(04-25-2018 10:21 AM)Bobcat2013 Wrote: (04-24-2018 11:38 PM)DavidSt Wrote: (04-24-2018 09:01 PM)NoDak Wrote: (04-24-2018 07:45 PM)TexanMark Wrote: (04-24-2018 07:20 PM)NoDak Wrote: With TAMU-International is in Laredo and just joining the Lone Star Conference, doesn’t it make sense for UTRGV to have football first, thereby further establishing UTRGV as the foremost athletic school in that border region?
UTRGV is much bigger, but the UT-TAMU rivalry extends much further downstream.
They will never get to a power conference...and in reality we have too many 1A teams (yes I know that term is obsolete)...I think they'll eventually find their way to the Sun Belt unless the WAC sponsors FB again.
The G5 except the AAC is the new FCS. The P5 effectively endorses watering down the G5. The Sun Belt could have forestalled this by keeping NMSU.
As stated months before, this is the plan for a new WAC.
WAC FBS
Pacific Div
UC Davis
Sac St
Cal Poly
Cal Baptist*
GCU*
NMSU
Plains Div
UTGRV
Lamar
Sam Houston St
S F Austin or IWU and/or Wichita St (fb only)
Mo St (fb only)
Oral Roberts*
UMKC*
* - No fb
Idaho, the Montanas and Weber St will leave the Big Sky to the Summit- Great Northern, which will be in “close association” with the WAC at least in the beginning. The Big Sky will take UVU, Seattle, CWU, Azusa Pacific, and Dixie St to rebuild. 2020 is the target date for those league and 2020 may be when they start FBS transitions.
Gotten unbelievable flack for saying the G5 will be expanding. In the next couple of weeks it will begin playing out.
Just say no to Oral Roberts and UMKC. They will be in the Summit.
You keep forgetting Azusa Pacific, Dixie State, Central Washington, CSU-Pueblo, Colorado Mesa and any of the Lone Star schools. A couple of Lone Star schools already have FBS ready stadiums.
Which Lone Star schools have FBS ready stadiums? Heck, no Southland school has an FBS ready stadium.
Using Jerry Richardson Stadium (UNC-Charlotte) with a stated capacity of 15,300 as a comparison, the following, except for Javelina Stadium, meet or exceed that stadium's capacity.
http://www.charlotte49ers.com/sports/201...px?id=1666
Lone Star Conference
West Texas A&M - Kimbrough Memorial Stadium - 20,000 would have been one. That stadium is being replaced with an 8,500 seat stadium - expandable to 14,000. Approval for the new stadium was last Thursday.
https://www.sportsvenue-technology.com/n...ll-stadium
UT - Permian Basiin - Ratliff Stadium - 19,302
Texas A&M - Kingsville - Javelina Stadium - 15,000 - (15,000 is the magic number for NCAA FBS attendance requirements.)
Southland Conference
McNeese State - Cowboy Stadium - 17,410 permanent seats - Official capacity does not include additional berm capacity. (Record attendance: 27,500)
Lamar - Provost Umphrey Stadium - 16,000 permanent seats - Official capacity does not include additional berm capacity. (Record attendance: 18,500)
Northwestern State - Harry Turpin Stadium - 15,971 (Record attendance: 17,598)
If berm seating is included in official capacity as some universities currently do, add these Southland Conference universities.
Stephen F. Austin - Homer Bryce Stadium - 14,575 with record attendance of 23,617
Sam Houston State - Bowers Stadium - 12,593 (Record attendance: 16,148)
All in the list have a capacity greater than Coastal Carolina's Brooks Stadium had (9,214) at the time of its Sun Belt conference invitation.