Yeah, that’s why I posted in the thread where others were already counting wins next year, to hold your horses.
We are TRULY going to be in the bottom of the barrel conference
Nobody wanted to get in bed with Falwell and those nuts at Liberty. However, they're a bigger a more valuable brand than any school in CUSA. They're well positioned to be the top g5 program. They certainly increase the value of CUSA. I'm not high on the FCS callups. I think JSU will be more successful. I think SHSU may struggle. It's still a one bid basketball league. Thats fine. Liberty, WKU and NMSU can fight it out for the auto bid. All in all we got very lucky with realignment. We were able to only have to invite two FCS schools and kept two schools from the MAC. I don't think the media deal will be great but it will at least be equal to and probably a little more than the current deal.
We've been in it for years.
So I guess you're not one that has faith in Golding or liked the hire? Seeing as you don't think UTEP will challenge for a bid.
I like Golding fine. UTEP basketball is not on the same level of the schools I mentioned. The program needs to be burned down an rebuilt. What I mean by that is that we cling to an inflated largely overstated legacy. There alot that needs to be fixed structurally with program before we can begin to compete regardless of who the coach is. This is a much tougher job than most want to acknowledge. Hopefully one day we can build the program into a winning. I don't see that as being possible right now. I certainly don't want to waste anymore money on that program than we already have.
Cincinnati had a really good year last year and was ranked in the preseason. UTSA did not and was not. UC beat Notre Dame in South Bend. UTSA beat Illinois and Memphis. If the roles/opponents were reversed and UTSA did not lose to UNT, they might have been closer to making a NY6 bowl.
I disagree totally. Men's basketball can be turned around in a very short time. That was proven by Barbee and Gillespie. The facilities are decent and there is history albeit from years ago. It takes 2 or 3 guys in recruiting to turn things around. Definitely not a burn it up and restart situation like Dimel had to do in football. Basketball turn around are not equal 5o that of football at this level.
By year 3
How many times does this have to be said, Falwell is not involved with Liberty any longer
Sorry but You are delusional about this. Right now the conference is already so bad that the regular season conference winner does not get into the Dance, ONLY the tournament winner. No one else.
In mbb it's been a 1 bid conference. That's an autobid. Won't be any worse. With NMSU, UTEP, MT, WKU, Liberty, LT you have 6 pretty good basketball schools out of 9. That's probably a better ratio of good to bad than we have now.
You are delusional or just don't understand or watch college sports lol You just made no sense in saying that the regular season champ doesn't get into dance and that it's gonna be 100x worse with adding 2 FCS schools. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Sam Houston and Jacksonville St. are D1 in Basketball! Oh and Sam Houston is a pretty good Men's Basketball team and Jacksonville St. isn't as bad as teams like Rice, FAU, etc... Oh and Liberty and NMSU are good in Basketball!!! Try and keep up or at least google the correct information!
Lmao are you putting us on or are you really this dumb? You’re putting us on right ?? You think Sam Houston and Jacksonville State are an upgrade over what we’re losing? Face it, those who could leave our awful conference did. We were left over to be paired with garbage FCS schools. NMSU is good at basketball ? How many NCAA tournament games have they won in the last 15 years? Winning a conference over a bunch of nobodies generally garners them a #15 seed and a 1st round loss. How very impressive. I’m sorry if you think that’s an improvement
How about in football ? If the conference is better now than it was before then why wouldn’t we want to stay here? Wouldn’t you assume if we could go to the MWC or AAC we would? Let’s stop putting lipstick on a pig here. We’re about to be left in the dust
Nothing has changed. CUSA had the lowest media deal of all G5's and we would constantly battle it out with either the MAC or old SB for last place.
You're an idiot, I'm done! You keep calling them FCS teams, but are referring to basketball, when they're D1. Stop drinking when you respond bro, you sound like an idiot seriously!
The delusional poster here is you. You are a troll and have nothing real to add here. Pretending that you are a Miner fan is not giving you cover.
Right now, there’s a clear difference between the AAC and MWC over CUSA
No one said it was better in football by the way. So don't put words in people's mouth to win an argument you already lost. The difference will be very marginal not a 100X worse like you seem to think. You can bet that with 9 teams UTEP will get about the same or a little more than with the existing contract. There will be at least 4 bowl tie ins with 9 teams as opposed to 7 with 14. In Basketball the RPI history shows it'll be better, that's already a fact! It's not ideal, no one said that and would we rather be in MWC, Duh, but it's not as bad as some seem to think or it could've been.
If 5,000 people attend SHSU games when they’re winning, how many people do you think want to watch them on TV? A network executive isn’t going to believe FIU is getting a ton of TV viewers when they have 200 people at their games.
Conference perception… not actual conference strength… all you have to do is look at our ncaa results from the past 4-5 tournaments …. We are a lot better overall than people think
Really? That's where you wanna go? Snowflake? Little Snowflake makes it better? Wow.
