(07-05-2014 06:01 AM)Louisianafanrcajun90 Wrote: You know as well as I do that you guys are going to bolt given the first chance.
What first chance? Conference realignment will have to occur and there are fair odds that won't happen for at least 6 years. If that did occur, then Arkansas State and Louisiana would have to be part of those involved.
There would probably be only one or two slots involved (the SEC isn't going to 20 members). Here is a list of schools with a reasonable shot at being involved for those one or two mythical spots at the moment. Arkansas State, Louisiana, Texas State, South Alabama, James Madison, New Mexico State, NIU, Georgia State. There are probably others. As we have seen before, conference realignment does not always make sense and conferences do not choose members based on our criteria. Even if there is a new round of conference realignment....our chances of being in the one or two chosen are...like everyone else's...iffy.
Then you throw in the fact that college football may be undergoing a sea-change due to the courts and nobody knows what will happen.
The only rational course of action is to continue to build the conference you are actually in rather than rely on a golden ticket to a conference someone else built...and then abandoned.
It makes no sense to set fire to our house because we hope we might have another some day maybe. It makes no sense to spend the best year's our program has known being sour, mad, and sad.