(09-19-2021 05:16 PM)NewTimes Wrote:  

(09-19-2021 05:07 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Liberty is an academic joke. Liberty has low attendance, so it's supposed fan base is a joke.

Memphis and Boise State were passed over by the Big 12, and we all know academics almost certainly played a role. All it takes to keep Liberty out of a conference is another schools being acceptable to the Presidents and in the vicinity of Liberty in athletics, A good example of that would be Coastal Carolina for the SBC a few years back. Liberty has not leapfrogged CCU and CCU is not in consideration for the American, not even in the top ten list.

Liberty needs to show they are acceptable to a lower standard conference like the SBC or C-USA before they can even think about the AAC.

Liberty is content at present to remain an Indy. A guess is they would be cool to a SB invite as how the SB snubbed them before. And the SB may not want to accept LU with their resources, which seems to threaten public schools. C-USA seems the most desirable landing spot and the AAC a longshot. And LU has the greater upside, minus academics which some place a high priority on, with it's resources and commitment.