conference foe but we can always schedule each other as non-conference opponents for football, basketball and baseball.

This conference would only have 8 baseball teams because UNT, UTEP, Tulsa and SMU don't have baseball programs. However, it would be a strong baseball conference with the teams that do play, besides Arkansas St.
If Arkansas St. improved their baseball team you would have 8 quality baseball programs. Overall I think this league would be a very strong conference in all the major sports, including some minor sports such as softball.