(10-12-2020 12:00 PM)herdfan129 Wrote:  

(10-02-2020 11:04 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  It's no secret that CUSA schools are unhappy. It makes no sense for a CUSA East school to fly its olympic sports out to Texas multiple times a year when there are schools at their same level a stone's throw away. With the old CUSA configuration, the tv money offset the cost of travel, but that money has dried up and now CUSA schools are feeling the heat.

North:
Marshall, ODU, JMU, App State, Charlotte, Coastal

South:
Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Troy, UAB, FAU, FIU

Excellent Football, great basketball, good baseball, and a relatively tight footprint within divisions

6 metropolitan schools (Ga State, UAB, FAU, FIU, Charlotte, ODU)
6 traditional college town schools (Ga Southern, Troy, Coastal, App, Marshall, JMU)

Similar academics so the presidents should be on board.

I would love this. I would try to replace JMU with Liberty though.

Leave off the Florida schools and keep JMU and still add Liberty. That’s 9 schools and you could play a round robin schedule similar to the Big 12. That way you get the 2 best teams for the CCG, because the “North” in that setup would be pretty stacked with Marshall, App state, and JMU.