Today on the CUSA board.

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Sun Belt fan botches realignment spelling, and posts same article: Three page thread in 5 hours.

(06-29-2020 09:47 PM)rileylives Wrote:  Today on the CUSA board.

CLT posts article: Article is relocated to realignment board.

Sun Belt fan botches realignment spelling, and posts same article: Three page thread in 5 hours.

some things cant be explained.

Pat I see you put an effort into this but keeping Akron, Eastern and Central Michigan, Ball State and Kent State over schools like UTEP (Football usually bad but most of the time other sports are respectable), Bowling Green and Troy (Yeah Troy is in the middle of nowhere AL but at least they bring more to the table than Akron).

(06-29-2020 09:29 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  This is a dream deal for all but 11 G5 schools, and immediately people here want to say what they would change about it. Me, I say let's put Pat Forde in charge of the NCAA and get this done.

Most G5 schools would never go bowling in this scenario, 6-6 seasons would be the best you could hope for (maybe once-in-a-decade)...btw the Rocky Mountain Conference would be the new CUSA / SBC in CFB - and Yankee the new MAC.

(06-29-2020 09:47 PM)rileylives Wrote:  Today on the CUSA board.

CLT posts article: Article is relocated to realignment board.

Sun Belt fan botches realignment spelling, and posts same article: Three page thread in 5 hours.

clt says this is likely a globalist conspiracy.

(06-30-2020 01:11 AM)T2003 Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 09:29 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  This is a dream deal for all but 11 G5 schools, and immediately people here want to say what they would change about it. Me, I say let's put Pat Forde in charge of the NCAA and get this done.

Most G5 schools would never go bowling in this scenario, 6-6 seasons would be the best you could hope for (maybe once-in-a-decade)...btw the Rocky Mountain Conference would be the new CUSA / SBC in CFB - and Yankee the new MAC.

This is the opportunity for G5 schools to step up and do what we have all been saying we could--given that chance. Of course it doesn't happen in year one or two. I assume by your comment that you are happy Troy was left out and goes back to FCS where you can succeed. I guess the plan is a win-win then. Not that it is going to happen.

(06-30-2020 01:11 AM)T2003 Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 09:29 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  This is a dream deal for all but 11 G5 schools, and immediately people here want to say what they would change about it. Me, I say let's put Pat Forde in charge of the NCAA and get this done.

Most G5 schools would never go bowling in this scenario, 6-6 seasons would be the best you could hope for (maybe once-in-a-decade)...btw the Rocky Mountain Conference would be the new CUSA / SBC in CFB - and Yankee the new MAC.

Until the additional resources kicked it.

(06-30-2020 01:11 AM)T2003 Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 09:29 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  This is a dream deal for all but 11 G5 schools, and immediately people here want to say what they would change about it. Me, I say let's put Pat Forde in charge of the NCAA and get this done.

Most G5 schools would never go bowling in this scenario, 6-6 seasons would be the best you could hope for (maybe once-in-a-decade)...btw the Rocky Mountain Conference would be the new CUSA / SBC in CFB - and Yankee the new MAC.

There would be no more G5 and I would assume the money for each conference would be the same (dangerous assumption I know). Former G5 schools in this scenario would not have any excuse for recruiting and getting better facilities which means after 3 or 4 years these schools should be able to compete with the former P5'ers.

I would assume all of the cfp money would be combined and split evenly, so I would think revenue for the g5 schools would see a dramatic increase.

If you put UAB in the Sun Belt and added Troy you wound see suicides increase by 20% in the state from Gumps and Barners.

(06-29-2020 08:48 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 03:54 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  Where are we?

Left out in the cold like some of the rest us.

I understand why we're not included but what did you guys do to get on his bad side?

(06-30-2020 02:19 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 08:48 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 03:54 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  Where are we?

Left out in the cold like some of the rest us.

I understand why we're not included but what did you guys do to get on his bad side?

I think it's all based on his rubric right?

Quote:FBS Profile Rank is a 1–120 metric that combines a school’s five-year average Sagarin football ranking; its 2020 U.S. News & World Report National University ranking; and its 2018–19 Learfield Cup all-sports ranking

It's not totally clear, I suppose it's possible that he went through and picked the teams to drop based on geography or general football history or something first. But my assumption was the schools that were bumped to FCS were just below the 120 line based on this metric. I don't think it's necessarily a great metric but I also don't think (again, my assumption) that the schools left out were chosen specifically by Forde - it's just how the numbers turned out. But then again maybe he removed the schools he wanted to and then only applied the rubric to the ones that were left to see roughly how the new conferences evened out based on that metric (but I doubt it - as I've said, it's probably just schools 120-130 being dropped).

Sunbelt - worst to first - Alabama, Auburn, LSU

Conference Revenue sharing

Glad to see Troy State regelated to FCS where it belongs with other regional colleges.

clt says this would create many more chat pages

(06-30-2020 06:46 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  Glad to see Troy State regelated to FCS where it belongs with other regional colleges.

At least Troy is an independent state school, unlike LaTech which is just another member of the University of Louisiana System. No reason for you people to feel so uppity.

(06-29-2020 05:04 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 04:47 PM)pilot172000 Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 04:37 PM)Noodles Wrote:  Look at that Sun Belt. Would you just look at it?

And as you all know Louisiana Tech politely declines to join the sunbelt and play ULL in conference.

Troy would be willing to take your place, or they could take UAB's spot and UAB slides into the new Sunbelt.

I was making a stereotypical/satirical remark not to be taken seriously.

That Deep South Conference is like dream come true for me. All of the Florida FBS schools. Although, instead of UAB (nothing against UAB), I would promote FAMU or UNF to FBS. UAB belongs with Auburn and Alabama, anyway.

P.S> FAU barely made the cut at 116th? Really? With two conference titles and two 11-3 seasons in the last five years?

(06-30-2020 12:00 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  If you put UAB in the Sun Belt and added Troy you wound see suicides increase by 20% in the state from Gumps and Barners.

Nah, this is a treatise on how useless Conferences really are. The top teams would still be the top with a much softer conference schedule. Kind of like the old days where there were a bunch of independents who whooped up on little sisters of the poor and played maybe three legit big games a year. Same here only under the pretense of a Conference Format. LSU, Bama and Auburn are gonna be LSU, Bama and Auburn. Tech and UAB are still going to be who they are too. Conference payouts may increase for the little guys at first but tv Networks would insist on independently choosing games and not buying an entire conference’s content.

Now it would totally screw the Wake Forests and Washington States o the world who have the P5 tag to lord over the smaller schools in their region. The lower end P5 schools would lose all disadvantages they had accumulated while the BiG boys would keep on getting bigger.

(06-29-2020 04:37 PM)Noodles Wrote:  Look at that Sun Belt. Would you just look at it?

Love it! and as a bonus, ULM is relegated to the lower division!