(10-08-2020 09:25 PM)ESE84 Wrote:  

(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!)

I’ll echo the others in saying 14 is too many. And that the West is a good place for Rice. Six solid and interesting programs we play each year, and I can make an argument to follow the Owls to an away game.

I don’t like that C-USA is in a bad negotiating position because of our 14 teams and because of the known discontent in the East. The Sunbelt has issues with ULM and their two non-football members. I am afraid the West will be saddled with ULM, Texas-Arlington and Arkansas-Pine Bluff. And maybe even Judy.

And the 12 football playing schools may be the 7 from C-USA West plus Texas State, Arkansas State, ULM, Louisiana, and South Alabama. Split that into divisions, and Rice probably loses our annual games with UAB and Southern Miss and gains Texas State. With 5 Texas schools, Divisions could get messy.

Maybe, just maybe the East woudn't be so discontented with our conference if said conference had a clue.