(01-28-2021 08:10 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(01-28-2021 08:03 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(01-28-2021 07:59 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(01-28-2021 07:19 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  There is now a rumor on message boards that ODU and Charlotte want to go FBS Independent and rejoin the A-10. If they just hold on a few more years? ASun would be a perfect FBS home. The reason is the scheduling sucks in CUSA.

Proof? link?

ODU And Charlotte Rumor

I remember JPSchmack well from my days on the college sports info.com forum. It’s a flimsy claim though—no sources, just something seem on another message board.

Here is the real source of the "rumor." It's not a rumor, rather nothing more than a Harry Minium op-ed suggestion from 2018.

https://www.pilotonline.com/sports/colum...8d137.html

The idea is a football only conference (which is not allowed at FBS level if I read the NCAA ByLaws correctly) with independents UConn (he was expecting a Big East move back then), UMass, Liberty, James Madison, App State and Coastal Caroline.

He had crazy reassignment of conferences for these schools, such as CCU and App State moving basketball to the SoCon. But he did have Charlotte returning to the A10 along with ODU joining.

But it was just an Op-Ed throwing ideas of a journalist at the wall. That it got recycled after many retellings, morphing like a game of telephone into a rumor two years later with an unknown and no link trail is not surprising. This rumor is bunk.