RE: What about another new conference?
Everyone associated with football has questioned at one time or another whether the alignment of conferences was optimal. There are still people who think as could be seen with the Indiana State article that the G5 leagues will be heading to a division with the FCS soon, regardless of a new 12 year playoff contract in place. That is why conference realignment is a never ending debate.
IMO, the biggest alignment issue today in the G5 is CUSA/SBC overlap. This is mostly the fault of CUSA trying without success to stamp out the SBC instead of trying to build a more regional conference.
CUSA West: UTEP, UTSA, Rice, UNT, LaTech, USM, UAB
CUSA East: WKU, MTSU, Marshall, Charlotte, ODU, FAU, FIU
SBC West: Idaho, NMSU, Texas St, Ark St, ULL, ULM
SBC East: Troy, USA, Georgia St, Geo South, App State
CUSA should have kept its reloading to the West...
CUSA West: NMSU, UTEP, UTSA, Rice, UNT, LaTech
CUSA East: USM, UAB, Ark St, WKU, MTSU, Marshall
SBC West: Idaho, Texas St, ULL, ULM, Troy, USA
SBC East: Georgia St, Geo South, App State, ODU, FAU, FIU
CUSA in this case is still overlapping the SBC in a few states but its not nearly the extreme duplication that you have today.
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