Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[UCF_rustbucket]

2 hours ago, Rex Havoc said:

10k sounds about our attendance right now. I get we need markets for tv $$$, but adding App State, and Coastal would have added more excitement to this expansion. 

App would be a good add just for the sake of adding strong football. Even if we shift away from market adds, I'm still not sold on Coastal as being a reliable good football add like App or even Marshall would be. 

[E.T.]

13 hours ago, 79 Bull said:

I'd rather go North and South for better away game trips year in and year out.

[NewEnglandBull]

30 minutes ago, E.T. said:

App State and Army 

[Peatearpan]

Yet another conference is reportedly looking into expansion

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The Sun Belt has joined the AAC in eying expansion. The league is considering...

Allegedly, SB is going after three CUSA teams and JMU. That would leave 5 teams, and I would think the MAC would snag two of them (WKU and MTSU) as well as Liberty.

That would leave UTEP, La Tech, and FIU as the last the CUSA members. Would they drop down to FCS, go indy, or get picked up by another conference?

[Mission9]

3 hours ago, Cali_Bull said:

I think its fortunate that C-USA wanted USF over Virginia Tech.

I thought we were in the Metro at the same time.  They just had been in longer and moved to the newly formed Big East football conference a few years earlier and not interested in the merger. I think they would have stayed otherwise. My memory is a little weak on that one. 

Edited October 21, 2021 by Mission9

[widerberg]

13 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

USF not even on the radar…

Q: Your headquarters are here in North Texas, and SMU is right here in Dallas. Is SMU ringing your phone, wanting in on the Big 12 party?

A: That’s a good question. I’ve had a lot of conversations with President [Gerald] Turner and with [athletic director] Rick Hart. I’ve known them both for a long time. I have great respect for them. But we went after the best athletes we could find, and it was the four we got. They were the ones that bring the highest top-end and the most value. But I have great respect for SMU.

Other schools I respect that we heard from include Memphis—they were very interested. Boise State raised their hand. Some others in the West wanted in. And just because we didn’t take them now, that doesn’t mean we are no longer considering growth. It isn’t just about taking in new members just to have more pie. There’s going to have to be good strategic reasons for getting larger.

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby Opens Up About the UT-OU Departure, and More - D Magazine

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What's next for the Big 12 Conference? The College Football...

 

 

Don't worry about it. Someone in another thread (or this one?) said we were going to the Pac-12. LOL.

[widerberg]

13 hours ago, Rex Havoc said:

Why did we not try and get Coastal Carolina and App State along with the 6 others? Watching their game now, and both look pretty good. Plus Boone is a cool little town 

Yeah, I don't understand this, either. We'll be at 14, but chances are strong we'll get poached again in a few years (hopefully with USF going but maybe not). Why not just go two more to 16 now before someone else scoops them up? Then again, our ESPN money probably wouldn't increase and we'd then have to split money even more.

[Rocky Style]

I am bummed by no App State.  That would have been really cool and unique.  

[widerberg]

Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome or depression, but after staring at the East/West breakdown of AAC 2.0, I like this conference. I mean, it's not that my not liking it will change anything. But, seriously, I think I legitimately like this thing. I just want to see us win. There are some familiar faces there, some teams we definitely should (please god!) handle with ease, and a pretty decent path to some divisional and conference titles, bowl games, maybe a NY6 game, etc. And we still have room to work some OOC magic. 

[Peatearpan]

11 minutes ago, widerberg said:

Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome or depression, but after staring at the East/West breakdown of AAC 2.0, I like this conference. I mean, it's not that my not liking it will change anything. But, seriously, I think I legitimately like this thing. I just want to see us win. There are some familiar faces there, some teams we definitely should (please god!) handle with ease, and a pretty decent path to some divisional and conference titles, bowl games, maybe a NY6 game, etc. And we still have room to work some OOC magic. 

The conference is more to our playing level. We kind of surprised everyone, including ourselves, and I think our leaders at that time thought the momentum would just carry us into the future. We never really had a chance to grow into a program, and get our identity.

 

This conference seems more to our playing level, unfortunately. Maybe we can use this opportunity to learn and grow an actual athletic identity. That being said, how does this move effect our women’s and men’s BB teams?