(06-29-2019 09:23 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: Why all of the troll threads, boring summer?
People wanting to jump on the UConn conference alignment news bandwagon, but lacking any actual conference alignment news to work with.
(06-29-2019 09:26 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: (06-29-2019 09:15 AM)BruceMcF Wrote: How can the ECU leave the AAC for that "New Conference", when Marshall wouldn't leave the CUSA Eastern Division if offered a guaranteed spot in that conference lineup.
If you could get past all the insane hurdles of ECU paying 10 million dollars to leave the AAC, the NCAA giving that new league an auto bid to the NCAA tournament, somehow that new league being given access to the G5 money and access bowl slot, and whatever other things I'm forgetting Marshall probably would actually join that conference.
I don't think it would. Don't forget to work out where Marshall is going to lie in terms of divisional alignment, and the fact that Marshall left the MAC East for the CUSA East ... and even if CUSA East was later raided, had no interest in returning when the MAC was looking for a 14th in case UMass take the "all in" side of the "all in or all out" ultimatum.
It's not in a division with a road trip to Florida every year by accident ... that's on purpose.
Put yourself in Marshall's shoes, and compare:
Charlotte, ODU, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, WKY, FAU/FIU
UMass, UConn, Buffalo, Marshall, ODU, Liberty
The
other division in this hypothetical "East Coast Conference" may well be more interesting to it than the CUSA West, but when you only make one cross division trip a year, the makeup of "the other division" is not as big a deal.