CUSA seems to be mired in too much potential change in the coming years and I would be wary of joining unless it is easy to get out. It really isn't like the Great West analogy at all given what's at stake with potentially getting screwed. The GWC was really just about helping a few schools with their scheduling of football. No other sports were involved and there wasn't anything horribly binding in the arrangement. I'd rather be indy with a strong strategy for scheduling.
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How about the fact that in the next couple years you will need strong football programs in your conference as a G5 if you have any dream of one of your teams making the playoffs. There are not enough strong G5 teams to make every conference stronger so ... In theory that's NDSU's "advantage"
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Its actually complete speculation that CUSA wants us either.
The last thing I saw is they might hold tight unless/until WKU and MTSU leave.
We just assume they would take us because they were desperate enough to take JSU.
The candidates being floated around are Texas and South teams like SFA, Tarleton and Kennesaw.
None of those appeal to me even if we were included. CUSA is the new SLC.
And 50k stadiums? SHSU can't get 10k, LOL
MWC strong enough as is without NDSU.
Or flip your scenario…MWC team needs to go undefeated in conference to be the one G5 team and those schools run the risk of a loss with NDSU.
MAC and MWC at 12. maybe MWC would lose teams I doubt the MAC will. 12 and 2 divisions is perfect for them right now.
If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles"
When you play football, you gotta like the taste of blood, And 50 percent of the time, it's your blood.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
Who said I didn’t want to hear other peoples’ opinions? The first paragraph of my post was about a poster calling me delusional for having lofty goals for 25 years down the road. I thought it was out of line.
It is very not hard to see a situation in which the Mountain West loses Boise and SDSU and then looks to backfill. I truly think Montana and NDSU are the two best-fit schools to replace them. It's fine if people disagree with me, but I don't see my previous two sentences are "making up random rainbow bright garbage".
I think it’s just fine that people have different opinions. I’m usually pretty contrarian myself…
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