(10-02-2020 10:07 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 09:39 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  If the rumor is true, it’s some of the East schools—with ODU and Charlotte leading the charge.

If CAA schools are in the know on this than at a minimum, they’ve been talking to JMU.

If true, there's a limited number of schools that would improve the situation for them. So you would need all 9 C-USA schools east of the Mississippi River.

Any new conference won't improve travel for Marshall, WKU, FIU, FAU, or USM. For the new conference to be better for them, it would have to be higher quality. So you can't add Coastal Carolina or an FCS team (unless the FCS team has great basketball, like if VCU wants to start football).

That limits you to adding Liberty, App State, Georgia Southern, and Georgia State. You'd need 3 of the 4 to get to 12 teams for a conference championship game.

That means you'd have to convince the Georgia twins. But this new conference doesn't offer any travel advantages for them. They're right in the middle of the Sun Belt; they'd be trading 4 flights to AR, TX, and LA for 4 flights to WV, Miami, and Norfolk.

Without the Georgia schools, this proposal is dead.