(11-03-2021 12:09 PM)e-parade Wrote:  

(11-03-2021 11:46 AM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(11-03-2021 11:41 AM)All4One Wrote:  

(11-03-2021 11:35 AM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  If we believe Dennis Dodd’s tweet, there’s been up to 30 FCS schools that have contacted C-USA for possible membership. Not 5, 10 or 20 schools. 30. Think about that.

Those schools know the time to move up is now or wait another generation. The AAC, MAC and Sun Belt are full and the MWC won’t invite any FCS schools. C-USA is their only and last choice to make it happen so those schools need to make a decision soon. The expanded CFP and the revenue that will come with it makes the move to FBS attractive.

But he didn't say 30 FCS schools. He said 30 schools, which could be FBS Independents, non-football sponsoring schools or even D2 schools seeking to fast track 1-A status.

Thanks for the correction.

If we remove NMSU and Liberty, only Army, UConn and UMass are left as FBS independents in the G5 and out of those three maybe and that’s a big maybe UMass showed some interest. The rest were either FCS or Div II schools which make it at least 25.

Are you talking full sports here for that "maybe, big maybe UMass showed interest"? Because UMass has definitely reached out for football only, to the point where our AD showed the packet and said "this is for the CUSA and was just updated for this week" (or something similar) during an interview, with the video posted to Twitter.

I would say in this bunch of 30 schools that a football-only school would likely classify, but Dodd's wording on "getting the 8th" could be related to the NCAA requirement of 8 full members that sponsor the required sports necessary to remain a viable FBS conference in which maybe football onlies and non-footballs may not possibly be what's mentioned here?