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RE: Interesting Tidbit I hear about CUSA.....
(09-10-2021 03:35 PM)JSchmack Wrote: (09-10-2021 02:50 PM)BePcr07 Wrote: The remaining 4 non-power conferences could work together to dismantle CUSA - not that they would or should - and end up with 4 14-school conferences.
MWC + UTEP, UTSA
AAC + Florida Atlantic, Marshall, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB
SBC + Charlotte, Florida International, Louisiana Tech, North Texas
MAC + Middle Tennessee St, Western Kentucky
MWC
Mountain: Air Force, Colorado St, New Mexico, Utah St, UTEP, UTSA, Wyoming
West: Boise St, Fresno St, Hawaii*, Nevada, San Diego St, San Jose St, UNLV
* Football-only
AAC
East: East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, Marshall, Old Dominion, South Florida, Temple, UAB
West: Memphis, Navy*, Rice, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa
* Football-only
^ Non-football: Wichita St
SBC
East: Appalachian St, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, Florida International, Georgia Southern, Georgia St, Troy
West: Arkansas St, Louisiana Tech, North Texas, South Alabama, Texas St, UL Lafayette, UL Monroe
^ Non-football: Arkansas - Little Rock, Texas - Arlington
MAC
East: Akron, Bowling Green St, Buffalo, Kent St, Miami (OH), Ohio, Toledo
West: Ball St, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Middle Tennessee St, Northern Illinois, Western Kentucky, Western Michigan
But why? The tendency in conference realignment talk is to open excel and make nice neat columns. That's just your brain craving symmetrical order out of the chaos you're reading about every day.
This is about DOLLARS, not the MAP. There's no reason for the MWC to invite UTEP and UTSA when UTEP is 23-70 in football the last eight years. How does THAT make the MWC better?
How is MTSU and WKU getting more TV dollars going from a mediocre/bad league that has teams in Miami, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio to a mediocre/bad league that has teams in Ohio, Michigan, Muncie and DeKalb?
Why would the AAC pick THOSE four schools? Southern Miss doesn't win enough to overcome that they're in Hattiesburg (La Tech does a far better job of winning more than their market). Does FAU win enough to bring viewers even though they are in a great market? (North Texas wins a lot more in Dallas, and UTSA wins more and has far less competition in San Antonio).
This isn't a kindergarden class where everyone divides up evenly into group and each member of each group gets a cupcake from one of four boxes. This is ruthless Darwinist Capitalism where the one holding the best box of cupcakes makes the other kids fight each other to try and get one, and no one wants to join the group with sugar free veggie biscuits.
FAU has won 2 of the last 4 Conference USA championships. Utsa and north Texas have none.
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