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The first report I heard was that it seemed like it was going to be immediate. Liberty would like it to be immediate, but who knows. In regards to the WAC, I don't see how Liberty could afford the travel (they're in Virginia).Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Yeah, which made me scratch my head when they were talking about MAC, WAC, Mountain West, Sun Belt, C-USA. Pretty much only the MAC, C-USA and Sun Belt would work for them from a financial standpoint for sports travel.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Wait......what? How long did he coach at Kansas? 1 year? I can't believe he's out already. I still remember the Auburn controversy.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
He coached two. Both were dumpster fires.Quote:
Originally Posted by souljahbill
If anybody could suddenly find enough boosters to support traveling all over the country, it's Liberty.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Well, I can't say I really know anything about Liberty, so I'll take your word for that information. Though even if they get boosters to support the traveling, that'd still be expensive as hell for something like the WAC or Mountain West, since you would be required to fly everywhere, where with C-USA or the MAC, you could get away with taking buses to some schools.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
And it is official and all set for Old Dominion.Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
Per ESPN:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/st...conference-usaQuote:
The move will be effective July 1, 2013, school president John R. Broderick said in a release Thursday. The Monarchs, who restarted their football program only three seasons ago, will play one more season at the Football Championship Subdivision level and then play two seasons as an independent at the Football Bowl Subdivision level, starting in 2013, until it moves to Conference USA for football in 2015.
What's going to be cool is getting all these FCS schools who are moving up into the NCAA Football game eventually.
At this rate, there won't be a need to add FCS teams. They'll all be FBS.
Yeah no kidding, eventually it will be like college basketball...All teams under one divisionQuote:
Originally Posted by souljahbill
That sounds pretty good actually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarhead10
"LU is currently the largest Evangelical Christian university in the world." 'Nuff said.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Well then, I definitely accept your word in that case. :D I did not know that about them.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
They were founded by Jerry "Oh my gosh, a purple Teletubbie!" Falwell.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Ah. Another thing I did not know. Well, then, I definitely believe when you say they would be able to deal with the costs of going anywhere in the country to play in a conference then with that new information.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
:smh: Stupid.
Woot! ;)
:D I knew you'd probably be happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
At this point, Christ, just get rid of conference all together, have 124 independent teams, let them schedule amongst themselves however they want and have a true strength of schedule system to truly select the best teams for a playoff.
Totally agree Smooth. This is just getting ridiculous. Let's start a petition to get the ACC to pick up Idaho so they can begin to recover and recreate a western division just like the big east.