(08-17-2018 03:46 PM)DavidSt Wrote: I see the SBC fans do not see the picture. You all lost FAU, FIU, North Texas the last go around. You could lose Arkansas State, Texas State, South Alabama and Georgia State in the next round. That leaves 6 schools. You need to add a couple more to make it 8 in case you get raided again. Benson is the death of the SBC just as he was with the WAC for football. You need to be proactive, not reactive. Doing nothing now will hurt the conference in the future.
This somehow might actually be the dumbest of your posts.
Nobody left the WAC BECAUSE of Benson. The MWC 8 left because they could do the math and understood they could make more per team in their own league than they could in the WAC and they could play each other every year.
TCU left because they could join a then superior CUSA.
Rice, SMU, Tulsa, UTEP because they could join a somewhat better CUSA that was a better geographic fit.
Boise left because the MWC was a better league.
Fresno, Hawaii, and Nevada because MWC was better, more compact and stable.
La Tech left to be in a more geographically appropriate CUSA.
etc. etc.
It had nothing to do with who was commissioner and everything to do with money and geography.
If the WAC presidents had added two schools instead of six in 1996 there probably is no MWC today.
Yes the Sun Belt lost some teams. The Massey composite for 2012 had North Texas 100, FIU 103, and FAU 110. Not like the league ended up being gutted and the league made a decision to end its relationships with Idaho and NMSU. It declined to extend invitations to Liberty and EKU who both presented to the league. It declined to extend a football only to UMass despite their inquiry.
Do you really think that Liberty or NMSU would say no if the league needed to add one or two to survive?
You post endless lists of move up schools and then turn around and think finding replacements would be difficult. Pick one. Which is it? Are there piles of schools clamoring to move up or are those schools rare.
As for UALR, hell did you bother to read the study that was done? They cannot afford it. The same thing I said before the study back when everyone said I was blowing smoke because I didn't want them to add football and be competition. The reality is my back of an envelope guesstimate of UALR's potential outlay to add football was more favorable to UALR football than their own study.