(10-08-2020 04:51 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  C-USA West fans: I’m just curious what the rationale is for those who want to keep the 14 team league together when you could sub out some of those distant flights to schools you have little history with programs like ULL and Ark St who’ve maintained a pretty solid winning tradition at the FBS level? Sure Texas St and/or USA aren’t juggernauts but every conference needs its fluff programs that you can usually get an easy win against (and they’d be close to home!)

In a 14 team league, there just aren't really that many horrible distant flights like some of our posters keep panicking about. In football we make one cross-divisional trip per season. And in other sports it is only marginally worse. It simply isn't the end of the world.

I'm not madly in love with CUSA as currently constructed (I may have mentioned that I hate a conference with 14 teams) but the sky isn't falling. You guys have no idea what a truly bad geographic conference looks like. It's possible to be too regional. If any school in CUSA wants to reduce travel costs by playing SB teams close to home - that's why God gave us non-conference games. Since joining CUSA, we've played USA and ULL, play ULM this year, and have another series sometime in the future lined up with USA. That's just in football. Obviously we all play SB schools OOC in other sports, too. And can continue to do so.