BCS president mentioned that the next BCS contract will not have Automatic Qualifiers. Which makes me think quite a few of these conference moves were irrelevant.
BCS president mentioned that the next BCS contract will not have Automatic Qualifiers. Which makes me think quite a few of these conference moves were irrelevant.
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C-USA adding UTSA in 2013; North Texas, FIU, Louisiana Tech also likely
Sources also said Charlotte remains a possibility to join C-USA as an all-sports member in 2013, but its football program, which will begin play in 2013, would not be able to compete in C-USA until 2015, at the earliest.
Link: CBS Sports
So that pretty much seals the fate and death of the WAC I'm guessing. UTSA was one of their FCS-reach adds to keep the conference alive, and now UTSA is bailing on the WAC and going to C-USA.
With Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada all set to leave, and now Louisiana Tech and UTSA reportedly jumping ship, that's gonna leave WAC with 4 teams, Idaho, New Mexico State, San Jose State and Utah State, 5 once Texas State joins.
I think we're gonna end up seeing the Sun Belt and WAC merge. WAC is gonna be down to 4 (5 with Texas State) teams, and if Florida International and North Texas leave for C-USA, that's gonna drop the Sun Belt down to 7 teams, though they'll replace one of those lost with South Alabama. Merge the two together, you got 13 teams and a conference championship game.
Only issue would be logistics, with all the remaining Sun Belt teams being located east of Louisiana, while the closest remaining WAC team would be Texas State and then New Mexico State.
Last edited by SmoothPancakes; 04-28-2012 at 09:10 AM.
No more of a logistics problem than SDSU in the Big East.
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Very true. I keep forgetting about that.Originally Posted by JeffHCross
But yeah, I think the WAC has seen the beginning of the end in college football if UTSA and Louisiana Tech really are both bailing for C-USA. There's no one they can bring up from FCS until probably at least the 2014 season, and I can't see them going through the 2013 season with only 5 teams in the conference.
After all is said and done, I really hope Arkansas State doesn't end up in a conference with NMSU nor Idaho... we got rid of Denver, I don't want to add another bumfuck team that would be hard to travel to.
Hey now. You're saying that in front of a Denver fan here.
Just call it payback for that Jets draft montage.
I can understand that. Travel would be murder for non-revenue sports.
I suppose.
You can pencil in Texas State and UT-Arlington to the Sun Belt. UTA would be for non-football sports.
Hopefully that allows us to avoid having NMSU and Idaho dumped on us.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...urphy/18923863
Conference USA, which has four schools departing to the Big East next season, is reloading by adding six schools in 2013, industry sources told CBSSports.com.
Florida International, Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Texas San Antonio, Charlotte and Old Dominion will join C-USA giving the league 14 members. However, it's not clear how soon after 2013 Charlotte, which is beginning its football program in 2013, and ODU, currently in the FCS, would be able to compete as a C-USA football member.
ODU? Must be trying to give Marshall and ECU some proximity games.
I know LA Tech is THRILLED to be out of the WAC.
Last edited by souljahbill; 05-01-2012 at 03:28 PM.
Yeah, but it's not nearly the CUSA they were wanting to get into. The only two quality teams remaining are ECU & USM.
Texas State made it official this morning accepting a Sun Belt invitation. The Sun Belt is having a media teleconference at 12:50pm CT today so something more may come out of that or might just be discussion of TSU.
Looks like it's official now.
And the WAC is now down to 5. So long WAC.
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Well the WAC may now officially be dead. Just popped up on my ESPN Breaking News, San Jose State and Utah State will join the Mountain West in July 2013.
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