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Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

Rufus said:
It's so ironic that the Sun Belt is a better conference than CUSA when CUSA at one time raided the Sun Belt. Turns out CUSA was raided more than it could raid, which is part of how it ended up like this.
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The Sun Belt actually had a strategy to only take schools that took football very seriously, had fanbases and were in the right geographical footprint. Kind of surprised they didn’t want Delaware too.

CUSA and the AAC seem like the dregs to me.
 
I'm surprised that both the Sun Belt and MAC weren't talking to Delaware. CUSA seems like the worst option out there.

In CUSA, the only "close" team is Liberty.

In the Sun Belt, they would have had James Madison, Old Dominion, and Marshall.

In the MAC, they would have had Buffalo and UMass from the northeast and the eastern Ohio schools (Ohio, Kent State, Akron).

I don't know if the Sun Belt makes more money than the MAC or not, but here is something to think about....

Ohio University is only 79 miles from Marshall University. They have a historic rivalry that is currently dormant. If the Sun Belt ever made a play to get into the State of Ohio, that would be the move. I'm not sure the money would be any more for the Bobcats to justify the extra travel and the loss of historic rivalries, particularly Miami.
 
unrelated to anything i suppose, but is anyone else foaming at the idea of the Northern midwest FCS schools making the jump one day?

I am in love with the idea of montana state, Montana, North Dakota, ND State, South Dakota, & SD State, all coming to FBS and joining the mountain west. Maybe even convince Idaho to come back to the big boys, even though I suspect they wouldn't.

other than Idaho, I think those schools would make the transition beautifully. They are already at least as good as any CUSA/Sun Belt team, in my opinion.
 
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So who is it going to be, the ACC Football "super-league" or a second-tier league. It could actually be brilliant if the ACC secures 2 auto-bids in the 16-team playoff and then their second-tier league becomes the highest G5 league; may allow for them to steal and extra share of money.
 
So the earliest you will see departures is ‘31-if they even depart.

The six teams is about the possibility of a super league. The ACC doesn’t even have 6 teams that deserve to be in such a league so that’s precious.
 
The ACC agreement defines the exit fee, the timeline to leave the conference, the ability for a group to exit for a super league, new rev share model, and the ability for a school to leave with their media rights. So, we won’t have to argue about Grant of Rights anymore.
 
ScottVib said:
So who is it going to be, the ACC Football "super-league" or a second-tier league. It could actually be brilliant if the ACC secures 2 auto-bids in the 16-team playoff and then their second-tier league becomes the highest G5 league; may allow for them to steal and extra share of money.
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I envision the “super-league” to be more of an NFL-lite between the SEC/B1G and some also-rans. Not sure that there are even 6 ACC teams worth a super-league invitation. Maybe FSU, Clemson, UNC, UVa, Miami based on history?
 
UConnJim said:
The ACC agreement defines the exit fee, the timeline to leave the conference, the ability for a group to exit for a super league, new rev share model, and the ability for a school to leave with their media rights. So, we won’t have to argue about Grant of Rights anymore.
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At least in the ACC
 
Chin Diesel said:
I live out on the western part of the Florida panhandle and plenty of our friends have kids enrolled at South Alabama and at Troy. Plus, I have a niece from CT who's a Chanticleer. And none of our friends' kids or my niece went to those schools due to grades or financial restraints. Kids can have fun there without the pressure of going to a bigger name school.
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Sorry man, but you 100% land at Souuth Alabama for grades and/or money.
 
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As I've said in the past, I'll believe we are changing conferences when they are painting a new conference logo on the court at Gampel.

Then again, every time there's been Internet buzz about a move for us, it didn't happen. So, if everything is silent, does that mean it will?

Confused Mark Wahlberg GIF by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
 
CL82 said:
As I've said in the past, I'll believe we are changing conferences when they are painting a new conference logo on the court at Gampel.
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TBF, paint can be removed or painted over. Awaiting a game factually kicking off or tipping off as a new conference member may be warranted. /s
 
RitzLuce1 said:
Yawn. Put up or shut up. Besides BYU, the additions haven't brought much to the league.
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Houston? They've been a 1 seed every year they have been in the conference and almost won the natty last year.
 
Drew said:
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Open for business but closed to making a sensible decision to bring in the BEST BBall school over the last 25 years...and we can be decent in football assuming we have an adult as HC. Like the man said in "The Toy": The propellers are spinning, but the plane isn't moving.

We now bring you back to your regularly scheduled programming of no key tweets during the off season.
 
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huskymedic said:
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-> Sun Belt Conference officials met again this week to discuss potential candidates to join the conference, with sources telling the Daily News-Record that Ohio University is among the schools expressing some interest in the league. <-

-> Ohio is second in the MAC in average football attendance over the past five years, averaging 17,423 fans per game and has led the conference in men’s basketball attendance each of the past two seasons. <-
 
MAC founder Ohio’s possible desire to get away from Tuesday-Thursday night football games and their impact on ticket sales is reasonable. However, most of the Sun Belt schools are located significantly further from Athens than Buffalo referenced by the linked article’s writer. Only exceptions: Marshall, James Madison, and App State. Sun Belt total media revenue vs MAC?
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
MAC founder Ohio’s possible desire to get away from Tuesday-Thursday night football games and their impact on ticket sales is reasonable. However, most of the Sun Belt schools are located significantly further from Athens than Buffalo referenced by the linked article’s writer. Only exceptions: Marshall, James Madison, and App State. Sun Belt total media revenue vs MAC?
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“Currently, both the Sun Belt and MAC have exclusive deals with ESPN that pay each school around $2 million a year. It remains unknown what conversations Sun Belt leaders have had with ESPN since Texas State’s departure.

But if the conference doesn’t find a member or members that will increase the Sun Belt’s value to its TV partner, it remains a distinct possibility the league sits tight for the next year or more to see what other realignment developments happen across the country.”
 
huskymedic said:


-> Sun Belt Conference officials met again this week to discuss potential candidates to join the conference, with sources telling the Daily News-Record that Ohio University is among the schools expressing some interest in the league. <-

-> Ohio is second in the MAC in average football attendance over the past five years, averaging 17,423 fans per game and has led the conference in men’s basketball attendance each of the past two seasons. <-
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Good for SunBelt. LaTech is a nothing add. They are right to look around.
 
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