RE: Breaking: Letter sent from CUSA TO AAC Released
Start with current AAC West Tulane, Tulsa, SMU, Navy/Wichita, and Memphis. These schools I believe like being with each other and since they are at the top of the food chain their opinion is going to carry the most weight and have top priority. They would probably want to align with UAB and Rice for sure with USF as their Florida outlet. I'll add USM and LA Tech to fill out the roster since those two have been associated with members of the core 5 before.
Final result: (AAC Shell)
Navy/Wichita, Tulsa, SMU, Rice, Tulane, Memphis, UAB, USM, LA Tech, USF
Now look at the East
Marshall, Charlotte, ODU, WKU and MTSU make a ton of sense together so they would be the next core 5 that would voluntarily stick together. They would want to align with Temple, ECU, App St and I believe GA St for sure. App is going to want GA Southern and I would think they would be the 12 team conference so they would grab a promising Coastal and FAU as their Florida outlet
Final Result: (CUSA Shell)
North: Temple, Marshall, WKU, MTSU, Charlotte, ODU
South: App, ECU, Coastal, GA St, GA South, FAU
The last alignment would be those remaining. Fairly regional with a Florida outlet
Final Result: (Sunbelt Shell)
UTEP, UTSA, Texas St, N Texas, Arkansas St, Louisiana, ULM, South Alabama, Troy, and FIU
If this could be the final result I think most would be happy
Roadblocks besides TV money and entrance/exit fees I see
How do you get ECU and Temple to voluntarily leave the AAC and join up with CUSA and Sunbelt East schools in the CUSA shell?
How do you get FIU to join the Sunbelt shell?
(This post was last modified: 10-13-2021 07:02 AM by solohawks.)
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