(09-15-2021 05:14 AM)BigEastMike Wrote:  

(09-15-2021 05:06 AM)panite Wrote:  

(09-14-2021 11:53 PM)CarlSmithCenter Wrote:  

(09-14-2021 10:49 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  I don't get the reasoning for the MW to expand with C-USA schools unless they have losses. Why go to 14? Can NT/Rice Really raise the media deal value? What am I missing?

No, nor is Navy going Indy. The AAC should go get ODU, Marshall, App. State, JMU, UAB and Georgia State. If JMU doesn’t move up, add one of Louisiana, UTSA, Rice, La. Tech, Charlotte, Coastal, Ga. Southern, USM or FAU. They you are prepared if/when Memphis gets a call-up.

East: Temple, Marshall, JMU, ODU, App. State, ECU, USF
West: Ga. State, UAB, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, SMU, Navy

Assuming the above scenario, the Belt adds Charlotte, FAU, UTSA, USM
East: Charlotte, Coastal, GS, FAU, Troy, USA.
West: USM, ULM, Louisiana, ASU, TSU, UTSA.

CUSA - MTSU, WKU, UTEP, UNT, Rice, La. Tech and FIU add NMSU, UConn,* UMass, Liberty, Sam Houston.

East: UConn,* UMass*, MTSU, WKU, Liberty, FIU.
West: NMSU, UTEP, UNT, Rice, Sam Houston, La. Tech..

UConn is not joining CUSA with that group of schools. If they wanted all that
travel, UConn would have stayed in the AAC.

Yeah but UConn left for basketball reasons and travel for all sports. If it's just football it's not as bad. Not saying it will happen but if they are offered a FB only spot in any G5 conference they could very well take it to help alleviate any possible scheduling issues in the future. To be honest though out of the G5 only 3 would have even the slimmest of possibilities (MAC, CUSA, Sun Belt)

CUSA is still > that the CAA or the Patriot League, which are UConn's other options. The UConn FB program is a leaderless dumpster fire right now and has been for a while. No coach save someone with either a Titanic's worth of baggage, or who is a way past his prime retread, is taking that job to continue trying to Iditarod the Huskies through the barren, frozen wasteland of Northeastern FBS independence.