(04-12-2021 02:15 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(04-12-2021 02:10 PM)whittx Wrote:  

(04-12-2021 01:48 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(04-12-2021 11:30 AM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  

(04-11-2021 09:47 AM)Bobcat2013 Wrote:  But coastal was extremely successful in a lot of sports AND they kind of came out of left field and hit the ground running with facilities improvements. Most of the arguments on here are "if school x just does this that and this then they could meet the bare minimum for FBS". Often time those schools dont even have plans to do anything, its just wishful thinking by certain posters. Coastal just went and did what they needed to and is outperforming everyones expectations. Most importantly an FBS conference saw the potential in them and invited them. That hasnt happened with any of the fantasy FBS schools for a reason.

Coastal is also the only G5 team in their state. There's a good amount of talent in multiple sports that USC & Clemson don't sign up that CCU can keep in-state. That's not true for SUU or Dixie State at this point. Utah doesn't have that much football and basketball talent.

The only thing that would have set Coastal up for better success would have been being in Charleston. The place is so provincial that they'd have a bunch of fans who refuse to support those backwoods teams from Columbia and Clemson (itself some boondock wagon stop between the two hick, frontier outposts of Anderson and Greenville to a true Charlestonian). I'd love to see how the College of Charleston would have done if they had beaten CCU to the punch on football.

That's a good point on the provincial mindset down there. There certainly would have been a unique fanbase. One big issue with C of C is there really is nowhere to even a put a stadium if they wanted one though.

Ultimately I think Coastal is better suited for success and growth long term. They need to keep increasing enrollment and producing more alumni. With as large as the state is with no clear cut number three school there's no reason Coastal couldn't have like 20k and play a role like how ECU does in NC.

There is, however, a (formerly) 20k stadium on the Peninsula that would be the starter stadium in a merged Charleston Citadel University. The other option being putting the stadium over with the rest of the athlete facilities in Mount Pleasant

If El Cid hadn't torn down half their stadium the Myrtle Beach Bowl would have been a bowl in Charleston.

They had everything in place but the NCAA's permission.Then half the stadium got torn down.