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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2021 10:55:25 GMT -5
Queens U? WTF, it is looking like any DII school with 100M endowment and a couple thousand students can make the jump these days. We need Lewis U to go D1 and join the Horizon. Good academics, great campus. Road partner for UIC. They actually were competitive last season:
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Post by calihanmole on Sept 30, 2021 11:23:09 GMT -5
Queens and Oakland should negotiate a home and home series. California and New York!
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Post by theroundsquare on Sept 30, 2021 11:29:20 GMT -5
Damn, I was hoping Queens U in Belfast could join the HL
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Post by happy on Sept 30, 2021 22:05:12 GMT -5
Alabama Birmingham (Possible moving up to AAC) 12 NIT
Missouri State (Possible moving up to Conf USA) 9 NIT
Old Dominion (Possible moving to Sun Belt) 11 NIT
Murray State (Possible moving up to MVC) 8 NIT
Belmont ( leaving OVC for MVC 2022) 4 NIT
James Madison (Possible moving up to Conf USA/Sun Belt) 5 NIT bids
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Post by Rogobob77 on Oct 1, 2021 7:34:05 GMT -5
A host of a Lexington, Kentucky sports radio program tweeted last night “Hearing Murray State will be announced as a new member of the Missouri Valley Conference soon.”
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Post by happy on Oct 1, 2021 9:18:34 GMT -5
Interesting thing happening and what do you think the AAC does now? I think they come back with a East Coast team like Old Dominion to go with Alabama Birmingham.
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 2, 2021 13:52:02 GMT -5
Interesting thing happening and what do you think the AAC does now? I think they come back with a East Coast team like Old Dominion to go with Alabama Birmingham. Smart move, especially by San Diego State, to stay in the Mountain West. The Aztecs have a good thing going. Why would they want to give that up to join the AAC and fly across the country to play East Carolina and South Florida, especially with the general belief that Memphis isn't long for the conference? If I was San Diego State, I would stay put unless the PAC 12 comes calling.
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Post by Commissioner on Oct 17, 2021 17:31:23 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2021 18:43:57 GMT -5
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Post by Commissioner on Oct 18, 2021 20:43:10 GMT -5
That would cut CUSA down to 8 schools. They'd probably look to raid other conferences, although they probably want football schools and I'm not sure where they find them. Maybe the Sunbelt, though I'm not sure that would any longer be a step up for Sunbelt teams. Probably they'd offer New Mexico State and perhaps other far flung independents. They may take whomever they can get from the indies as football only teams and then try to add hoops only schools from the ASUN or elsewhere.
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Post by happy on Oct 20, 2021 14:31:16 GMT -5
Conf USA could be down to 4 or 5 teams.
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Post by Commissioner on Oct 20, 2021 20:00:24 GMT -5
Conf USA could be down to 4 or 5 teams. They’re going to lose their auto bid. At that point they’re toast. UTEP, Western Kentucky, and MTSU will flee. The latter two might look to MAC or even ASun, or maybe the Sunbelt will take more; UTEP will hope for Mountain West but settle for WAC. Their other option is to pull what the Horizon did in the 1990s, and absorb the top half of a conference that will allow it to keep an auto bid. The Summit? HL?
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Post by ptctitan on Oct 21, 2021 10:06:42 GMT -5
AAC makes it official this morning. The six new institutions, whose membership in The American will begin on a date to be determined, will be: The University of Alabama at Birmingham – Birmingham, Alabama Florida Atlantic University – Boca Raton, Florida The University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Charlotte, North Carolina The University of North Texas – Denton, Texas Rice University – Houston, Texas The University of Texas at San Antonio – San Antonio, Texas
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Post by Commissioner on Oct 21, 2021 12:06:27 GMT -5
Poor Temple. For years they longed for Big East membership while playing in the Big East's understudy league, the A10. (In 1994 they were passed over for Rutgers!). And then, finally, it happened, in the spring of 2012, Temple was admitted as a full member of the Big East, to start for football in the fall of 2012, and all other sports in the fall of 2013. And then, in the summer of 2013, the Big East split in two, and Temple found itself in something called the AAC. No Villanova. No Georgetown. No St. John's or Syracuse. Ah well, from a basketball standpoint, you could still do a lot worse--the league included traditional hoops powers Houston, Cincinnati, Louisville, UConn. But less than a decade later, all four have left, along with Rutgers and UCF, and the Owls are in a conference with the likes of Texas-San Antonio, Florida Atlantic, and Rice. The A10 is probably a better league.
Same for Memphis. The Tigers fled CUSA in 2013, and now they find themselves back in what is, effectively, CUSA.
Life at the almost top is a bitch, man.
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Post by Commissioner on Oct 22, 2021 15:40:24 GMT -5
Boy do things sound bad for CUSA. With 6 teams going to the AAC, they're left with 8, but it appears that ODU and Southern Miss--and now Marshall as well-- are going to the Sunbelt, along with a team CUSA had hoped it might add from the Colonial, James Madison. If those three go, CUSA is down to UTEP, Middle Tennessee State, Western Kentucky, Louisiana Tech, and Florida International. Oddly, UTEP, MTSU, WKU, and Tech are all pretty good basketball schools.
Comments from around the league don't sound good:
Here's ODU's President (they haven't officially left yet): "“We are also actively engaged in a number of conversations to ensure the long-term viability and attractiveness of C-USA for ODU."
Marshall's AD (they too haven't officially left CUSA): "I want to assure our fans that we have worked and will continue to work to position Marshall in the best possible way.”
Louisiana Tech President: "As we engage in discussions with our league partners and other nationally renowned universities around the country, we are confident that the future for Louisiana Tech is bright.”
UTEP Athletic Director: "“Regardless of our conference membership, our commitment does not waiver. We aspire to compete for and win championships!”
Western Kentucky's AD: "We will continue to be an impactful leader in collegiate athletics, will continue to excel at the highest level, and are well positioned for the future ahead.”
MTSU AD: “As the largest university in the booming Metro Nashville MSA, the 28th largest TV market in the country, we offer attractive audience demographics and a prime location. All of these factors are significant advantages as we engage C-USA partners and colleagues in these discussions.”
Florida International Athletic Department: "No comment."
Sound to you like any of these guys plan to be in CUSA next year?
What does CUSA have going for it? Well, they've got a $4 million exit fee. If they can actually collect, and Marshall, SoMiss and ODU go to the Sunbelt, that will be $36 million they can divvy up and/or use to attract new members. The problem is, I'm pretty sure they lose their NCAA auto bid.
I think UTEP tries to get a MWC invite. If they don't, they join the WAC. The WAC now has 1 school (New Mexico State) playing I-A football as an independent, and 6 schools playing I-AA football in the WAC/ASun Challenge. Some of those schools plan to move up to DI-A, so that could be a long-term answer for UTEP. Florida International probably looks to the Sunbelt but would settle for the ASun, same reasoning as UTEP to the WAC. I would think WKU would try for a MAC invite, and MTSU could, too.
There are lots of options. We'll see, but I suspect it's curtains for CUSA, a conference that at its inception 26 years ago--as primarily a basketball conference-- included Cincinnati, Marquette, Louisville, Memphis, DePaul, and St. Louis, plus newly departing members UAB and Charlotte.
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