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RE: Could this really be the beginning of the end???(Conference realignment)
It has been a while. From our media guide:

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
The series: ULL leads, 13-4
4/23/83 L 2-3 Arlington
4/30/83 W 6-3 Beaumont
4/13/84 L 1-4 Arlington
4/13/85 L 0-3 Beaumont
4/14/85 L 1-7 Beaumont
4/20/85 L 3-4 Arlington
4/05/86 W 1-0 (9) Lafayette, La.
4/06/86 L 3-5 (10) Lafayette, La.
3/01/87 L 2-4 (10) Lafayette, La.
3/28/87 W 1-0 Lafayette, La.
3/28/87 L 0-2 Lafayette, La.
4/25/87 W 2-1 Denton
4/25/87 L 1-6 Denton
3/18/88 L 0-3 Houston
3/19/88 L 1-2 (9) Houston
3/23/90 L 2-3 Lafayette, La.
3/23/90 L 0-1 Lafayette, La.

Our softball is young and rebuilding. We have a winning non-conference record, including against a few SBC teams, but have struggled in conference for some reason. We have a top 50 pitching staff, and one is a senior, but our offense has been atrocious. I don't expect to compete against the SBC elite next year, but think we are on the right track with a new coaching staff and planned facility upgrades. That said, I harbor no illusions that we will beat the Cajuns. At best we sneak a win in. Every other sport I expect to be equal to or better than you folks.
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(05-02-2013 06:56 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  It has been a while. From our media guide:

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
The series: ULL leads, 13-4
4/23/83 L 2-3 Arlington
4/30/83 W 6-3 Beaumont
4/13/84 L 1-4 Arlington
4/13/85 L 0-3 Beaumont
4/14/85 L 1-7 Beaumont
4/20/85 L 3-4 Arlington
4/05/86 W 1-0 (9) Lafayette, La.
4/06/86 L 3-5 (10) Lafayette, La.
3/01/87 L 2-4 (10) Lafayette, La.
3/28/87 W 1-0 Lafayette, La.
3/28/87 L 0-2 Lafayette, La.
4/25/87 W 2-1 Denton
4/25/87 L 1-6 Denton
3/18/88 L 0-3 Houston
3/19/88 L 1-2 (9) Houston
3/23/90 L 2-3 Lafayette, La.
3/23/90 L 0-1 Lafayette, La.

Our softball is young and rebuilding. We have a winning non-conference record, including against a few SBC teams, but have struggled in conference for some reason. We have a top 50 pitching staff, and one is a senior, but our offense has been atrocious. I don't expect to compete against the SBC elite next year, but think we are on the right track with a new coaching staff and planned facility upgrades. That said, I harbor no illusions that we will beat the Cajuns. At best we sneak a win in. Every other sport I expect to be equal to or better than you folks.

Whew! Those wins came before I was even conceived. No wonder I don't remember them. Those were back in the days of softball where 1-0 games were the norm and pitchers put up ridiculous stats.

I hope you guys can come in and compete well in (and out of) the conference. One of the only benefits of MTSU leaving the SBC is the fact that UL doesn't have to play them anymore in softball. They were an absolute RPI killer. As long as you guys/gals are competitive and hang at .500 or higher then we're good to go.
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RE: Could this really be the beginning of the end???(Conference realignment)
(05-02-2013 06:56 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  It has been a while. From our media guide:

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
The series: ULL leads, 13-4
4/23/83 L 2-3 Arlington
4/30/83 W 6-3 Beaumont
4/13/84 L 1-4 Arlington
4/13/85 L 0-3 Beaumont
4/14/85 L 1-7 Beaumont
4/20/85 L 3-4 Arlington
4/05/86 W 1-0 (9) Lafayette, La.
4/06/86 L 3-5 (10) Lafayette, La.
3/01/87 L 2-4 (10) Lafayette, La.
3/28/87 W 1-0 Lafayette, La.
3/28/87 L 0-2 Lafayette, La.
4/25/87 W 2-1 Denton
4/25/87 L 1-6 Denton
3/18/88 L 0-3 Houston
3/19/88 L 1-2 (9) Houston
3/23/90 L 2-3 Lafayette, La.
3/23/90 L 0-1 Lafayette, La.

Our softball is young and rebuilding. We have a winning non-conference record, including against a few SBC teams, but have struggled in conference for some reason. We have a top 50 pitching staff, and one is a senior, but our offense has been atrocious. I don't expect to compete against the SBC elite next year, but think we are on the right track with a new coaching staff and planned facility upgrades. That said, I harbor no illusions that we will beat the Cajuns. At best we sneak a win in. Every other sport I expect to be equal to or better than you folks.

Sounds like most of these games were before you were born and have little to nothing to do with the current climate of either program. It would be great for me to mention how Cajun Basketball was a top 10 program in the early 70's or the UL Baseball team making it to Omaha in 2000, none of it is relevant today. Measuring what one program accomplished over another 20 years ago is not worth the time to discuss it.

I respect UTA's baseball and basketball programs a great deal. What you bring to the table in volleyball, bowling or any other sports that seldom see the light of a flat screen television most college sports fans care very little about. Football, Basketball M&W, Baseball and Softball bring the most national recognition from appearences on national, regional and local networks. No one gets to watch your track program, field hockey or any other non revenue sports outside the Dallas area.

I look forward to playing you guys while we are in the same conference in Basketball and Baseball, I could care less how many volleyball matches you guys win against UL.
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(05-03-2013 03:14 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  I hope you guys can come in and compete well in (and out of) the conference. One of the only benefits of MTSU leaving the SBC is the fact that UL doesn't have to play them anymore in softball. They were an absolute RPI killer. As long as you guys/gals are competitive and hang at .500 or higher then we're good to go.

I suspect we will do well enough. Our coach will be in her second year. We lose a senior pitcher who is in the top 20 in ERA in the NCAA and top 40 in wins and shortstop who hit .268 with 6 rbi and a .938 fielding percentage. Everyone else will be back or replaced by someone younger. We lead the WAC in pitching, our second pitcher is fourth in the conference, but are last in defense and hitting. That will improve just by experience. This year we are 5-4 against current or future SBC teams (2-0 Troy, 1-2 UNT, 2-2 against Texas St). THe pitching might slip, though I suspect our number two will pick it up, the defense and hitting should improve quite a bit. I make no illusion we will beat the Cajuns right away, but we should be competitive.

(05-03-2013 03:30 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  Sounds like most of these games were before you were born and have little to nothing to do with the current climate of either program. It would be great for me to mention how Cajun Basketball was a top 10 program in the early 70's or the UL Baseball team making it to Omaha in 2000, none of it is relevant today. Measuring what one program accomplished over another 20 years ago is not worth the time to discuss it.

I respect UTA's baseball and basketball programs a great deal. What you bring to the table in volleyball, bowling or any other sports that seldom see the light of a flat screen television most college sports fans care very little about. Football, Basketball M&W, Baseball and Softball bring the most national recognition from appearences on national, regional and local networks. No one gets to watch your track program, field hockey or any other non revenue sports outside the Dallas area.

I look forward to playing you guys while we are in the same conference in Basketball and Baseball, I could care less how many volleyball matches you guys win against UL.

The first paragraph seems wrong to me. A history is a history. We have a tradition of winning, particularly at the conference level, where we rank fourth in the SLC in winning percentage, behind the Cajuns and Bobcats.

We don't have the postseason history in softball that we should because our previous coach struggled in the conference tourney. We finished in the top three in conference 8 times during her tenure, but won the thing once. She was 12-23 in the tourney. Aside from last year, Notre Dame hasn't done squat recently in football. Do you wanna say their history and tradition mean nothing? I'm not saying UTA softball is at that level, but when you have a history of being competitive in the Southwest, failures are hard to take. UTA didn't have a history in men's basketball, so the failure wasn't as hard to take.

As for the rest of your post, spoken like somebody who doesn't excel in those sports. There are many schools whose volleyball programs average more than softball. If I am not mistaken, more schools have higher attended volleyball matches (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/publ...dance.html) than softball (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/publ...dex.html).

But I am not surprised someone from Lafayette, Louisiana thinks otherwise. A volleyball team with a poor history on one side and a stellar history on the other with softball. Though our current volleyball coach is below our average, we have a history of sweet sixteens and a final four in vball. I can assure you, most everyone in Texas volleyball circles looks down on Louisiana schools. This attitude shows why. Yeah, they may not appear on TV, but softball does? Reality is that the volleyball tournament does generate a decent amount of money from attendance, more the softball does.

I couldn't care less which sports you root for or don't. I personally want to beat you guys in everything. Aside from softball (upset is a possibility), I know we can.
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(05-04-2013 01:24 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  
(05-03-2013 03:14 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  I hope you guys can come in and compete well in (and out of) the conference. One of the only benefits of MTSU leaving the SBC is the fact that UL doesn't have to play them anymore in softball. They were an absolute RPI killer. As long as you guys/gals are competitive and hang at .500 or higher then we're good to go.

I suspect we will do well enough. Our coach will be in her second year. We lose a senior pitcher who is in the top 20 in ERA in the NCAA and top 40 in wins and shortstop who hit .268 with 6 rbi and a .938 fielding percentage. Everyone else will be back or replaced by someone younger. We lead the WAC in pitching, our second pitcher is fourth in the conference, but are last in defense and hitting. That will improve just by experience. This year we are 5-4 against current or future SBC teams (2-0 Troy, 1-2 UNT, 2-2 against Texas St). THe pitching might slip, though I suspect our number two will pick it up, the defense and hitting should improve quite a bit. I make no illusion we will beat the Cajuns right away, but we should be competitive.

(05-03-2013 03:30 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  Sounds like most of these games were before you were born and have little to nothing to do with the current climate of either program. It would be great for me to mention how Cajun Basketball was a top 10 program in the early 70's or the UL Baseball team making it to Omaha in 2000, none of it is relevant today. Measuring what one program accomplished over another 20 years ago is not worth the time to discuss it.

I respect UTA's baseball and basketball programs a great deal. What you bring to the table in volleyball, bowling or any other sports that seldom see the light of a flat screen television most college sports fans care very little about. Football, Basketball M&W, Baseball and Softball bring the most national recognition from appearences on national, regional and local networks. No one gets to watch your track program, field hockey or any other non revenue sports outside the Dallas area.

I look forward to playing you guys while we are in the same conference in Basketball and Baseball, I could care less how many volleyball matches you guys win against UL.

The first paragraph seems wrong to me. A history is a history. We have a tradition of winning, particularly at the conference level, where we rank fourth in the SLC in winning percentage, behind the Cajuns and Bobcats.

We don't have the postseason history in softball that we should because our previous coach struggled in the conference tourney. We finished in the top three in conference 8 times during her tenure, but won the thing once. She was 12-23 in the tourney. Aside from last year, Notre Dame hasn't done squat recently in football. Do you wanna say their history and tradition mean nothing? I'm not saying UTA softball is at that level, but when you have a history of being competitive in the Southwest, failures are hard to take. UTA didn't have a history in men's basketball, so the failure wasn't as hard to take.

As for the rest of your post, spoken like somebody who doesn't excel in those sports. There are many schools whose volleyball programs average more than softball. If I am not mistaken, more schools have higher attended volleyball matches (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/publ...dance.html) than softball (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/publ...dex.html).

But I am not surprised someone from Lafayette, Louisiana thinks otherwise. A volleyball team with a poor history on one side and a stellar history on the other with softball. Though our current volleyball coach is below our average, we have a history of sweet sixteens and a final four in vball. I can assure you, most everyone in Texas volleyball circles looks down on Louisiana schools. This attitude shows why. Yeah, they may not appear on TV, but softball does? Reality is that the volleyball tournament does generate a decent amount of money from attendance, more the softball does.

I couldn't care less which sports you root for or don't. I personally want to beat you guys in everything. Aside from softball (upset is a possibility), I know we can.

History is exactly that, history! It doesn't matter what a previous staff and group of athletes have accomplished prior to when any series starts once you enter into conference play. You really think it matters what your softball coach accomplished in 1988 against a program that is and has been a top 25 program? It's an entirely different set of circumstances at different periods of each programs development.

If it makes you feel better about yourself and your program, by all means hang on to the record books. One program's history against anothers with no recent results will have no bearing on which program should be consider the favorite or the better program.
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(05-06-2013 06:28 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  
(05-04-2013 01:24 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  
(05-03-2013 03:14 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  I hope you guys can come in and compete well in (and out of) the conference. One of the only benefits of MTSU leaving the SBC is the fact that UL doesn't have to play them anymore in softball. They were an absolute RPI killer. As long as you guys/gals are competitive and hang at .500 or higher then we're good to go.

I suspect we will do well enough. Our coach will be in her second year. We lose a senior pitcher who is in the top 20 in ERA in the NCAA and top 40 in wins and shortstop who hit .268 with 6 rbi and a .938 fielding percentage. Everyone else will be back or replaced by someone younger. We lead the WAC in pitching, our second pitcher is fourth in the conference, but are last in defense and hitting. That will improve just by experience. This year we are 5-4 against current or future SBC teams (2-0 Troy, 1-2 UNT, 2-2 against Texas St). THe pitching might slip, though I suspect our number two will pick it up, the defense and hitting should improve quite a bit. I make no illusion we will beat the Cajuns right away, but we should be competitive.

(05-03-2013 03:30 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  Sounds like most of these games were before you were born and have little to nothing to do with the current climate of either program. It would be great for me to mention how Cajun Basketball was a top 10 program in the early 70's or the UL Baseball team making it to Omaha in 2000, none of it is relevant today. Measuring what one program accomplished over another 20 years ago is not worth the time to discuss it.

I respect UTA's baseball and basketball programs a great deal. What you bring to the table in volleyball, bowling or any other sports that seldom see the light of a flat screen television most college sports fans care very little about. Football, Basketball M&W, Baseball and Softball bring the most national recognition from appearences on national, regional and local networks. No one gets to watch your track program, field hockey or any other non revenue sports outside the Dallas area.

I look forward to playing you guys while we are in the same conference in Basketball and Baseball, I could care less how many volleyball matches you guys win against UL.

The first paragraph seems wrong to me. A history is a history. We have a tradition of winning, particularly at the conference level, where we rank fourth in the SLC in winning percentage, behind the Cajuns and Bobcats.

We don't have the postseason history in softball that we should because our previous coach struggled in the conference tourney. We finished in the top three in conference 8 times during her tenure, but won the thing once. She was 12-23 in the tourney. Aside from last year, Notre Dame hasn't done squat recently in football. Do you wanna say their history and tradition mean nothing? I'm not saying UTA softball is at that level, but when you have a history of being competitive in the Southwest, failures are hard to take. UTA didn't have a history in men's basketball, so the failure wasn't as hard to take.

As for the rest of your post, spoken like somebody who doesn't excel in those sports. There are many schools whose volleyball programs average more than softball. If I am not mistaken, more schools have higher attended volleyball matches (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/publ...dance.html) than softball (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/publ...dex.html).

But I am not surprised someone from Lafayette, Louisiana thinks otherwise. A volleyball team with a poor history on one side and a stellar history on the other with softball. Though our current volleyball coach is below our average, we have a history of sweet sixteens and a final four in vball. I can assure you, most everyone in Texas volleyball circles looks down on Louisiana schools. This attitude shows why. Yeah, they may not appear on TV, but softball does? Reality is that the volleyball tournament does generate a decent amount of money from attendance, more the softball does.

I couldn't care less which sports you root for or don't. I personally want to beat you guys in everything. Aside from softball (upset is a possibility), I know we can.

History is exactly that, history! It doesn't matter what a previous staff and group of athletes have accomplished prior to when any series starts once you enter into conference play. You really think it matters what your softball coach accomplished in 1988 against a program that is and has been a top 25 program? It's an entirely different set of circumstances at different periods of each programs development.

If it makes you feel better about yourself and your program, by all means hang on to the record books. One program's history against anothers with no recent results will have no bearing on which program should be consider the favorite or the better program.

OMG, somebody put me out of my ******* misery... 03-zzz

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(05-06-2013 06:28 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  History is exactly that, history! It doesn't matter what a previous staff and group of athletes have accomplished prior to when any series starts once you enter into conference play. You really think it matters what your softball coach accomplished in 1988 against a program that is and has been a top 25 program? It's an entirely different set of circumstances at different periods of each programs development.

If it makes you feel better about yourself and your program, by all means hang on to the record books. One program's history against anothers with no recent results will have no bearing on which program should be consider the favorite or the better program.

I don't think you quite get what I am saying. UTA's history is competing for conference championships.

Do we look at one team we last played in the early 1990's and say that reflects today, no. We do however, have a winning tradition and have winning records against a lot of good programs. We expect to have winning seasons and when we don't, just like ya'll would, we figure out why and compete next year. That said, our softball team will probably lose to your team next year, but we will be competitive in the SBC, because we are UTA and have a history of being competitive.

(05-06-2013 07:31 PM)zeebart21 Wrote:  OMG, somebody put me out of my ******* misery... 03-zzz

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I envision you as the old man on the corner who shakes his fist at all the people who walk on his lawn, all the while forgetting his dentures are still in the bathroom soaking and his high-blood pressure medication is wearing off.
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(05-06-2013 07:42 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  
(05-06-2013 06:28 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  History is exactly that, history! It doesn't matter what a previous staff and group of athletes have accomplished prior to when any series starts once you enter into conference play. You really think it matters what your softball coach accomplished in 1988 against a program that is and has been a top 25 program? It's an entirely different set of circumstances at different periods of each programs development.

If it makes you feel better about yourself and your program, by all means hang on to the record books. One program's history against anothers with no recent results will have no bearing on which program should be consider the favorite or the better program.

I don't think you quite get what I am saying. UTA's history is competing for conference championships.

Do we look at one team we last played in the early 1990's and say that reflects today, no. We do however, have a winning tradition and have winning records against a lot of good programs. We expect to have winning seasons and when we don't, just like ya'll would, we figure out why and compete next year. That said, our softball team will probably lose to your team next year, but we will be competitive in the SBC, because we are UTA and have a history of being competitive.

(05-06-2013 07:31 PM)zeebart21 Wrote:  OMG, somebody put me out of my ******* misery... 03-zzz

Z

I envision you as the old man on the corner who shakes his fist at all the people who walk on his lawn, all the while forgetting his dentures are still in the bathroom soaking and his high-blood pressure medication is wearing off.

I envision you as having a vag....

Z
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How pedantic.
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(05-07-2013 07:19 AM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  How pedantic.

I'm guessing you're new to Z's style?
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No, I predicted that response yesterday. I was hoping for something different, but was disappointingly unsurprised. The above was said in sarcasm.
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(05-06-2013 06:28 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  
(05-04-2013 01:24 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  
(05-03-2013 03:14 PM)CajunFan3406 Wrote:  I hope you guys can come in and compete well in (and out of) the conference. One of the only benefits of MTSU leaving the SBC is the fact that UL doesn't have to play them anymore in softball. They were an absolute RPI killer. As long as you guys/gals are competitive and hang at .500 or higher then we're good to go.

I suspect we will do well enough. Our coach will be in her second year. We lose a senior pitcher who is in the top 20 in ERA in the NCAA and top 40 in wins and shortstop who hit .268 with 6 rbi and a .938 fielding percentage. Everyone else will be back or replaced by someone younger. We lead the WAC in pitching, our second pitcher is fourth in the conference, but are last in defense and hitting. That will improve just by experience. This year we are 5-4 against current or future SBC teams (2-0 Troy, 1-2 UNT, 2-2 against Texas St). THe pitching might slip, though I suspect our number two will pick it up, the defense and hitting should improve quite a bit. I make no illusion we will beat the Cajuns right away, but we should be competitive.

(05-03-2013 03:30 PM)CrazyCajun Wrote:  Sounds like most of these games were before you were born and have little to nothing to do with the current climate of either program. It would be great for me to mention how Cajun Basketball was a top 10 program in the early 70's or the UL Baseball team making it to Omaha in 2000, none of it is relevant today. Measuring what one program accomplished over another 20 years ago is not worth the time to discuss it.

I respect UTA's baseball and basketball programs a great deal. What you bring to the table in volleyball, bowling or any other sports that seldom see the light of a flat screen television most college sports fans care very little about. Football, Basketball M&W, Baseball and Softball bring the most national recognition from appearences on national, regional and local networks. No one gets to watch your track program, field hockey or any other non revenue sports outside the Dallas area.

I look forward to playing you guys while we are in the same conference in Basketball and Baseball, I could care less how many volleyball matches you guys win against UL.

The first paragraph seems wrong to me. A history is a history. We have a tradition of winning, particularly at the conference level, where we rank fourth in the SLC in winning percentage, behind the Cajuns and Bobcats.

We don't have the postseason history in softball that we should because our previous coach struggled in the conference tourney. We finished in the top three in conference 8 times during her tenure, but won the thing once. She was 12-23 in the tourney. Aside from last year, Notre Dame hasn't done squat recently in football. Do you wanna say their history and tradition mean nothing? I'm not saying UTA softball is at that level, but when you have a history of being competitive in the Southwest, failures are hard to take. UTA didn't have a history in men's basketball, so the failure wasn't as hard to take.

As for the rest of your post, spoken like somebody who doesn't excel in those sports. There are many schools whose volleyball programs average more than softball. If I am not mistaken, more schools have higher attended volleyball matches (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/publ...dance.html) than softball (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/publ...dex.html).

But I am not surprised someone from Lafayette, Louisiana thinks otherwise. A volleyball team with a poor history on one side and a stellar history on the other with softball. Though our current volleyball coach is below our average, we have a history of sweet sixteens and a final four in vball. I can assure you, most everyone in Texas volleyball circles looks down on Louisiana schools. This attitude shows why. Yeah, they may not appear on TV, but softball does? Reality is that the volleyball tournament does generate a decent amount of money from attendance, more the softball does.

I couldn't care less which sports you root for or don't. I personally want to beat you guys in everything. Aside from softball (upset is a possibility), I know we can.

History is exactly that, history! It doesn't matter what a previous staff and group of athletes have accomplished prior to when any series starts once you enter into conference play. You really think it matters what your softball coach accomplished in 1988 against a program that is and has been a top 25 program? It's an entirely different set of circumstances at different periods of each programs development.

If it makes you feel better about yourself and your program, by all means hang on to the record books. One program's history against anothers with no recent results will have no bearing on which program should be consider the favorite or the better program.
I've not heard any realignment rumors in almost a month. Has anything been rumored to be going on with the Cajuns and CUSA lately?
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RE: Could this really be the beginning of the end???(Conference realignment)
I don't think you'll hear anything about realignment for a while. Maybe some time during the football season you'll see mention or speculation of possible moves, but nothing serious until next year.
06-07-2013 09:16 AM
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RE: Could this really be the beginning of the end???(Conference realignment)
This kind of surprises me that some of the schools would agree to this. Fla state seems like they didnt want to be locked in. As someone else said contracts can be broken and law suits will be filed in the future probably. Who knows what will happen and even if another conference isnt formed in the future. If a school like FSU wants to leave to another conference they would just file a suit or just pay the fine for leaving. I just think if an oportunity comes then a school will leave if they want to.
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