(05-05-2022 01:04 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(05-05-2022 12:44 PM)jimrtex Wrote:  

(05-05-2022 11:03 AM)jcohen42 Wrote:  If you want to know why they chose the SBC, just look at a map. The furthest two schools from each other are West Virginia and Georgia Southern, and that's still a closer trip for WVU than 80% of the AAC.

Men's soccer is not a revenue sport. Teams are not going to trade a geographically compact conference for a marginal improvement (if that) in competitiveness.

Women's soccer is not a revenue sport. Kentucky and West Virginia travel all over to play in the SEC or Big 12.

If we were concerned about geography: Pitt, West Virginia, Marshall, Ohio, Cincinnati, Miami, Kentucky and Louisville would be in the Ohio Valley Conference for all sports.

I’ve heard a lot of poor arguments on this board but this one…..definitely up there.

If the SEC & B12 sponsored MSOC like they do WSOC then these schools would play there, they’d have to. But they don’t, so they don’t. SC and WVU could no doubt afford to send their soccer team all over the country but the coaches don’t want that for thier players and the AD would rather spend the money elsewhere. That doesn’t mean they’re going to join the Ohio Valley because competition matters. The SB was clearly the best choice, everyone can see it but you. Top to bottom it’s a better MSOC conference than the AAC, which has some very good teams but the make up of the new SB MSOC league is better and better geographically. It’s over, move on.

And did you really just compare UK MBB to UK MSOC?

Which UK team reached the Sweet 16 where they lost a 2 vs. 3 regional seed match-up to the eventual national champion? There is really no comparison between the two.

That Ohio Valley Conference might have formed in the 1920s. You missed the point.

The AAC was not a choice at the time.

Charlotte is the most consistently ranked team out of CUSA/Sun Belt/AAC over the past decade. Would South Carolina prefer to play Charlotte or a one-hit wonder in Marshall?

Predictions for 2022: South Carolina will play the defending national champion a bus trip away. The 2021 Sun Belt champion will not defend their title.

Predictions for 2023: FIU will continue their affiliation with the AAC. UCF will affiliate with the AAC.