(10-15-2021 08:03 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(10-15-2021 07:52 AM)All4One Wrote:  

(10-14-2021 11:05 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(10-14-2021 11:01 PM)All4One Wrote:  

(10-14-2021 10:57 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  Two major issues with this:

1. The SBC West schools refuse to consider FIU.
2. MTSU doesn't have the votes. Too many no's

There's some revisionist history that the the original defection from the SBC to CUSA went down well with all involved. It did not. It got ugly...ugly enough that several schools on both sides refuse to schedule each other.

AState has yet to play a single regular season series against a former SBC member in any sport outside of a single basketball series with FAU several years back.

It doesn't help when your commissioner adds new members without input from current league members. The addition of Georgia State without a vote? Without a discussion? Without vetting them in the least?

Funny thing is, the opposition to Georgia State didn't come from the current SBC Members...it came from the ones that left. UNT left like 3 weeks after the Panthers were added.

Karl Benson's save the SBC plan didn't include trying to save UNT or FIU...He also made zero attempt to keep MTSU or FAU.

The opposition to adding Georgia State without input is valid. Those schools left the Suck Belt because Karl Benson basically ruled by executive order that Georgia State would be added whether anyone liked it or not.

That just makes no sense. A conference commissioner has bosses. The school presidents have the final say on whether or not a school is admitted and whether or not the commissioner can keep his/her job.

Yeah, but the commissioner and the conference's legal team extends the official invite, and Benson did that without a vote from Sun Belt presidents.