I have seen several articles talking about how in the future, we will be getting away from “All sports” conferences. Schools will be in a conference for football and basketball, but the non-revenue sports will be in more localized conferences. It makes no sense to be flying kids 1,000 miles for track, cross-country, soccer, swimming, golf, etc.
Why would any of those FCS schools move up to an unstable conference that could fold at anytime, esp NDSU/HBCU? They can get the same paycheck games where they’re at now while still have a chance at a FCS NC instead of going to the Newark Schools Stadium Bowl at 6-6.
Why do people with one kid buy a Ford Excursion and a house with four bedrooms and a three car garage ? Just so they can tell people. lol
And then people wonder why those teams are non existent when they move up to FBS.
I believe Army dropped out of CUSA in the first place because they want to control their own scheduling better.
Yes, but that conference is MUCH smaller now. I think as of now, they are down to only five colleges.
yes but they would need to add 3 more teams to reach the requisite conference number, so that would take up 8 of Army's game slots already. I doubt they'd want this given that the games they book are specifically based on recruiting cadets.
I believe the minimum number of schools needed is 6, not 8. Read that in a recent article. So that would give them plenty of OOC games, seven, to schedule Air Force, Navy, plus five more. The other thing to remember is that the caliber of teams is not what it was, which should help cut down on injuries.
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All about facilities. JMU has ridiculous facilities for a 1AA/small conference program
I have no idea why Temple won’t go to the MAC for all sports. Fwiw, it’s the most stable G5 conference aside from Mountain West and all schools are driving distance/ short flights.
Yes, B12 did get the best 4 options available - no question. There are a lot of metrics you can run and in almost every case - the best 4 were picked.
What lessons were the ADs of the leftovers supposed to learn? Next time when your conference bullies want to roll over you, offer not the least bit of resistance?
There's nothing the ADs or anyone could have done for Texas/OU. The B12 is making a lot less than the SEC (and B10 for that matter) and there's nothing they could have done to close the gap. If they want to leave they're going to leave.
Go do some more homework.... this was all triggered around the SEC/B12 acting like BMOC with the playoff expansion all while the SEC was backdooring the b12 the entire time... and The Alliance stepped in to shut everything down (and saved the B12 from complete breakup). for a decade the B12 was letting UT be first amongst equals rather than planning for the inevitable break-up. B12 was living in a fantasy of the past where they were still relevant and acting like they were just like the SEC (when in reality, they are barely the PAC12)....., Plan for the future, don't live on your past.
