RE: Texas State for Charlotte?
Simple solution:
New conference:
GS, Ga State, App, ODU, MT, and Marshall in the East
Troy, USA, USM, WKU, Ark State, and La Tech in the West
The conference is large enough to cover a multitude of markets but compact enough to make travel easier between schools and fan bases. I'm pretty sure every school has played in at least one bowl within the last three seasons and most have at least one conference championship in a major sport in the same time period. All the fan bases are familiar with each other, there's already great established rivalries, and only WKU, USM, and La Tech are the only schools GS doesn't already have beef with. This conference could easily replace the MWC as the 2nd best G5 and overtake the bottom of the AAC most years.
Leftovers conference:
Charlotte, Coastal, FIU, FAU, UAB, Liberty in the East
ULL, UTSA, UTEP, TXST, UNT, Rice in the West
At least they'll have good baseball!
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