(03-26-2021 03:58 PM)HoustonRocks Wrote:  Jed wants to create a hybrid conference. He will probably say that is not true. But, he is already campaigning for #2. WSU is #1. Add #2 and he will campaign for #3.

I want to consider only schools that have some football success, with large enrollments, in rich cities, in rich states. Those schools will have support and potential. Think of Buffalo, Georgia State or UAB after several years of high performance.

It’s as if nobody has a memory. We have seen what UAB looks like as a conference mate to the AAC schools. It wasn’t pretty. When the AAC schools were in CUSA—Marshall struggled to be .500 You see, it’s not some magic coincidence that Marshall and UAB are doing better now that they are playing a schedule full of FCS move ups and newbie programs. Those programs are where they need to be. Their budgets and brands are a good fit at that level.

Bottom line—-we can’t add that kind of program and expect it to be viewed as anything other than putting the CUSA band back together and throwing in the towel on the P6 narrative. We can’t do it—and we shouldn’t do it—-regardless of how inconvenient the scheduling becomes. This is an opportunity to make a real leap forward and we shouldn’t squander it by getting caught up in the same small time regional thinking that sent CUSA tumbling below a conference it used to routinely poach schools from.