With the expansion carousel ride that carried the Mountain West, WAC, Big 12, Big 10, and Pac-10 around and around for our amusement all 2010 long winding down at last, it's naturally time for the Sun Belt to hop on board, because why not? With our longtime favorite South Alabama Jaguars (U-S-A!) moving up to I-A in 2012, the SBC will be a 10-team league, and just two programs away from being a legit dozen and all the privileges that affords. Naturally, as we've come to expect from all conferences mired in these matters, there are hilarious provisos involved:
The Sun Belt would only consider universities with an established Football Bowl Subdivision program currently aligned with another conference. And the conference would want any new member to fit into its geographical footprint.
WE AIN'T THE WAC, in other words. (Tragically, this knocks out our first choice of Florida A&M, whose band and terrifying mascots would only enrich our national fabric of college football with amped-up coverage.)
Louisiana Tech and New Mexico State, both ex-Sun Belt teams, are listed as potential targets, but in case this doesn't happen, pony up. We want a Sun Belt conference championship. More accurately, imagine the parties. Imagine the parties in Ruston if a conference championship game comes to town. What schools would you be willing to jettison from your own conference to make this happen?
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Go Cougs.
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by Brian Floyd on Apr 11, 2011 4:23 PM EDT reply actions
SOMEBODY wants a road trip to Miami in November!
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Apr 11, 2011 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Purwho?
by Matt.Brown on Apr 11, 2011 4:25 PM EDT reply actions
Missie State.
Sure, they’ve had a nice ride. Occasionally live on the edge with 8-9 years. But the Ruston-Starkvegas connection has to happen. And, let’s face it, no Mississippi school will ever be a power in the SEC; particularly the West.
But, go SunBelt, be the Boise of the South, win 11-12 games and whine about needing to play for the MNC?! Fantastic.
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." -Sir Francis Bacon
by Stuck in the Plains on Apr 11, 2011 4:25 PM EDT reply actions
Your advice is being taken into consideration due to your subject matter expertise about ridiculous claims to National Championships as an Alabama fan.
As a way to bridge the gap and ease the tensions, we lesser schools also award Alabama the 2009 Sugar Bowl trophy which was wrongly denied your team through the tainted process of athletic competition. Congratulations!
by Spyder Mayhem on Apr 12, 2011 4:31 AM EDT up reply actions
lulz
We got our ass kicked. Utes earned that one 100%. Dejection/Suspensions aren’t an excuse.
But if you want to give a bowl trophy, I suggest that Auburn may be looking to replace a certain vacated one in a few short years.
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." -Sir Francis Bacon
by Stuck in the Plains on Apr 12, 2011 11:39 PM EDT up reply actions
It occurred to me that I was harsh to the cross-state brethren
I’ve actually met some Barners with a sense of humor/perspective; but y’all Broncos folks are the most butthurt group o’ people I’ve ever met in my life.
Beat Nevada, then come run smack, bro…even Hawaii can do that.
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." -Sir Francis Bacon
by Stuck in the Plains on Apr 12, 2011 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Georgia Southern
/NotListening’ed
by vineyarddawg on Apr 11, 2011 4:26 PM EDT reply actions
I'd vote State
Just because they seem horribly offended by the notion of SBC membership.
by commodore_dude on Apr 12, 2011 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Indiana.
In both monetary pursuit and morbid obesity, we’re all about the cheddar in the Slow States.
Ann Arbor is a trollop.
by Semicorrect on Apr 11, 2011 4:28 PM EDT reply actions
Vanderbilt
They’re geographically appropriate? Right? Right? No? Damn.
by Endless Mike on Apr 11, 2011 4:44 PM EDT reply actions
Aaaaaaaactually...
Yes! Yes they are! They’re just a little too close (theoretically, because the SBC would trip over their feet, their johnsons, and other various items strewn about the office, because MONEY SON) to MTSU.
by thatguyclint on Apr 11, 2011 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Southern Miss
Doesn’t C-USA have teams to spare?
And here's a lighthouse keeper being beheaded by a laser beam!
by UMBAI on Apr 11, 2011 5:30 PM EDT reply actions
As a LATech faculty member
I would LOVE for us to be in the Sun Belt. It’s the only conference in existence that has any semblance of potential for natural geographic rivals (ULM, ULL, Arky State, North Texas) and fits the profile (athletically, at least) of the university. Unfortunately, Tech is hell-bent on getting into C-USA because they think we’re “too good” for the Sun Belt. C’mon…they have the SUN—the CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE—on their website. What more could you ask??
Meet it is I set it down that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain--Hamlet, I, v
by PBCrook on Apr 12, 2011 5:26 PM EDT reply actions
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